It was a cold winter morning when Abinadi Meza arrived at the MIA from his home in Austin, Texas. Meza, a sound artist, filmmaker, and professor at the University of Houston’s School of Art, received a prestigious Rome Prize this year, an award given to just 30 emerging artists and scholars, and he was in  ...

It was an experiment: What happens when some of the top musicians in the Twin Cities examine 21 disparate artworks—then quickly record their responses? No agenda, no time to overthink. Just play. It’s called Listen!, part of the museum’s Evolvelle initiative to creatively interpret the art in our collection. (Evolvelle, funded by the Institute of  ...

Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, has been awfully busy lately. In his latest post, Eric explores Versailles and Louis XIV…or is it Louis XIV and Versailles? You be the judge, and be sure to  follow all his musings (written and illustrated) here on MIA  ...

Last week, Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, took a trip across the atrium to spend some time in the MIA’s Photographs Study Room with our Curator of Photography and New Media, David Little. Read Eric’s reflections here  and check out his illustrations inspired by  ...

Six. That’s the short answer. But of the six times I traveled to Finland to research Finland: Designed Environments, the exhibition of Finnish product, graphic, home, and urban design that opened this month at the MIA, perhaps the most interesting trip was in February 2012. I timed it to correspond with the opening events of  ...

Last week, Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, took a trip across the atrium to spend some time in the MIA’s Photographs Study Room with our Curator of Photography and New Media, David Little. Read Eric’s reflections below and stay tuned for illustrations inspired by  ...

Last week, Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, took a trip across the atrium to spend some time in the MIA’s Photographs Study Room with our Curator of Photography and New Media, David Little. Read Eric’s reflections below and stay tuned for illustrations inspired by  ...

Looks like Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, has started sharing some of his visual work. Follow along with his musings (written and illustrated) here on MIA Stories, or over at CHP In The Stacks. In the Stacks with Eric Hanson: Enfilades     About  ...

Looks like Eric Hanson, Coffee House Press‘s artist-in-residence at the Minneapolis Institute of Art’ Research and Reference Library, has started sharing some of his visual work. Follow along with his musings (written and illustrated) here on MIA Stories, or over at CHP In The Stacks. In the Stacks with Eric Hanson: Enfilades     About  ...

Isaac Lowenthal Walsh is the true author of this post. He’s 11, though, a student in Minneapolis, and he doesn’t have a publicity photo or an official bio—yet. What he has is insight beyond his years. (In March, he reviewed Half Pint, the MIA’s new family restaurant.) And when he trained his eyes on two  ...