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Category: Design

Many zines in neon colors spread out on a surface, with a prominent drawing of a face.
1Zines at the Tretter Collection, September 2018. Image courtesy of the Tretter Collection.

Let the Record Show: Lessons for Artists in Movements

Aegor Ray

Sarah Schulman’s landmark history of ACT UP is a seed bomb of inspiration and strategy for today

Tags: activismarchivediygriefHIV/AIDSMediapandemicqueer
Black and white drawing of an artist with paintbrush standing in front of people at long tables wearing blindfolds, with an elephant in a cage floating above them.
1Peng Wu and Yu Youyang, Irwin in the corporate meeting room, 2021.

Unlearning the Elephant: Against Multidisciplinarity

Boris Oicherman

Institutions, the control of meaning, and the artist’s potential to subvert the foundations of knowledge

Tags: academiaart and sciencecollaborationinstitutionsknowledgemultidisciplinarymuseums
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
1Courtesy María José Castillo.
Design Literature Visual Art
11-7-2023

An Idea of a Cow

María José Castillo
Tapestry with dark blue mushroom cloud with face inside it.
1Brooks Turner, Airborne Toxic Event, 2023.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-4-2023

Pedagogy and Propaganda: A Manifesto for Anti-Fascist Education

Brooks Turner
Protesters carrying signs outside of stone building.
1Minnesota Federation of Teachers on strike. Photo: Tamara Turner.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-21-2023

An Uncertain Syllabus for Art Education

Brooks Turner, Isa Gagarin, Emmett Ramstad, Livia Disney, Luci Aslakson, Audrey Wilson
Digital drawing of 10 people wearing jingle dresses in bright colors, standing with hands on hips.
1Skawennati, Jingle Dancers Assembled from TimeTraveller™ series, 2011. Image courtesy the artist.
Design Moving Image Visual Art
6-9-2023

Glitching the Glass Wall: A Conversation with Skawennati

Juleana Enright
Graphic illustration in yellow, green, blue, pink, and red, reading: Material for Metaphorization.
1Skyler Nowinski, Material for Metaphorization, 2023.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
5-23-2023

Material for Metaphorization

Naomi Crocker
Digital drawing with horizontal stripe pattern in hot pink, pink, blue, and turquoise.
1Ohutkan:Genesis is generated from soundwave files of Dakota thunder and seed planting songs. These songs mark the beginning of the Dakota New Year, a time of rebirth and renewal, as well as honor the tradition of seed-keeping, which preserves ancestral memory, and takes on a new meaning in the digital age.
Design Performing Arts Visual Art
5-12-2023

Glitching the Glass Wall: A Conversation with Autumn Cavender-Wilson

Juleana Enright
Group of people sit around dining room table, working with clay.
1Peng Wu, Ceramic Sunday, 2020. "One session of the Ceramic Sunday hosted on my dinner table, a free clay workshop for queer and immigrant friends almost every Sunday since June 2022."
Design Visual Art
5-9-2023

Peng Wu: Many Ways of Making Home

Melanie Pankau
Large colorful projection on side of building at night, with bike racks and tree.
1Moira (Miri) Villiard, Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard, 2021.
Design Visual Art
4-28-2023

Moira Villiard: People and Space

Melanie Pankau
Collage still with person wearing multicolored dress on moon-like surface, with floating white object, black sequins, and a colorful face in profile.
1Roshan Ganu, still from moving image collage पौर्णिमा : Gazing Into The Full Moon Night, 2022.
Design Moving Image Visual Art
4-23-2023

Roshan Ganu: Language and Illusion

Yuanrong Li
Video game still of pink character sitting in empty subway car.
1A still from Analgesic Productions’ Sephonie. Image courtesy Marina Kittaka.
Design Literature
4-14-2023

Against the “World Wide Three Places”: A Conversation with Marina Kittaka

Ana Diaz
Image of snowy woods and setting sun laid over another image of snowy field.
Design Visual Art
3-17-2023

Being in Place, Unseeing Ourselves

Torey Erin

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