Media Arts
Jun 20, 2011
Beyond DIY to Do-It-Together
Regan Smith
Regan Smith (PAPER DARTS) offers a personal accounting of a trend she's noticed among Minnesota artists - a shifting focus away from strictly individual accomplishment, or DIY ethos, in favor of collaborative, interactive, "do-it-together" creative work.
May 18, 2011
White Night
Regan Smith
Regan Smith previews Northern Lights' all-night festival, Northern Spark: Nuit Blanche, featuring dusk-to-dawn interactive art happenings throughout the Twin Cities, with 100 projects by more than 50 regional artists and organizations, on June 4 & 5.
Apr 13, 2011
mnartists.org and RAIN TAXI present: "Appetite for Art"
Betsy Altheimer
In this essay, jointly published by mnartists.org and RAIN TAXI, you'll find Betsy Altheimer's (Springboard for the Arts) manifesto for a new paradigm for arts support that emphasizes grassroots patronage and a direct link between artists and consumers.
Feb 8, 2011
Community Supported Art (CSA) - Spring 2011
mnartists.org/Springboard for the Arts
CSA returns this spring! With the same buy-local spirit as Community Supported Agriculture, mnartists.org and Springboard for the Arts seek Minnesota artists, of all disciplines, for our third season of the Community Supported ART (CSA) program.
Jan 21, 2011
Conversations on Improvisation: George Cartwright
Pamela Espeland
Pamela Espeland's interview series on the nature and practice of musical improvisation continues with acclaimed saxophonist/composer George Cartwright (of Curlew, Gloryland Ponycat, and others).
Jan 19, 2011
Currents in Minnesota Graphic Design
Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre reports back from AIGA's recent roundtable, "evolvedesign: The Evolution and Future of Graphic Design in Minnesota," on the trends shaping local design -- from "design living" to the longstanding tensions between advertising and design.
Dec 30, 2010
Basel 2010: Mission Meta-Impossible - Art, Pray, F**K
Sean Smuda
Sean Smuda returns to Art Basel Miami for a third year - read on for an extensive photo essay and his dispatch for mnartists.org on the aesthetics, theory and commercial circus that dominated this year's fairs.
Dec 23, 2010
The Dancing Camera
Lightsey Darst
Lightsey Darst reports back with some critical reflections on this year's Dance Film Project offerings, part of the annual Minnesota Dance Film Festival (organized by John Koch and Vanessa Voskuil) that took place December 11 - 18.
Dec 10, 2010
Swimming Out
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Maggie Ryan Sandford reflects on SWIM, a new poetry-film project by writer Jen March and filmmaker Peter Hogan, who've recently formed a collaborative production outfit for more such creations, called Co-Kisser.
Nov 18, 2010
OPEN, a homegrown pandrogynous love story
Marsha Trainer
Filmmaker Jake Yuzna’s path to winning the Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Jury Award this year reveals a deep debt to Twin Cities support from organizations both upstanding and underground.
Nov 4, 2010
The 2010 Asian Film Festival
Max Sparber
Max Sparber previews some of the offerings at this year's Minneapolis/St. Paul Asian Film Festival, presented by the Mpls/St. Paul Film Society at St. Anthony Main Theatre from November 3 - 13.
Oct 13, 2010
Inside the Producer's Art
Marsha Trainer
Filmmaker and writer Marsha Trainer profiles producer Christine Walker (HOWL, LIFE DURING WARTIME), co-founder of the Mpls-based film production company WercWerkWorks, to get to the heart of the question, "What does a film producer actually do?"
Oct 8, 2010
The Ear is the Place, Man
Jeremy Walker
For a second essay in his new series on jazz, co-presented by mnartists.org and the Walker Art Center, musician and writer Jeremy Walker argues in defense of the idiosyncratic, ever-shifting, individual listener's ear.
Sep 8, 2010
Storytelling by Design in a Digital Age
Marsha Trainer
Marsha Trainer chats with Martha Stewart Living Omni, Inc. chief creative & editorial director Gael Towey and her husband, acclaimed designer Stephen Doyle. Both will be at the W Hotel - Foshay on September 9 as part of the "Design Conversations" series.
Apr 26, 2010
Animating Sound
Alison Morse
Alison Morse profiles composer Tom Hambleton and animator Tom Schroeder, both of whom have become adept at the art of sound design in animation, using the complex interplay of sound and image to create "visual music."
Apr 12, 2010
On Location in "Cubicle"
Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre has been watching Skewed Visions' monthly webcast, "Cubicle," and finds the series' genre-bending ruminations on place, work, and life in the modern office to be, on the whole, both intriguing and enlightening.
Apr 2, 2010
Saving the World One Gamer at a Time
Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre reports back from a recent conference at the U of MN, the first in a proposed series called "Design Intersections." The symposium focused on crowdsourcing solutions for some of the world's most pressing problems through online gaming.
Apr 1, 2010
Envisioning an Art Ecology
Diane Hellekson
Writer and landscape architect Diane Hellekson outlines a dynamic model for thinking about cultivation of the arts in Minnesota -- specifically, she makes the case for seeing the health of state's arts and artists in ecological rather than economic terms.
Mar 24, 2010
Poetry in Motion
Alison Morse
Writer Alison Morse checks out a collaboration spearheaded by acclaimed poet Todd Boss and animator Angella Kassube, "Motionpoems," which aims to use moving images to "embed poems in people's consciousness," and to create a larger audience for both forms.
Dec 10, 2009
Choreography for Body and Camera
Lightsey Darst
Lightsey Darst profiles the Dance Film Project, a yearly festival which aims to build a dance film community in Minnesota. The second annual festival was organized by John Koch and Vanessa Voskuil, and will be at Intermedia Arts Dec 11-12.
Oct 1, 2009
A Poet's Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain
Britt Aamodt
Britt Aamodt profiles the documentary, "Cold Mountain: Han Shan," by filmmakers Mike Hazard and Deb Wallwork and poet Jim Lenfestey. The story is at once personal and historic, about kinship that crosses centuries and one man's quest to honor his muse.
Aug 18, 2009
Love, According to Dave
Britt Aamodt
Britt Aamodt offers an in-depth profile of emerging screenwriter turned playwright, David Ash -- the local writer/director of the underground film festival favorite, "Love: A Documentary," and a new play, "Connected."
Jul 20, 2009
Telling Stories from the Inside Out
Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant seeks out Gudrun Lock, an under-the-radar video artist whose work offers a fresh vision on the ties that connect people, places, and stories together.
Jul 2, 2009
Tony Nelson Captures the Mad Ripple's Milieu
Maggie Sandford
Maggie Sandford offers an engaging look into photographer Tony Nelson's new exhibition of work documenting the local artist community behind Jim Walsh's (aka The Mad Ripple) weekly Hootenanny nights.
Jun 25, 2009
Tilting at Windmills in St. Cloud
Jennifer Kohnhorst
Writer Jennifer Kohnhorst profiles an intriguing, talented musician in St. Cloud--a one-man creative dynamo whose audience size has yet to catch up to his talent. Read on for Ganderson's story and to lend your ears to his appealingly quirky take on pop.