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Daniel McCarthy Clifford, an artist in residence in the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration this fall, collaborated with Betsy Friesen, the director of data management and access at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Together they compiled The Section of Disapproved Books, housed in the Target Studio, that includes the titles in the library catalogue that are banned in U.S. incarceration facilities.

McCarthy Clifford is interested in the way his art and his personal experience of incarceration can be combined with academic research to better highlight the U.S. prison system with the goal to change its practices. This project will be accompanied by a program of readings, discussions, and workshops organized with the library, faculty, and nonprofit organizations We Are All Criminals and Poetry Asylum.

The Section of Disapproved Books with Daniel McCarthy Clifford

Daniel McCarthy Clifford, who was in-residence in the Target Studio in fall 2018, collaborated with Betsy Friesen, the director of data management and access at the University of Minnesota Libraries and Connie Lenz, the Associate Director for Research Services and Collection Development at the University’s Law Library. Together they compiled The Section of Disapproved Books, housed in the Target Studio, which included the titles in the library catalogue that are banned in U.S. incarceration facilities.   McCarthy Clifford is interested in…

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Collaboration Incubator Program

Eight headshots of eight different artists, arranged in two rows of four images. Clockwise from top left: Amoke Kubat, Shanai Matteson, Brooks Turner, Rebecca Merblum, Monica Sheets, Wafaa Bilal, Rosy Simas, and Gudrun Lock.

Artists in the Collaboration Incubator program commit to short-term projects intended to lay the foundation for a longer term relationship of the artist with academic collaborators. Artists are given a stipend and a project budget to spend time in the University, establish networks, use the Target Studio to advance the project, and prepare project proposals to seek future funding.  The ultimate goal of the program is to establish a collaboration that will evolve into a long-term relationship.   PROJECTS | SPRING…

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From the Publicity Books: Honoring Ruth Lawrence…I

From the Publicity Books: Honoring Ruth Lawrence…I

    At first glance, the University Gallery’s Publicity Books appear to be mere scrapbooks filled with mementos of early exhibitions, that were found filed away on a bookshelf somewhere in the back of someone’s office. However, tucked unassumingly into a Publicity Book dated 1953-1954, rests a short but impressive letter that challenges that idea.   March 12, 1953 Dear Mrs. Lawrence: It was with interest that I read the attached clipping in the Minneapolis Star.  It brought back many…

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