—With a stunning MASHUP collection of artwork tackling the peculiar interplay of text, image, and meaning, curated by Ken Bloom, Director of Duluth’s Tweed Museum of Art
This issue of a+E explores the tangle of meanings that lie
beneath the surface of words and shared icons.
The Tweed’s Ken Bloom,
our guest curator for this issue’s
Mashup
collection, has assembled some illuminating juxtapositions of artwork united
by a willingness to gaze directly into the chasm that separates polite
consumer fictions from the occasional horrors of real experience. Similarly,
One
for the Road artist-cum-animal rights activist Mary Britton Clouse
elegantly highlights the ambivalence of language with one simple, damning
question:
“Who’s
for Dinner?” And, we’ve got an array of arts events coming up, all over
the state, for you in
You
Are Here, including
Duluth’s
annual beer-and-local rawk fest, a
celebration
of innovations in new media and music, a family-friendly
stage
production of Somali folktales, the first show in
Outsiders and Others
veteran
Yuri
Arajs’s new Placement Gallery, and
a
slew of intriguing performances around the Twin Cities in honor of
National Dance
Week. If you’re an aspiring writer looking to hone your chops, this
issue’s
mnAccess
is just for
you.
