Marie Schrobilgen’s piece, “Self Portrait,” uses an industrial strength magnet to suspend a cast lump of steel in midair. Photo by Tom Dunn Late last week, the Minnesota Museum of American Art (a Knight Arts grantee) revived its longstanding statewide biennial program with a diverse showing of work contributed by 36 Minnesota artists. This marks MMAA’s […]

Alec Soth presents his new billboard/”public art intervention” at the intersection of Vandalia and University. Photo by Susannah Schouweiler Driving down University Avenue, I’ve never paid much mind to the billboards. I see the same forgettably crass ads all over my own working class St. Paul neighborhood promising to “buy ugly houses” and hawking check-cashing services, classic rock […]

I’ve been following with interest the evolution of Twin Cities Public Television’s cross-platform initiative – originally called Open Air and, in recent months, rebranded as Rewire. You may have noticed shorts from their delightful web-based video series, “Are You MN Enough?,” popping up in your social media feed from time to time. In the last year, […]

Rick Shiomi’s latest work adapts Xinran Xue’s book about Chinese women’s experiences under the nation’s One-Child Policy into a moving, complex play. “Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother” is playwright and director Rick Shiomi’s first new work since his departure from Mu Performing Arts (a Knight Arts grantee) last year. At Saturday’s stripped-down workshop performance of […]

Shares go on sale for $350 a piece, beginning at 10 a.m. on May 28, 2014 Today, shares will go on sale for the St. Paul-based Community Supported Art (CSA) program, the first and founding version of what has become a nationwide initiative connecting artists with collectors. It began as a riff on the economic […]

One of the creations from a “Kids Make Sculpture” workshop last summer. Courtesy of Franconia Sculpture Park The school year is winding down, and my inbox is already packed with press releases for the many arts festivals and community cultural programs with which we fill our warmer months around here. Most families have their summer child […]