Anne Labovitz’s 122 Conversations: Person to Person: Art Beyond Borders

Anne Labovitz’s 122 Conversations: Person to Person: Art Beyond Borders

Minnesota State Capitol Art Galleries, October 1, 2025 – October 1, 2026

This ten-year project is possible thanks to the many supporters, contributors, and volunteers across the globe.

A special thank you to the folks at the Minnesota Historical Center and the staff of the State Capitol.

Interviews and videos can be found here

First and foremost, thank you to my entire family who guided me, supported me, and loved me through this odyssey — without whose fundamental help I would be adrift.

Thank you for all your diligent, committed, hard work over the last ten years:
Megan Arney Johnston, Jennifer Phelps, Isabella Gamble, Alex Blaisdell, Jaclyn Fuentes, Joseph O’Leary, Ken Bloom, and Katy Dieperink.

Grateful thanks to Pablo Helguera, Dr. Megan Arney Johnston, Darsie Alexander, Omayra Alvarado, and Jack Becker for their thoughtful consideration of my work and this project.

Eleanor Albanese · Darsie Alexander · Khalil Ali Abdulla · Salah Ali Wais · Omayra Alvarado · Brooks Anderson · Gary Anderson · Peg Apka · Alison Aune · Kurdo Aziz Bagg · Sarah Bauer · Maya Li Bauer · Cecelia Bauer · Jack Becker · Annika Beckström · Tammi Beier · Margarita Bekirova · Matilda Bergstrand · Lendley Black · Alex Blaisdell · Ken Bloom · Gary Boelhower · Catherine Bringselius Nilsson · Ola Brorson · Lisa Bravo · Rachel Epp Buller · Devan Burnett · Elizabeth Buset · Christina Chang · Montgomery Chavez · Regina Christensen · Gary Cooper · Michael Cousino · Ed Crawford · Janice Crede · Eva Cronquist · Jill Custer · Josephine Dahlberg Jigander · Steve Davis · Filippa de Vos · Yukihiro Deguchi · Jean-Ulrick Désert · Katy Dieperink · Lauren Dieperink · Camille Doran · Michelle Dorosier · Damon Dowbak · Elliott Doxtater-Wynn · Robert Eady · Lauryn Eady · Meaghan Eley · Mark Emmel · Åke Eriksson · Denny Falk · Lisa Fitzpatrick · Dan Fitzpatrick · Angie Frank · Anders Franzén · Lillian Freemond · Bill Gamble · Henry, Isabella & Edward Gamble · Andrew Garrow · Fanny Geismar · Zoe Genova · Neil Glazman · Sharon Godwin · Andrew & Katarzyna Goode · Andrew Goods · Irina Haller · Niazy Hama Aziz · Ali Hammad Bagg · John Hannam · Jacqueline Hanson · Nicolas Hansson · Shigeru Harads · Dan Hartman · Rebwar Hazhar · Marv Heikkinen · Fletcher Hinds · Parker Hinnenkamp · Keith Hobbs · Mary Hoffman · Rob Hofmann · Beth Holst · Dave Hoops · Donna Howard · Will Hreb · Karissa Isaacs · Eiko Ishii · Pavel Ishii · Reo Ishii · Nao Ishii · Megumi Itoh · Olga Ivanova · Salah Jamal Khurshid · Maija Jenson · Jennifer Johnson · Megan Arney Johnston · Arno Kahn · Robert Kase · Jeri & Gale Kerns · Kazutomo Kobayashi · Nyomie Korcheski · Judy Kresky · Lisa & Mike Kuberra · Nadia Kurd · Sharon & Joel Labovitz · Jennifer & Mark Labovitz · Katherine LaFleur · Charlotte Lane · Koresh & Jill Lakhan · Rick Lang · Mayor Emily Larson · Natalya Lavrushina · Yukai Li · Mike Linn · Bronwyn Lipinski · Tom Livingston · Crystal Lohman · Eric Lorberer · Sharon Louden · Mihoko Lwata · Alistair Mackay · Bonnie Mackey · Faruq Mala Fatih · Laura McClean · Trista McGovern · Patti McGuire · Catherine Meier · Lori Melton · Vera Meshko · Patricia Miller · Shirwan Mirza · Nigar Mohammed Ali · Tom Morgan · Michelle Naar-Obed · Kayoko Nakajima · Don Ness · David & Inga-Lill Newkumet · Dan Nolan · Danielle Norkunas · Ruth Novaczek · Trisha O’Keefe · Ben Owen · Joseph D.R. O’Leary · Carolyn Olson · Hiroshi Ota · Barb Palkki · Lars Palm · Renee Passal · Suy Path · Bill Payne · Gull-Britt Persson · Glenn Peterson · Kathy Peterson · Jennifer Phelps · Gene Pittman · Dan Rau · Gabriel Ramirez · Linda Riddle · Everett Ries · Wendy Ruhnke · Lindsey Rulon-Miller · Christy Rounds · Monica Sandberg · Kathy Sandstedt · Daiki Santou · Martin Schibli · John Schmidt · Jay Seiler · Layth Seyala · Suzanne Seyala · David Sherman · Wakako Shoji · Kirk Sklar · Erin Smith · Hannah Smith · Helen Smith Stone · Bart Snyder · Bill Sozanski · Jeff Stark · Tom Stark · Tom & Mimi Stender · Christine Strom · Ingemar & Berith Swalander · Tomo Takiguchi · Aki Tanizumi · Abi Tariq · Liz Taylor · Terese Tomanek · Laadona Torrnabene · Chelly Townsend · Emmy Vadnais · Christine Valento · Lacy Vreeland · Anneliese Verhoeven · Charlie Wagner · Milo Waltenbaugh · Elle-Andra Warner · Mulla Abdulla Wasman Adam · Jane Wattrus · Tim Wegren · Benny Weinbeck · Wendy Wennberg · Lena Wibroe · Lynne Williams · Gudrun Witrak · Vivian Wood-Alexander · Harmony Works · Wendy Wright · Fumiyo Yonekawa · Masamichi Yoshino · Rubar Yousef · Maria Yufa · Tom Zelman · Khaled Qader


