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Plate 86: Vermilion River Sheet 3
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Plate 90: Wild Rice River Sheet 4
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Plate 93: Wild Rice River Sheet 7
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Plate 56: Lower Red Lake Sheet 1
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Plate 98: Zumbro River Sheet 4
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“By the sound of sparrows, I knew it was dawn”: The Impact of Women’s Latest Protests in Iran
Get PDFIn Iran, men and women have protested against human rights abuses and other damaging actions and policies by the clerical leadership since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Major uprisings in the past 25 years include the Green Movement and widespread protests against economic crises. I’d like to share some facts about the two most recent movements, powerful campaigns built on decades of Iranian women’s fight for justice
Investing in Minnesota Families: Strengthening Support for Kinship Caregivers
Get PDFKinship caregivers are falling through the cracks, lacking ongoing support and safety services for children and their caregivers. Kinship diversion caregivers and their children do not receive services and support that licensed foster caregivers might receive such as financial assistance, reunification efforts, and safety monitoring. Pursuing kinship in policy and practice needs to be a priority to keep families together, allowing children to feel a sense of belonging and identity, preserving cultures and traditions, and promoting equity among families. While efforts have been made in many states to increase support for kinship caregivers and reduce the barriers to licensing within the past 15 years, Minnesota has many opportunities for improvements to provide more support for kinship caregivers, allowing families to stay together
No Free Labor: Pushing for the Eradication of Unpaid Internships in Minnesota
Get PDFThe continued lack of paid internships exploits social work students and directly undermines the core values of the profession. To address this injustice, the NASW-MN Chapter’s 2025 legislative priorities call for the creation and funding of paid social work internships, ensuring education is not only affordable and accessible but also ethically grounded and free from exploitation. Equitable compensation is not optional, it is an ethical and economic imperative essential to building a more inclusive and just professional workforce. Minnesota House File 2914 provides a crucial pathway to achieve this goal through a targeted scholarship program
Marcescence
Get PDFMarcescence is the withering yet attachment of a leaf to its stem. This withering but futile persistence conceptually intrigues me, as well as the inclusion of nuance into dichotomies. In this installation, many of the forms are derived from the burls and galls of trees, phenomena resulted from damage but a testament of healing--scar tissue--to anthropomorphize. Here, I use marcescence as an extended metaphor, to relate with that very persistence. This body of work sheds off personal items, writings, former works of art, and memories, which, have undergone transformation to be gawked at before their next transition.
The next part is, Kindling, a followup exhibition to this work at the Carnegie Art Center in June. Dry and small remnants of both exhibitions will earn the title of Kindling--set ablaze after the June exhibition. This disintegration represents my view that the value of the art-object is not in its capacity to be fetishized or commodified. As an observation, organic forms are not so easily slotted into retail shelving.
As for the material composition, these works are the antithesis of archival and salable. Made of a compostable or biodegradable composition, they are designed to wither, whilst still clinging to their walls. An autumn leaf clinging to its stem. Or like an artist, clenching onto withering creativity
House of Spirits
No full textThis historical novel explores questions of what it means to belong and how one moves past grief. Through a three-part structure, the story follows aristocratic heir, Clayton Jennings, as he chooses to leave behind his inheritance for a life of freedom, only to lose everything he thought he might gain. When Clayton is called back to London to inherit, he faces a madness inquisition and trial to determine if he has a right to what he left behind and a right to his own freedom. The novel explores themes of queer identity and belonging, grief, community, and healing