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Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging,...(2026), lit. rep Tricia Toney Lawrence @aevitas_creative, spkg. rep Anya Backlund @blueflowerarts.

Happy annual Mothra’s Day!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Politicize Happy annual Mothra’s Day!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Politicized mothering and mothra-ing for a better world are radical acts of hope and love 🌈 #endwar #solidarity #feministkilljoy #readbooks
Point Break is on the Criterion Channel. That’s al Point Break is on the Criterion Channel. That’s all. #news #asianamerican
Who who who wants to read this with me 💙 Who who who wants to read this with me 💙
Did you know..."From a little-known country in Asi Did you know..."From a little-known country in Asia to bidding to host the 2030 event, history shows Korea's continued passion for the World Expo

South Korea promoting its southern port city of Busan as the host city for the 2030 World Expo marks the culmination of 130 years of the country's participation in the world's largest international exposition.

Korea, then the Joseon Kingdom, first participated in the World's Fair in 1893 in Chicago, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the American continent.

Despite Japanese aggression, Joseon secured a small exhibition space of just 83.5 square meters adorned with a traditional Korean-style roof, where the small country from northeast Asia displayed everyday objects such as kites, cushions and lacquerware, as well as armor and cannons. The exhibition was accompanied by a 16-member delegation, including a group of royal court musicians who performed Korean traditional music.

However, the tiny size of the Korean pavilion stood in stark contrast to neighboring Japan's massive pavilion, which was more than 40 times larger. This contrast led to the Korean exhibition being described as having "hastily knocked together a rather inexpensive collection of Corean junk and shipped it off to Chicago" by John Cockerill, a reporter for the New York Herald in 1895." https://www.koreaherald.com/article/3095584
"Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body C "Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body
Co-Curated by: Zoe Cinel & LaVanda Mireles

Featured artists: Leslie Barlow, Marra Evans, Sarah Faris, Jessalyn Finch, Ni-Ka Ford, Life Drawing for the End of the World, Lucia Garces, May Ling Kopecky, Marianne Petit, Steven Premo, Jenny Schmid, Christopher Selleck, Dan Thompson, Megan Vossler, Jess Kiel-Wornson

Exhibition on view: Saturday, May 16, 2026 - Sunday, January 31, 2027

Reception: Saturday, August 22, 2026, 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Free

Figurative drawing workshop led by Megan Vossler (in the Gallery): Sunday, June 28, 2026, 10 AM - 12 PM

“Did you ever ask yourself, of all the parts that make that man, which one holds the souls?”

In the 2025 Frankenstein movie directed by Guillermo del Toro, a concerned William asks this existential question to his brother, Doctor Victor Frankenstein. William’s question refers to the “Creature,” a resurrected being his brother brought back to life by patching together limbs and body parts of soldiers, criminals and other “unknown” individuals. 

In the movie, Dr. Frankenstein evades William's question, but this recent take on Mary Shelley’s famous novel still highlights some of the contradictions embedded in the history of medicine and medical illustration. It nods at the power structures that have always existed within the relationships between doctor and patients, surgeon and artists, artists and subject, bringing up questions like: who did the bodies that are immortalized into famous medical atlases still used today in medical education belong to? How did they end up being subjects of representation? Through consensual offering or extraction? Does the noble goal of curing justify the means through which medical progress occurs? If everybody - and body part - has a soul, can representation be done with care?"
Amazing news for Minneapolis! "Inaugural mural by Amazing news for Minneapolis! "Inaugural mural by Minneapolis-based artist Leslie Barlow
We’re excited to share that McKnight is launching a new rotating mural series on the exterior of our Minneapolis headquarters—and that Minneapolis-based artist Leslie Barlow has been selected to create the inaugural mural.

The series will transform McKnight’s south-facing exterior wall, spanning nearly 60 feet wide, into a highly visible public canvas for Minnesota artists and culture bearers. A new large-scale mural, on the same prominent wall where the loon mural currently lives, will be featured approximately every three years, creating space for multiple voices and artistic visions over time. For this first commission, McKnight opened the opportunity exclusively to current and former McKnight Artist and Culture Bearer Fellows.

Leslie Barlow was selected through a collaborative process developed with Forecast Public Art and brings a practice deeply rooted in community, care, and lived experience. Her work draws from art as a space of refuge, survival, and possibility—extending personal stories into shared visual language shaped by culture, place, and connection. Leslie is also a two-time McKnight Visual Artist Fellow (2019, 2025).

This fellows-only commission reflects McKnight’s more than 40-year commitment to supporting artists and culture bearers across Minnesota. Since 1982, the Foundation has supported more than 1,145 Artist and Culture Bearer Fellows, helping build one of the most vibrant and diverse arts ecosystems in the country.

Installation of the mural will begin soon, and we’re looking forward to sharing more as the work comes to life on the building. In the weeks ahead, we’ll offer glimpses of the installation process and a full reveal once the mural is complete."
Congratulations to everyone whose book was a final Congratulations to everyone whose book was a finalist and winner! Big thank you to @redballoonbookshop for selling our books and to the fantastic staff at @the_ordway and 
to all the generous sponsors, including @educationminnesota, where I was a union member for 15+ years and my undergrad alma mater @macalestercollege ! 🥰
Thank you, @thefriends and @melinamangal and @lesl Thank you, @thefriends and @melinamangal and @lesliebarlowartist and @instachinz and Danielle Carnito and everyone at @lernerbooks and everyone who supports readers and public libraries and books!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 More photos forthcoming 💗
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