NEMAA Artist Series: Worn on the Body
by Susannah Schouweiler
A profile of jewelry artist Sarah Chapman, whose mix of industrial and organic design elements lends itself to striking, sculptural pieces of wearable art.
This is the fifth in a sponsored series of articles featuring member artists of Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, a non-profit arts organization that works to build a more vibrant, diverse and economically healthy community through the arts.…
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Sarah Chapman, square pearl broach, oxidized sterling silver, quartz watch crystal, stainless steel pinback, and freshwater pearls.
Re:location
by Jay Orff
Jay Orff visits Emily Johnson's sinew-and-earth installation, "Body," as re-envisioned for Brooklyn-based Invisible Gallery's Glass House space.
Our lives accumulate, and we become who we are. Some of who we are is determined by where we are and, perhaps, even more, by when we are there. It’s all about timing.…
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This Prairie Has Always Been Her Ocean
by Ben Weaver
Ben Weaver reports back from "My Ocean," a site-specific sound and performance installation at the Ordway Prairie Nature Preserve, co-created by performance artist Bethany Lacktorin and musician James Everest.
During the second weekend of August I traveled to Pope County, Minnesota, where I attended My Ocean, an outdoor, site-specific sound and performance installation at the Ordway Prairie Nature Preserve, co-created by performance ar…
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The "ocean" of Ordway prairie. Photo: Erin Westover / Josh Duffy.
NEMAA Artist Series: Art in the Making
by Susannah Schouweiler
A profile of painter Stephen Filla-Kim, whose work memorializes the everyday labor and routines of making art, the mark of the hand, and human ingenuity behind good design.
This is the fourth in a sponsored series of articles featuring member artists of Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, a non-profit arts organization that works to build a more vibrant, diverse and economically healthy community through the arts.…
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Detail from Stephen Filla-Kim's recent series of architecturally rooted paintings in cast resin, commissioned by III AD Design+Build.
Use Your Voice
by Eva Rose Cohen
Eva Rose Cohen's strip, on the lived experience of a young working artist, grapples with art and social justice, personal and collective responsibility, in light of the death this summer of Philando Castile.
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Truly "Public" Art is Messy Business
by Sheila Regan
Sheila Regan looks into the gaps inherent in public art—between concept and execution, neighborhood need and the possibilities for funding, and the sometimes controversial distance between residents' aspirations and artistic vision.
It’s a warm summer day in July, and a group of boisterous teenagers and young twenty-somethings are hard at work making art at In Progress, a community art space in the North End neighborhood of St. Paul.…
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Students working on murals for the Trout Brook public art project. Photo courtesy of the author.
We Are Better
by Davu Seru
Davu Seru on the state of the Twin Cities jazz scene—on its competing mythospheres and various hustles, its labor given and co-opted, and ways we, audiences and artists alike, might all do better.
I’m the winin’ boy, don’t deny my name.—Jellyroll Morton, “Winin’ Boy Blues” …
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Aaron Douglas,"Song of the Towers" from the mural Aspects of Negro Life. Oil on canvas, 1934. Courtesy of The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division.
