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CALL FOR ENTRIES: MNfashion FLASH: Fall Series

mnartists.org — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

FALL SERIES PHOTOGRAPH THEME: STREET FASHION This fall, capture the sights and experiences of Fall Fashion Weekend, the quintessential Twin Cities look, or create impromptu photo shoots at different event locations over the weekend.

image: Bill Bloedow- Creative Consultant

image: Mary O'Regan- Fashion Editor- Metro Magazine

image: Ellen Dahl- Photographer, The Minneapoline

Reexamining the Rules: Tom Rose

Mason Riddle — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT

Mason Riddle here writes a thoughtful essay on Tom Rose's work, exemplified by his recent show at Flanders Gallery, "Rules of the Game."

image: method

image: Game

image: Method and Function

image: never arbitrary

The Plan: Minneapolis' Brave New World of Art

Christopher Atkins — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT

Christopher Atkins attended the meeting that introduced the Minneapolis Plan for Arts and Culture. He found it to be an ambitious document that tries to move arts in the city closer to the center, but that could be more specific on how this is to be done.

image: the panel

image: Jane Gregerson

image: Ryback

image: Halbreich

image: schiff

image: Wendy Knox

The Tilsner: Responsibilities, Benefits, and a Whole Lot of Light

Amanda Vail — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT

Amanda Vail writes the first in an occasional series of profiles of artists' spaces: The Tilsner Cooperative, an Artspace project in St. Paul.

The Free Republic of Duluth: At Last, Real Candidates

Jean Sramek — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT

When mnartists.org asked writers to look for artist-led initiatives to make the world a better place, Jean Sramek found one right in her lap--that very week the elections for the Free Republic of Duluth were held. Here's an account.

image: Steve the hors-d'oeuvre table

image: Jim Richardson

image: A masker

image: Debate

Kinji 101

J. Kevin Byrne — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Designer Kevin Byrne offers an engaging, philosophically-minded primer-cum-tribute to his longtime friend and colleague at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, acclaimed artist and educator Kinji Akagawa.

image: Anderson Park

image: Anderson Park, 2011

image: Peace Garden Bridge

image: Phenomenology course notes

image: MCAD library card for Heidegger's classic tome

The Column: The Sacrificial Poet

Suzanne Szucs — Sat, 06 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Suz Szucs writes about how poems and design can get tangled up in the everyday, to everyone's benefit. She describes one night in Duluth this winter.

image: poster

image: Tish Jones

image: Bill

image: trio

image: Ray Ray

image: L Kincaid

image: 2 models

image: white dress

image: Kincaid

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Farm Accident: A Secret History

Andy Sturdevant — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Andy Sturdevant investigates the elusive history of Farm Accident, an ephemeral art gallery which lay at the center of the disco era's elite Minneapolis contemporary art scene, notorious for illicit, star-studded exhibitions in the IDS building downtown.

image: Jim Schober's reassembled "Lifter Puller"

image: Bill Christensen (center) with his partners in the IDS, 1978.

image: MCAD in 1975, right after the Haselbauers met. Photo by Steve Plattner.

image: The Farm Accident space as it appears today - primarily a storage space and break room for an ad age

DESIGN: Xerox, Scotch Tape, Rubber Glue & Letraset

Essay by Andy Sturdevant — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Our resident observational historian Andy Sturdevant looks into the forgotten world of handmade gallery flyers from the 1980s and '90s, investigating the surprisingly obscure design history of this remarkably practical, rough-hewn art.

image: b/w flyer

image: mickey mouse

image: no name flyer 3

image: No name color

image: chicks trees and angels

image: where is the voice

image: artists and the south

image: damian garner

image: modern man

image: print flyer

image: color flyer 2

image: color flyer 3

Pragmatic Art: The Salvaged Resource

Aaron Lundstrom — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT

Aaron Lundstrom describes fencebuilding and pond hockey as sculpture--he's looking at broadening notions of creativity.

image: ice

image: hockey

Designing Rural Futures

Camille LeFevre — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Camille LeFevre reviews "Rural Design," architect Dewey Thorbeck's innovations in 'design thinking' about sustainable rural planning, based on an exhibit at HGA Gallery in the U of M and Thorbeck's book by the same name.

image: Thorbeck's diagram for "connecting the dots" in rural design

image: Dewey Thorbeck, "Rural Design: A New Design Discipline"

The State of the Arts

Nathaniel Smith — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Nathaniel Smith tweaks the usual year-end list by assessing the state of the arts here in MN, beginning with the pros and cons of pop-up galleries, art and craft fairs and the financial domination of the MCAD Art Sale in the Twin Cities scene.

image: Ferus Gallery-founder Walter Hopps, 1960.

image: A crowd of shoppers at MCAD's Annual Art Sale

image: Ash Marlene Hane, "Are You Sure?"

image: Chuck U, "Kangarambird"

image: An abundance of holiday art fairs, craft shows and pop-ups

Building a Place of Attention

Matt Konrad — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Matt Konrad profiles rosenlof/lucas (ROLU, for short), an art and design studio who've become known for the "superhybridity" of their practice, including landscape design and furniture creations, conceptual art projects and an internationally read blog.

image: ROLU's landscape projects in Minneapolis

image: ROLU's "Field Collection" version of "Razor Blade" by Richard Nonas

image: ROLU and WELCOME Projects, HERE THERE-THERE HERE, 2012

image: HERE THERE-THERE HERE Zine by Benjamin Critton for ROLU and WELCOME Projects, 2012

image: ROLU, MINNE-ETTORE NIGHTSTAND

image: ROLU, JUDD plus NATURE equals DAN GRAHAM

image: ROLU, AFTER UR [A MAGNETIC SUPERBOX]

Kitchen Lab: Food as Catalyst of Community and Culture

James Norton — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Heavy Table editor and CHOW.com columnist James Norton digs in to the recent Kitchen Lab residency on the Walker's Open Field, at the intersection of design, public engagement and cuisine, where food and culture meet "collectivist action."

image: Digging in to a Kitchen Lab experiment box

image: Betsy DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Interactive Computing

image: Carl DiSalvo, GIT School of Literature, Communication and Culture

image: Kitchen Lab's "Amuse Bouche - a Game of Flavor and Feeling"

image: Items from the City Pantry

image: Exploring the City Pantry's "scents and memories"

image: The Curiosity Kitchen

image: Inside the "Curiosity Kitchen" box

image: The Dilletante Tea Set

image: The Dilletante Tea Set, seen from above

image: Dilletante Tea Set - detail

image: Tagging tastes and smells

image: In the Sky Pesher

image: Guests unpack a Kitchen Lab box

image: Kitchen Lab's "portable sink"