Mn Artists

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Mn Artists is a platform of the Walker Art Center that supports Minnesota’s local artist community by nurturing arts writing and relationship building. Through Mn Artists and other initiatives, the Walker champions the regional art community by forging connections between locally-rooted artistic practices and national and international conversations in contemporary art, while spotlighting the rigo

r and vitality of the local arts scene. In line with the Walker’s mission to catalyze artists and audiences, Mn Artists centers artistic risk, experimentation, and interdisciplinary forms of making, with a particular focus on the arts of our time. Relaunched in 2021, mnartists.walkerart.org features essays, reviews, poetry, ethnographic writing, news, conversations, and maintains the most comprehensive listing of artist opportunities in the state. Mn Artists supports a range of perspectives and nurtures constructive criticism, contributing to lively, professional discussion in the local arts ecosystem.

03/01/2025

"Success, for Night Club, is not measured by patrons purchasing artwork. It is the great waft of breath steaming out and down the front window."

Saulaman Schlegel follows along as a gallery run by Emma Beatrez and Lee Noble finds its third home, and the new ethos to suit it

https://mnartists.walkerart.org/night-club-iii-iso-the-perfect-closet

Image credit: Photo by Paty Doh.
Alt: Two people in jackets stand outside a storefront painted green with covered windows

Following along as a gallery finds its third home, and the new ethos to suit it

02/27/2025

"In which smell is mystery and bridge."

From Elisabeth Workman: a poet's nose reports on artist Gudrun Lock's Shoreham Yards Smelling Committee

https://mnartists.walkerart.org/report-of-the-smelling-committee

Image credit: Janet Lobberecht, Miranda Trimmier and Gudrun Lock. Photo by Marc Scamp.
Alt: Three people in hats and jackets stand in front of fence with trainyard behind, eyes closed, noses upturned to smell

A poet's nose reports on artist Gudrun Lock's Shoreham Yards Smelling Committee

01/17/2025

From the archives →
Headed to Art Shanty Projects this weekend? Enjoy a throwback to the Art Shanties of 2008, written by Andy Sturdevant:

Writer and Art Shanty Projects tour guide extraordinaire Andy Sturdevant gives a funny, informative inside look at the wacky, ingenious offerings to be found in the ice house community that's taken shape in Plymouth this year

01/09/2025

Peruse the latest newsletter with opportunities expiring this month!

Calls, grants, fellowships, residencies, jobs, and more to apply for this month

01/07/2025

The 2023/24 MCAD–Jerome Fellowship Exhibition opens on Friday, January 17!

Learn about the artists through our series of interviews in partnership with MCAD:

Interviews with the four recipients of the 2023/24 MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists: Zoe Cinel, Ziba Rajabi, Leeya Rose Jackson, and Prerna.

01/03/2025

Closing soon for craft artists!

Native Craft Artist Readiness Program from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Deadline: January 6
https://tinyurl.com/3eprmym3

Textile Center Makers Market 2025
Deadline: January 9
https://tinyurl.com/28mnwnaw

More opportunities → mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunities

Textile Center Makers Market 2025Saturday, February 22, 2025, from 10 am – 3 pm Applications due Thursday, January 9, 2025, by 5 pm Textile Center invites fiber artists and makers to join us for our third annual Makers Market during…

12/23/2024

Opportunities coming up in the new year ⭐

Hutchinson Sculpture Stroll from Public Arts Commission of Hutchinson
Deadline: January 1
https://tinyurl.com/375v23dt

Dance and Music Residencies at Art Omi
Deadline: January 2
https://tinyurl.com/3xvv6pz5

Call for the Capitol Rice Street Artist Team from Forecast Public Art
Deadline: January 3
https://tinyurl.com/4r8zyunu

Recreation Programmer Job at Eagan Art House
Deadline: Janaury 5
https://tinyurl.com/bud9v2td

Call for Submissions: Mizna Summer Issue 26.1
Deadline: January 6
https://tinyurl.com/53kat4jp

You Haul Art Crawl from Nat Kim & Brighton McCormick
Deadline: January 6
https://tinyurl.com/3pkhbx6c

Find more → mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunities

Forecast Public Art seeks four artists with connections to Saint Paul’s Rice Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to John Ireland Boulevard, including time spent living and/or working in or around the Frogtown, Rondo, Downtown, and/or Lowertown neighborhoods. Project: Capitol Rice Street Visioning a...

