Art-world, crafts-world, and crossover talents come together in Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, a lively presentation, on view at the Walker Art Center July 11–November 29, that features work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations. Examining the rich history of clay and showcasing some of the medium’s most important practitioners, Dirt on Delight embodies a wide range of form and scale by contemporary artists as well as historic and outsider figures who have had a sustained engagement with clay and its processes. The exhibition originated at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Read Indepth Article

Rosalux Gallery is pleased to announce its Fifth Annual OPEN-DOOR Exhibition. This is the only chance for non-member artists to showcase their work in the gallery. Typically, the Open Door exhibition is reviewed and receives extensive press coverage. This is an excellent opportunity to exhibit artwork in one of Minneapolis’s premiere commercial gallery spaces. All media are accepted: there are no guidelines set for subject matter, medium or style, and the show is open to anyone throughout the world.* Read Indepth Article

The Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis exhibits "Pretty Please: Shawn McNulty and Scott Wenner" until March 29, 2009. Make it pretty, please. It's rule one for painters Shawn McNulty and Scott Wenner. They may maintain disparate styles and approaches but the root philosophy is the same, which is a belief in the power of beauty in art and the necessity of a painting to be first and foremost aesthetically pleasing. Before a work can challenge you, delight you, depress you, or repulse you, it must have your undivided attention. And everyone knows, only the beautiful get attention. As one of earliest members, Shawn McNulty has used a Premiere Portfolio at absolutearts.com to market his art since 2000. Read Indepth Article

CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS - Submittals due by November 3, 2008. SHOTS Magazine announces an international call for photographic work to be considered for publication in the ANNUAL PORTFOLIO ISSUE. Subject matter is open. Please visit the SHOTS website for complete details and guidelines. Selected photographers will be interviewed and have their work featured on at least four pages in this issue. Read Indepth Article

SHOTS Magazine announces an international call for photographic work to be considered for publication in the Autumn Issue, SHOTS 101. The theme for this issue is DREAMS. Please visit the SHOTS website for further information and guidelines. An established independent photography journal in its 21st year of publication, SHOTS reaches an international audience of photographers, collectors, galleries, museums, educators and other fine art photography enthusiasts. Don't miss this chance to have your work seen! Submittals must be received by August 4. Read Indepth Article

Rosalux Gallery is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual OPEN-DOOR Exhibition. This is the only chance for non-member artists to showcase their work in the gallery. Typically, the open door exhibition is reviewed and receives extensive press coverage. This is an excellent opportunity to exhibit artwork in one of Minneapolis’s premiere commercial gallery spaces.  All media are accepted: there are no guidelines set for subject matter, medium or style, and the show is open to anyone throughout the world.* Read Indepth Article

The Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal wants to reconsider production, both artistically and economically, by creating immaterial and more sustainable forms of generating meaning and beauty. The solo exhibition Tino Sehgal will be on view at the Walker Art Center December 12, 2007–March 23, 2008. One of the leading artists of his generation, Sehgal has been making art without actually creating any objects. His working method often involves instructing people—adults, teenagers, and children—to use their bodies and voices to construct situations in which they interact with spectators and their surroundings. Insisting that his installations share time and space with the public, he presents them inside museums rather than theater stages to incite viewer’s response, improvisation, and possibly participation. His stance on spectators as an active and engaged counterpart has infused his work with a distinctive sense of humor, wit, and political undertone. As the artist has stated, “There’s no possibility not to act. So everything you do, even if it doesn’t seem like acting, produces an effect.” Read Indepth Article

Rosalux, a cooperative gallery in downtown Minneapolis, is excited to announce its second annual Open Door Exhibition which is the only opportunity for non-members to exhibit in the gallery. This year's show is being ! juried by Kathy Kvern, who is the project director of mnartists.org which is run by the Walker Art Center. Last year's show was very well attended and received a lot of press coverage. All media is accepted, and it is open to anyone in the world. Artists are responsible for transporting art to the gallery as well as picking up unsold work when the show is over. Anyone outside the Twin Cities area is responsible for all shipping fees. Rosalux takes 30% commission on any work sold during the show. Read Indepth Article

ArTrujillo Gallery proudly presents a selection of work by contemporary painters from The Fine Arts Gallery of Nasiriyah. The principal city of southern Iraq and capital of the province of Dhi Qar., Nasiriyah is located on the banks of the Euphrates River, near the ruins of the ancient city of Ur.  It is a cultural center famous for its art, including the community of painters whose work is presented here - for the first time in the USA. Read Indepth Article

