nelson mondale

[05/11/2026] From April 25 to May 2 , me and the three other artist apprentices at Macalester College held a gallery show in the Koch Gallery space. We have spent the past semester haunting the art building tinkering and creating, culminating in our show 'I Went to the Forest and You Were all the Trees' . For this show, I created a refractal look into an archiving project that I have been working on for a couple months entitled (title in progress, as with all things) 'Infrastructure of Belonging'. This arrangement of the show organized my archive of 500+ images of graphic interventions accross my neighborhood of Whittier (lawn signs, window signs, grafitti, stickers, etc.) that address ICE or the multi-scalar multi-dimensional current political moment here in Minneapolis as constellations of identities. Here is a mini 'thesis statement' of sorts from a piece of writing for the show :

Whittier and its inhabitants are made of innumerable discrete identities. This archive and annotating interviews illuminate the identities residents inscribe into public space through graphic intervention, and traces the relationships those interventions generate between identities. Mapped together, they form star map constellations, a living logic of belonging through which anti-violence was / is written into public space during the time / the present of Operation Metro Surge.

This arrangement of the archive aimed to organize the identities created by graphic interventions as constellations, with each constellation offering a mini-zine and graphic representation of the constellation that people could flip through, discuss with one another, and reflect apon. If you'd like, you can take a look at some of the constellations and the accompanying mini-zines by clicking through the content below :

This project, in it's final form, will be a zine and website that holds the photos alongside annotations from interviews with artists, community organizers, and friends, as well as personal essays. I was recently approved for a grant through Springboard for the Arts, with their Artist's Respond: Rooted and Rising cohort, which is such incredible incredible news ! I am so deeply grateful and excited to be afforded the time and care (and money 😪 !!) that I believe this project deserves, so please keep an eye out for more news to come later this year. If you'd like, you can sign up for my little mailing list here, where I will send updates about this project and share where and how to get a copy of the final zine.