12/17/2024

Featured opportunity: City Center Interactive Public Art Project from the City of Plymouth

"As part of the reimagination of City Center, City of Plymouth seeks to commission a public art installation that will provide an interactive, vibrant, and memorable visitor experience. The total budget for the project is $170,000."

Deadline: December 20

More info →

Total Project Budget: $170,000Application Deadline: Friday, December 20, 2024 at 4pmArtist Notification: January 10, 2025Public Art Installation: Fall 2025 (earliest, pending weather and Plymouth Boulevard construction) Budget Description: The total budget for the project is $170,000. This not-to-ex...

12/13/2024

"Fire acts as a complex metaphor for transformation in this body of work, where a palpable interest in exploring elemental materials–fire, limestone sediment, bones, wood, and even the charred remains of a building–produces a formally tight but conceptually complicated conversation."

Christina Schmid on tending to questions and complications in ESO MALFOR's recent solo exhibition "The Earth is a Body in Transition"

https://mnartists.walkerart.org/eso-malflor-plays-with-fire

Image credit: ESO MALFLOR, "Hole," 2024. Courtesy HAIR + NAILS
Alt: Charcoal drawing on wood panel of dark hole surrounded by grass

Tending to questions and complications in the solo exhibition The Earth is a Body in Transition

12/06/2024

"I saw that at Shoreham Yards."

Elisabeth Workman's observations at the edges of a truck and trainyard complex in Northeast Minneapolis

Observations at the edges of a truck and trainyard complex in Northeast Minneapolis

11/27/2024

Upcoming calls for indigenous artists:

Call for Artists for Giinawind Gallery at MacRostie Art Center
Deadline: November 30
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunity/call-for-indigenous-artists-giinawind-gallery

Mitakuye Oyasin Awards from All My Relations Arts & NACDI
Deadline: December 2
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunity/mitakuye-oyasin-awards

Yéigo Action Grant from First Peoples Fund
Deadline: December 10th
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunity/yeigo-action-grant

Call for Artists at at ᎦᏚᎩ Gadugi Gallery from Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
Deadline: December 13
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunity/call-for-indigenous-artists-to-exhibit-at-ssy-gadugi-gallery

Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award from Blue Earth Review
Deadline: January 15
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunity/minnesota-bipoc-emerging-writer-award

Find more opportunities → mnartists.walkerart.org/opportunities

The Giinawind Creative Space is a program of MacRostie Art Center and a center for Indigenous art and artists in downtown Grand Rapids. We are seeking Indigenous artists interested in exhibiting their work at Giinawind for 2025. Deadline to apply:…

11/20/2024

Featured opportunity: Micro-Grants for Disabled Sculptors from SICK magazine

"SICK will be awarding two $300 micro-grants to sick/disabled sculptors, sponsored by The Robert J. Spring Endowment for Sculptors. These micro-grants are meant to provide support for disabled sculptors in whatever capacity they feel is most beneficial. Art supplies, studio time, artist books, workshops, and museum visits are examples of what this grant aims to support, but it is up to you what to use it for. Reporting use of funds/providing receipts will not be required. We may request to feature your work in a future issue of SICK."

Deadline: November 30
More info:

*PLEASE READ IN FULL BEFORE APPLYING*Application deadline: November 30th at 11:59pm EST About SICK will be awarding two $300 micro-grants to sick/disabled sculptors, sponsored by The Robert J. Spring Endowment for Sculptors. These micro-grants are meant to provide support for disabled…

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