122 Conversations: Exhibition History

Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, Duluth, Minnesota (2024–Present)

Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP), Terminal 2, Pre-Security (2019–2024)

Trinity Washington University, Washington, D.C. (2023)

Global Partners, Washington, D.C. (2022)

Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP), Terminal 1 (2019)

Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota (2019)

Robert W. Regier Art Gallery, Newton, Kansas (2019)

Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, Sweden (2017)

Petrozavodsk Municipal Gallery, Petrozavodsk, Russia (2017)

University of Raparin, Rania, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2017)

Isumi Civic Building, Ohara Isumi-City, Japan (2017)

Ufer Studios, Berlin, Germany (2017)Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (2015)

Sponsors

City of Duluth
Duluth News Tribune
Holiday Inn Duluth
Hoops Brewery
Lyric Kitchen and Bar
Otis Magie
Security Jewelers
Visit Duluth

Organizations

Alliance for Peacebuilding

Arts4Resilience

Capitol Art Exhibit Advisory Committee

Duluth Sister Cities International (DSCI)

Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC)

Minnesota Historical Center

Minnesota State Capitol

Partners Global

Rayal Center for Cultural Exchange

Sister City International (SCI)

State Capitol Preservation Commission

The Airport Foundation MSP

Tweed Museum of Art

University of Minnesota Duluth – School of Fine Arts


Sister City Organizations of:
Växjö, Sweden · Thunder Bay, Canada · Rania, Iraqi Kurdistan · Petrozavodsk, Russia · Ohara Isumi-City, Japan

annelabovitz

Anne Labovitz (born 1965, Duluth, MN) is an American artist based in St Paul, Minnesota, whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking as well as experimental film and sound. Labovitz has a degree in psychology and art from Hamline University in St. Paul. Her work considers many themes often returning to the central notion of an enduring interest in people—the human spirit, its emotional resonance, and the way it manifests in relationships. Working within the portraiture tradition, she employs a process of layering—from multiple images and text to conceptual connections and multiple elements of physicality found in mark-making and materiality. The notion of contemporary portraiture and human connection—and the activation of the space that connects us—is central to an important new direction in her oeuvre. This new direction is manifesting in a transition from traditional, expressionist self-portraits to composite portraits depicting several people. Most recently, she has begun incorporating text, audience engagement, and public interventions as a vital element of the creative method. Recent solo exhibitions include: the Burnet Gallery, Le Méridien Chambers in Minneapolis the Tweed Museum in Duluth, Minnesota; and the Athenaeum in La Jolla, CA. She has also exhibited at national and international venues, including Chapman Art Center at Cazenovia College in New York and Talgut die Schönen, in Kunste, Germany. In 2015, her solo exhibition, 122 Conversations, will commence in Duluth and continue through 2017 traveling to Canada, Sweden, Russia, Japan and Iraqi Kurdistan. This year important group shows include Blood Memoirs at the Tweed Museum, curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe and the Burnet Gallery’s group show at Select Fair NYC, during Frieze Week in New York City. Recent public projects and private art commissions include: I Know You public collaborative drawing, as a visiting artist, for the Walker Art Center’s Free First Saturday and Projecting the City, for Northern Spark at the Weisman Art Museum. Labovitz’s paintings are part of permanent collections at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN; the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth; the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla; the Frederick R Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN; and the International Gallery of Portrait in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Labovitz’s work has been published in Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 19, New American Paintings Midwest 2010 and the Penang International Printmaking Exhibition 2010 and International Contemporary Artists, vol II and III. She has co-authored several books on portraiture with Australian artist, Carole Best, and provided illustrations for the children’s book, Honoral & Zarina. Her artwork has been written and discussed in the Chicago Sun Times, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Villager, the Duluth Tribune, Letoile Magazine,and the Taos Review, and spoken about on Minnesota Public Radioamong many others. She recently has been named 2013 Artist of the Year in Duluth. Labovitz is also active in the art community in the metro area and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, an Advisory Board member of The Artist Book Foundation in New York City, and a former member of the Colleagues Advisory Board at the Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota. Her passion for art education both in schools and in the community keeps her teaching within both public and private schools and offering workshops to artists of all ages around the Twin Cities. Labovitz’s work is represented by the Burnet Gallery, Le Méridien Chambers in Minneapolis
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