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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
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
Person leans over to look through a table full of records, with a display reading "New Arrivals" in foreground.
1Photo: Matthew Jenkins. Courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Design Performing Arts
3-6-2023

A Living Record of Twin Cities Punk: 30 Years of Extreme Noise

Jake Yuzna
Person wearing knit hat and scarf cuts strip of wood with scissors, with in-progress basket on table in front of them.
1April Stone prepares splint for weaving. Photo courtesy the author.
Design Visual Art
3-3-2023

On Learning Something Old

April Stone
Person sleeps on floor mat with pillow, inside tent-like structure made of white string.
1Peng Wu, Sleep Chapel, 2019. Pictured: Boris Oicherman. Courtesy Weisman Art Museum.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
11-16-2022

Institution as Living Artist, as Can Opener, as System Change

Miranda Trimmier
1Minneapolis-based artist Dio Cramer in the “Spill Paint, Not Oil!” art studio. The banner behind her reads “Our House Is On Fire” and was made by the MN350 art team for a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing while it considered whether to grant Enbridge’s certificate of need for the Line 3 replacement pipeline. Photo: Joshua Preston.
Design Visual Art
9-28-2022

Art and the Stop Line 3 Movement: Dio Cramer

Joshua Preston
Hands holding up print with red design and gold seal above.
1Block print created by Peng Wu during one of the Jin Paper Burning events.
Design Visual Art
9-19-2022

Letter to My Father in the Other World Explaining Four Types of U.S. Visas

Peng Wu
1Experimental Sensory Collective v3, March 2022. Photo courtesy REM5.
Design Visual Art
9-14-2022

Apps as Collaborative World-Building

Sanaphay Rattanavong
Performer with bleached blonde hair and white makeup kneels with head back in front of drum set, with purple and blue lighting above.
1Performer at a Dark Energy event. Courtesy of Dark Energy. Photo: Caleb Timmerman.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-8-2022

No Approval Required: Twin Cities Alternative Art Spaces

Jake Yuzna
Digital collage of notable artists and political figures at a table in front of a blue building.
Design Visual Art
5-19-2022

Brooks Turner: History Is Fabrication

Yuanrong Li
Person holding large soft pretzel stands in front of booth with baked goods, blue awning, and large multicolored letters reading FLOUR POWER.
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Design Visual Art
1-19-2022

Baking and Dreaming in the Pandemic

Hannah Hendrix
Four people stand on either side of large painting with orange life raft in blue water.
1Original Royal Refugee art show. Photo courtesy the artist.
Design Visual Art
12-8-2021

Locating the Original Royal Refugee

Sheila Regan
Design Visual Art
12-3-2021

Three Cheers for Age Diversity and Deep Hanging Out

Nancy Nowacek

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