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A few sights from our festival weekend. Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy some art and community! More pics to come!

📸: @sarajsfish

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Rooted Sky by Andrés Guzman and Christina Vang, 2026. This mural is a meditation on belonging and becoming. Set within a window, both a threshold and an opening, the mural honors all walks of life as part of a shared, living landscape.

Created in collaboration by local Minneapolis artists Andrés Guzman and Christina Vang, the work reflects a collective vision shaped by place, community, and care.

The mural was informed by a visioning session facilitated by curator Tricia Heuring, held with shelter residents to gather their feedback, lived experiences, and hopes for the artwork. These shared reflections helped guide the imagery and tone of the piece, rooting it in voices often navigating transition, resilience, and renewal.

Native species and plants appear throughout the mural, honoring the local landscape and the ecosystems that hold and sustain the community.

Forms reach upward and outward while remaining grounded, reflecting the balance between where we come from and where we are going.

Rooted Sky offers grace for the journey—for uneven paths, moments of pause, and the quiet strength it takes to keep moving forward.

Light and color act as signals of care and possibility, suggesting that hope is not distant or abstract, but something carried daily and shaped through connection.

Looking toward the future without forgetting the present, Rooted Sky visualizes a horizon where many stories coexist and invites viewers to see themselves reflected in that shared sky.

All photos by Rik Sferra
Many thanks to @simpson_housing, @triciaheuring, and @thevomelacompanies

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🪦DESIGN GRAVEYARD🪦

In remembrance of cover design concepts that didn’t make the cut. These books are alive and well tho, so go read em!

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A little over a month ago, the SEAD Project launched Mekong Journeys. Imo, a project that deserves way more buzz. It was a privilege to help bring these stories of memory, resilience, and belonging to life through illustration. It took a village—Southeast Asian photographers, illustrators, designers, storytellers, translators, producers, and videographers in collaboration over 2 years to cement these stories for generations to come.

Head to theseadproject.org/mekongjourneys to watch the videos and read the stories. 💛

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Thank you to everyone that attended our exhibit opening of Highlands to Home: The Hmong journey to Ramsey County. You can visit the exhibit in the Ramsey County Historical Society Gallery until May 2027 to share your story and engage in the exhibit.

#exhibit #hmong #gallery #joinus #visit

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“Dancing Queens” - mural by Hmong-American Twin Cities-based artist Christina Vang, installed in the Creative Enterprise Zone (CEZ) during the ChromaZone street art festival - St. Paul, MN (Sept 2025)

Although the work was not created to explicitly present an LGBTQ+ theme, I felt that the feelings it conveys (joyfulness, self-expression, celebration of one’s individuality) are universal and certainly resonate with my community. So although I photographed the work last year, I decided to save it for Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Read the artist’s statements below.

#chromazonefest #christinavang #hmongartist #cezmsp #dancingqueens

Artist’s statement (taken from ChromaZone’s website):

“I am calling this mural “Dancing Queens”. I wanted to do something that felt joyful and dynamic. As I created these distinct characters, I thought of self-expression, celebrating individuality, and the power of moving together—not just in dance, but in all aspects of life.

“The dance moves are fun, the fashion is fun, and I hope people come across it and break out into spontaneous dance.

“The vibrant colors are a throughline in all of my work and are influenced by the bold, neon, multi-colored patterns found in Hmong textiles. Tigers are referred to as spirits and ancestors in our culture, so the tiger stripes appear in a lot of my recent work.

“I’ve also incorporated other Hmong textiles, such as the long pink sash in the fourth character, which is tied around the waist in traditional Hmong clothing. The fifth character’s clothes will feature a floral Thai pattern that is commonly found in Hmong garments.”

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#SneakPeek at my new paintings for
“Full House” a group exhibition opening THIS SATURDAY 5/30
at @SouthSidePreservationSociety in
S Mpls!

✔️Paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and more
✔️Plus live t-shirt printing and DJ Bryan Angeles
✔️Remember the “Time Capsule” mural painting exhibition last winter? They have sealed over the murals for this inaugural exhibition on the fresh white gallery walls.
✔️It wouldn’t let me tag everyone booooo

#ArtExhibition #GroupShow #art #🎨

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Finished window mural collaboration w/ @christinavang
3 levels of ascending colors for @simpson_housing.
Gratitude to Simpson Housing for their work in helping those experiencing homelessness.
Big thx to @triciaheuring

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CULTIVATE Featured Artist: Remi Blakesley!

''Dance and the arts feel essential right now because they help people connect in a more human way. They build empathy by letting us experience someone else’s perspective without needing words. In a time where it’s easy to feel disconnected or stuck in our own viewpoints, art creates space to listen, feel, and understand each other more deeply.''

Remi Blakesley (CULTIVATE Trainee) is an Asian American dancer and choreographer based in Minneapolis. She began her dance training at age 6, growing up dancing at various studios in the Twin Cities. In 2022, she was a corps member in Crash Dance Productions 2. In 2023 and 2024, she had the opportunity to dance at Detroit Music Hall and the Joyce Theater, performing choreography by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson with Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s Pre-professional Program. She is a recent graduate from the Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program in San Francisco where she collaborated with renowned artists including Maurya Kerr, Moscelyne Parke Harrison, Brett Conway, Alejandro Perez, and Natasha Adorlee. During her time in San Francisco, Remi danced with Decentered Arts, blending improvisational movement with spoken word poetry. Remi also had the opportunity to choreograph in Mark Foehringer’s emerging choreographers forum. Her work was featured at Joe Goode Annex and Dancing in the Park SF. Remi is currently a first year CULTIVATE trainee at TU Dance.

Photo by Kari Mosel Photography. @karimoselphotography
Movement Direction & Styling by Toni Pierce-Sands @tudance
Mural: "Ask Why", Chroma Zone, 2019 by Artcorp @christinavang @teekoism @oskarlyart. Photos made possible by TU Dance's CULTIVATE, A Trainee Program with support from The Bob and Kathie Goodale Legacy Foundation and MSAB Arts Education Grant. The mural is a part of The Creative Enterprise Zone @cezmsp which is a city-recognized non-profit organization dedicated to attracting and supporting creative people and businesses to #MakeItHere. CEZ is committed to enhancing public spaces to advance community, cultural, and economic development through collaboration and connectivity.

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Design and art direction for thirdspace Issue 5, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Spring 2026.

✨𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚✨ is an internal MACP publication that chronicles community, connection, and learning. This spring’s theme, creative resiliency, explores ways to meet the moment we’re in—through activities, reading, and reflections on what it means to bring our full selves both within and beyond formal roles.

This issue features gorgeous photography by @rebeccazenefskislater and stunning illustrations by @andresitoguzman, who will be illustrating the next two issues. Deep thanks to @kayeherranen and the entire MACP comms team, and to Enpointe for a beautiful print job.

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I worked on cover art + spot illustrations for the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies spring issue 🪻🪻🪻
Big thx to art director/designer @christinavang
2 more issues to go!

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The 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚 mural debuted at @capitolregionwatershed‘s 𝙒𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙉 opening reception last Thursday. Thank you, CRWD, for the opportunity to share my creative process and reflect on my connection to water and caring for our watershed. I love the excitement captured on slide 4!

Special thanks to Sarah Peters, Anna Eleria, and Maricella Xiong who brought this opportunity my way. A heartfelt thank you @hawonawrites, for your stirring intro ahead of my talk. Your words are a salve, and you are a gift—thank you, friend!

The 𝙒𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙉 exhibit, featuring stories from 15 community members, is on view until June 14—learn more at the link in bio.

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