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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. >

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Free Black Dirt

What Does a Black Liberation Future Look Like?

To catalyze their editorial work with Mn Artists, Free Black Dirt hosted a dinner and curated conversation on the topics >

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Maya Beck

Black Men on the Moon

Maya Beck charts a lineage of black trailblazers, from John Coltrane to Kid Cudi to her own father, examining the partic >

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S.D. Chrismon

When the Problematic Fuels Your Creative Drive

Writer S.D. >

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Mara Duvra

A body / a sign : On Black subjectivity / interiority / finding tenderness: beyond political meaningfulness

Through voice and matter, artist-writer Mara Duvra considers possibilities for black subjectivity beyond the representat >

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Jordan K. Thomas

A Memeorial: To Lay a Hate Symbol to Rest

Responding to Mn Artists Presents: Eric Larson’s Meme Town, Jordan K. >

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Ben Weaver

Where Paths Cross

Fresh from a winter biking trip through the North country, musician Ben Weaver returns to the political and cultural fra >

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Ben Weaver

To the Edges We Must Run

Ben Weaver on the trouble with lionizing artists' struggles, with a call for boldness in the face of want, solidari >

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Ben Weaver

Anger in the Work of Love

Ben Weaver on the work of activism, love, and putting anger to good use for both as we contemplate the future of ourselv >

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Ben Weaver

This Prairie Has Always Been Her Ocean

Ben Weaver reports back from "My Ocean," a site-specific sound and performance installation at the Ordway Prai >

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Ben Weaver

Ramble Ramble: Flock to the Tree Tops

Musician, poet, and bike activist Ben Weaver offers a new poem on fatherhood, art, biking, and being present in the mome >

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Jeremy Walker

Anti Anti

Jazz columnist Jeremy Walker on the push and pull of artisanal and corporate cultures, politics-as-usual and rebellion, >

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Ben Weaver

Ramble Ramble: Art Shanty Projects

Musician, biking advocate, and rambling art critic Ben Weaver winds his way through the cities' late-winter slush t >

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Ben Weaver

Ramble Ramble: Beyond Repair

Musician Ben Weaver offers the first of several dispatches by bike, this time on artist Sam Gould's new storefront >

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Todd Boss

Steel & Air: A New Year's Motionpoem

As a gift to the city of Minneapolis for the New Year, the Twin Cities-based poetry film company commissioned Sparky Sto >

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Ben Weaver

Art of the Impossible

Musician, poet, and bike advocate Ben Weaver reflects on the stories we tell ourselves and others about what it is we do >

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Dustin Luke Nelson

The Digital World Has Made Performers of Us All

The best writing online does more than put beautifully turned phrases on a screen — it performs ideas in digital space. >

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Hans Weyandt

Bookish: No Apologies

Our books columnist is back from a year-end slog and reading up a blue streak: essays by Dana Goodyear and Charles D >

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Anna Marie Shogren

A Dance is More Than Intellectual Property

You can (under very specific circumstances) copyright a dance - but is that the best way to protect an artist's &qu >

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Lightsey Darst

Mother Tongues

Lightsey Darst and Molly Sutton Kiefer (author of "Nestuary") talk about writing to the carnal complexity of w >

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Ira Brooker

Are Podcasts the Future of Public Broadcasting?

Podcasts have grown into far more than a nerdy, underground pastime. >

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Nate Patrin

Native Son

When once-hidden details of Native heritage eventually come to light for later generations, people so assimilated they h >

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Gregory Fitz

An Open Letter to the Rose Ensemble

Artist and unlikely super-fan, Gregory Fitz, has a small request to make of the Twin Cities' famed early music ense >

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Hannah Dentinger

Sex, Death and David Bowie

Tracy K. >

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Ira Brooker

Keeping the Dive Alive

400 Bar, Artists' Quarter and now Turf Club: struggling neighborhood venues are being purchased and reborn under ne >

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Hans Weyandt

There Is No Required Reading

Meet longtime bookslinger and one-time reluctant reader, Hans Weyandt, author of our new monthly books column. >

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Sheila Regan

Show Don't Tell

Four years ago, the UK-based Kneehigh Theatre wowed Twin Cities audiences with an adaptation of Noel Coward's BRIEF >