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Art storage, with many framed 2D pieces hung in dense racks, with chair, ladder, concrete floor, and fluorescent lighting.
1Art storage, Walker Art Center. Photo: Gene Pittman.

Sowing Memory: Collecting Art and Saving Seeds

Ian Hanesworth

Divergent practices of collecting shed light on the connection between culture and agriculture, how collections can both serve and oppose capitalism, and how collections might revitalize our understandings of cultural value and sovereignty

Tags: agricultureart and sciencecapitalismcollectionConservationMemorymuseumsplantsvalue
Collage with fragment of green netting, wilted petals, green metallic candy wrapper, and strip reading: Inviting... enduring...
1Nailah Taman, Not Collaging #1, 2022.

What I’m Doing When I’m Not Writing

Aegor Ray

On fallow time, cycles of making and not-making, and what the body invites in while holding language at a distance

Tags: bodydreamsgriefpandemicprocessrest
Person with medium dark skin and glasses wears lavender sweats and holds baby in lap, with person in armchair in background.
1Grandma and my oldest daughter, Sparta, Illinois, 2001. Photo courtesy the author.
Literature
2-3-2023

Fool’s Gold

Taiyon J Coleman
1
Literature
1-30-2023

Group Chat

V.V. Ganeshananthan
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
Open book with short black text on white page, overlaid with round moon-like paper form.
1Sarah Peters, The Moon has no Weather, 2013. Collection Walker Art Center.
General
1-13-2023

For Elissa

Natalie Dalea
Digital illustration of a crow hovering over blue water, with starfruit in foreground, mountains in background, and a cloud of gold flakes in the air.
1UyenThi Tran Myhre, chia vàng, May 2021.
Literature Performing Arts
1-9-2023

Be Sweet, Stay Gold

UyenThi Tran Myhre
Group photo in dark wood frame hangs on wood paneled wall.
1Courtesy Kao Kalia Yang.
Literature
1-4-2023

In the Aftermath of Disappointment

Kao Kalia Yang
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
Person with light skin and gray hair pushes shopping cart down city sidewalk.
1Photo: Steve Ozone.
Visual Art
10-31-2022

Steve Ozone: The Story Behind the Lens

Youa Vang
Feet of person pushing dry mop on shiny floor, with glass door behind.
Moving Image
10-24-2022

Measuring the Invisible: Labor and Origin

Stevie Ada Klaark
Two women and two children exiting a trailer painted turquoise with a pink stripe and orange mailbox.
1Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, The Wandering House, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Arya Misra.
Moving Image Visual Art
10-14-2022

Home as Portal: The Wandering House

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
Illustration of stand-up comic with dark skin and glasses playing keyboard in front of audience, bathed in purple light.
1Talthau Lo, 2022.
Performing Arts
10-3-2022

Ha!: On Comedy, Performance, and Laughing for the Right Reasons

Devohn Bland

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