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contact name: VACUM
email: www.vacum.info or minnesotacritics@yahoo.com
location:
Please contact us at
www.vacum.info or minnesotacritics@yahoo.com
We are based in Minneapolis and St.Paul MN 55103
open to public: yes
hours: Please come and see a VACUM trialogue in the MAEP gallery at the Mpls Insititute of Arts. Check the MIA calendar for details.

Hand me the VACUM attachment

The Visual Arts Critics Union of Minnesota announces the latest issue of the VACUM attachment now out in the Spring 2006 Rain Taxi review of books. The eight page spread is written and edited by VACUM members and published biannually in the award winning literary journal.

As an organization VACUM is dedicated to fostering critical discourse on the visual arts, educating the public about art criticism, and mentoring young writers.

Aside from producing the VACUM attachemtn, VACUM facilitates interplay between critics, artists, and the public in regular "trialogues" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where critics respond to the local artists's exhibitions presented at the MAEP.

VACUM also participates in the "3D Saturday nights" program at Franconia Sculpture Park where a critics panel responds to the work of residnet artists.

Membership includes an eclectic group of writers--Michael Fallon, Ann Klefstad, Andrew Knighton, Glenn Gordon, Jan Estip, Thomas O'Sullivan, Clea Filien, David Lefkowitz, Patricia Briggs, Jakki Spicer, Mark Wojahn, Amanda Vail, Diane Mullin, Alex Starace, Camille LeFevre, Chris Atkins and others. This collection features some of them.

Now if only they would start a "VACUM Vino" night at Lucia's wine bar.

Literature

• VACUM, VACUM
• Klefstad, Ann, Ann Klefstad
• The Column: The Man Who Dreamed He Was Made Of Glass, Andrew Knighton
• The Column: What's Happening at Sixth and Second?, Andrew Knighton
• Gordon, Glenn, Glenn Gordon
• Trialogue: Thomas O'Sullivan on Cy Thao, Thomas O'Sullivan
• Lefkowitz, David, David Lefkowitz
• Wojahn, Mark, Mark Wojahn
• Felien, Clea, Clea Felien
• The Plan: Minneapolis' Brave New World of Art, Christopher Atkins
• Michael Fallon, VACUM
• Valerie Valentine, VACUM