Mn Artists

Writer Alexis Zanghi responds to works by Candice Davis, Nancy Julia Hicks, and Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān with Dua Saleh at the recent Mn Artists Presents event, proposing how the museum might proceed through a politics of harm reduction, towards an ethics of care.

Molly Fuller reflects on getting out of the literary publishing world and beginning a new career in nursing—and how her background in the arts lends a keen understanding of language, narrative, and audience to the medical field, and allows her to view patients as more than a constellation of chronic diseases.

Following their previous two letters detailing their departure from art making, Eric Avery returns with an announcement: They're getting back in. Avery describes how the hiatus fundamentally transformed their creative practice, and brought their focus to repair, healing, and justice.

Ruth Pszwaro, poet and Artistic Director of the Grand Marais Art Colony, asks Lake Superior what it has to say to tourists and pilgrims, what it means to seek retreat or refuge, and what might change if we look towards a continuous journey rather than an escape.

Interdisciplinary artist Charles Campbell delivers a rant to the guest editor himself in a series of abandoned formats, interrogating whether it's possible to separate art and business, self and system, resistance and commodification at all.

Following the first letter that announced their hiatus from art making (published previously in this series), Eric Avery shares this communication from two years later: questioning the many possible pathways to liberation, how to live ethically in late capitalism, and why they associated art with freedom in the first place.

Following the announcement that the Soap Factory will close for good, the former Gallery Director Kate Arford pens a letter to the building itself: a love letter, a breakup missive, and a reflection on the loss of the art spaces that shape not only the landscape of the cities, but ourselves.