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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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Alexis Palmer Zanghi

A Leveling and an Evening

Writer Alexis Zanghi responds to works by Candice Davis, Nancy Julia Hicks, and Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān with Dua Saleh at >

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nusaiba Imady

A Body of Art Subverts the Ban

Writer and performer Nusaiba Imady investigates translation, trauma, authorship, and the body in her response to the fou >

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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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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. >

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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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Free Black Dirt

Imagination Blueprint, Liberation Technologies: A Conversation with Free Black Dirt

Mn Artists welcomes Free Black Dirt as the guest editors of our editorial platform. >

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m. j. gette

Anti-Ethnography: The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets

Following a program of indigenous filmmakers curated by Adam and Zack Khalil, poet M.J. >

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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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Miriam Karraker

keeps watch

Miriam Karraker contributes poems after Jennifer Nevitt’s "Sans Terre" at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, en >

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Mn Artists

Mn Artists Editorial: Submission Guidelines

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Kevin Obsatz

Immeasurable Re-creation

Kevin Obsatz on his education as an artist, both as a student and teacher of filmmaking, and in his experiences outside >

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Kevin Obsatz

Together in the Dark

At a screening of experimental films at the Minneapolis/St. >

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Kevin Obsatz

The Illusion of Encounter

Kevin Obsatz on his experiences as a PA working on a documentary about the 2004 campaign season and, specifically, the s >

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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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Camille LeFevre

Killing the Choreography

Camille LeFevre reviews the latest incarnation in Morgan Thorson's "Still Life" series, this time made fo >

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Camille LeFevre

An Exquisite Preeminence of the Body

In the Walker's expansive exhibition, "Merce Cunningham: Common Time," artistic disciplines effortlessly >