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Category: Visual Art

Black and white photo of leafless trees, rocks, and single white plastic bag suspended in branches.
1Pao Houa Her, untitled, Mt. Shasta series, 2021-2022. Courtesy the artist and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis; produced with support from the Walker Art Center.

Paj Qaum Ntuj / Flowers of the Sky

Kao Kalia Yang

On the multivalent meanings of the term “Flowers of the Sky”—landscapes of desire, the cost of dreams, and the great green exodus

Tags: ancestorsdeathfarmingHmongphotography
Large white-walled gallery with two large paintings hung on walls, with multicolored abstract shapes on black background.
1Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the Deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2021. © Caroline Kent. Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo: Jason Wyche.

Speaking Paintings into Being with Caroline Kent

Lindsey Scharold

Gold triangles, translucent evergreen shapes, martian pink accents, deep blue drops, and ambiguous loops form a vivid vocabulary opening abstraction to infinite possibility

Tags: abstractionblacknesslanguagepaintingspiritualityvoice
Person looks up at large wooden sculptures with animal-like forms in primary colors, in empty city lot.
Visual Art
3-24-2023

Falling Together: The Life and Art of Russell Sharon

Ruby Sutton
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 with medium skin, white sweater, and glasses leans on kitchen island resting hand on chin, with pie in front of them.
1Tia-Simone Gardner. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Moving Image Visual Art
3-10-2023

Mother’s Egg Pie (Now, with Cardamom)

Mecca Bos
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
Aerial view of naked person with bright pink ribbon submerged in dark water with head emerging
1Jaime Black, the water in me, recognizes you, 2020. Videography by Nik Konowal. Courtesy the artist and The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery.
Moving Image Visual Art
2-24-2023

Dream Dream Revolution: Dive Bars, Ghosts, and One Red Ribbon

Christina Schmid
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
Silhouette of person wearing headwrap in front of kitchen island, light streaming in window.
1Sarah White. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Performing Arts Visual Art
1-20-2023

A Pot of Something

Mecca Bos
Person with light skin holds basket of tomatoes in her arms and smiles at the camera, with tall tomato plants behind her.
1Photo courtesy Marianne Combs.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
1-16-2023

Marianne Combs: Slow Tending Bears Fruit

Youa Vang
Two people stand in front of gallery with red and yellow visible through windows, teal door and sign reading HAIR and NAILS.
1Ryan Fontaine and Kristin Van Loon, 2022. Courtesy HAIR + NAILS. Photo: Emma Beatrez.
Performing Arts Visual Art
12-9-2022

Do It Different: HAIR + NAILS’s Approach to an Artist-Run Gallery

Jake Yuzna
Four artworks in muted colors and various sizes arranged on a white gallery wall.
1View of the exhibition between friends, 2022. Courtesy David Petersen Gallery.
Visual Art
12-5-2022

between friends: On Mourning, Mirrors, and Togetherness in Extraordinary Times

Christina Schmid
Two black and white portraits side by side, of people with medium dark skin and faces turned to camera with slight smiles.
1Leslie Barlow (left) and Sayge Carroll (right), 2022. Photo: Ajamu.
Performing Arts Visual Art
12-2-2022

Portraits, Practice, Pleasure, and Process

Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Ajamu , Sayge Carroll, Leslie Barlow
Person wearing black dress and high heels strikes pose in wooden barn with string lights, large rug, and chairs on walls.
1Vie Boheme. Courtesy Everwood Farmstead.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
11-21-2022

Refuge and Rejuvenation: Artist Retreats of Minnesota and Wisconsin

Sheila Regan

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