I am so excited to share my new work at Hair and Nails Gallery! There will be music, there will be compliments, there will be lots of tissues. Come check it out if you are in the Midwest! 

​City Pages A Listing for Laying in Wait by Camille LeFevre:
There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 6, from 6 to 10 p.m., and an artist’s conversation Saturday, April 28, at 7 p.m.
Participatory artwork—whether immersive dance/theater productions that invite (aka require!) people to move from room to room while interacting with performers, or mixed-media installations in which viewers are challenged to calibrate their own experiences—haven’t been this popular since the ’60s and ’70s. But today’s practitioners are certainly engaging in some provocative explorations. One of them is Emmett Ramstad. His new piece asks participants to investigate periods of stasis, those moments in which we wait—whether with anticipation, dread, or boredom. In the waiting rooms he’s created, we get to fish for items through a hole in the floor, experience a sense of distortion, and think about what really is happening in the bathroom. Think of it as the re-contextualization of the ordinary—meaning the results could be extraordinary. 
by Camille LeFevre

RELAY RELAY is an artist-to-artist interview marathon for and by Twin Cities contemporary performance makers. Twenty artists working in dance, theater, music, and performance art will engage in public dialogue at the Red Eye Theater, in wide-ranging conversations that draw from Red Eye’s core values of collaboration, experimentation, andcritical discourse as a starting point.with
Chantal Pavageaux | Sonya Berlovitz | Kimberly Richardson | Trevor Bowen | Maia Maiden | Alan Mure | Anjanie Da Artist | Ben Obi | Karen Sherman | Samantha Johns | Emmett Ramstad | Martin Gonzales | Masanari Kawahara | Akiko Ostlund | E.G. Bailey | Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra | Eric Larson | Rosy Simas | Rhiana Yazzie | Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay

​My interview cohort includes: Karen Sherman, Samantha Johns and Martin Gonzalez and begins at 7:30pm on Saturday March 24th. I will be interviewed around 8pm and interview Martin Gonzalez directly after. Local writers will be writing about the event for an upcoming publication. 

Tickets and book presale: https://squareup.com/store/red-eye-theater

I'm working hard on my new exhibition Laying in Wait for Hair and Nails Gallery in Minneapolis. Show opens April 6th and will be up through May 11th. I am excited to bring Molly Roth Scranton from Chicago to have a conversation with me and Diane Mullin. Hooray. Here is my drop ceiling "sketch" for the show. Look for more posts soon about the show!

Bringing in the new year with a show at my neighborhood gallery par excellence: Yeah Maybe. Swing by to see some new art of mine using bright technology (and, well, some not using technology, as usual) and eat some soup. The opening is Saturday 1/20 from 6-11pm and there is an artist talk on Sunday 1/21 from 3-5pm. ​

The address is: 2528 E 22nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406. The main gallery space is a duplex home that gets converted into a gallery once a month. There is art and performances on the ground floor and the second floor. In order to enter the ground floor gallery there are 2 steps leading up to a small porch on the side of the house and an additional step up to enter the main floor gallery space. There is a gender-together bathroom on the main floor of the gallery. The upstairs is accessed by stepping over a threshold (that leads to a basement) and then going up a flight of steep wooden stairs. There is also a gender-together bathroom upstairs. 

I am honored to be among such awesome artists as a recipient of a 2018 Forecast Public Arts Grant. Thank you! I look forward to my next year of research and development! Forecast 2018 grantees:Phillip Espinoza Day, Mid-Career Project Grantee, $50,000
Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Emerging Artist Project Grantee, $8,000
Team of Oskar Ly + Christina Vang, Emerging Artist Project Grantee, $8,000
Sean Connaughty, Mid-Career Professional Development Grantee, $5,000
Ann Klefstad, Mid-Career Professional Development Grantee, $5,000
Ifrah Mansour, Emerging Artist Research and Development Grantee, $2,500
Nancy Musinguzi, Emerging Artist Research and Development Grantee, $2,500
Lacey Prpic Hedtke, Emerging Artist Research and Development Grantee, $2,500
Emmett Ramstad, Emerging Artist Research and Development Grantee, $2,500

Come see the pencil drawings that Kong Moua and I have been working on all Fall- amazing detailed worlds that include animals, caves, ponds, walls, buildings and more! The opening is from 5-8pm at The Show Gallery in Lowertown St. Paul. See postcard below or website for more details. 

My book is finally printed and bound! Come to the exhibition opening at MCBA on November 17th and buy a copy in the bookstore. Or check back for more pictures of the book soon. This is my first editioned book. 22 glorious letterpress drum leaf bound books. 

I am not sure how long I thought it would be to letterpress my new book "Quasi-Public, Semi-Private" would take, but it took the entire summer plus a good chunk of fall. Wow. I will begin binding it tomorrow. Hooray. The exhibition for the Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship will open on November 7th and run through February 11th. Come check it out. I will be exhibiting the book as broadsides on the wall, but a color copy of the book will be on display in the newly converted gender inclusive bathroom on the first floor near the exhibition space. 

I was reflecting with students in my BA Capstone class at UMN about artistic process this week. So I thought I would share photos that were part of my process for artworks last year.