{"product_id":"art-and-artifact-murals-from-the-minneapolis-uprising-9781517918989","title":"Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePicturing and preserving the murals made in Minneapolis following George Floyd's murder\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It would be difficult to overstate the local, national, and international impact of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police on May 25, 2020, and the Minneapolis uprising that followed. This book shows the reverberations of these events through the prolific and spontaneous appearance of murals in Minneapolis and St. Paul during the subsequent months. \u003cp\u003e An exhibition companion and collaboration between the Katherine E. Nash Gallery and the grassroots organization Memorialize the Movement (MTM), \u003ci\u003eArt and Artifact\u003c\/i\u003e features 100 color images of murals that were created in the Twin Cities in 2020. The contributors provide historical and interpretive context for the art, situating the efforts of MTM to collect, save, and display the Twin Cities murals as part of a larger preservation effort that simultaneously occurred nationwide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors: Leslie Guy, Amira McLendon, Seph Rodney. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Distributed for the University of Minnesota's Katherine E. Nash Gallery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Leesa Kelly is an activist, writer, public speaker, and curator. She is founder and executive director of Memorialize the Movement, a grassroots organization that preserves, displays, and educates the public on the protest plywood murals that emerged after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis in 2020. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Howard Oransky is director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery. He is curator of \u003ci\u003eA Tender Spirit, A Vital Form: Arlene Burke Morgan and Clarence Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Brenda J. Child, \u003ci\u003eDreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očh?thi Sak?wiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e. Both exhibition catalogs are distributed by the University of Minnesota Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Katherine E. Nash Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50877978312978,"sku":"9781517918989","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7a2f940e-febb-40ab-a999-71ab615a792e.jpg?v=1738355004","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/art-and-artifact-murals-from-the-minneapolis-uprising-9781517918989","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}