what better phrase for our current time than “donkey baseball”

It’s not Minnesota Nice anymore, it’s Minnesota NoICE! Art by me, please share, thx <3

any illumination // handcut paper collage on found vintage photograph, december 2025 #collage #queerart #foundphoto

get yourself some uneasy tape loop noise this Christmas with Flattener by Spinning Voices: spinningvoices.bandcamp.com/album/flatte...

If you, like me, were wondering: I’m sorry to inform you that Minnesota does not have an official state reptile. “However, the Blanding's turtle was proposed as the reptile of the state in 1998 and 1999.” (via Wikipedia)

my roommate is reading the tom bombadil wikipedia entry aloud to an audience of the 4 (the cats and i)

we had a gathering to honor uncle gene tonight, and it was so good to be with so many folks who loved him. there were lots of photos from my aunt & uncle’s wedding that i’d never seen, which were especially precious

Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August. #wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends

any illumination // handcut paper collage on found vintage photograph, december 2025 #collage #queerart #foundphoto

any illumination // handcut paper collage on found vintage photograph, december 2025 #collage #queerart #foundphoto

fyi - really don't wish to be accusatory or a scold (and am pro-supporting the parks conservancy and snowplow drivers!), but i do think the "Saint Plow" design that's going around is at least partially genAI. saintpaulparksconservancy.org/product-cate...

this one is called mushroom puppy :)

Our first feature from Volume 2, Issue 2 is a poem by Kale Hensley titled "un/a/muse." We paired this with artwork from @allisonanne.com titled "sense of duration." To read the full poem, and the rest of V2.2, use this link: turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/k...

AC Marias - Just Talk [UK / Shoegaze - Art Rock] (1986) https://redd.it/gyiw2g https://youtu.be/99S7aaDnv0k

For context - I print with hand-set metal and wood type and not from digital designs in my shop, Fontlove Studio, in northeast Minneapolis. I’ve been a printer for over 15 years but now mostly just putter around due to the day job & parenting. But gotta make the rent :)

It felt very fitting to finish this print job yesterday on the solstice. I am currently looking to book letterpress jobs, if you have a project that is well-suited to my process and style and don’t have a tight deadline.

new fashion 🎀

Prosper Alphonse Isaac (France,1858-1924) #Fish, #stingray, and #octopus, c.1900–24 Black ink & watercolor wash on laid paper 7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in. (20.2 × 15.7 cm) MIA 2018.117.10 collections.artsmia.org/art/128659/f...

any illumination // handcut paper collage on found vintage photograph, december 2025 #collage #queerart #foundphoto

oh, what in the world, instagram is now limiting hashtags to 5 on post captions as of today. i still find hashtags useful despite meta constantly taking a crowbar to them

this is the link to get your own 6 or 12-month subscription: allisonanne.bigcartel.com/product/zine... but other options (art prints, etc.) are also available if you find yourself as wowed as i am!!

so i’ve been obsessed with this collage by @allisonanne.com, which i received as a postcard print, part of my subscription to their TINDERBOX POST series of monthly collage mini-zines, fun ephemera & other treats made available on real paper & in your actual mailbox. my photo is bad but may suffice:

Looking dessicated, playboy

poster illustration for for Land In Our Names Post-ORFC BPOC caucus next year

Greetings on the morning of the shortest day!

without the gate // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025 #collage #abstract #queerart

MPD assisted ICE at 29th and Pillsbury. I saw it with my own eyes. They created a pathway and controlled the public space for ICE to kidnap our neighbors. The silence on this has been depressing.

The way people are praising O’Hara—including progressives—says so much about how we’re conditioned to expect below the bare minimum of humanity from cops that their bare minimum is seen as “powerful.” But this isn’t about humanity. It’s about the MPD worrying it still won’t be able to solve crimes.

Hey Minneapolis pals, I know someone who needs some help with moving on Monday or Tuesday this week. This family has a kid and they are scared about being profiled while renting a truck. Does anyone have a pickup truck they can help out with for a little bit of time?They need about three hours.

feeling pretty bad about myself, my work, everything

Saturdays are for sewers! Or… where else does my poop go? This week I spent a morning under 10th St., working with our @cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social Public Works crews to clean one of our old sanitary sewer tunnels. It was really rewarding work. And really tiring. Highlights:🧵 1/

It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE. Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill. 📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social

I just donated! they're so close to their goal! can you give a little bit too?

without the gate // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025 #collage #abstract #queerart

muscular origin ii // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard [mail art postcard], november 2025 #collageart #paper #mailart #correspondenceart #collage #queerart #artist

I donated and you should, too!

People were out on Lake Street to protest the ongoing presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Twin Cities.

This lovely article about Duane and his family. Duane was an artist, activist, and fought against the stigma of being gay and having AIDS (which, y'all). Also, the tragedy of his quilt and its rebirth! www.thedallasway.org/stories/writ...

It's your birthday, Duane.

my auntie recently gave me a bunch of paper, ephemera, etc. — just discovered this in one of the bags and i just know she was cackling

On #MothFaceFriday, a Red Underwing. #teammoth

happy holidays from this vowel wreath by Jim Leftwich

Bill Nelson - When The Birds Return [UK, New Wave] (1982) https://redd.it/1pne0b5 https://youtu.be/RV39fX56emc

"[D]ebut albums from the likes of Xmal Deutschland and the Wolfgang Press did little to dispel the label’s reputation as a home for weirdo vampires."

muscular origin ii // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard [mail art postcard], november 2025 #collageart #paper #mailart #correspondenceart #collage #queerart #artist

reminder:

Textile works by NY-based Chinese artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang, 2020s, whose intuitive compositions stem from the materials themselves, using recycled fibers inspired by her grandmother, who would unravel sweaters to knit new ones.

Dropped keys on the Blue line ~12:40p If anyone in Mpls finds keys on the Blue line, @metrotransitmn.bsky.social said they won't know if they're found until Monday at the earliest