How do you future-proof the present? How can you contextualize a specific moment? These are the questions that keep bubbling up when I meet with Helene Larsson Pousette and Robert Duffley in June of ...

AS THE WEATHER GETS WARMER each year, something unavoidable happens: the insects come back out. While some find the bugs ...

TO BUILD LASTING FURNITURE requires that I tap into this connection to the animal. It would be easy to imagine the body as a machine. The motions of building are repetitive—pulling a handsaw through ...

Melanie Hoffert is the author of Prairie Silence: A Rural Expatriate’s Journey to Reconcile Love, Home, and Faith, winner of the 2014 Minnesota Book Award in ...

HEADING NORTH, FOLLOWING THE tang of boggy rivers and the sweetness of pines on the air, I like to imagine that I could smell my way home, like a salmon navigating to its natal stream. Closer and ...

The transformative work of Andrea SpencerUSING FLAMEWORKED GLASS and mixed media, Andrea Spencer’s work explores the natural world by creating artworks that express concepts that relate to human ...