Artistic Projects

Special Projects

Visual Artwork

Exhibitions

North Star Collage Exhibition, curated by allison anne, Twin Cities Collage Collective, Boiler Room Coffee Shop, Minneapolis, MN. Nov 1 - Dec 31, 2024.
The Art of Disability Justice Now. Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, MN. Jul 19, 2024-Jan 5, 2025. (See also Curatorial Experience and Featured Performance)
North Star Collage Online Exhibition, curated by allison anne, Twin Cities Collage Collective.
The Art of Disability Justice Now: A community feedback preview exhibition. Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Apr 19-Jun 26, 2024.
Art Glow, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN. (Curated by Nik Fernholz, Art Program Manager, Institute for Community Integration, University of Minnesota.) 2023.
Yulemart, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Nov 11-Dec 23, 2022.
MPLSArt Sketchbook Project Exhibition, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Mar 18 - Apr 9, 2022.
Twin Cities Collage Collective Art Show, Fox Den Salon, Minneapolis, MN. Apr - May 2020. (canceled due to COVID-19)
Art-A-Whirl studio tours. Minneapolis, MN. 2017-2019 & 2024.(see press)
Artability, People Incorporated, St. Paul, MN. 2nd place in Mixed Media. Oct 4-6, 2007.
International Art Show by Artists with Disabilities, Sister Kenny Art Rehabilitation Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Apr 19 - May 18, 2007.

Installation

Memorial to Craigslist. A-Mill Artist Lofts as part of Art-A-Whirl art studio crawl. Minneapolis, MN. 2018. (see Press, Eler, Star Tribune, 2018.)
Open Letters to the Men of Craigslist. A-Mill Artist Lofts as part of Art-A-Whirl art studio crawl. Minneapolis, MN. 2017.

Zines

The Appliance I Didn't Want Transformed, 6 pages, plus front and back covers. Folded zine. 2.75 " x 4.25" Reverse is an 8.5" x 11" poster. 2022. Bodies Living This Present, 6 pages, plus front and back covers. Folded zine. 2.75 " x 4.25" Reverse is an 8.5" x 11" poster. 2022.

Curatorial Experience

The Art of Disability Justice Now. Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, MN. Jul 19, 2024-Jan 5, 2025. (See also Exhibitions and Performance).
Mn Artists Presents Alison Bergblom Johnson, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. 2020.
CabarABLE: Rights/Responsibilities. Also hosted. Patrick’s Cabaret at the James Sewell Ballet Tek Box in the Cowles Center, Minneapolis, MN
Precariously Told. Co-produced with Howard Lieberman. Co-host and featured performer as well. Occasional performance series about the emotional and uncomfortable. Minneapolis, MN
Chorus: Voices After the Silence. Host and featured performer as well. Performers included Guante and Katherine Glover. Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN
Words in Shades of Gray: a series. Host and curator as well. Guests included Bryan Thao Worra, e.g. bailey, Sha Cage and Lightsey Darst. 42nd Avenue Station, Minneapolis, MN. 2010-2011.
Between. Also host and curator. A series featuring pairs of women writers, spoken word artists, and performers from different generations at the successor to the first feminist bookstore in the United States. True Colors Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN

Published Work

“The Death of Anna Salzer in Rochester State Hospital, 1897.” MNopedia. 2025. web.
“The Commitment and Guardianship of Lydia B. Angier, 1896-1907.” MNopedia. 2024. web.
”Long Live the Disabled Artist, Long Live the Disabled Artist(s)” Mn Artists. 2023. web.
“The (Subjective) Truth that Tells the Truth,” Tomorrow’s Storytellers Today: A New Generation of Storytellers Assesses the State of the Art, ed. Kevin D. Cordi. Parkhurst Brothers, 2021. print.
“What are the Accommodations of Your Dreams?” Walker Reader. 2020. web.
“A Self that Doesn’t Stay on Brand,” Entropy. 2019. web.
“Out from the Shadows of Minneapolis: Power, Pride, and Perseverance at a Northern Community College,” editor with Dr. Jay Williams, Minneapolis College, 2019. available online via OpenDora
“She Can Have That Calf,” Fiction Fix. Jacksonville, FL, 2011. web.
“Funny Girl in the ER,” Diverse Voices Quarterly. New York City, 2011. web.
“Living with Bipolar Disorder She Wonders about Picking Sides,” MPR NewsQ, St. Paul: American Public Media, April 15, 2010. Web.
“That Kind of Pressure,” Burly Bird. Burlington, VT: Burly Bird Press, 2009. print.
"Remembered Rivers," Blink: Sudden Fiction by Minnesota Writers. Minneapolis: Spout Press, 2001. print.

