![Collage with rectangular cuts of pink roses and fractal patterns over blue and white waves.](https://mnartists.walkerart.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG-5891-scaled.jpg)
7-1-2022
Arts Writing from Mn, Beyond Mn
Akiko Ostlund is a visual artist, performance artist, teaching artist, curator, and an activist who lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A native of Osaka, Japan, she uses poetry, music, dance, collage, found objects and shadow puppetry to tell stories that reflect her time, and a narrative of immigrant women of color that is often underrepresented in white eurocentric society.