Form+Content Gallery

Form+Content Gallery Form + Content Gallery is an artist owned and operated gallery in the North Loop of Minneapolis MN

Form + Content Gallery is a member-owned collective with twelve memberships and rotating exhibitions approximately every five - six weeks. Current gallery members are: Ellie Kingsbury, Joyce Lyon, Gwen Partin, Chris Cinque, Marty Nash, Kathryn Nobbe, Pat Olson, Howard Oransky, Mark Ostapchuk, Michal Sagar, Moira Bateman and Beth Bergman.

Please join us on Tuesday, June 9, from 6pm to 8pm, when Barbara Bridges, Founder of Art to Change the World, will speak...
06/03/2026

Please join us on Tuesday, June 9, from 6pm to 8pm, when Barbara Bridges, Founder of Art to Change the World, will speak on the birth of ACW and its WARM foundations. Discussion of the WARM Mentor/Protegee Program will also follow.

WARM Connections, an art exhibition featuring 33 women artists who have participated in WARM/Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, affiliated programs from the 1970s to the present.

Art to Change the World is a diverse non-profit coalition of change makers employing the arts in service of positive social change. They are committed to serving ALL in their community. Founded in 2017, ACW has over 400 members (200 are artists) and has designed and hosted over 50 social justice projects and events.


ARTISTS EXHIBITING Lynnette K. Black, Anne Black-Sinak, Elizabeth Blair, Barbra Bloy, Brenna Busse, Francene Christianson, Sara Church, Michele Combs, Gail Diez, Kelly Frankenberg, Mary Holmgren, Susan Huhn-Bowles, Anne Kleinhenz, Barb Kobe, Ann Popadiuk Larson, Brenda Litman, Layl McDill, Marcy Nelson-Garrison, Laurel O’Gorman, Alis Olsen, Pat Owen, Rebecca Pavlenko, Teri Snell Power, Jo-Ann Reske-Kirkman, Ellen Schillace, Karen Searle, Linda Seebauer Hansen, Joan Seifert, Krista Spieler, Jill Stebbins, Emily Talley, Karen Wilcox, Jill Waterhouse

EXHIBITION DATES: May 14 through June 20, 2026

GALLERY HOURS: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 12:00pm to 6:00 pm)

Anne Kleinhenz’s WARM Connections:My journey with Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota (WARM) began in 2013 when I was acc...
06/02/2026

Anne Kleinhenz’s WARM Connections:

My journey with Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota (WARM) began in 2013 when I was accepted into the 2013–2014 Mentorship Program. I had the privilege of working with artist Jill Waterhouse as my mentor. As part of Jill’s mentorship circle, I joined fellow protégés Barbara Bridges, Kate Renee, and Jennifer Palmquist.

Together we formed a close-knit circle, affectionately calling ourselves “the Unicorns.” We supported one another through shared meals, studio visits, exhibitions, and creative excursions, each of us developing our individual bodies of work while growing in community. What began as a mentorship evolved into lasting friendships and an enduring network of mutual encouragement.

WARM became a defining force in my creative life. The mentorship, the spirit of generosity among artists, and the professional opportunities it offered, shaped not only my artistic voice but also my path as a creative entrepreneur. The experience continues to influence how I build community, approach collaboration, and sustain my practice.

At the heart of my work is what I call soul activism — a commitment to expressing light, even in times of darkness. “Forward into Light” has become a guiding mantra: a reminder to seek illumination in difficult spaces. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said, “Peace in the world depends on peace within... external disarmament depends on inner disarmament.” When democracy feels fragile and public discourse grows dim, art becomes a vital source of light.

It is my hope that through art we nurture peace, compassion, dialogue, and respect — and that these qualities may reign in all human hearts.

ARTIST WEBSITE: https://nemaa.org/artists/anne-kleinhenz-st-annie-alchemy/

Barbara Kobe’s WARM Connections:Barbara Kobe is a Minneapolis-area artist, author, and educator whose work explores hea...
06/01/2026

Barbara Kobe’s WARM Connections:

Barbara Kobe is a Minneapolis-area artist, author, and educator whose work explores healing, storytelling, and the wisdom of the body through handmade dolls and mixed-media art. She is the founder of Visualize Studios LLC, the award-winning author of the book The Healing Doll Way: A Guided Process Creating Art Doll for Self-Discovery, Aware and Transformation, and The Healing Doll Way an expressive arts practice that invites people to transform personal stories into symbolic figures.

Barbara has a degree in psychology and has been a student of women’s and feminist studies for many years. Her dolls represent women’s symbols, metaphors and stories that often emerge from life experiences including illness, recovery, and renewal. Through fabric, thread, and found objects, she creates figures that hold emotion, memory, and possibility.

For Barbara, WARM represents a circle of women who believe art can witness, transform, and connect us.

IMAGE: “The Root Weaver,” Mixed media doll sculpture, fabric, thread, found materials, 32” x 12” x 9”, 2025.