Performance

Commission

12x12 Disability Community Lead Artist. Mixed Blood Theatre. Community Performance, Powderhorn Rec Center, April 1, 2023. Festival Performance at Mixed Blook Theatre, Minneapolis, MN August 19 & 20, 2023.
- With other disabled people created a performance presenting ways people with disabilities live and support each other during one day.

Solo

Other Than Tragedy. Writer, producer and performer. directed by Lane McKiernan. Minnesota Fringe Festival: Minneapolis, MN. 2010.
She’s Going to Heal: Alma, Artists with Disabilities Alliance: Open Flow. St. Paul, MN. 2009.

Featured

Opening Night Performer, Performance with my emotional support balloon Walter, with Houa Moua, Ocean C Poet and others, The Art of Disability Justice Now. Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, MN. July 19, 2024.
Reading selections from “What are the Accommodations of my Dreams?” and “Long Live the Disabled Artist, Long Live the Disabled Artists“ Cinecriture: a night of films and poetry, part of the Candid Festival, Moonplay Cinema, Apr 10.
“Because This is a Wholesome Story...” Roar, Curated by Allison Broeren. Strike Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2024.
“An Artist at a Christmas Party” Workplace Drama, hosted by Jeremy Motz. Strike Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2023.
“Walter, My Emotional Support Balloon.” Mental Health Show, Curated by Allison Broeren. Strike Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2020.
“Don’t You Want Me Baby: the trouble with love and power,” Curated by Sally Vardaman, The Parkway Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2019.
ROAR: Stories for International Women's Day, “A Self that Doesn’t Stay on Brand.” Curated by Allison Broeren. Strike Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2019.
The Blender (show featuring storytelling, spoken word and sketch comedy with each performance as the jumping off point for an improv team). “I Troll Myself,” Strike Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2018.
Show and Tell (storytelling show with a prop) “A Plastic Jewelry Box and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” Strike Theater, Minneapolis, MN. 2018.
The Right Words: Stories of Justice Served and Justice Thwarted. “For Girls without Names,” Produced by Kate Kunkel Bailey, Story Arts of Minnesota. Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN. 2016.
CabarABLE: Work. “Untitled.” Curated by Scott Artley. Hosted by Leslye Orr. Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN. 2015.
Artists Disabling Assumptions. “An Open Letter to the Men of Craigslist.” Northfield Arts Guild. Northfield, MN. 2015.
LoveABLE Cabaret (show about love and disability). “An Open Letter to the Men of Craigslist: 2,” Curated by Scott Artley. Patrick’s Cabaret. Minneapolis, MN. 2014.
New Sh!t Show: Minneapolis. “An Open Letter to the Men of Craigslist: 1,” Curated by Lewis Mundt. Fox Egg Gallery. produced by WordSprout. Minneapolis, MN. 2014.
Queer Voices. “On Jes,” Curated by John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins. Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN. 2013.
“Man and Woman.” A story in response to visual artwork. AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN. 2011.
Words of Beauty Art Exhibition. “George George.” Burnsville Visual Art Society, Ring Mountain Creamery, Eagan, MN. 2010.
Stories in response to artwork. Produced by Britt Aamodt, Storm Fools, Founder. Altered Aesthetics. Minneapolis, MN. 2010.
Tellabration. “Gretel Grows Up.” Story Arts of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN. 2009.
Open Cabaret. “She’s Going to Heal: Alma,” Curated by Patrick Scully. Hosted by Arturo Miles. Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN. December 5th and 6th, 2008.
Tony Basta Memorial Scholarship Benefit Show, 7th Street Entry at First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. October 2001.

Producer

Precariously Told. Co-produced with Howard Lieberman. Co-host and featured performer as well. Occasional performance series about the emotional and uncomfortable. Minneapolis, MN. 2016.
Chorus: Voices After the Silence. Host and featured performer as well. Performers included Guante and Katherine Glover. Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN. 2012.