Posts Tagged ‘contemporary practice’

Summer Reading – Burn the Maps

Emmet Byrne. Illustration for Mn Artists and Walker Art Center, n.d.

Today’s article for our Summer Reading series comes from our friends at Mn Artists. Matthew Fluharty, founder and executive director of Art of the Rural, discusses “the dividing lines between country and city spheres… [and] makes a case for rejecting calcified notions of ‘rural art.’” This article was originally published on July 23, 2015. It is significant that the common image of the country is now an image of[…..]