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Andy Sturdevant

Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant writes a weekly column, The Stroll, for MinnPost. The Stroll uncovers and celebrates the art, architecture, history, and visual culture of the Twin Cities — with each article focused on one geographic area. Andy is a writer, artist and arts administrator based in Minneapolis. His work has appeared in a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, and heavytable.com. His essays have also appeared in exhibition catalogs for the Walker Art Center and the MCAD/Jerome Fellowship. Have an idea for The Stroll? Email Andy at the address below.
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montana light rail train
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Montana ads add a genuine regional flavor to the urban landscape

By Andy Sturdevant | 11/21/12

The ads are so good the tourism bureau in Colorado, one state over, rolled out a series of ads this year that looked to me like complete knockoffs.

The Jack Knife easel
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MCAD's Art Cellar and the ephemeral art of hand-made signage

By Andy Sturdevant | 11/14/12

Other than a generalized good-naturedly smart-ass quality, there’s no unifying aesthetic to the store’s signs.

MSP drawing
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MSP visuals: From floor mosaics to hidden gems

By Andy Sturdevant | 11/07/12

Where there is regional flavoring, it tends to be of the North Woods high kitsch variety, which makes for a somewhat jarring visual experience.

ceramic bowls
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Enjoying bouja and arts reciprocity in and around St. Joseph

By Andy Sturdevant | 10/31/12

Anne Meyer and Domonique Venzant are rehabbing a Depression-era dairy barn into a community art and ceramics center.

otter
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Sampling the art in the bars of Northeast (somebody has to do it)

By Andy Sturdevant | 10/24/12

You can find everything from original paintings and photographs to prints, drawings, murals and sculptures that run the gamut from tacky to irreplaceable.

Ole Bull
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Checking out Loring Park's Ole Bull and other Twin Cities statues of cultural figures

By Andy Sturdevant | 10/03/12

The statue of Ole Bull was erected in Loring Park in 1897. Bull stands atop a pedestal, playing a violin, with a little line of music carved into the granite below him.

Guardian
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Tangletown: a neighborhood that feels like its name

By Andy Sturdevant | 09/26/12

It’s one of the few neighborhoods that completely steps off the grid and throws off the alphabetical-numerical nomenclature of the rest of Minneapolis.

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Best viewed by car: 'Love Power' and 'United Crushers'

By Andy Sturdevant | 09/19/12

These two visual monuments dominate interstate travel through Minneapolis, and to me, have always seemed oddly of a piece.

Storefront synagogue
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Philadelphia's unending spaces are parceled into stacked storefronts and garrets

By Andy Sturdevant | 09/12/12

The artists I met in Philadelphia had very different relationships with space from their colleagues in this part of the country.

Paul Ryan Crop Art
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State Fair's Creative Activities collections best capture our craft traditions

By Andy Sturdevant | 09/05/12

As craft and folk traditions become less a part of everyday life, a class of devoted, rigorous artists have stepped up to preserve them.