New Store Opens At 50th And Bryant

At long last, you can finally get skeletons dressed as mariachi  players without having to travel to Mexico! is opening at the corner of 50th and Bryant, across the street from , , and .

That may sound trite or sarcastic, but we mean every word of it—, owner Anne Damon regularly traverses Mexico, searching for curious, interesting, and funky pieces of folk art to bring back to Minneapolis. And these are no ordinary pieces of folk art. Many of the artists she buys from have their work in major Mexican museums.

When we interviewed her just as her plans for her Lynnhurst shop were starting to gel, she told us about one such meeting: 

On her last (trip), she found herself on a rooftop outside Mexico City. The paper mache sculptor she was visiting had set up a studio poking up amid the tangles of rebar that sprouted from the neighborhood’s low concrete and corrugated steel skyline.

“You could see all the neighbor’s with their washing machines and their clothes hanging in the air. The whole thing looked very unfinished, almost shoestring,” Damon said. “Even his studio was full of paper mache in process. You couldn’t move without kicking something.”

Stop by this weekend for Damon's grand opening, and maybe she'll have another tale for you?

Have you stopped in? What do you think of Damon's new shop?