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U of M grad student nominated for NetArt Webby

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.10.08 | 8:44 am

A University of Minnesota grad student is up for a Webby Award for Best NetArt site for a project that creates typography from letter-shaped buildings found on Google Maps. Jesse Vig, who’s studying…

Obama continues to connect with creatives

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.02.08 | 11:42 am

Whether through calculated efforts by his campaign or grassroots channels (like NotCot.org‘s user-submitted entry system), Barack Obama seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the work of street artists,…

‘Nonfiction horror movie’: Award-winning Abu Ghraib doc bound for Minneapolis

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.21.08 | 10:32 am

Documentarian Errol Morris calls his new film a “nonfiction horror movie.” And from the sound of it, Standard Operating Procedure doesn’t fail to deliver on gore: A chronicle of prisoner abuse…

The election goes lowbrow and underground

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.20.08 | 10:47 am

A couple months ago, street artist/designer Shepard Fairey debuted his limited-edition Barack Obama prints on his Web site. Like everything else Fairey has done (including honest-to-goodness marketing campaigns for corporate giants Pepsi and…

Face off: Clinton and Obama get ugly on Etsy.com

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.18.08 | 10:12 am

The crafters over at Etsy.com, the site for all things handmade, have been busy making over the presidential candidates. Here, you can find Hillary Clinton’s simpering mug in a beaded, thumb-sized pillow, as Warhol-inspired

Solutions Twin Cities Connects Ideas on “Future-Positive Creativity”

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.06.07 | 11:56 am

Halfway through installing a green roof on Wednesday night, May 2, Corrie Zoll stopped to take a slug from a bottle of Guinness. It wasn’t that he was tired out. Just three minutes into the…

Agitcrop! Political Art of the Minnesota State Fair

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.29.06 | 10:47 pm

The Minnesota State Fair‘s exhibition of crop art is the epitome of democracy: as David Steinlicht, who runs CropArt.com, says, “The art competition in the Fine Arts building is so fierce that your…