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MN Dance & the Ecstasies of Influences: Mapping Minnesota Dance Influences One Connecting Line at a Time

Independent curator and dance producer Michèle Steinwald shares a photo essay and retrospective on her lecture/discussio >

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Kristin Van Loon

Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-ness

Incoming guest editor, dance artist Kristin Van Loon, sketches out three overlapping themes for her series, which is def >

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Molly Fuller

Getting Out Letter 9: To my forever work wife [you know who you are],

Molly Fuller reflects on getting out of the literary publishing world and beginning a new career in nursing—and how her >

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Eric Avery

Getting Out Letter 8: Greetings from the Future, sweet eric, or the Past, by Now.

Following their previous two letters detailing their departure from art making, Eric Avery returns with an announcement: >

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Ruth Pszwaro

Getting Out Letter 7: Dear Big Lake,

Ruth Pszwaro, poet and Artistic Director of the Grand Marais Art Colony, asks Lake Superior what it has to say to touris >

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Charles Campbell

Getting Out Letter 6: Dear Moheb,

Interdisciplinary artist Charles Campbell delivers a rant to the guest editor himself in a series of abandoned formats, >

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Eric Avery

Getting Out Letter 5: To my collaborators, colleagues, and friends; past, present, and future; near, far, and all over:

Following the first letter that announced their hiatus from art making (published previously in this series), Eric Avery >

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Kate Arford

Getting Out Letter 4: TO: Where It May Concern, 514 2nd St SE Minneapolis, MN 55414

Following the announcement that the Soap Factory will close for good, the former Gallery Director Kate Arford pens a let >

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Molly Van Avery

Getting Out Letter 3: Dear darling Harper just now two years old,

Educator, arts administrator, and artist Molly Van Avery chronicles the fundamental shifts in her creative practice sinc >

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Eric Avery

Getting Out Letter 2: Dear Cruel (art) World,

In November 2016, reparationist, cultural organizer, and curious queer creative Eric Avery sent a letter to their commun >

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Christina Schmid

An Un/Education

As part of Mn Artists Presents: CarryOn Homes, a multidisciplinary program reimagining the museum as experimental classr >

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Moheb Soliman

Getting Out Letter 1: Gurumaan, hello

Incoming guest editor Moheb Soliman introduces the series Getting Out: a series of letters sampling varied perspectives >

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Regan Golden

Sight, Site and Motherhood: Missing Mosses, Pulsing Trees and Blinding Flowers

To conclude the Seeing Plants series, outgoing guest editor Regan Golden shares three episodes in which artmaking and pa >

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Pao Houa Her

"The Story" & "Father"

Two stories by visual artist and photographer Pao Houa Her illuminate the transformative presence of plants within perso >

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Sarah Nassif

Plants, A Key to Creativity

Textile designer, public artist, and field botanist Sarah Nassif traverses the overlap between her work in urban forestr >

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Jiamu Wu

Groundbreaking: The Calendar of Daily Fractures

Artist and photographer Jiamu Wu cracks open the deep observation of road surfaces that grew into the project Daily Frac >

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Lisa Marie Brimmer

The Trauma Question

Writer and cultural strategist Lisa Marie Brimmer responds to the May 2019 event Mn Artists Presents: Anat Shinar and Am >

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Ian Hanesworth

The Long Practice of Cumulative Attentiveness

Interdisciplinary artist Ian Hanesworth considers the shifts of attention that arose in the process of their print serie >

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Regan Golden

Seeing Plants: Vision and Botany in Contemporary Art

Visual artist and writer Regan Golden, the incoming guest editor of Mn Artists, introduces Seeing Plants, a series of wr >

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Monika Hetzler

Comedy Is Like a Fuckboy

Comedian and improviser Monika Hetzler recounts how comedy—while it is still often inaccessible—allowed her to shift her >

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May Esperanza Losloso

How Comedy Unmasked My Inner Queen

Community organizer May Esperanza Losloso details the lead-up to her comedy debut, considering how everyday humor and a >

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Tori Hong

Arriving In Between Homecomings and Liberation

Visual artist Tori Hong depicts the tension between process and profession, personal and public that weaves throughout t >

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June Kuoch

“Selfie” and “Complicated”: Two Poems

Two poems by abolitionist-activist-academic-artist June Kuoch seek to navigate the corporality of the trans Asiatic body >

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Naomi Ko

Here to Make NICE and Changes to the Asian American Canon

Writer, actor, and filmmaker Naomi Ko expands the conversation on representation in media, asking what it means to creat >

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Su Hwang

The United States of Han

Poet Su Hwang digs into the influence of han in her Korean lineage, the kickassery of untranslatable words into English >

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heather c. lou

does this mean i’m a real artist now?

