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Peter Haakon Thompson

Peter Haakon Thompson is an artist based in Minneapolis. He is a past recipient of a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photographers, Forecast Public Projects grant, and a two-time artist-in-residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway. His work has been published in Photo Metro, Camerawork Journal, and The New Yorker. He has also created public projects about place, the A Project, an effort to create solidarity among artists in their neighborhoods through the use of window signs with a large red ‘A,’ and Art Shanty Projects, a public art community/gallery existing for five weeks on frozen Medicine Lake in suburban Minneapolis.

Essentially Public

An interview with artist Peter Haakon Thompson where we talk about icebergs and fishing houses, and a gallery of new photographs about being alone. (Galleries | May 17, 2006)


TODAY’S FEATURE

Test Post

Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. THE GOLEM writes the entry that took a thousand years.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Question, Questions, Questions?

Padgett Powell's bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory--that's right, questions.

INFINITE SUMMER

Dracula

Sponsored by TMN, the online book club reads the vampire novel that sired them all.
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