Janaya Martin has been published in Oddball Magazine and The Grief Diaries and blogs at janayamartin.wordpress.com. She also hosts a monthly reading series at The Coffee Shop Northeast in NE Minneapolis. Her debut book is Tiptoe and Whisper.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Martin, Janaya
Created:
2016-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson, directors of the Women's Art Institute, discuss their reasons for founding the Insitute in 1999 at MCAD, recalling an atmosphere increasingly hostile towards women students after the women's movements of the 60s-70s and their belief in the same-sex classroom as an environment where women students' "perceptu...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2014-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Natalie Rae Wass, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Fashion Risk, or the Accidental Nudist, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about growing up in England, the place of nude vacations in her family’s life, and her attitudes toward cultural proscriptions around clothing and nudity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wass, Natalie Rae
Created:
2013-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about her latest work. She discusses the book inspired by a trip to the zoo with her daughter Anna, as well as reading an excerpt from it. John Reimringer, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about his motivation for writing. Reimringer talks about the necessity of pushing one's...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vandenberg, Katrina; Reimringer, John
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Poet, environmentalist, and oral historian Joe Paddock grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collections Earth Tongues (1985) and Handful of Thunder: A Prairie Cycle (1983) and the essay collection Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agricultur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paddock, Joe
Created:
2014-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.