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10/15/2026

“Do your thing earth” a note left as part of Sarah Abel-Jelil’s experiments in Studio Visit-inspired this post. But what is earth’s thing-it’s complicated-birth and death; growth and destruction; but it maintains because of balance. I think it’s time for humanity to do some rebalancing ✨. Come by the gallery this week and get some perspective from Chotsani Elaine Dean Erika Terwilliger Sarah Abdel-Jelil because that’s art doing its thing 🙌🏼.

09/17/2026

Guess what??? We’re having an opening to celebrate some mind blowing artists with mind blowing work🤯. Join us Saturday September 19th from 6pm to 9pm to celebrate with Chotsani Elaine Dean whose delicious work is shown here and Erika Terwilliger whose work will be highlighted tomorrow 🌷. And though Sarah Abdel-Jelil won’t be here you can kick start her residency with a project she left for you! Sarah’s closing will be November 7th🙌🏼✨. See you soon🥰

09/16/2026

“Studio Visit” by Sarah Abdel-Jelil is just getting started but you can contribute to the experiments at the opening this Saturday from 6-9pm. The Closing Reception for Sarah Abdel-Jelil’s experiments is Saturday, November 7, 2026, 6- 8 PM. In the meantime she set up a station for you to write love letters to the earth🥰 Sarah Abdel-Jelil

Sarah Abdel-Jelil is the third artist to participate in SooVAC’s pilot Front Space Residency. Throughout 2026, the program invites artists to create work both on-site and off-site, allowing their projects to evolve and adapt over the course of the exhibition. In Abdel-Jelil’s kaleidoscopic film work, she moves beyond a singular focus on the body to explore how a collective, fractal presence emerges through repetition and mirroring. During her residency, she will deepen this research by integrating film, soundscapes, textiles, and interactive sculpture.
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Sarah Abdel-Jelil is a Mauritanian-American filmmaker, dancer, musician, and multimedia artist based in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota), USA. Inspired by her nomadic upbringing in a multicultural, interfaith household across eight different countries, her work explores the relational nature of home, movement, and liminal spaces as well as the tether between human and the more-than-human environment. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BA in cinema and media studies from Carleton College and is a recipient of the 2026 Spillway Fellowship, 2019/20 MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Early Career Artists and the 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Her work has been screened at numerous venues and festivals including The Performance Arcade (Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand) the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, St. Cloud Film Fest, and Altered Aesthetics Film Festival. She has completed residencies at Rosy Simas Danse three thirty one space (Minneapolis, MN), Caldera Arts Center (Sisters, OR), Château de La Napoule (Mandelieu-La Napoule, France), and The Arts Centre (Ōtautahi, New Zealand). She is part of the CHANT (Culture Healing Nature Technology) collective and the Yalla Drum Ensemble with New Arab American Theater Works.

09/11/2026

Catch-All by Erika Terwilliger Erika Terwilliger
Opening: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 6 - 9 PM
Exhibitions run September 24 - November 8, 2026

Catch-All by Erika Terwilliger excavates pockets of material accumulation found within Terwilliger’s home. Drawn from gutters clogged with silver maple leaves, corroding ventilation ductwork, and blue plastic tarp fragments, the exhibition offers handworked transformations of these familiar but overlooked things from everyday life. Terwilliger’s process mirrors repetitive actions of daily living, folding, wrapping, dipping, and stacking. The work finds its form through the small acts of transformation that occur within a deeply embodied way of making. Catch-All holds a material conversation between what we keep and what we toss, with a bit of breathing room in between.

09/10/2026

Trading Post: 41.77260° N, 72.66754° W, when a garden doesn’t return or can’t be found
by Chotsani Elaine Dean
Opening: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 6 - 9 PM
Exhibitions run September 24 - November 8, 2026

Trading Post: 41.77260° N, 72.66754° W, when a garden doesn’t return or can’t be found by Chotsani Elaine Dean offers a profound exploration of complex, layered realities. Dean’s practice is deeply informed by the visual archives and communal history of her ancestry. Her research finds its foundation in quilts created from the early European colonization of North America through the post-antebellum era—works stitched by enslaved and free African Americans on and off cotton plantations. These quilts, and the cotton that gives them life, serve as historical departure points to examine a painful era in American history. Through her work, Dean locates connected global economics and cultural commodities, unearthing the entanglements of people and place that continue to ripple into the present. Chotsani Elaine Dean

08/23/2026

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT-Unfortunately we’ll be closed today (Aug 23rd) due to illness: BUT Little Black Book by Marcus Rothering’s Closing reception is Saturday, August 29, from 6–8 PM Gallery hours the week of the 24th are Thur-Fri 10am to 5pm; Sat 1-8PM; and Sun 11am to 5pm. Next week is the final week for all of the exhibits. So last chance to show some much deserved art love to Alexandra Beaumont James Ostrander and Marcus Rothering 💚🙌🏼. In the meantime enjoy this tuft and talk with Marcus Rothering and friends…

08/23/2026