Before Tanner Montague started booking bands, he was in one. The experience led him to open Green Room, his own music venue in Uptown, in 2023, and it has since

When Scott Pollock became executive director of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) in 2022, he didn’t know the museum’s magnificent collection, on loan from its owners, would be withdrawn,

Drew Kinkade takes the notion of DIY down to the letter. He founded Flavor World, which began as a screenprinting business but now encompasses live events, a magazine, merchandise, and

Anyone who wandered through Mia’s 2025 hit exhibition "Giants," featuring art from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s collection, has gotten a taste of curator Casey Riley’s vision: Showcase a fuller

The region’s premier arts institutions flourished on philanthropy and corporate largesse for generations, but today’s business sector is stingier, while philanthropy is in decline and more focused on social justice.

For the music director of a full-time orchestra, planning and leading rehearsals, taking meetings to design future programming, and lunch dates with major donors are all in a day’s work.

After starring in the Whitney Biennial in 2022 and receiving a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2023, multidisciplinary artist Dyani Whitehawk continued her prolific pace in 2024. She installed Nourish, a

Every day for 12 years, artist Mary Jo Hoffman photographed nature (milkweed pods, blue jay feathers, fern fronds she gathered around her Shoreview home) and posted the photos on her

Writer, historian, professor, internet pioneer, and designer are past job titles claimed by Molly Wright Steenson, whose web address— girlwonder.com—seems apt. Now she can add nonprofit CEO to her impressive