I hope you are following the mnartist.org series at the intersection of art and pedagogy, guest edited by Brooks Turner:  An Uncertain Syllabus for Art Education

It has been an honor to work on an interview with Isa Gagarin for the series. 

I wanted to cross pollinate a blog post I wrote for COMPAS reflecting on a Saori weaving workshop I attended with my child Kit, taught by Chiaki O'Brien. Have a read:
https://www.compas.org/blog/2023/9/5/weaving-teaching

Visit the Edward J and Hellen Morrison Gallery on the UMN Morris campus to see my latest installation Parade before I take it down on October 11th! 

Hair and Nails, the wonderful Minneapolis Gallery, is hard at work digitizing zine catalogues from their exhibitions. If you have never read one, or haven't read them all yet, check out their magazine for some now-online art reading featuring incredible layout and design by Kristin Van Loon. I am excited to share the link and nudge you towards some of the zines that feature my artwork and arts writing. 

#11: My solo show: "Laying in Wait" features essays about my work by: Leia Wambach, Christina Schmid, Sean Smuda, and Nicole Soukup

#21: Group show "Future Future" featuring a crew of great artists and essays by great writers!

#28: My first arts writing essay written about Kieran Myles-Andres Tverbakk, Kelley Meister and Lamia Abukhadra's work. 

#31: I wrote an essay about Rachel Youn's life-changing exhibition! 

Come one, come all, to the finale of our Jerker tour. We thought it fitting for a phone sex play to be concluded by a free live phone reading!
Join us on Saturday Feb 4th at 669-275-1807: 5pm PST, 6pm MST, 7pm CST, 8pm EST
Content Warning: graphic sexual description, kinky/BDSM scenarios, death, AIDS 
Access Notes: Email maxecrandall at gmail.com for text PDF.

Tuesday August 16th at 7pm we will be performing with guest narrator Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad at William Way LGBT Community Center. FREE tickets. 

Saturday August 20th 11pm-midnight we will be performing at Inferno in New York City with guest narrator Aldrin Valdez.  Ticket information coming soon. 

​Stay tuned for more information!  

​“Emmett Ramstad is a recipient of a 2022 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, funded by The McKnight Foundation and administered by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.”

I am over the moon thrilled to have been selected as a 2022 McKnight Fellowship Artist alongside Ruthann Godollei, Pao Houa Her, Amanda Lovelee, Lamar Peterson, and Jonathan Thunder by visiting jurors Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Associate Professor of Art History and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; Julio César Morales, artist and Curator of Visual Arts at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; and Katie Pfohl, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art.

Don't miss the second midwest performance of Jerker at Quatrefoil Library! June 8th at 7pm, followed by discussion and reception in the library. 

Chicago performance at Leather Archives & Museum with guest Charles Ryan Long. Photo by Ivan Bujan