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From Minnesota Public Radio News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what's exciting in local art.

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June 24, 2021 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: COVID-19 and mourning on film, plus other emotion-provoking performances

Yeej Moua debuts his short film, “The Wind Always Strikes the Highest Mountain,” for the Northern Spark festival’s final weekend. Minnesota artists explore issues of disability and theater at Full Circle. And Laura Sellner has a new EP.

by Emily Bright

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June 20, 2021 8:19 AM

Art Hounds recommend art-based road trips in Minnesota

An Art Hounds road trip includes a stop at the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, Minn. and the T. L. Solien exhibit “See the Sky.” Then it’s off to Ely and a children’s picture book written and illustrated by local residents, about a familiar scene during wildfire season.

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June 17, 2021 5:32 AM

A traveling Iron Range exhibit celebrates the Ancient Cedars trail, and other Art Hounds ‘likes’

Also, Dameun Strange’s 24-hour Sol Soundgarden installation has music blooming across the Rondo and Frogtown neighborhoods in St. Paul, and Gwen Partin’s show pairs paper and textile arts in Minneapolis.

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June 10, 2021 5:36 AM

Art Hounds recommend visual art that explores science, spirituality

Nature photographer Nicole Zemple takes “otherworldly” pictures of the forest floor, Fawzia Khan’s embroidery and sculpture celebrate women’s stories, and Anne Pryor paints with scents and her breath.

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June 3, 2021 4:00 AM

Art Hounds recommend live, in-person dance and music performances

It’s the first time in well over a year that we have been able to feature three live, in-person only performances. BRKFST Dance Company performs “60/40” at Southern Theater in Minneapolis, StoLyette plays at Icehouse and Z-Fest screens this year’s crop of seven-minute films by veteran and emerging Minnesota filmmakers.

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May 27, 2021 6:20 AM

Art Hounds recommend art that heals

The Art Hounds suggest a physician’s paintings that contemplate transformation and healing in Granite Falls, Minn. Also this week, a high-energy dance production by Collide Theatrical Dance Co. aims to take the stigma out of mental health conditions. Plus, the improv soap opera “Duluth” draws an international cast with an iconic Minnesota backdrop.

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May 13, 2021 7:00 AM

Art Hounds: New work that highlights Yiddish poetry and Asian American voices

A world premiere by composer Anat Spiegel sets Yiddish poetry to music; the Great Lakes Academy of Fine Art celebrates its first student show in Duluth; and Theater Mu’s Un(Scene) short plays festival tackles violence against Asian Americans.

by Emily Bright and Aron Woldeslassie

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May 6, 2021 5:24 AM

Art Hounds: Math rock, looping flute and a Duluth music festival

This week, check out flutist Julie Johnson’s “Looping in my Living Room” series, Mankato-based Onion Bun’s new math rock EP and Duluth’s virtual Homegrown Music Festival.

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April 29, 2021 6:00 AM

Art Hounds: 'The Art of Possibilities'

A fine arts exhibition from Courage Kenny, a one-man comedy show in Lanesboro about chef James Beard, and a pandemic YouTube special from Minneapolis stand-up comic Ali Sultan.

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April 22, 2021 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: Landscapes and memory-scapes

Artists and art appreciators this week also recommend a streaming show from Theater Latté Da, which invites artists to perform favorite show tunes outside of their “type” and a retrospective of renowned Duluth artist Carl Gawboy, Bois Forte Anishinaabe storyteller and scholar.

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