MacArthur Foundation award winner Dyani White Hawk (Casket Arts Building) recently joined forces with Mercury Mosaics (Thorp Building) to create a breathtaking mosaic installation at the Whitney Museum of American Arts 

Over the past eight years Northeast Minneapolis Arts District (AD) board members have visited other arts communities and arts districts to compare and contrast as well as learn about how they operate and organize themselves. Others visit us here; the most recent...

“They, too, wanted to love but did not know how to say it …What a wild dilemma, How to make it to the stars on a highway slick with fear.” ~Joy Harjo in her memoir Poet Warrior

The morning of May 1, artist Iya Nacuua spoke to his computer, challenging chat.openai.com to respond to music lyrics. Between him and the platform, the exchange generated more than 410 lines of dialog, about 4,000 words before Nacuua signed off to get breakfast. Nacuua...

Northeast Minneapolis Arts District Board Members Margo Ashmore and Josh Blanc convened a meeting with Ben Johnson, Addy Gonzalez and Mary Altman from the Minneapolis Arts and Cultural Affairs department along with Minneapolis Arts Commission member Lana Aylesworth,...

The Minneapolis visual arts community is a diverse, enterprising, and vital part of the local economy and culture—but it consistently flies under the radar. Vibrant art communities are spread throughout the cities, but disconnected from each other’s storytelling....