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Art

Friday is the beginning of 2013's Lowertown First Fridays where illustrator David Witt will be releasing his first hardbound book, "Portraits Volume One." Witt is the official artist of the annual Zombie Pub Crawl poster and has done extensive screen-printed poster workthroughout the years.

Prints among thieves

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published January 31, 2013
David Witt’s eye-catching punk posters might disappear from dive bars all too frequently, but he’s expanding to other artistic outlets anyway.
Drawing out grief

Drawing out grief

by Sarah Harper
Published December 6, 2012
Minneapolis artist Anders Nilsen tells a multimedia story of illness, death and true love.
Gallery installation coordinator Teréz Iacovino, right, installs the Minnesota Funk exhibition Saturday at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery with two interns, art history and French studies sophomore Kaitlyn Carver and art senior Chiara Parisi. The group exhibition will have a public reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Funk with my art

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published December 6, 2012
Artists Chris Larson and Lamar Peterson tweak reality for “Minnesota Funk,” where surrealism is king.
"Dirty Baby" presents a melding of the works of artist Ed Ruscha, poet David Breskin and musician Nels Cline without a beatnik playing the bongos, as Breskin explained. Here they stand by a few barbecues for some reason.

Parental control

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 29, 2012
“Dirty Baby,” the offspring of a Wilco guitarist, a poet and an iconic pop artist strives to be a “loveable mutt” of a performance — not some purebred golden retriever.

The divided self

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 8, 2012
Words fail for what the images capture in Madeline Crew‘s photography, inspired by a friend’s fight with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Driven to Abstraction

by Simon Benarroch
Published November 1, 2012
Imagine eye-candy. Now imagine the total opposite.
Seventeen-year-old Libby Ulm, center, of White Bear Lake, practices on a hoop Oct. 26 at Circus Juventas in St. Paul. Ulm has been practicing in the circus for 12 years.

Kids under the big top

by Spencer Doar
Published November 1, 2012
Circus Juventas isn’t your grandma’s three-ring.
Professor Louis Mendoza specializes in immigration and Chicano studies. Mendoza went on an 8,000 mile bike trip five years ago where he examined the United States' treatment towards immigration issues.

Wheels in motion

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 25, 2012
University of Minnesota professor Louis Mendoza set out on an 8,000-mile bike trip across the United States to expose the personal stories behind immigration.
Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah is the author of ten novels, a nonfiction book, and numerous articles. Farah was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota's English department.

Keeping Somalia in his heart and on the page

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published October 25, 2012
University of Minnesota professor and author Nuruddin Farah chronicles the turmoil surrounding Somalia’s long civil war in his latest novel, “Crossbones.”

Kickstart My He(art)

Published October 25, 2012
Crowd funding site Kickstarter proves to be resourceful for hotly creative crews.

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