MN Original is PBS channel TPT's Weekly Series Celebrating Minnesota’s Creative Community

Explore Minnesota's art scene by browsing communities and content.

Instinct is a contemporary art gallery with an emphasis on art that honors the natural world and the artists that are inspired by it. The tree form references the natural —and ties to the gallery name (Instinct: the innate drive to create and grow), while the bright blue color and geometric shapes reflect the human and contemporary. The image of the gallery embraces both pure human expression and art that is derivative of nature.

Where art that seems uniquely human is joined by art that knows it isn’t.

This fall Radio Gallery is in the field speaking with Minnesota artists in their own spaces, at shows, galleries and in their own studios. Lynn Speaker will be joining us this week from her studio in the Grain Belt Bottling House in Northeast Minneapolis.

A review of the exhibition Remnants and Curiosities of the Natural World written by Camille LeFevre for mnartisits.org.

Local Artist Interviews exists to create exposure and opportunities for Minnesota artists and organizations through interviews, grants, and networking.

Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA) is a non-profit arts agency with the mission of promoting and supporting the quality and diversity of artistic resources based in Northeast Minneapolis to benefit the greater community.

The longest-lived art colony in Minnesota, the Grand Marais Art Colony, began in 1947 as a summer refuge for artists seeking study in the wilderness. Birney Quick, one of the region's acclaimed artists and a faculty member from the Minneapolis School of Art (now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), came to this remote town of Grand Marais, located along Lake Superior, 40 miles from the Canadian border, to create the Outdoor School of Painting. With support from MSA, Birney became the first director and instructor, developing a strong artistic vision which has allowed the Colony to evolve and flourish even after his death in 1981.

My studio in the Grain Belt Bottling House is located in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.

Anything, visible or invisible, may be contemplated. However, some things tend to draw the contemplative eye more closely than others.

WARM: Where women artists connect, learn and thrive.