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Person with dark skin and short locs gestures in front of their face and looks at camera, with interior of barber shop in background.

Each One, Teach One: Footwork in Minnesota

Wills Glasspiegel

An oral history of footwork in Minnesota, from the dancers and DJs that helped bring this culture to life in the Twin Cities

Tags: Chicagodancedjimprovisationmidwestmusicunderground
Dark room with projected pattern of purple and gold light, wash of red light on floor and wall, and two chairs in shadow.
1Rosy Simas, yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place for rest), 2021. Image courtesy All My Relations Arts.

Circular Healing

Juleana Enright

Rosy Simas (Seneca) on non-transactional art practices, creating spaces of rest and respite, and the overlapping of past, present, and future

Tags: attentioncircularitycommunity engagementgriefhealingindigenous artresttime
Photograph of farmland with a sculpture of a bear inside of an old corn crib
1Sarah Sampedro, Bear, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Visual Art
6-1-2022

Sarah Sampedro: Interpersonal Spaces

Melanie Pankau
Black and white photo of a dark skinned person cut off at the waist, standing next to a fish tank with an anatomical heart floating in water.
1KOBI, Foolish (Illusion of Healing Book) , 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Visual Art
5-27-2022

KOBI: Reflecting to Heal

Melanie Pankau
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
Woman with long dark hair, white dress, and red lipstick knitting on a red couch in a living room.
1Shun Yong, Kit, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.
Visual Art
5-12-2022

Shun Yong: Portraits on a Journey

Yuanrong Li
1. Dancer leans on wooden bucket. 2. Group of dancers onstage, one holding a selfie stick. 3. Person sits on bench with head in their hands. 4. Person holds silver laptop in the air.
1Clockwise from top left: 1. Tumelo Khupe performs in Just Her Time choreographed by Wynn Fricke at Jacob's Pillow in 2018. Courtesy Tumelo Khupe. 2. Megan Mayer, This is supposed to be my Fertile Window. Photo: Sean Smuda. 3. Emily Michaels King, DIGITAL, 2021. Photo: Tyler Michaels King. 4. Arneshia Williams. Photo: Stan Waldhauser.
Moving Image Performing Arts
11-25-2021

When the Beings in the Room Come Alive

Kayva Yang
Person with dark skin and short locs gestures in front of their face and looks at camera, with interior of barber shop in background.
Performing Arts
10-19-2021

Each One, Teach One: Footwork in Minnesota

Wills Glasspiegel
Dark room with projected pattern of purple and gold light, wash of red light on floor and wall, and two chairs in shadow.
1Rosy Simas, yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place for rest), 2021. Image courtesy All My Relations Arts.
Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-18-2021

Circular Healing

Juleana Enright
1Photo: Jenny Zander.
Performing Arts
6-25-2021

Axiom, Idiom, Maxim: Proposals for Queer Critique

Marcela Michelle, Kat Purcell, Yoni Tamang
Installation view of jewelry-like fiber sculptures hanging in a gallery with white walls and gray floors.
1Eric-Paul Riege, (my god, YE’ii [1-2]) (jaatłoh4Ye’iitsoh [1–6]) (a loom between Me+U, dah ‘iistł’ǫ́). Image courtesy Bockley Gallery.
Visual Art
6-11-2021

Eric-Paul Riege: (my god, YE’ii [1-2]) (jaatłoh4Ye’iitsoh [1–6]) (a loom between Me+U, dah ‘iistł’ǫ́)

Sheila Regan
Open doorway in white-walled gallery, with abstract and figurative paintings.
1Installation view of Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: E. G. Schempf.
Visual Art
4-12-2021

Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives

Sheila Regan
Visual Art
4-5-2021

Queer Filth: A Roundtable

Aegor Ray, Valerie Oliveiro, Nailah Taman, Aggy K
Group of gray felt figurative sculptures
1Nicole Havekost, Chthonic (2021). Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Visual Art
2-5-2021

Gravity Happens to Us

Sheila Regan

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