(salt: for anyone who ever lost someone) | Hawona Sullivan Janzen

She needs to talk to you about salt. When her pandemic fever dreams  compelled her to investigate the hidden properties of salt, Hawona Sullivan Janzen  discovered the uncanny: connections between her ancestor’s enslavement, global spiritual practices, and the veil between this life and the great beyond. 

Through material explorations, ancestral portraits, and live and recorded performances  (salt: for anyone who has ever lost someone) comes into itself as  one part installation, one part interrogation, and one part a story of coming home.

About the Artist:
Hawona Sullivan Janzen is a St. Paul, Minnesota-based multidisciplinary artist and curator who believes that art is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. Born and mostly raised on her family’s farm just outside Shreveport, Louisiana, and trained as a historian and poet, from childhood, much of her work is rooted in text and storytelling traditions with a distinctive focus on grief, loss, love, and hope. 

Her writings, films, and artworks has been featured on National Public Radio,  Twin Cities Public Television, developed into a jazz opera at the Soap Factory Gallery, a play at Mixed Blood Theatre and  a performance Pillsbury House Theatre, and  installed as public art  in Love Letters for the Midway, and 250 Stories: Lanesboro Takes to the Road.   and  in publications by Sister Black Press,  Coffee House Press, and She is a recipient of several awards including: the Jerome Foundation Naked Stages Performance Art Fellowship, Jerome Foundation City of Lanesboro Artist-in-Residence,  McKnight Foundation Artist Neighborhood Partnership grant,  and a Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership grant.   She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. 

Gallery Hours:
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: 12-6pm