#minneapolis artist

[brianbritigan]

Detail crop from my contribution to this year’s Posters for Parks 🍁 The show opens this Saturday!

#poster #poster art #poster design #posters for parks #posters for parks 2023 #illustration #screen print #screenprint #screenprinting #screen printing #printmaking #print #silkscreen #silkscreen print #minneapolis art #minneapolis artist #twin cities art #twin cities artist

[sadeebee]

"You crawled from the sea to break that sailor's heart" - Mermaids, Florence The Machine

Cheerful Oblivion, Mixed Media, Pen Ink and Watercolor.-

SBee

#illustration #artist #sadee bee #watercolor #fan art #mermaids #florence welch #florence and the machine #pen drawing #queer artist #pen ink #black artist #dance fever #minneapolis artist #cheerful oblivion #florence+themachine fan art #dance fever fan art #inprnt

[colored-dirt]

Morning Stretch/ oil on canvas 16”x20”

#patrick doyle #art #painting #modern art #drawing #artists on tumblr #modern art painting #minneapolis artist #oil paint #patrick doyle painting #expressionism #cubism #artist #modernism #figurative #oil on canvas

[rogue-taxidermy-of-sarina-brewer]

#ThrowbackThursday ~ Me playing up my inner ‘midwestern mama’ for the TPT series Minnesota Original. Despite my clear lack of stage presence and my hair stylist being on strike, the segment won a regional Emmy Award in the Single Story category.

Minnesota Original is a weekly Twin Cities PBS series featuring micro-documentaries about local creators across all disciplines. Each half-hour episode usually consists of 3 segments, with each segment featuring a different person. The producers have their work cut out for them because each artist's segment averages 8 minutes thus only allows for a stripped-down portrayal of a person’s artistic mission. I found it extremely challenging as well because they wanted me to create a taxidermy sculpture from start to finish in 3 hours while cameras rolled (versus the 3 days the sculpture actually required) Desperate times called for desperate measures, in this case cheating and shortcuts. For practical reasons a lot of TV shots need to be faked and this shoot was no exception; after the crew left I had to disassemble the piece they filmed me working on and redo it properly. “The magic of television”😉

Link to watch https://www.pbs.org/video/Sarina-Brewer-655959H-1/

#MinnesotaArtist #Minneapolis artist #Taxidermy artist #Female taxidermist #public broadcasting

[reasonsforhope]

Article Link

"Minnetonka first started selling its “Thunderbird” moccasins in 1965. Now, for the first time, they’ve been redesigned by a Native American designer.

It’s one step in the company’s larger work to deal with its history of cultural appropriation. The Minneapolis-based company launched in the 1940s as a small business making souvenirs for roadside gift shops in the region—including Native American-inspired moccasins, though the business wasn’t started or run by Native Americans. The moccasins soon became its biggest seller.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

Adrienne Benjamin, an Anishanaabe artist and community activist who became the company’s “reconciliation advisor,” was initially reluctant when a tribal elder approached her about meeting with the company. Other activists had dismissed the idea that the company would do the work to truly transform. But Benjamin agreed to the meeting, and the conversation convinced her to move forward.

“I sensed a genuine commitment to positive change,” she says. “They had really done their homework as far as understanding and acknowledging the wrong and the appropriation. I think they knew for a long time that things needed to get better, and they just weren’t sure what a first step was.”

Pictured: Lucie Skjefte and son Animikii [Photo: Minnetonka]

In 2020, Minnetonka publicly apologized “for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities.” It also said that it was actively recruiting Native Americans to work at the company, reexamining its branding, looking for Native-owned businesses to partner with, continuing to support Native American nonprofits, and that it planned to collaborate with Native American artists and designers.

Benjamin partnered with the company on the first collaboration, a collection of hand-beaded hats, and then recruited the Minneapolis-based designer Lucie Skjefte, a citizen of the Red Lake Nation, who designed the beadwork for another moccasin style and a pair of slippers for the brand. Skjefte says that she felt comfortable working with the company knowing that it had already done work with Benjamin on reconciliation. And she wasn’t a stranger to the brand. “Our grandmothers and our mothers would always look for moccasins in a clutch kind of situation where they didn’t have a pair ready and available to make on their own—then they would buy Minnetonka mocs and walk into a traditional pow wow and wear them,” she says. Her mother, she says, who passed away in 2019, would have been “immensely proud” that Skjefte’s design work was part of the moccasins—and on the new version of the Thunderbird moccasin, one of the company’s top-selling styles.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

“I started thinking about all of those stories, and what resonated with me visually,” Skjefte says. The redesign, she says, is much more detailed and authentic than the previous version. “Through the redesign and beading process, we are actively reclaiming and reconnecting our Animikii or Thunderbird motif with its Indigenous roots,” she says. Skjefte will earn royalties for the design, and Minnetonka will also separately donate a portion of the sale of each shoe to Mni Sota Fund, a nonprofit that helps Native Americans in Minnesota get training and capital for home ownership and entrepreneurship.