Icebox presents an exhibit of color and b/w images of “Water” by Bolivian Photographer Gonzalo Contreras del Solar. Gonzalo’s passion began as a child and continues to this day. His love of water and capturing it on film has led him to more than 20 countries where he has photographed crystal clear water in all of its forms. Howard Christopherson is the owner of Icebox, he began email exchanges with Gonzalo after the photographer approached the gallery with his work. “I was taken with this work right away. I think it is direct, respectful and honest. Gonzalo captures the sublime beauty of water in an endless variety of ways and forms. I loved seeing his work on the computer monitor, but now I have the prints in hand and they are opulent.” Read Indepth Article

The month of December, 2005, Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis will host the works of Michael Sweere and Amy Rice. The Show entitled, Holiday Hoopla, will feature new work by these two well established Minneapolis artists created specifically for a show in a month of celebration and gift giving. In addition to offering two-dimensional artworks ranging from paintings to collage, these artists have been inspired by the holiday season and used their creative efforts to produce original fine art ornaments, holiday decorations and one-of–a-kind gifts. Read Indepth Article

Four artist-designed installations featuring the work of mid-career artists with whom the Walker has developed long-term relationships--Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, Sherrie Levine, and Kara Walker--are presented in this exhibition. Over the past decade, Matthew Barney has radically transformed the language of installation by collapsing it with moving image, performance, and sculpture. The Walker is the only American institution to own the entire Cremaster Cycle, an investigation of American history and politics, mythologies, sexuality, and personal fantasy created from 1994 to 2002. Read Indepth Article

Amy Rice and Jonathan Nelson are two of The Rosalux Collective’s newest members, but they are no strangers to the Twin Cities art community. Rice is a regular at Outsiders and Others as well as other Twin Cities’ galleries. She is known for her bold stencil creations, inspired as much by Pop Art and Japanese Printmaking as the Graffiti Art movement. Minneapolis Mayor R.T Rybak has cited Amy’s mural work as an example of how art has participated in the rebirth of Franklin Avenue. Read Indepth Article

Rosalux Gallery, a cooperative gallery in downtown Minneapolis, is having is first ever "Open Door Exhibition" allowing any artist to submit work. This show will take place during June 2005 and will be juried by Yuri Arajs. Read Indepth Article

Women of talent, style, vision and determination - these are the Divas. They are youthful at any age. They are daring and demanding. They are a sisterhood and a social club. And they are about to grace us all with their art in an exhibit opening May 31st at ArTrujillo Multicultural Art Studios and Gallery in south Minneapolis. The Divas include Melina Borton, Tara LaPorte, Karlee Mariel, Sarah Stone and Brenda VonAhsen Read Indepth Article

From stoneware pots to the still-life cornucopia, the vessel/container is one of the most commonly reproduced shapes by artists and artisans. The new exhibit at the Art Collective features the vessel in form, theme & image. Read Indepth Article

A major retrospective of recent prints by one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and present day, Jim Dine, is on view from May 12 through August 4, 2002 at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Jim Dine Prints: 1985-2000 spans the last fifteen years of Dine's graphic oeuvre and comprises approximately 100 lithographs, intaglios, woodcuts and illustrated books. The catalogue raisonné documents Dine's complete print production between 1985 and 2000. Read Indepth Article

A group show of paintings presented by The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP), entitled In Situ, opened December 21 at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The exhibition features new paintings by artists Jil Evans, James Holmberg, and Cristi Rinklin – three contemporary artists interested in establishing an intentional and coherent connection between their paintings and the space they occupy. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition will feature about 125 objects of turned wood, including pieces from institutional and private collections. Because of the Industrial Revolution, the art of wood turning only started to be revived in America in the 1930s through the impetus of James Prestini. Following WWII, interest in pure design and the influences of Scandinavia inspired the likes of Bob Stocksdale and Philip Moulthrop. Their successors have been pushing the limits of the medium ever since. The more experimental and challenging approach to wood turning between the 1960s and the 1990s will be the main focus of this exhibition. Read Indepth Article

Frontera Lake Street is a new exhibition by six visual artists: Salvador Espejo Benitez, Luis Fitch, Alexa Horochowski, Douglas Padilla, Marcela Rodriguez A., and Xavier Tavera. These Frontera Six all navigate the personal, cultural, and aesthetic borders of Latino experience. Read Indepth Article

CreArte is proud to present an exhibit of new work from the ArTrujillo Studio Gallery -- a multi-cultural collective of Latino, Middle Eastern, European-American and African-American painters, sculptors and designers based in South Minneapolis. A Day in the Life of ArTrujillo features paintings, sculpture, installations, photography and performances -- art of many styles and expressions, demonstrating the energy found on any typical day at this unusual studio and gallery. Read Indepth Article

