Highlights include a report from Oliver Herring's Twin Cities TASK Party, a retrospective essay on Shoebox Gallery's 6-year history, reviews of TU Dance, Saburo Teshigawara, and So Percussion, and the secretary in pop culture and design

Rhea Pappas' underwater photography is on view in "Beneath the Surface," at the Icebox Gallery (NKB #443) May 15-July 31.

See more work by this artist at www.rheapappas.com or on mnartists.org/rhea_pappas
In this issue: Into the Whirl
We've a jam-packed issue for you, filled to brimming with provocative new essays, reviews, and profiles, artist opportunities, and a generous sampling of arts happenings all over the state.
- HOMEPAGE: Highlights include Sean Smuda's retrospective essay on Shoebox Gallery's six-year history, a look at the influence of secretaries in pop culture and design, and Andy Sturdevant's report from Oliver Herring's Twin Cities TASK Party. Also - reviews of new performances by TU Dance, Saburo Teshigawara, and So Percussion, and a newly commissioned mnLIT Original story by Rebecca Dosch-Brown
- NEWS YOU CAN USE: A selection of new job postings, local arts news, auditions, and calls for art drawn from mnartists.org's daily-updated community bulletin board
- YOU ARE HERE: The spring festival season hits its stride with a profusion of events for Art-A-Whirl this weekend, and there's a bevy of new theater, dance, literary events, lectures, and exhibitions to fill your free time over the coming weeks
PLUS: The final days of the 2010 mnLIT call for writers are upon us! Get crackin' on those flash fiction and poetry submissions - the deadline is midnight on Sunday, May 16


