An apartment building hallway featuring a mural with graphic shapes and whimsical design with bold, bright colors.

How Curators Bring Artistic Value to Commercial Design Projects

Not all curators work for museums. Tricia Heuring, for one, is interested in all the other places that art lives. While she’s known locally...

Master Gardener’s Yard is a Permaculture Paradise

Photos by Andrea Rugg Elaina Moss’ yard is an edible landscape, and it’s not just Moss and her family eating. Bees, lacewings, and countless other...

Local Artist Brandi Kole Featured at 2024 Lucca Biennale Cartasia in Italy

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Brandi Kole (@brandikoleart) From June 29 to Sept. 29, the historic Palazzo Guinigi in Lucca, Italy, will...

The Collective: Allison Johanson

Allison Johanson came to her craft when she needed art most in her life—to fill her home and to be creative. Johanson paints textured,...

Vintage Dealer Gladys Tay’s Eclectic, Maximalist Design Style Turns Heads in Shoreview

Photos by Wing Ta The moment Singapore-native, vintage dealer, and social media maven Gladys Tay picks up her camera, her “little monsters”—three miniature schnauzers and...

The Collective: Wettrock Co.

Photos provided   Kevin Whetstone’s admiration of all things made by hand began with watching his grandfather cast tools in his workshop. Today, Whetstone’s own work...
Ini Iyamba portrait. Photo by Wing Ta.

Ini Iyamba Defines the Modern Man

Photos by Wing Ta The vice president of merchandising for CircleRock, a local men’s apparel company that just merged with Faribault Woolen Mill Co., likes...
Jarrod Dahl. Photo by Woodspirit Handicraft.

Home Essentials Handmade with Heart

Written by Sheila Regan Photos by Woodspirit Handcraft Jarrod Dahl and Jazmin Hicks-Dahl of Woodspirit Handcraft do things the slow way, and that suits them just...

Entrepreneur Erin Zosel’s Stylish Instincts

Photos by Dina Kantor Erin Zosel is a multihyphenate who may just be getting started. Case in point: Six years ago, she opened her first...

Jamie & Morgan Molitor of construction2style Are Anything But Ordinary

Photos by Wing Ta Despite the disappointment that accompanied a layoff in 2011, carpenter Jamie Molitor’s ambition didn’t allow for downtime. Instead, he bought a...

Master Ojibwe Bead Artist Jessica Gokey Reveres Beadwork as Fine Art

Photos by David Ellis Jessica Gokey was only 16 years old when she had her first run-in with beading. Her aunt doled out a daunting...
Co-founders and principals of Haus and Rowe, Kate Adamcsek and Marcelle Timonen

Meet the Two Designers at the Helm of Haus of Rowe

Photos by Shari Fleming Photography Kate Adamcsek and Marcelle Timonen both say that the pandemic didn’t affect the July 2020 launch of their new residential...

Chicken Thighs & Mushroom Rice

Photos by Elizabeth Ries Growing up, I attended countless church potlucks featuring lots of 9-by-13-inch pans containing cream of mushroom soup. This dish gives me...

Catch A Copy of B. J. O. Nordfeldt: American Internationalist

Let the seascapes, portraits, and still lifes of B. J. O. Nordfeldt decorate your walls and your coffee table. This 160-page catalogue explores the...

Cozying Up to Winter: Q&A with Founders of Hygge & West

Photos courtesy of Hygge & West Those Norwegians. They endure the longest, snowiest, coldest winters and yet—as research done by Kari Leibowritz, a PhD student...

Legacy of the Loom

Photos by Nate Ryan It didn’t take long for Doug Remmey to realize he was destined for more than cutting corn off the cob. After...

HGTV Show “Renovation 911” Highlights Minneapolis-Based Emergency Restoration Experts

Photo provided   Making their debut this month on HGTV, Lindsey Uselding and Kirsten Meehan—emergency home restoration experts and sisters—embark on a quest to fix families’...

Designing With Purpose

Photos by David Ellis   Patricia Mutebi discovered her passion for technical drawing during her A-levels (similar to high school) in Kampala, Uganda, where she was...

Eden Prairie Topiary Designer Competes in High-Stakes TV Competition

Photos courtesy of discovery+ Will she make the cut or get clipped? That’s the question for contestant Meghan Petricka as she competes against six other...

Now On View: ‘Capturing Minnesota’ by Tad Anderson

Photos courtesy of Tad Anderson   Minnesota’s natural beauty has long inspired Tad Anderson—both in his 40-year landscape architecture career, and now, in his transition to...

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