this New Year of our dreams, 2025 🎈

2024 is over and gone

I recapped the year now gone on socials, including on Instagram, on Tuesday. I'm sort of astonished I was able to do this much art, speaking, facilitating, writing and teaching in a year that had some of the worst migraines of several years of awful migraines.

Reading January 10th, 2025 7:30pm in Minneapolis

I'll be reading in Minneapolis on Friday January 10th at 7:30pm from an article I wrote last Spring for MNopedia on Lydia B. Angier, who was a patient at Rochester State Hospital from 1896 to 1899, as well as other works. Tickets are $20, and I expect to have several announcements of special guests. I'll also have art, prints, zines and other ephemera available for sale. If you're able to sponsor tickets (available free, or an access rate) for those who can't otherwise attend please reach out by replying to this email. I can offer mention at the event and in marketing.

Details in one spot:
Lit Reading on Care Systems by Alison Bergblom Johnson
In-Person in Minneapolis
Friday 1/10/2025, 7:30pm
A-Mill Artist Lofts, Performance Hall
315 SE Main St.
Minneapolis MN 55414
Tickets

Remembering Essay The Accommodations of Our Dreams 🎈

This newsletter headline made me think of my essay "What Are the Accommodation of your Dreams?" which was published in the Walker Reader as part of Mn Artists Present Alison Bergblom Johnson. See also D. Allen's gorgeous essay Reimagining the Body Productive from the same project.

Still time to see Work at Mill City Museum and Boiler Room Coffee

There’s still time to get out to see my collage in The Art of Disability Justice Now at Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, and to the North Star Collage Exhibition by Twin Cities Collage Collective at Boiler Room Coffee.

The Art of Disability Justice Now
Amplify Minnesota
through January 5, 2025
Mill City Museum ( @millcitymuseum )
704 South 2nd St
Minneapolis MN 55401
Thursday - Friday 10am to 4pm
Saturday - Sunday 10am to 5pm
Unavailable Jan 4 between 10am and 2pm due to Farmer’s Market

Signed prints of my pieces in this show are available for $45 each or $105 for a bundle of three.

North Star Collage Exhibition
Twin Cities Collage Collective through December 2024, (and actually coming down a bit into January)
Boiler Room Coffee ( @boilerroom.coffee )
1830 Third Ave S
Minneapolis MN 55404
Open daily 7am to 7pm

My piece in this show is 10"x14" and for sale for $250, and is available after the show comes down. See my Instagram for a photo.

There is also an online version of the North Star Collage Exhibition, and a zine.

Both shows have gotten some great press, including MPLSart and Minnesota Daily for the Collage Collective Show, and MPLSart for The Art of Disability Justice Now, and MinnPost with an interview of me and fellow artist Donna Ray.

Madison Rubenstein Shout Out for Artist Career Consults

Madison Rubenstein shared in a recent newsletter how helpful consults with me via Springboard for the Arts was:

Most impactful was participating in their Career Consultant Program, where I worked one-on-one with Disability Justice artist Alison Bergblom Johnson. Alison supported me in all areas of my business, including but certainly not limited to: structuring my workflow and business as a disabled artist to provide myself with work accommodations, press & media literacy, self-advocacy, financial mapping and projections, and social media promotion.

Consults are often free for Minnesota artists, can focus on whatever business related part of your practice you'd like help with, and are focused primarily on your needs. I can meet in-person at Springboard's offices or via phone. Book your consult today!

In Near Future

I'm near to publishing again on Selfitudes, a newsletter treating the selfie as a subject worthy of an art historical/art theoretical lens. I also expect some exciting developments on my Patreon-based project Disabled Next Tuesday. I also expect to be at Balls, an informal open-mic cabaret run by the legendary Leslie Ball that is now at Strike Theater in NE Minneapolis every Sunday at 2pm. There are a few other projects that will be out in the world soon.

Please Reach Out

Please reply or email me at alison@alisonbergblomjohnson.com. I especially love talking about the ideas in my work, and what it means to you. I also especially welcome hearing about work you think I might like, whether it's yours or someone else's. In addition, I'm feeling in the best health I've been in in years. If you have ideas for collaboration or connection I finally have capacity to explore those.