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1Michaela Rai, Edges #1, 2022.

Art, Water, and Reciprocity

Emily Levang

A conversation between Duluth-area artists Karen Savage Blue, Moira Villiard, Ashley Hise, and Michaela Rai on the sacredness of Lake Superior

Tags: bodyceramicsenvironmentpaintingphotographywater
Circle of people in an industrial studio/gallery with artwork throughout.
1Artists in the gallery during a Conversation Lab meeting. Courtesy Public Functionary. Photo: Tricia Heuring.

Public Functionary: Sustainable Support, Collective Power

Juleana Enright

A conversation with Leslie Barlow on the emergent process of Public Functionary: on shared visioning, mutual transformation, and the art of holding others without losing ourselves

Tags: art spacesartist-run spacescollaborationcommunityorganizingrelationshipssustainability
1Emma Beatrez and Lee Noble. Photo: Paty Doh.
Visual Art
2-28-2025

Night Club III: ISO the Perfect Closet

Saulaman Schlegel
Photo from the back of a movie theater with ornate chandeliers, many people in seats and Arabic writing against a landscape on the screen.
1Solidarity Evening for Palestine at the Heights Theater. Courtesy Mizna. Photo: Makeen Osman.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-24-2024

Practicing Solidarity, Living Values: A Conversation with Mizna

Aegor Ray
1Sunset in Masafer Yatta overlooking the town of Yatta. In the foreground is a truck, owned by Palestinian residents, that was set on fire by Israeli settlers, 2024. Photo: Josina Manu Maltzman.
Literature
8-6-2024

We Are All Complicit in Craft: A Conversation with Josina Manu Maltzman

Aegor Ray
View of a multimedia art exhibition in a dimly lit space with exposed wood beams
1View of the exhibition Saturday Mornings and The Faces We Remember, 2023. Photo: Rik Sferra.
Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-31-2024

Curator to Curator: Reflecting on Saturday Mornings and The Faces We Remember

Za'Nia Coleman
Large rectangle of metallic paper criss-crossed with blue tape and a colorful collaged triangle at the center, siting on a bed of moss.
1BakiBakiBaki, Stupa for the inner child/Gaia’s sanctuary, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Mason Paul Persons.
Visual Art
7-26-2024

Objects Talk, Spirits Talk, Ghosts Talk, Beings Talk: A Conversation with BakiBakiBaki

Aegor Ray
Person hanging in cocoon of braided fabric with only legs and crossed arms visible
1Prerna, Stretched, 2021.
Design Visual Art
5-29-2024

Prerna: Bureaucracy and Superstition

Melanie Pankau
Colorful painted plaque reads "change is the one unavoidable irresistibly ongoing reality of the universe" with other small paintings surrounding
1Leeya Rose Jackson, Universal Change, 2022.
Design Visual Art
5-15-2024

Leeya Rose Jackson: Curiosity and Abundance

Yi Wang
Pastel dyed cloth hand-stitched together with hands and droplets
1Ziba Rajabi, Only Tulips Grow on This Land, 2023. Photo: Ricky Chiang.
Design Visual Art
4-30-2024

Ziba Rajabi: Poetry and Home

Yi Wang
Person sitting reading a book with pillow with sewn arms wrapping around them
1Zoe Cinel and Gretchen Gasterland-Gustaffson, Rest With Me, 2022.
Design Visual Art
4-24-2024

Zoe Cinel: Sharing and Healing

Melanie Pankau
Shiny black clay resembling knotted rope
1Tetsuya Yamada, Knots, 2019. Acquired through Avant Garden Commission, 2019. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Design Visual Art
1-5-2024

Skate and Listen: A Conversation with Tetsuya Yamada

Ted Barrow
1Michaela Rai, Edges #1, 2022.
Visual Art
12-5-2023

Art, Water, and Reciprocity

Emily Levang
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

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