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Sommer Wagen

Sommer Wagen

Sommer Wagen is a third year at the University of Minnesota studying journalism with a minor in art. They joined the arts and entertainment desk in spring 2024 as a reporting intern and are excited to work at the Daily! They are an artist themself and they make zines, write poetry, and crochet in their free time.

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Local activist artists share their political prints, poetry and plans for future change.

Local art activism as a tool for liberation

by Sommer Wagen
Published April 26, 2024
Vicky Eidelsztein works her shift as a shop associate at the Minnesota Textile Center retail store in Minneapolis on Tues., April 9, 2024. Eidelsztein said she has been working part-time at the Textile Center, a national center for fiber arts, for almost a year. She is also a screenprinter and printed the Fiber Art for All design on T-shirts for the shop. (Sommer Wagen/wagen132@umn.edu)

The colorful world of the Minnesota Textile Center

by Sommer Wagen
Published April 14, 2024
Lead vocalist Rick X. Hoops performs alongside drummer Aerynne Holmes (back) and guitarist Fred Nolte (left) in Queer Life: A Trans Narrative Recital on Thursday. The GSC’s debut production recontextualizes musical numbers into a trans narrative.

Queer visibility, queer joy, queer life “is a Cabaret”

by Sommer Wagen
Published April 5, 2024
Third-year MFA Namir Fearce talks about one of his works with an attendee at the 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Delta Passage. This vibrant and riveting exhibition shows the work of three third-year MFA students — Whalen Polkinoff, Namir Fearce and Calvin Stalvig — in the Katherine E. Nash Gallery of the East Regis Center for Art. Namir Fearce, Whalen Polikoff and Calvin Stalvig have been working together since 2021 and proudly expressed their love for each other at Saturday’s public program and reception.

Delta Passage: Being consumed by love and memory

by Sommer Wagen
Published March 31, 2024
The singer experiments with new instrumentation and sounds, but that experiment doesn’t pay off where it counts.

Review: “Bright Future” by Adrianne Lenker

by Sommer Wagen
Published March 29, 2024
Bohemian Press President Josh (right) tests a screen-print while Minnesota Daily Reporter Sommer Wagen (second from left) interviews club attendees. Printmaking as a medium is good for community-building because of reproduction-centered processes.

Art and community with Bohemian Press: A brief history

by Sommer Wagen
Published March 25, 2024
The biggest takeaway: “Be gay, do crime.”

Review: ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

by Sommer Wagen
Published March 17, 2024
Megan Finch created a space for open, engaging discussion of Black literary history.

Complexity of Black history through James Baldwin

by Sommer Wagen
Published February 29, 2024
Paramore’s impact reaches far beyond their historic Grammy win this year.

Starting a “Riot!”: How contemporary Twin Cities rock bands are pushing gender boundaries

by Sommer Wagen
Published February 20, 2024
The eStudio in Regis Center for Art on Feb. 9, 2024.

The hidden gem of the eStudio

by Sommer Wagen
Published February 12, 2024
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