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Monica Sheets: Minnesota Emerging Artists Exhibition

Kristin Makholm — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Kristin Makholm, director of the MCAD Gallery which hosts the Jerome Fellows Exhibition, here writes on Monica Sheets, one of this year's Jerome winners, who used an old Fluxus strategy to turn her allotted wall space into a curatorial opportunity.

The "Public" in Public Art: Your Voice

Amanda Vail — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Amanda Vail gives us a preview of the upcoming discussion of public art in Minneapolis. What do you think it should look like? What neighborhoods should get it? What artists? Read and attend . . .

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Someone Wants to Help You Make Your Work: Artist Grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board

Ann Klefstad with MSAB staff — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Does the Arts Board give grants to individual artists? Yes! The Arts Board has two such programs. Deadline for your Artist Initiative Program application is September 7; for your Cultural Community Partnership grant, October 8.. Get busy!

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The Renaissance of the Minnesota State Arts Board's Artists Registry

Britt Aamodt — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Britt Aamodt reports on how the Minnesota State Arts Board is commissioning work by Minnesota artists for the Percent-for-Art in Public Places program. Nicole Simoneaux hopes to refine the board's registry into one of the best in the nation.

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The Big Ambition: Notes from a writing retreat

Lightsey Darst — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Lightsey Darst gives an account, firsthand and real time, of pulling individual poems together into a book.

Jack Becker and The Many Lives of Forecast Public Artworks

Ann Klefstad — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Americans for the Arts has presented its Public Art Award to "Public Art Review" magazine for outstanding service to the field--a fine start to Forecast's 30th anniversary celebration. Read on for Forecast's "origin story."

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My Work Is a Life of Art: Ray Rolfe

Will Conley — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Arts journalist Will Conley recently engaged artist Ray Rolfe in an extended email dialogue. These were his findings.

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Beyond Likeness: Light Shed on the Body

Suzanne Szucs — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Suzanne Szucs traveled to the North Dakota Museum of Art and saw the "Beyond Likeness" show there: four women thinking about appearance and its representation.

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Secret Agent: Jil Evans and "The Dutch Opera"

Patricia Briggs — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Patricia Briggs interviewed Jil Evans at Form+ Content on the occasion of her solo exhibition "The Dutch Opera" (through May 17). Read on for an extraordinary conversation on how art gets made.

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Jimi Sides: You Can't Do Everything, But You Can Try

Chris Godsey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Chris Godsey spoke to music photographer Jimi Sides about his frenetic life as photographer, music fan, videographer, 'zine publisher, and human being.

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Duelling Poets: Minnesota's Laureates

Cheryl Reitan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT

To help mark Poetry Month, Cheryl Reitan sat down with Minnesota's two civic laureates: Barton Sutter from Duluth and Carol Connolly from Saint Paul. What's the state of poetry in the state?

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Drowning in a Beast of a Book: "Or the White Whale"

Jaime Kleiman — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Jaime Kleiman spoke to Jon Ferguson, director of "Or the White Whale" for MnArtsWeekly, on what it was like to develop this show.

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The Spokes, the Hub, the Wheel: Arts as Part of Neighborhoods

Shannon Gibney — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Shannon Gibney reports on a recent get-together among 8th Ward artists, researcher Ann Markusen, and city council member Elizabeth Glidden.

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What Made Dylan Dylan?: Hibbing and Dinkytown in the American Journey

Cheryl Reitan — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Cheryl Reitan spoke with curator Colleen Sheehy about her search for local material to fill out the big Dylan show now at the Weisman Museum (through April 29).

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On Artistic Competition

Michael Fallon — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Is the art world necessarily a dog eat dog place? Does reputation mean more than substance? What drives artists to do what they do? Michael Fallon's essay for Monica Sheets' Jerome Fellows project has thoughts about this--respond in the Articles Forum.