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Crooked Zipper

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Crooked Zipper is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, MN focused on arts, literacy, and sustainability.

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Our Mission

We envision a world where everyone is seen as capable of creativity, sustainability is respected as a factual necessity that sustains all of us, and literacy is viewed as a human right.

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Provide opportunities for participants to see themselves as capable of creativity, to learn new techniques to sustain themselves, each other, and our world, and to engage with literature through engaging, hands-on activities. 

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Crooked Zipper has created a mobile tool, Art Book Cart, to engage communities in literature through art and Ready, a guide for caregivers to help get children ready for school and life, and partners with local literacy nonprofits to provide hands-on activities.

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Alex

Monica

Monica

Alex is a mixed Islander who creates block prints, felts wool into into natural representations, and makes ceramics. She enjoys climbing, playing board games, making stuff up in the kitchen, and adventures of all kinds. She lives with her husband and their furry creatures in St. Paul, MN.

Monica

Monica

Monica

Monica is a bilingual queer Chilean-American who engages communities through writing and artistic practices involving magical realism, joy, and play. She lives with her wife, niece, and nephew in Minneapolis, MN where she befriends local librarians, mend clothes, and stoop sit. 

Nicole

Monica

Nicole

Nicole is a queer writer, artist, and educator of Scandinavian descent. Their work seeks to make the invisible, visible. They enjoy cavorting with insects, eating fibrous fruit, and collecting misplaced postal rubber bands. Nicole and their wife, along with their niece and nephew, live in a cozy and colorful home in Minneapolis, MN. 

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