Nancy Ariza was recently interviewed by The Journal about her artist residency at the Cellar Press. Ariza’s work focused on reimagining elements of the traditional Latin American game, Lotería. Specifically, the subject are ten dichos (riddles given by el gritón or “the yeller”) that she documented from her childhood.

The National curated catalogue ArtfulHome.com is officially representing Jeralyn Victoria ’06 original watercolors. As Victoria states on her page, “returning to watercolor after several years is a means of visual alchemy of both personal and shared experience. Through abstraction and primitive forms this internal landscape feels familiar, culturally ambiguous, and playful at once."

Her vivid abstract watercolor work draws on Midwestern symbolism and personal mythologies. The original works are available in the link below.

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Agnes Story ’79 presents her newest exhibition at the Arts Bonita Center for Visual Arts, titled Mandala Meditations. With a background as a lifelong maker and a 25-year career as an elementary art educator, the work she created draws on a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and later creative study through The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron. The earliest pieces began with the calming, meditative structure of mandalas and the geometry of traditional quilt motifs.

Since graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Justin has built a career at Apple crafting stories about emerging technologies, with a particular focus on spatial computing and Apple Vision Pro.

The National Museum of the American Indian presents Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe. This exhibition was co-curated by Dakota Hoska ’12, the curator of Native American and Global Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Art.

Fragments Reimagined, on display in MCAD’s main gallery and curated by Keisha Williams and Nikki McComb, serves as a call to action against gun violence. The work featured is created by local artists and activists, inspired by the tragic losses experienced by the Minneapolis community.

The documentary Source to Sea: Winter Migration by Maribeth Romslo, a Master of Arts in Graphic and Web Design student at MCAD, premiered at MSPIFF this spring, and was secluded Best In Fest. Directed by Romslo and Cory Maria Dack, the documentary follows Dack, an indigenous Latina tour guide, as she paddles through the length of the Mississippi River.

Jacob Yeates ’17, MFA recently presented what do you grow? at MirrorLab Studios. Created with support from a 2025 Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the exhibition features a new body of drawings and collages reflecting on the violent ideologies and state-sanctioned responses surrounding ongoing climate change and ecological collapse.