My solo exhibition, Tall Paths, will be on view at MCBA's Outlook Gallery from Oct 12-Jan 25. It is free and open to the public and viewable from the street 24/7. Artist talk will be Nov 19th, 7pm. 

Tall Paths is a site-specific installation featuring three geometric patterned scrolls inspired by storage facility doors in fields of rural Minnesota. As the work progressed, the scrolls came to also suggest landscapes bisected by roads. The title, Tall Paths, refers to the practice of mowing corridors through meadows to achieve dual desires of walking paths and wildlife sanctuaries. Through this work, I imagine roads as paths with life on either side evidenced by industry, homes, motels, and storage units. This installation simulates “crankies,” or scroll books, where the viewer “reads” repeated forms in motion like a traveler reads dots alongside a freeway as a moving image. ​

Join us for Together Family Day on Sunday Oct 13, 11am-3pm at The Minnesota Museum of American Art!

Activities include:
An art conversation prompt so that visitors can explore artworks in the exhibition and have meaningful conversations.  
An art activity table with miniature canvases and marker paints so that visitors can make masterpieces to hang in their own homes. 
Mail stations near exhibition artworks so that visitors can write notes to the artists.

Art credit: Walden Waites

The CBS morning show did a wonderful tv segment for Together at The Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Thank you to Kylie, Prerna, Ben and the whole comms team for making this happen! 
Image credit: detail, Yukiko Shibata and Aki Shibata

This summer I got to visit Franconia for July clouds and took this sweet picture of Alone Together, which is still on view at Franconia Sculpture Park since 2019. I feel very fond of this work, which was my first time welding and working with land in this way. 

August 19th, noon CST
Ask Me Anything: Balancing Caregiving and Your Artistic Career on zoom @springboard​

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“Ask Me Anything” events are casual midday conversations on a variety of topics with Springboard’s Artist Career Consultants (ACCs) or staff and guest artists/presenters. These events are held virtually, on Zoom.

Ask Me Anything: Balancing Caregiving and Your Artistic Career
Date/Time: Monday, August 19, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm Central Time
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Taking care of other humans while trying to create art and promote yourself as an artist is a lot of work. Both roles are a constant juggling act and demand long hours, patience, and determination. Join us for a lunchtime conversation with artists and curators Teréz Iacovino and Emmett Ramstad who will share tips and strategies for balancing the responsibilities and goals of being a caregiver and artist. This program is moderated by Anitra Budd, Artist Career Consultant with Springboard for the Arts and co-owner of Colfax Wordsmiths.

Registration: Receive the Zoom meeting details by clicking on the Register button above. If you have any questions, call Zaraawar “Z” Mistry at 651-789-2282 or email [email protected].

Me, my kiddo and my mom are all headed up to Tofte Lake Center for a week of intergenerational art making! Looking forward to meeting the other artist families and being in nature making together. Here's to hoping we don't get tooo many bug bites along the way. 

My pubic hair has good company in this wonderful hirstory collection by MOTHA and ONE Archive, with an essay about my work by Maxe Crandall. Get a copy when you can! 

March 28–October 13, 2024
Securian Gallery at The Minnesota Museum of American Art

Join the artists for an opening celebration with family-friendly activities and light snacks on Saturday, April 20 from 10:00 a.m. to noon.

For information on hours, directions, and accessibility, click here.

Together is a mixed media art exhibition featuring artwork from ten Minnesota artist families of diverse ages and family structures who have created individual and communal work for the exhibition. Artists Emmett and Kit Ramstad conceived this project to elevate children’s artwork and provide a space for parent artists to support each other as they fulfill the roles of parents and artists while raising a new generation of makers. Together uplifts mixed generational creativity by showcasing artists who have contributed hugely to Minnesota’s artistic community and their children who are integral influences to their practice.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Sayge Carroll, Morgan Laramy; Preston Drum, Elvis and Leroy Drum; Isa Gagarin, Rae Gordon; Pao Her, Vince and Kailee Yang; Amanda Lovelee, Walden Waites; Avigail Manneberg, Kaiah and Micah Manneberg-Tompkins; Emmett Ramstad, Kit Aizura Ramstad; Anna Marie Shogren, Wally Glenn-Shogren; Aki Shibata, Atom Shibata Pliner and Yukiko Shibata Colburn; Jonathan Thunder,  Mino Hart Thunder

IMAGE: Elvis Drum, Small Destroyed World, acrylic on canvas, 2023

I am thrilled to be heading to Berkeley for a 2 week residency at Kala Art Institute from March 17-31st. It is just a block from my first apartment in Berkeley from 2001. Come say hi in the studio while I work!