Conversations – Mn Artists

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

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

1Emma Beatrez and Lee Noble. Photo: Paty Doh.

Visual Art

2-28-2025

Night Club III: ISO the Perfect Closet

Saulaman Schlegel

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

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

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

1Prerna, Stretched, 2021.

Design Visual Art

5-29-2024

Prerna: Bureaucracy and Superstition

Melanie Pankau

1Leeya Rose Jackson, Universal Change, 2022.

Design Visual Art

5-15-2024

Leeya Rose Jackson: Curiosity and Abundance

Yi Wang

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

1Zoe Cinel and Gretchen Gasterland-Gustaffson, Rest With Me, 2022.

Design Visual Art

4-24-2024

Zoe Cinel: Sharing and Healing

Melanie Pankau

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