State of the Artist note: This post, from Laura Zabel, is in response to our Visualizing Artists’ Careers project, which you can see here. I can’t stop looking at these graphics. I love the unbalanced stars that show us just how different each person’s trajectory and career is. And somehow simultaneously demonstrate how important [...]
One of the fortunate by-products of making documentaries in collaboration with artists is getting to know more about their works in progress. Some of those works have made their way into the videos we’ve created over the past year, so we thought we’d share a quick update about where those artists and their projects are [...]
Skewing the Lens from Works Progress on Vimeo. “It’s hard sometimes to think outside your own very complicated, very personal, very busy, life-is-overwhelming lens, but when you go to the theater, what I want is… that moment where all of the sudden your world explodes from that lens into this huge connection to the world.” [...]
Bog Walk from Works Progress on Vimeo. Artist Christine Baeumler wants us to get our feet wet. When we approached her about creating a short video for McKnight’s State of the Artist project about her and her recent work, she suggested we take a walk together. On one of the hottest days of the summer [...]
McKnight Foundation’s Artist Fellowships 30th anniversary celebration from Minneapolis on Vimeo. This summer, we celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the McKnight Artist Fellowship program with a bang. No, wait–bang isn’t the right word. We celebrated with live music, participatory dance, spinning tops, commemorative flags, handmade rainsticks, narrative tree branches, original poetry, regal sashes, and more [...]
