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122 Conversations: Person to Person: Art Beyond Borders – The Archive
Anne Labovitz
Oct. 1, 2025 through Oct. 1, 2026

This exhibition is a living archive of Anne Labovitz’s artist-led project, 122 Conversations: Person to Person: Art Beyond Borders, is about bringing people together through art and cross-cultural connection to serve as a catalyst for peace, one individual at a time.

122 Conversations celebrates the history of Duluth and its sister cities. Connecting with others to explore ideals of humanity and practice the radical and political act of caring is intentionally embodied in the work of the exhibition. The scrolls tell a story of connection—of conversations that reflect how similar we are while also celebrating our differences in thought, culture, and lived experience.

The project began as an exhibition of artwork created with Duluth’s Sister Cities—Thunder Bay (Canada), Ranya (Kurdistan Region of Iraq), Växjö (Sweden), Petrozavodsk (Russia), and Ohara Isumi-City (Japan), and Duluth(USA). The artworks also traveled to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Washington, DC, Duluth Entertainment Center, Kansas, and Berlin, and are now on view at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Collaboration is an essential part of 122 Conversations; each city arranged interviews with ten citizens and the mayor, an exhibition venue, and worked to embed the project in their community.

Labovitz based the project on the art of engagement—art derived from the process of interconnection and cross-cultural dialogue. Over ten years, the artist created more than 100 large-scale scrolls inspired by interviews with people from Duluth’s six Sister Cities across the globe, developed and utilized Relational Listening–a process of intentional, deep listening through interviews based on the human need to be heard. This process turns deep, empathetic dialogue into luminous artworks rooted in human connection. These global recorded conversations took place in person and on Skype. The interviews revolved around themes of generosity, friendship, reciprocity, and community building.

As recognition of her work Labovitz received the key to all of Duluth Sister Cities in 2015 and Mayor Larson decreed April 19, 2019 Anne Labovitz Day in Duluth.

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