There’s been an explosion of interest in direct-to-consumer, farm-to-table, community supported agriculture in the last couple of decades. I’d lay odds a fair percentage of Knight Arts readers are farmers market regulars, or even subscribe to a CSA and pick up boxes of fresh produce directly from an area farmer through the growing season. A […]

For more than two years now, late Thursday afternoon every week I find myself surfing over to “The Rumpus” to see if the lit mag has posted a new “Dear Sugar” column. I convince myself that surely this time, it will be safe to read the thing at work. I mean, those other awkwardly emotional […]

When the ArtCars go on parade, you can’t miss artist Jan Elftmann’s “Cork Truck”— it’s a whimsical marvel. With the exception of its windows, tires and headlights, the whole vehicle is artfully encrusted with the thousands upon thousands of wine and champagne corks she collected for more than a decade. Tomorrow evening, for the art-and-science […]

Lowertown’s Air Sweet Air gallery has a new exhibition up — it’s a show with satisfying intellectual heft and conceptual depth. And I have no idea what it all means. Called simply “Δ,” John Fleischer’s multimedia installation is distinguished by both its austerity and deliberateness. As you’d expect from the title, the show is pregnant […]

Nonprofit, discipline-specific organizations (like the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Northern Clay Center, Textile Center, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, etc…), arts colleges and universities — these are the places I suspect most first think of when they’re in the market for classes and other educational arts opportunities for adults, and rightly so. But what if […]