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Q: How to make art while raising children? A: Run away from home

By Kathryn Kysar, mnartists.org

A recalcitrant, cupboard-slamming teenager sulks in my kitchen, blasting hard rock into his ear buds while eating his third snack of the afternoon, tortilla chip crumbs flying around the table. His exuberant younger sister shares her every action—“and now I am folding the paper crane’s neck!”-- from the coffee-table-turned-art-studio as I sit at the dining room table, trying to write.

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Finding art at Target, from store-brand Van Goghs to Awkward Family Photos

By Jay Orff, mnartists.org

The Target Corporation has turned out to be one of the great patrons of 21st century art, giving loads of money to many of our big cultural flame-keepers. Given that, I couldn’t help but wonder about the art that Target offers for sale to the rest of us.

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BOOKS | Holy Cow! Press celebrates 35 years of literary publishing in Duluth

By Ann Klefstad, mnartists.org

Jim Perlman, chief cook and bottle washer of Holy Cow! Press

Mike Hazard

HOLY COW! PRESS, NOW IN ITS THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, is one of the more unlikely but durable publishing stalwarts in this publisher-rich state.

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Artists in Storefronts and the Starling Project: Filling the void with art

By Sarah Howard, mnartists.org

Storefront window display by Joan Vorderbruggen of Artists in Storefronts. This display pays homage to the classic comedy tradition where grown women pretend to be little girls who pretend to be grown women - e.g. Gilda Radner's Judy Miller or Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann. (Photo by Steven Lang)

The recession of recent years has caused an increasing number of vacant buildings around the Twin Cities.

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The view from Crystal Bridges

By Camille LeFevre, mnartists.org

BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS—Surprises abound on the hills, in the gullies and across the streams of Benton County in northwestern Arkansas. Those surprises, uniquely enough, also generate whipsaw-like juxtapositions of the banal and extraordinary and challenge aesthetic compartmentalization and comprehension.

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