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Format: Essays

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
1Michael Fallon (photo courtesy of the artist)
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
2-11-2008

The (Endlessly Annoying, Horribly Consuming, Creepily Off-Putting) Drive in Artists to Make Art

Michael
Fallon
1Mina Leierwood jumping off of her Polar Bear car, one of the Art Cars on Medicine Lake. (Photo: Max Haynes)
Visual Art
2-6-2008

A Collectivist Wonderland On Ice

Andy
Sturdevant
1Jean Sramek
Literature
1-2-2007

Letters from a Writer: In Which I Become a Jehovah’s Witness

Jean
Sramek
Ice melting Minnesota Point
1
Moving Image Visual Art
5-20-2006

The Column: Thaw

Suzanne Szucs
1Paul Brissett
Literature Performing Arts
2-15-2006

Lines and Characters Tested in “The Crucible”

Paul
Brissett
1Marcus Young strolls down "Pacific Avenue" as part of Visible Fringe. Photo Craig VanDerSchaegen
Performing Arts
8-15-2005

Visible Fringe: What Is “Site-Specific”?

Camille LeFevre
Design Literature Visual Art
6-2-2004

The Writing on the Wall: Bathroom Graffiti as a Public Art Form

Lightsey Darst
1Goya, "Is This What You Were Born For?" from the series of etchings, "The Disasters of War." Is This What You Were Born For?
Visual Art
2-6-2004

Choices: The Relation of Art and Politics

Ann Klefstad

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