Some companies go a step farther—Manitobah Mukluks, based in Canada, has an Indigenous founder and more than half Indigenous staff. (While Minnetonka is actively recruiting more Native American workers, the company says that employees self-report race and it can’t share any data about its current number of Indigenous employees.) Beyond its own line of products, Manitobah also has an online Indigenous Market that features artists who earn 100% of the profit for their work.

White Bear Moccasins, a Native-owned-and-made brand in Montana, makes moccasins from bison hide. Each custom pair can take six to eight hours to make; the shoes cost hundreds of dollars, though they can also be repaired and last as long as a lifetime, says owner Shauna White Bear. In interviews, White Bear has said that she wants “to take our craft back,” from companies like Minnetonka. But she also told Fast Company that she doesn’t think that Minnetonka, as a family-owned business, should have to lose its livelihood now and stop making moccasins.

The situation is arguably different for other fashion brands that might use a Native American symbol—or rip off a Native American design completely—on a single product that could easily be taken off the market. Benjamin says that she has also worked with other companies that have discontinued products.

She sees five steps in the process of reconciliation. First, the person or company who did wrong has to acknowledge the wrong. Then they need to publicly apologize, begin to change behavior, start to rebuild trust, and then, eventually, the wronged party might take the step of forgiveness. Right now, she says, Minnetonka is in the third phase of behavior change. The brand plans to continue to collaborate with Native American designers.

The company can be an example to others on how to listen and build true relationships, Benjamin says. “I think that’s the only way that these relationships are going to get any better—people have to sit down and talk about it,” she says. “People have to be real. People have to apologize. They have to want to reconcile with people.”

The leadership at Minnetonka can also be allies in pushing other companies to do better. “My voice is important at the table as an Indigenous woman,” Benjamin says. “Lucie’s voice is important. But at tables where there’s a majority of people that aren’t Indigenous, sometimes those allies’ voices are more powerful in those spaces, because that means that they’ve signed on to what we’re saying. The power has signed on to moving forward and we agree with ‘Yes, this was wrong.’ That’s the stuff that’s going to change [things] right there.”"

-via FastCompany, February 7, 2024

#indigenous #indigenous artists #indigenous art #moccasins #thunderbird #native american #native american art #cultural appropriation #indigenous peoples #cultural representation #minnesota #minnetonka #minneapolis #red lake nation #ojibwe #anishinaabe #reconciliation #fashion #fashion news #good news #hope #indigenous designers #native artist #indigenous artist

[a-flat]

TAKE A MINUTE - WHY NOT

#music #spotify #why not #minneapolis artist #local music

[ncrediblechels]

#JustLikeMike #Micheal #kvvadwo #black tumblr #black art #black artist #Minnesota artist #minneapolis #accra ghana #ghanaian #Artist #afrobeats #ampiano

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Dirty Computer • Crazy, Classic, Life • Take A Byte • Jane's Dream • Screwed • Django Jane • Pynk • Make Me Feel • I Got The Juice • I Like That • Don't Judge Me • Stevie's Dream • So Afraid • Americans

Spotify ♪ YouTube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: janelle monáe #language: english #decade: 2010s #Contemporary R&B #Art Pop #Synth Funk #Alternative R&B #Synthpop #Conscious Hip Hop #Neo-Soul #Psychedelic Soul #Minneapolis Sound

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous People’s Day 2022

Today we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day with art by Native American Women from Hearts of Our People: Native American Artists. This exhibition catalog was published in Minneapolis in 2019 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) in conjunction with the University of Washington Press to accompany the traveling exhibit “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.” The exhibition catalog was prepared by MIA curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Kiowa artist Teri Greeves. 

While the exhibit and its catalog featured art from antiquity through the present, I decided to primarily focus on the work of living artists, with the exception of the marble by Edmonia Lewis. Lewis, born in the mid-19th century to an African-Hatian father and a Black and Mississauga mother, is credited with being the first African American and first Native American to attain international success in the art scene. Trained in and working out of Rome, Lewis incorporated themes of Blackness and Indigeneity into her Neoclassical sculptural work. Whether through the subversion of traditionally European artforms or the reimagining of Indigenous traditions, the contemporary artists featured here alongside Lewis bring the depth of Native visual languages to a wide range of mediums.

Explore the exhibit further through the exhibition page from the Smithsonian American Art Institute, which hosted the exhibit from February 21-March 13, 2020.  

View past Indigenous People’s Day posts here.

