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From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above.

Calligrapher Maura Lynch of Minneapolis encourages a visit to 

 a monumental work of sacred calligraphy and art housed on the peaceful campus of St. John’s University.

The Bible, which involved significant contributions from Minnesotans, can be viewed year-round both in person and digitally.

 second. When you experience the words in the Bible that have been rendered in a visually and aesthetically beautiful way, it elevates the entire experience.

Hutchinson-based potter Betsy Price recommends the 

 The self-guided studio tour runs through a wooded landscape that gives the region its name, and features over 40 artists, including potters, jewelers, painters, woodworkers and more. Visitors can explore studios, watch live demos, and connect with artists.

The event runs Friday through Sunday, with stops including the Mocha Monkey where there will be a pottery demo by “Jon the Potter.” 

 It feels like a true wander through art and nature.

Kinship and Clay at Form + Content Gallery

Minneapolis arts advocate Becky Smith shares her admiration for 

“Kinship,” a show at Form + Content Gallery

life-size charcoal portraits of friends from her lesbian and nonbinary community with expressive ceramic vessels by Sharon Jaffe, a radical Jewish feminist artist.

The exhibition runs through Oct. 4 in the North Loop of Minneapolis.

 They're celebratory, and they also serve as a real documentation towards resistance and survival of people who are experiencing an oppressed sexual identity.

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Art Hounds recommend The St. John’s Bible, Edge of the Big Woods Art Wander and “Kinship,” a show at Form + Content Gallery.

Art Hounds: A Bible in calligraphy, a self-guided studio tour and radical portraiture

Courtesy St. John's Abbey and University

Illustration of a man seen from behind with his hands on his hips and an American flag folded in his shorts pocket. There's an illustration of a man in glasses superimposed on the lower-right side.

Art Hounds: A Bible in calligraphy, a self-guided studio tour and radical portraiture

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