A graphic designer, guerrilla artist, and urban planner, Candy Chang has spent the last decade instigating site-specific interventions, from chalk stencils indicating nice spots for trees to a boarded house turned into a chalkboard for New Orleanians to share dreams. In advance of her Minneapolis visit, she paused to discuss street art, listening to community voices, and reclaiming public space.

A former Watts House Project board member challenges an LA Times account of problems with the art project, arguing for a “loving critique” of a “capacity-poor nonprofit with a wildly ambitious mission” instead of a “reductive expose.”