Find more posts on Native Americans here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Indigenous People's Day #Hearts of Our People #minneapolis institute of art #University of Washington Press #Teri Greeves #jill ahlberg yohe #Edmonia Lewis #Ashley Fairbanks #Joan Hill #Lou-ann Neel #Jamie Okuma #Jody Folwell #C. Maxx Stevens #Christine McHorse #Cara Romero #Keri Ataumbi #Indigenous Artists #Indigenous Art #Indigenous Women #Native American Art #Native American Artists #Native Americans #olivia

[valentineartstudio]

Sharing some older work from the archive today. These to-scale body shaped planters are titled The Lovers Series 2019 and are made in the image of my wife and I. The womans body on the left: Raku clay, underglaze, clear glaze, and acrylic paint. The mans body on the right: Red clay, underglaze, acrylic paint. Displayed in the Minneapolis College Spring 2019 Gallery and Sota Pop 2019 Show.

#t4t #t4t couple #trans artwork #trans artist #sculpture #ceramic #functional art #planters #transgender #bodies #art #clay #ceramic art #Minnesota #Minneapolis #naturecore #crystalcore

[allisonanne]

lack of filament // handcut paper collage on matboard, march 2024

#collage art #collageart #found materials #analog collage #artists on tumblr #artist #paper collage #abstract art #abstract #collage #tulip #spring #minnesota #minneapolis #queer art #queer artist #floral #vintage #vintage magazine #collage artist #mixed media #handcut collage #collages #contemporary art

[brianbritigan]

⚠️ Today’s the last call for Posters for Parks purchases — online sales of this year’s prints end at midnight tonight!

Many thanks to all those who have already picked up a poster and supported Minneapolis parks 🙌

#poster #poster art #poster design #posters for parks #posters for parks 2023 #illustration #screen print #screenprint #screenprinting #screen printing #printmaking #print #silkscreen #silkscreen print #minneapolis art #minneapolis artist #twin cities art #twin cities artist

[sadeebee]

"NIghtmares" by Sadee Bee on INPRNT

#art #print #illustration #artist #sadee bee #spiders #colored pencil #dark art #nightmares #original illustration #monstera #queer artist #pen ink #black artist #monstera plant #spider art #pen ink art #minneapolis artist #lilith art #spider illustration #inprnt

[hclib]

Party Entertainment in the 1990s

If you were planning a holiday party in the 1990s, Hauser Artists could have helped you find some novel entertainment. Hauser Artists, who sent out this promotional postcard, represented a number of local musical acts. Just a few of the highlighted ensembles mentioned here include:

Hauser-Braunstein Duo: "Guitar and flute music for Christmas and Hanukkah"

Ritzmiller-Marazzo Duo: "Space age Christmas music for two synthesizers"

The Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers: "They wear Dickens costumes and bring along sleigh bells, finger cymbals and kazoos."

This postcard is part of our Minneapolis and Hennepin County Vertical Subject Files.

#minneapolis #minnesota #artists #musicians #1990s #holiday parties

[jewishpopculture]

Denise Matthews, a.k.a. Vanity, on the cover of Jet magazine in 1988.

Vanity was an R&B star and actress in the 80's and 90's, and a former protégé of Prince. She is best remembered for her hit "Nasty Girl" as a member of her eponymous girl group Vanity 6, as well as her solo hits, including "Mechanical Emotion" and "Under the Influence". She was also the star of the 80's films "The Last Dragon" and "Action Jackson", both quite successful at the box office.

Born in Canada to a Jewish mother of Polish and German descent, and a father of African American descent, she later converted to Christianity. She famously dropped the stage name Vanity, and renounced her career in entertainment to dedicate her time to preaching.

Despite this, her fans never forgot her, and her work in entertainment has reached younger generations, with millions watching her R&B clips on YouTube. Some in the Jewish community will always remember her as one of our greatest rock stars of the 80's.

Matthews sadly passed away in 2016 at the age of 57.

#vanity #denise matthews #denise vanity matthews #vanity 6 #prince #jet magazine #music #80s #minneapolis sound #jewish culture #jewish #jewish history #jewish beauty #jewish music #jewish community #jewish heritage #jewish artists #jewish pop culture #Black artists #90s #pop #synth #rock #funk #r&b #rnb #new wave #black celebs #Black women #Black Jews

[insanelyadd]

31 Doodles Of Halloween Year 10 | Day 17 | Trapdoor City

Yeah it's the Minneapolis skyline because in my dream it was Minneapolis. In this dream, there was basically a Supervillain who was like "Make me president or else" and we didn't so he revealed that he had made HUGE caverns beneath every major city and could make them swing on massive hinges into the chasms he'd dug. Also for some reason in the dreams these cities were all immediately bordered with endless golden wheat fields.

#minneapolis #digital painting #monochrome #artists on tumblr #surrealism #addy dreams #31 doodles of halloween #insanelyadd