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Jun 20, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 6.2: Art of the Unexpected
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Featuring a collection of maverick art from mnartists.org curated by MPLSART.com founder Emma Berg
Jun 14, 2006
ZOOM IN a+E Issue 6.1: Shawn Holster
Shawn Holster

What Shawn Holster creates in his basement and garage workshop defies classification into neat artistic categories. a+E talks with Shawn all about it.
Jun 14, 2006
EXCHANGE: Screenwriters-Turned-Podcasters Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn
Jim Dunn and Sam Ernst

We caught up with Sam and Jim, Twin Cities restaurateurs turned screenwriters (and surprisingly successful podcasters), to get their take on the DIY media scene and their new proposal for a scripted, direct-to-audience show.
Jun 12, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 6.1: Minnesota's Maverick Artists
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Featuring a conversation with podcasting screenwriters on the frontiers of media, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn
May 24, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 5.2: The New Face of Minnesota Design
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Featuring the first installment of a+E's new collection series, MASHUP, with guest curator and designer Jake Nassif
May 16, 2006
ZOOM IN a+E Issue 5: Jemma Hostetler Issue #5
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a+E talks with Jemma about digital design, using new media tools creatively, and blending artistic and commercial purposes.
May 16, 2006
EXCHANGE: A conversation with Simpsons' co-creator Sam Simon and Public TV's John Forde
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A conversation between "The Simpsons" co-creator and executive producer Sam Simon and Minnesota-based "Mental Engineering" host and creator John Forde on creating innovative, ingenious broadcasting... and making enough money to keep it on the air
May 12, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 5.1: Who Says Artists Have to Starve?
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We're exploring graphic design with Zoom In artist Jemma Gura, and the conundrum of doing what you love and making a living at the same time with Simpsons creator Sam Simon and PBS ad deconstruction artist John Forde.
Apr 20, 2006
Exchange Issue 4: Kristin Makholm and Diane Mullin
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The Jerome and McKnight Fellowship programs run by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design are important components of the Minnesota art scene. a+E speaks with their present and former directors.
Apr 18, 2006
Zoom In issue 4: Stephen Ljubovic
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Stephen Ljubovic paints the wild melancholy and wry humor of the objects we’ve loved and forgotten, the breath infusing the things that live with us.
Apr 12, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 4: The Work of Art
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Highlights include conversations on grants with curators Kristin Makholm and Diane Mullin and profiles of artists Mark Wojahn and Stephen Ljubovic
Mar 12, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 3: March Madness
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March Madness isn't just for sports fans--we're brimming with enthusiasm for all the fantastic new feature projects you'll be discovering on mnartists.org in coming months.
Mar 10, 2006
Point of View: Lightsey Darst
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Lightsey Darst will produce “What Light: This Week’s Poem." We’re delighted to be able to offer this feature with the help of Magers and Quinn, a bookstore whose championing of writers makes it a great destination for readers.
Mar 10, 2006
Point of View: Glenn Gordon
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Glenn Gordon will write on “The Look of Things” every other month. He'll cover architecture and 3D design issues. He’s been a furniture designer and maker, and a writer on design, art, and craft, for many years.
Mar 10, 2006
You Are Here (Statewide) issue 3
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Artists' Centers, Poetry readings,
Mar 9, 2006
Point of View: Shannon Gibney
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Shannon Gibney will be producing our new regular feature on literature, "Thinking Souls." Read her here on literature.
Mar 9, 2006
Point of View: Santiago Piedrafita
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This year, Santiago Piedrafita was named to the I.D. Forty, The International Design Magazine’s annual list of 40 top designers, architects and visual professionals from around the globe. He teaches at MCAD, chairing the graphic design department.
Mar 9, 2006
Trever Nicholas Interview: Memory and Visceral Understandings
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Read on for an interview with Trever Nicholas conducted at the Matchbox Coffehouse in Northeast Minneapolis by Ann Klefstad.
Mar 9, 2006
ZOOM IN issue #3
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A collection of work and annotations by Trever Nicholas, with an interview on his life and art.
Feb 23, 2006
SAMPLER a+E Issue 2: Digital Video Artist Suzanne Kosmalski
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Suzanne Kosmalski's artwork occurs in digital video and sound, works on paper, sculpture, and installation. Her work is conceptually based and involves an interest in media, memory and history.
Feb 22, 2006
EXCHANGE a+E Issue 2: Collaborations and Artist Couples
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Many artists, however unwisely, marry other artists--what these partners lack in earning power they tend to make up for in sheer intrinsic interest. Three of those couples let us know how it's going.
Feb 21, 2006
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Feb 16, 2006
ZOOM IN a+E Issue 2: Andrea Carlson
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A collection of Andrea Carlson's powerful paintings inspired by her community and imbued with humor and influenced by Anishinaabe stories.
Feb 15, 2006
You Are Here (Metro) issue 2
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Artistic collaboration, group exhibitions, partnerships, and issues of how people fit (or don’t) with each other is the overriding theme for this issue’s events listings around the Twin Cities Metro.
Feb 12, 2006
access+ENGAGE Issue 2: Collaboration and Transformations
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This issue investigates making art as a twosome, and explores the mythical landscapes of Andrea Carlson's imaginative artwork

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