ARTIST WEBSITES: www.barbobe.com, www.healingdollway.com, www.healingdollways.com

Mary Holmgren’s WARM Connections:I first became aware of WARM when I was beginning my painting career in the mid 80s’ an...
05/31/2026

Mary Holmgren’s WARM Connections:

I first became aware of WARM when I was beginning my painting career in the mid 80s’ and took several classes from founding WARM members. I participated in a number of exhibitions sponsored by WARM in the 90’s and 2000’s, and especially enjoyed the 2016 “WARM GUERILLAS: Feminist Visions” at the Grain Belt Bottling House Gallery.

IMAGE: “Light Breaking Through,” Watercolor; 18”x 24” x 1.25” 2024.

Mark your calendars! Tomorrow is the artists’ reception for WARM Connections, 2pm to 5pm. At 3pm, Ellen Schillace and Sa...
05/30/2026

Mark your calendars! Tomorrow is the artists’ reception for WARM Connections, 2pm to 5pm.

At 3pm, Ellen Schillace and Sara Church, pictured above, will share Historical Perspectives and Memories of Original WAVE.

“WARM Connections”, is an exhibition highlighting work by thirty-three artists representing the many affiliate groups connected to WARM / The Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, the groundbreaking feminist arts collective founded in Minneapolis in the 1970s. The artists in this exhibit represent a sampling of the hundreds of women artists who brought WARM and its values into their personal, professional and artistic lives. Artists in “WARM Connections” represent WARM’s Associate Membership, Founding Members of WAVE Gallery in Lowertown St. Paul, the WARM Mentor/Protegee Program, the WARM Global Scroll Project, Hue & Eye, Second WAVE, and Art to Change the World (ACW).

WAVE and WAVE Gallery:

The original WAVE Gallery grew out of WARM’s Associate membership. In 1983 a space was located in Lowertown St. Paul and 28 Associate Members committed to creating a new gallery space at 249 E. Fourth Street. WAVE represented a second-generation alternative space — post-1970s collectives, more fluid and less institutional. WAVE Gallery was the second gallery in the area that became the Lowertown St. Paul development/Arts district.

EXHIBITION DATES: May 14 – June 20, 2026

GALLERY HOURS: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 12PM-6pm

FORM+CONTENT GALLERY

210 2nd Street North
Minneapolis, MN 55401

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612-436-1151

Ellen Schillace’s WARM Connections:My artistic practice has been shaped as deeply by lived experience as by formal train...
05/30/2026

Ellen Schillace’s WARM Connections:

My artistic practice has been shaped as deeply by lived experience as by formal training. I arrived in the Twin Cities from Boston only a few years before looking to find a place to continue to explore my artistic journey - not realizing it was with me all the time. When I attended one of their shows on 1st Avenue, I was immediately struck by the WARM GALLERY women and art I encountered.—These were women who were confident, accomplished, and fully formed as artists, or at least declaring as such. I was in awe of them. They appeared to occupy a place I could observe but had not yet fully entered, a place I believed I might someday aspire to reach..

In the early 1980’s, I became one of their founding Associate Members that built a new gallery in Lowertown St. Paul known as WAVE. My participation in WARM was necessarily intermittent, shaped by an overburdened schedule and the demands of survival navigating single parenthood. Still, the energy of the collective and the connections I was forming pulled me forward. I supported myself through portrait work. In dialogue—sometimes direct, sometimes distant—with myself always and the women of WARM and WAVE, Though I often felt unseen within the group, I was deeply influenced by it and inspired to be bold and unafraid in my mark-making.

WARM continued to play a part in my life, even though it had morphed over time. I became a board member in the early 2000’s and continued to participate in juried exhibitions when my schedule and time permitted. WAVE continued to exist as an unstructured artists’ collective. For more than forty-five years, the group has met nine months each year, remaining committed to supporting one another and to creating space for women’s voices within the evolving art environment of the Twin Cities. I eventually served as President of the Minnesota Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Arts cementing my role as a change maker for Women Artists (as we all are) with the Women and Money Project.

IMAGE: “The Male Gaze,” Intaglio, 19” x 16”, 2001.

ARTIST WEBSITE: ellenschillace.org

Susan Huhn-Bowles’ WARM Connection:I was a student at the University of Minnesota, working on my BFA, when WARM was firs...
05/29/2026

Susan Huhn-Bowles’ WARM Connection:

I was a student at the University of Minnesota, working on my BFA, when WARM was first formed. When the membership opened to dues paying members, I joined and was an uninvolved member for many years. I made the decision to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the WARM Mentor/Protege` Program for the 2011-2012 session. My mentor was Brenna Busse and from her guidance I gained confidence and a better sense of what is involved in being an artist and the kind of art l am meant to create.

I was part of a small group of other Protege`s which met informally for years and I found the MP program to be challenging and exhilarating. I became part of the WARM Exhibition Committee which involved organizing calls for art and planning shows and hanging art.

This also was a bonding and learning experience for me. I was invited to join the Second Wave Feminist Group and have been meeting with dynamic and fascinating women within that group for many years.

IMAGE: “Seed for Next Year,” Watercolor and pencil, 13” x 13”, 2023.

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