Donald Judd (1928-1994) was one of the foremost practitioners of Minimal Art, which had its apex in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the wake of Abstract Expressionism and its highly subjective, mystical focus, Judd and other Minimalists sought to create a depersonalized art in which the physical properties of space, scale, and materials were explored as phenomena of interest on their own, rather than as metaphors for human experience. A shape, a volume, a color, a surface is something itself, Judd wrote. It shouldn't be concealed as part of a fairly different whole. Read Indepth Article

Two separate exhibitions by two Minnesota artists whose work is related through the power of their quasi-theatrical narrative opened August 3,2001, at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Chris Larson and Melissa Stang are driven and prolific artists who, while different in many ways, strive to find resolution to the paradoxes of life. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition focuses on the glass sculptor Howard Ben Tré's public projects for plazas and streetscapes, which are an increasingly important part of his work. A major component of the exhibition is the project recently approved by Target Corporation for their new public plaza in downtown Minneapolis. Howard Ben Tré is a very important player in the studio glass movement that developed in the 1960s and 1970s in Providence, Rhode Island. Read Indepth Article

Organized by Tokyo-based artist Takashi Murakami, the exhibition Superflat investigates a tendency toward two-dimensionality in Japanese visual art, animation, graphic design, and fashion. Tracing this flatness back to pioneers of Japanese painting in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Murakami has developed a theory of super-flat Japanese art in which this legacy can be seen to be resurrected in the post-World War II rise of the Japanese cartoon cultures of manga (comic books) and anime (animation). Read Indepth Article

Photogravure is the most lavish process by which photographs are printed in printer's ink. Invented in the 19th century, photogravure has been used by creative photographer-printmakers interested in the rich, continuous tones of this intaglio process. Read Indepth Article

Alice Neel's daring portraits of people and places are among the most insightful images in 20th-century American art. This exhibition is the first full-scale examination of her inspiring and provocative work and marks the centennial of the artist's birth. Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it covers nearly 60 years of work and features more than 100 paintings and works on paper, many of which have never been previously exhibited in a museum. Read Indepth Article

Bruce Tapola's installation fuses library, research facillity, and conference room into a context for study. His notebooks and stacks of drawings integrate ideas with objects. Read Indepth Article

Nine nationally prominent art dealers will offer for purchase an extensive array of works of art on paper. Ranging from old masters to contemporary, the selection includes prints, drawings, pastels, watercolors, and artists' books. Read Indepth Article

Believing that everyone should have access to the media of video and television to tell their stories, California-based filmmaker Spencer Nakasako became the artist mentor for a youth video program in San Franciscos Tenderloin district. For more than a decade Vietnamese. Laotian, and Cambodian youths have produced short videos based on their personal memories and experiences. As a Walker artist-in-residence, Nakasako will conduct two workshops with groups consisting of 8 to 10 young people, each from a different ethnic community in the Twin Cities. In April, he will work with Hmong youths who are grappling with the challenges of growing up as the first generation to be born in this country. In June, the artist will hold a workshop with a group of Native Americans whose personal stories reflect the perceptions of the indigenous culture. Read Indepth Article

During the early years of the 20th century, German painter Franz Marc devoted much of his artistic energy to creating images of horses and other animals. The allure of animals was not, for Marc, simply a formal or zoological interest, but stemmed from a deep fascination with the dynamic connection between animals, humans, and the natural world they shared. Longing to understand the spirit driving his own being, Marc looked to the horse in nature to perceive what he could not recognize in the human world. Through radical compositions and bold experiments with color, he strove to express the primary energy of the animals. Read Indepth Article

Travel through Target Special Exhibitions Gallery, relishing the art gifts that have come to our port over the past ten years. Then imagine where the journey will take us in the new millennium. Read Indepth Article

Yoko Onos diverse career as an artist, poet, performer, and composer might be summarized in the single word YES--an open-ended affirmation that suggests the optimistic and inviting messages contained in her work. The word itself has appeared in many of her compositions and objects, from the 1960 score Lets Piece I (excerpted above) to the renowned Ceiling Painting (YES Painting). The latter is a sculptural work in which viewers climb a ladder to read a tiny, unimposing yes, almost like a whisper, printed on a canvas suspended from the ceiling. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition will feature large-scale works by critically acclaimed photographer JoAnn Verburg, the culmination of a six-year project in Italy photographing the olive orchards of Spoleto, revealing her profound interest in the reciprocity between humans and nature. Read Indepth Article

