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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
Video game still of pink character sitting in empty subway car.
1A still from Analgesic Productions’ Sephonie. Image courtesy Marina Kittaka.
Design Literature
4-14-2023

Against the “World Wide Three Places”: A Conversation with Marina Kittaka

Ana Diaz
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
Person in blue shirt and brown pants falling backward in mid air over two white mattresses.
1Alexandra Bodnarchuk. Photo: Bill Cameron.
Performing Arts
3-15-2023

On Truth and Disagreement

Marcela Michelle
Person leans over to look through a table full of records, with a display reading "New Arrivals" in foreground.
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
Black woman with yellow turtleneck and pink glasses stands between stove and kitchen island, gesturing with open hands.
1Marcela Michelle. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Performing Arts
12-19-2022

Anchovies, Rice, and Beans

Mecca Bos
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
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 sleeps on floor mat with pillow, inside tent-like structure made of white string.
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
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.
Visual Art
11-11-2022

Public Functionary: Sustainable Support, Collective Power

Juleana Enright
Two actors sit next to each other onstage, with set design including stalks of wheat and blue projection.
1Marisa Carr and Ajuawak Kapashesit performing in Almighty Voice and his Wife, 2018. Courtesy Turtle Theater Collective.
Performing Arts
9-1-2022

Turtle Theater Collective: Storytelling as Connection

Jake Yuzna
Many bodies entwined and bathed in green light.
1ORGIE, Entrenar la Fiesta, 2017. Photo: Nicolas Dodi. Editing: Julián Dubié.
Performing Arts
8-24-2022

Eruption of the Possible/Erupción de lo Posible

Pedra Pepa
Performer holds microphone and faces beams of purple light.
1Performer at a Dark Energy event. Courtesy of Dark Energy. Photo: Caleb Timmerman.
Performing Arts
8-12-2022

Dark Energy: Collective Effort, Communal Release

Jake Yuzna

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