Artist-educator heather c. >

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Simi Kang

Experience Is Expertise

Artist, poet, and scholar Simi Kang reframes the notion of expertise, examining which stories we are allowed to retain f >

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Xiaolu Wang

To Come Back to Love: Reminders for Making Visible the Invisible

Filmmaker Xiaolu Wang shares a love letter to her collaborators, revealing the complex dynamics of friendship, family, a >

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May Lee-Yang

The Ethics of Writing About Throwaway Women

Writer and performance artist May Lee-Yang speaks back to the critics — advocating for greater specificity in telling Hm >

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Chaun Webster

Even "The Smallest Cell Remembers": Notes on Research

Mn Artists guest editor Chaun Webster considers the precariousness of research, evidence and memory in black geographies >

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Shannon Gibney

My Blackness. (Still) Unfinished.

Writer, educator, activist and author of the novels See No Color and the latest Dream Country, Shannon Gibney, writes a >

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Terrion L. Williamson

Everything Is Everything, or How Black Women Will Survive the End of the World

Terrion L. >

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Davu Seru

Are We Black Yet?: On Blackness as Art

Drummer, composer, writer and professor of African American literature and culture Davu Seru explores a body of ideas be >

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Keno Evol

Black Convivial: On Blackmospheres and Sci-fi Social Work

Poet and educator Keno Evol explores Sci-fi Social Work, black sociality, and where “wreckage meets possibility.” >

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Aaron Mallory

Out of Place: Black Triage and its Afterlife

PhD candidate in geography and writer Aaron Mallory explores the space between injury and death to discuss the afterlife >

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Lisa Marie Brimmer

A case for this: the (new Black) here and now

Writer and cultural strategist Lisa Marie Brimmer sketches an invitation to black post-blackness, a spiral encompassing >

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Chaun Webster

Blackness and the Not-Yet-Finished

Mn Artists guest editor, poet and sound artist Chaun Webster, critically engages Douglas Kearney's conceptualizatio >

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Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra a.k.a. Lady Xok

Notebook: Locating the Folk

Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and co-founder of Electric Machete Studios, explores >

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Mai'a Williams

Notebook: Illumination

Writer and artist Mai'a Williams elucidates the persistence of white supremacy in the cultural landscape of a small >

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Bethany Lacktorin and Nik Nerburn

Backyard Histories: Bethany Lacktorin and Nik Nerburn in Conversation

Artists Bethany Lacktorin and Nik Nerburn gathered in a Google Doc to discuss how their story-based work engages with th >

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Ashley Hanson and Mary Welcome

We Are All We Have: The Practice of Neighboring

Ashley Hanson and Mary Welcome—both traveling artists working in rural places—team up to articulate their work as a prac >

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Michele Anderson

Getting to the Golden Hour

Michele Anderson, the Rural Program Director at Springboard for the Arts in Fergus Falls, explores how insider/outsider >

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Shanai Matteson

Notebook: Now, Here

Writer, public artist, and cultural organizer Shanai Matteson ponders the slow work of relationships, the language of so >

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Matthew Fluharty

Towards a Local Practice

Matthew Fluharty, the incoming guest editor of Mn Artists, outlines the vision for his editorial series focused on “loca >

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Fatima Camara

My Mother and I

Spoken word artist Fatima Camara ruminates on her relationship to her mother, her mother’s roots in Gambia, and how reim >

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Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

Conjuring Homelands

Writer and ethnographer Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara responds to Mn Artists Presents: Jovan C. >

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Michael Kleber-Diggs

Black Joy

Poet and essayist Michael Kleber-Diggs offers an episodic meditation on black joy, conjuring memories of family, food, d >

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Wendy Thompson Taiwo

Black Is a Country

Some of the most important dialogues we engage in as artists are the ones we have with those we love. >