Skip to content

Mn Artists

Arts Writing from Mn, Beyond Mn

  • About
  • Mn Artists Presents: [Your Name Here]
  • Topic
    • Design
    • Literature
    • Moving Image
    • Performing Arts
    • Visual Art
  • Type
    • Essays
    • Reviews
    • Reportage
    • Conversations
    • Project Space
    • Series

Author: Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

Nicole “Cole” Nfonoyim-Hara is a writer committed to liberation and healing through story and the power of the language and the written word. Her work has taken her around the country and the world. Her fiction writing has been recognized by the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, the Givens Foundation for African American Literature, and VONA/Voices of Our Nation. Her arts writing has been featured on Mn Artists and exhibition catalogues for the MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists and the Great Northern Festival blog. A former Fulbright scholar in cultural and applied anthropology, she holds a BA from Swarthmore College and earned her graduate degree from Oxford University.

1Artists in the gallery during a Conversation Lab meeting, published with article by Juleana Enright. Courtesy Public Functionary. Photo: Tricia Heuring.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
11-15-2023

Does Art Need Words? Arts Writers on Arts Writing

Christina Schmid, Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara, Juleana Enright
Large colorful fabrics draped from atrium ceiling, viewed from below with skylight above.
1Anne Labovitz, Will to Meaning, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
Visual Art
6-30-2023

The Alchemy of Holding Change in The Nexus of Well-Being and Art

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
Portrait of dark skinned person in elaborate victorian-like dress moving feather-trim skirt.
1Ayana V. Jackson, Consider the Sky and the Sea, 2019. Take Me to the Water Series. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim.
Visual Art
2-14-2023

We Fly: On Black Aliveness in A Picture Gallery of the Soul

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
Two women and two children exiting a trailer painted turquoise with a pink stripe and orange mailbox.
1Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, The Wandering House, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Arya Misra.
Moving Image Visual Art
10-14-2022

Home as Portal: The Wandering House

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
1Rosy Simas, transfuse: a breathing, contemplation, clearing, a transition. Photo by Carina Lofgren, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
5-23-2018

Conjuring Homelands

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
Email Signup
  • Join our mailing list:

  • Walker Art Center
  • About
©2025 Mn Artists |  Privacy Policy | Terms of Use