With the apparent resurgence of painting at the dawn of the new millennium, it is clear that reports of this medium's death have been greatly exaggerated. But what exactly is painting today in a world dominated by the prevalence of electronic media? Is painting a mode of thought? Is there a philosophy of painting that extends beyond the confines of the medium? Where does the edge of the canvas end and the edge of the world begin? The Walker Art Center exhibition Painting at the Edge of the World, on view February 10-May 6, 2001, asks precisely these questions in a presentation curated by Walker associate curator Douglas Fogle. It features work by nearly 30 artists from across the globe who have taken up the issues involved in the practice of painting. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition will feature nightscapes by photographer Chris Faust and painter Mike Lynch, artists who for many years have produced work that reveals the essence of the urban landscape. Diligent explorers of the physical worlds, they are both drawn to places that seem to stretch over time–empty dock yards, railroad yards, industrial sites, architectural landmarks, and myriad nighttime haunts. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition includes some of the most significant images made in China by both Asian and Western photographers since 1949. It presents cultural, political and everyday life as seen by great photographers of the era. Their insights on a country long virtually closed to the West evoke a magnificent land and its people and an extraordinary time in history. Read Indepth Article

Glenn Ligon has been internationally recognized for paintings and prints that use language as both image and communication tool. He often addresses issues of race, culture, and identity by quoting from socially and politically charged material, including excerpts from the writings of James Baldwin, Richard Dyer, and Zora Neale Hurston; appropriated news photos of the 1995 Million Man March; and title pages from 19th-century slave narratives. He has consistently mined this cultural material for greater meaning and historical revelation. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition includes more than 70 paintings and calligraphies created by 14 Japanese Zen masters (thirteen monks and one nun) who are considered among the most important Zen artists and teachers of the modern era. Among them are Nakahara Nantenbo (Toju Zenchu, 1839-1925), Deiryu Kutsu (Kanshu Sojun, 1895-1954), Takeda Mokurai (1854-1930), Yamamoto Gempo (1866-1961), and the present abbot of Tofukuji temple, Fukushima Keido (born 1933). Read Indepth Article

An Acre of Art will reflect the focused engagement of artists Mark Knierim and Robert Lawrence with one acre of rural land, which they will visit, research, and experience for one year. Their process/performance will culminate in an exhibition held in three locations: The Minnesota Artists Gallery at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the World Wide Web; and on the land itself near Monticello. Read Indepth Article

John (Jack) Howe was Frank Lloyd Wright’s talented chief draftsman from 1935 until Wright’s death in 1959. One of the first members of Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship, which was begun in 1932, Howe was schooled in the principles of organic architecture. In Wright’s studio, he directed the activities of the drafting room and completed many of Wright’s presentation drawings. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Institute’s permanent collection, will feature the work of about ten internationally known photographers. Their pictures span more than one hundred years and represent every major movement in photography. Eadweard Muybridge, working in the late 19th century, included nude men and women in an extensive analysis of human motion. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition presents the best works by artists influenced by the light and color of European Impressionism. Following the example of James McNeill Whistler, a generation of Americans studied abroad to absorb the new palette and compositions that were modernizing painting. Landscapes, figure and still life paintings by Childe Hassam, John Twachtman, Thomas Dewing, Maria Oakey Dewing, William Merrit Chase, Mary Cassatt and Theodore Robinson marked a distinct departure from academic styles. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition introduces visitors to a selection of diverse objests recently acquired by the museum, most in the last 18 months. Recent Accessions demonstrates the broad scopeof the museum's collection and explains where, when and how the Institute collects its treasures. Read Indepth Article

In the late 1870s, a new religion emerged on the North American Great Plains. The new religion intertwined traditional Native American beliefs with Christianity and spawned a new artistic tradition. This exhibition explores the ways the Native American Church has helped Native peoples in developing and preserving their identity while assisting in their adjustment to new social, cultural and economic circumstances. A wide range of artistic techniques and media has evolved throughout the history of this religion to produce a distinctive genre of Native American art. Read Indepth Article

This exhibition and event series will present the work of four visual artists, three writers, and one art historian to explore the personal, cultural, and mythological significance of hair. Read Indepth Article

This installation of fourteen paintings and prose by Dr. Robert O. Fisch is a narrative of his personal journey from suppression to freedom and underscores the importance and privilege of being free. Read Indepth Article

Paintings, prints, mixed media and installation work by four Minnesota artists are featured in this exhibition. These artists are known for their innovative use of materials and narrative irony. Read Indepth Article

Alfred Moir has assembled an impressive collection of master European drawings. His research has expanded our knowledge of artists working in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The exhibition comprises 75 drawings in a variety of media—black and colored chalks, pen and ink, brush and ink and watercolor. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition. Read Indepth Article

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers, observed Man Ray. A highly influential and prolific American artist who was associated with both the Dada and Surrealist movements, Man Ray was active in avant-garde as well as commercial circles, and over the course of his long career he produced sculptures, films, drawings, and photographs in an effort to reimagine what we consider beautiful. Read Indepth Article