Minnesota photographer Wing Young Huie, whose parents emigrated from China, will soon release a new book, "Chinese-ness," a broad look at identity in both the United States and China.
Read More“I’m the sort of person that people immediately tell their secrets to,” says artist Lisa Luck, whose business Daughters and Sons pops up around the Minneapolis area. “In the grocery store, or wherever. I think I have a rigid way of thinking in some ways, so I try to be purposeful by being empathetic.”
Read MoreWhether they’re sculpting sinuous vases in ‘90s-cartoon pinks or weed pipes elegant enough to be featured in the pages of Vogue, Cincinnati artists Colin Klimesh and Taylor Carter ride the line between humor and high art.
Read MoreZoe Woodyard and Zach Cleary of Nashville innovate with a radically ethical, slow-fashion shoe company that moves just a beat more quickly than its peers.
Read MoreCincinnati-based artist and jewelry designer Jenny Rush had been working full time at a photography studio for 14 years when she began making her own ceramic jewelry
Read MoreAs chef of Cincinnati’s acclaimed Please, Ryan Santos creates food that invites you in with a hint of middle-America-nice and the soft-spoken comfort of approachable, deeply familiar ingredients.
Read MoreOn the western edge of North Minneapolis and Golden Valley, husband-wife creative team Tia and Souliyahn Keobounpheng occupy a ’70s-style ranch home in the way that only two architecture-school graduates could.
Read More“Architecture is about society and about our aspirations and about culture,” he says. “Le Corbusier saw it as an instrument of social change. That was such a new thing to me."
Read MoreWearing thin circle-rimmed glasses, dark-brown curls pulled back into a ponytail and all smiles, a young Eve Ewing walked into a Chicago auditorium with her mother alongside her.
Read MoreThis labor of love for the unexpected becomes a kind of art in itself—one of patience and resolve that, as Josef Harris puts it, “takes your whole life to practice.”
Read More“Because I’m not from here, there’s still this dissonance with St. Louis. I’ll never understand it fully, but I truly don’t think anyone really does.”
Read More“If you’re a practical thinker, you shouldn’t do art. You don’t think practically about how to make your heart beat. It’s a necessity. Art is the necessity of your being.”
Read More“I was given an education on function and form, and I’ve poured that background into my mobiles, website, everything I do.”
Read MoreAfter meeting at New York’s Blue Hill at Stone Barns, the duo has developed their own restaurant in St. Louis, Vicia.
Read MoreThe St. Louis-based restaurant duo behind Vicia Restaurant offers a delectable recipe perfect for the warm-weather months.
Read MoreEntrepreneur and wordsmith Chaun Webster grew up in North Minneapolis and still lives within one mile from his childhood home.
Read More“It’s not that poetry is dead. It’s that a kind of poetry is dead."
Read MoreA Minneapolis-based artist discusses her road to creativity.
Read MoreOnce you recognize her, you’ll start seeing her influence everywhere.
Read MoreArtists he works with include Bon Iver and Yoko Ono.
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