Design Archives – Mn Artists

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

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

Design Visual Art

3-17-2023

Being in Place, Unseeing Ourselves

Torey Erin

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

1April Stone prepares splint for weaving. Photo courtesy the author.

Design Visual Art

3-3-2023

On Learning Something Old

April Stone

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

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

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

Design Visual Art

5-19-2022

Brooks Turner: History Is Fabrication

Yuanrong Li

Design Visual Art

1-19-2022

Baking and Dreaming in the Pandemic

Hannah Hendrix

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