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I am a freelance writer concerned with environmental and health issues.

Tom Jones' images of identity stolen and reclaimed on display at All My Relations Gallery

By Janet Contursi, Southside Pride

The images are well known: totem poles, tomahawks and feathered headdresses are symbols we associate with American Indian culture and, more disturbing, with the essential identity of American Indians. But these are mainstream America’s images of Native Americans, and the photographs of Tom Jones, currently exhibited at All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis, ask tough questions about whose notion of Native identity they represent.

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OPINION | The "flat-world" yarn falls flat in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' globalization exhibit

By Janet Contursi, Southside Pride

What can one say of an exhibit theme that is based on a book scholars have dismissed as culturally misinformed, propaganda, intellectually impoverished and shockingly ignorant of history?

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | For love and money: Six reasons to buy local art

By Janet Contursi, Free Speech Zone

Patricia Duncan--"Sharks Harbor, Catalina Island"

Just because you can’t afford an original Monet or Picasso doesn’t mean you have to settle for bare walls or cheap reproductions.

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The Powderhorn Art Fair turns 21 this year

By Janet Contursi, Southside Pride

“Autumn Landscape” by Kevin Kluever

Summer is art fair season in Minnesota and the Powderhorn Art Fair, now in its 21st year, should be on the top of your “to do” list. The Fair will run Aug.

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The Vine Arts Center supports local artists

By Janet Contursi, Southside Pride

In the summer of 2007, visual artist Sue Kolstad rode the Amtrak from Minneapolis to Washington state, and what she saw along the way changed the focus of her art for the next fiv

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