Barbara Martinson, this year�s winner in the Textiles category, is a native who teaches graphic design in the �s Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel. She�s loved working with textiles since her days as a graduate student at the U of M. �I loved working with dying and printing, but I mostly put those interests away until I finished my Ph. D in Design.� She unearthed that passion as a reprieve from…

by mnartists.org   August 26, 2006 John T Salminen, Duluth �First Avenue� (Watercolor) John Salminen spent many years as a well-loved teacher of art at Central High School in Duluth while pursuing his painting career. He retired from Central in 2001, but didn�t stop teaching�now he leads watercolor workshops and master classes all over the country. He�s looking forward to teaching one in October in…

by Britt Aamodt   August 24, 2006 If filmmakers Christopher R. Mihm and John Craig had to pinpoint the location of Phantom Lake, they might finger a remote, wooded location due east of Minneapolis, due north of Eau Claire and west of the realm of possibility. After all, is horror, and as its title so aptly recognizes, a card-carrying member of the monster-film subgenre. It is also a campy, twisted…

by mnartists.org   August 24, 2006 Patricia A. Scott, Minneapolis (intaglio print) Patty Scott makes prints, everything from monotypes and monoprints to linocuts and lithography and intaglio. She has a degree in printmaking from the University of Minnesota, where she worked with Malcom Myers in etching and the other wonderful faculty there in lithography and relief printing. When she was a small child…

by Alex Starace   August 21, 2006 They say the art was ugly and childish; they say the curating was idiotic. They say the captions and wall texts were long, tedious, and didactic. I�ve read a lot of complaints about the Whitney Biennial, the paradigm new-art survey show. Writers say that the artists aren�t talented, the work is trite and infantile, gallery-goers don�t enjoy or understand what�s going on…

by Suzanne Szucs   August 4, 2006 I first met Coral Lambert at Franconia Sculpture Park during Iron Butterfly II cast iron pour in the summer of 2001. I was there to watch and photograph and knew little of cast iron art. Everyone was covered in gear. I watched from behind the safety line. It wasn�t until late at night, during the after-pour party, that I became acquainted with her as she made…

by Jaime Kleiman   August 4, 2006 If I may, I�d like to appropriate a line that Mr. Mugatu says in the movie : �Dramaturgs are sooooo hot right now.� It�s true! Mr. Mugatu needs runway models and playwrights and directors need dramaturgs! That�s the modern-day consensus, anyway, which is how I ended up dramaturging a Fringe Festival show this summer. But what exactly does a dramaturg do? Michael Feingold, a…

by Chris Atkins   July 24, 2006 —Michel de Certeau, “Ghosts in the City,” in , Vol. 2 A living, breathing city is more than tangles of streets and alleys, traffic flows and jams, hidden histories and larger-than-life personalities. Some cities, as they grow and continue to grow, as people think them and write them, become more than collections of lives � they become characters in their own right. It�s as if the…

by mnartists.org   July 14, 2006 Tune in for ongoing news of bands, performances, happenings, and the development of our Green Man collaborative painting. We’ll post images several times a day from the festival, as well as capsule reviews of the music. Join us in our pursuit of Minnesota art! Today is the first day of the festival, and we’re all set up. It’s in the high 80s, but breezy, and everyone’s…