Thinking Making Living

02/25/2015

BodyCartography residency at Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota for Thinking Making Living exhibit. November 2014 More information at http://bodycartography.org/portfolio/the-empaths/

12/19/2014

Thank you, Ashley Duffalo! for your wonderful and insightful article in MN artists, org about the thinking making living exhibition! http://www.mnartists.org/article/why-it-so-difficult-talk-critically-about-socially-engaged-art

Why is it so hard to talk critically about socially engaged art? One of the immediate challenges of reviewing the Nash Gallery’s group exhibition, thinking making living, or any show that presents such work for that matter, is that the included works defy the conventions of language and aesthetic ju…

12/13/2014

Final day to see the thinking, making, living exhibition! Thanks to all who participated as artists, students, staff, faculty and community members---we look forward to other ways we will manifest this practice in our thinking, making, living. To be continued!

12/04/2014

Responding to the question: Does social practice belong in art museums?
Participate in the panel discussion this Wednesday (Dec. 10th) and tell us your opinion.

It seems like everywhere you look today, artists are working collaboratively through social and participatory formats, often in public and community settings and well outside the traditional context ...

11/19/2014

Artist J. Morgan Puett will be speaking at Influx Wednesday night, November 19th at 6:00 pm in Influx at the Regis Center for Art!! She will have a noontime talk about Mildred's Lane on Thursday, in the Katherine E. Nash workshop space!

10/29/2014

The collaborative Improvising Ecosystems - artists, musicians, composers and soon landscape architect students and faculty - will be presenting our response to our visit to the Cloquet Forestry Research Center.

It is sure to spark your senses, imagination, and participation.

Join us at this Wednesday at 8pm
in the thinking making living exhibition space in the Nash Gallery.

All are welcome!

10/23/2014

Photos from a fun BodyCartography Project with UMN students

10/21/2014

The Art of Influencing Government with Art
Public Talk by Beth Grossman
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 6:00 PM

As part of the thinking making living exhibition at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, California artist Beth Grossman will give a public talk about her activist art. Beth Grossman is a University of Minnesota alumna.

Regis Center for Art (East). University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.

Beth Grossman's social practice revolves around using art and the creative process to advocate creatively, empower leadership and build community. In creating The Law of Seeds, her project showcased at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Grossman considers the question, "Can Art influence Policy?" She lobbied her local City Council in Brisbane, California to adopt this Seed Bill of Rights as a proclamation, setting an important precedent for other cities.

Grossman will share a brief survey of her participatory art and performance projects that interact with government. The story of The Law of Seeds, will serve as a sample methodology for the art of influencing government with art. As a founding "Cultural Agent" for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a citizen-powered movement to cultivate art and culture in the public interest, Grossman will invite the public to become involved in this exciting national arts activism endeavor. http://www.usdac.us

10/08/2014

In a workshop designed and led by artist Marina Zurkow, participants created prototype meals and scenarios about the future of eating based on a random set of constraints. The dinner is set at The Hydroponic Table (a project by Crescent Collective).

http://vimeo.com/108272452

More events at https://art.umn.edu/nash

In a workshop designed and led by artist Marina Zurkow, participants created prototype meals and scenarios about the future of eating based on a random set of constraints.…

10/08/2014

"As an adaptive and flexible cultural organization, Big Car draws together people of all backgrounds to promote and perpetuate creativity, invigorate public places, and support better neighborhoods.

Big Car is a creative community builder working to boost urban livability from an engagement-based arts and design perspective."

More information at http://www.bigcar.org

https://www.facebook.com/bigcarcollaborative

10/06/2014

Join us for an amazing panel this Wednesday, October 8, 2014 !!!

Artists Rethink /Remake the City, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Panelists: Amanda Lovely, Seitu Jones, Sandy Spieler, Marcus Young

Influx Space, Regis Center for Art
405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
in conjunction with the thinking, making, living exhibition

Moderated by Christine Baeumler, artist, Associate Professor, Department of Art, UMN and curatorial team member for "thinking making living".

Four Twin Cities-based artists come together to share and discuss their endeavors to reimagine the city and reflect on their role as artists in reshaping our relationship to public space, civic life, and environmental and social interaction. This distinguished panel of artists will discuss working directly and in a sustained way with government and communities to alter physical infrastructure and transform the experience of the urban environment on a number of levels. They will discuss complex questions such as: What is the role of the artist in city systems? Who counts in considering public space? How can urban residents have equal access to healthy, affordable food? How do we reimagine the city to be more aesthetically vibrant? How can art inspire engagement in social justice and environmental sustainability?


Panelists include:

Amanda Lovelee: http://www.amandalovelee.com/

Seitu Jones: http://www.publicartstpaul.com/create/

Sandy Spieler: http://www.mcknight.org/newsroom/news-releases/2014-distinguished-artist-sandy-spieler

Marcus Young: http://www.graceminnesota.org/

10/01/2014

We are All Criminals project by Emily Baxter in the thinking, making, living Exhibition