Diamond Lake Creative is the reification of a life imagined in decades past. It is more than a physical space or the culmination of people, places, things, experiences, etc., etc. Art, in all matters and in all forms is central to our daily existence. Not art, in any fashion, is secondary. This concept (Diamond Lake Creative), ever-changing, is meant to bring art to everyone, and allow everyone to feel the emotions that only art can elicit. Moreover, at this moment in history, the act of creating that which is instructive in the defense of, and more generally supportive of humanity, is paramount.

Based in the Diamond Lake neighborhood of South Minneapolis, DLC is committed to making this corner of the world a better and more equitable place – environmentally, politically, economically, socially, and via opportunities for teaching, learning, and fostering arts in diverse settings – through images, words, ideas, and acts. It is also, at the most basic level, the home of artworks created by me, Leif.