Anika Schneider Connects Heritage and Community for Lunar New Year Celebration

As Minnesota welcomes the Year of the Horse, Minneapolis-based artist Anika Schneider ’19, MFA, is helping lead the celebration through art, reflection, and community connection.

Schneider will host a drypoint printmaking workshop at the Minneapolis Institute of Art as part of its Lunar New Year programming. The event is tied to Mia’s new exhibition, Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats Through Time, which draws from the museum’s extensive Chinese art collection.

For Schneider, the holiday is more than a cultural festivity—it is a personal bridge to her family’s history. Her recent exhibitions, Chinese-ish and Edible, explore her mixed identity and honor her grandmother, who emigrated from China in 1959. Through floral paintings and ceramics, Schneider reflects on her grandmother’s relationship to plants and the experience of loss, using art to better understand her own heritage.

“The Lunar New Year is really just a time to come back to family, come back to where you’re from and connect with the community,” Schneider said.

Learn More

• Celebrate the Year of the Horse: Eight ways to ring in Lunar New Year across Minnesota
  (sahanjournal.com—February 18, 2026)