Andy Sturdevant is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in South Minneapolis. He has written about art, history and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, Mpls. St. Paul, and heavytable.com. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. Andy writes a weekly column on arts and visual culture in Minneapolis-St. Paul for MinnPost.
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His collaborative and individual art-making practice is generally site-based, interactive, and dealing with relationships between place, history and personal experience. The results of these explorations and conversations often take physical forms, in pamphlets, printed matter, books, and drawings. They also manifest themselves in ephemeral, site-specific performance and interactions. He is also artistic director and host of the monthly live-action arts magazine Salon Saloon, and is co-creator of the annual Common Room interactive exhibition series at The Soap Factory. He is also Artists Resources Manager at Springboard for the Arts in Lowertown St. Paul.
Andy was born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky and has lived in Minneapolis since 2005.
"If you're looking for someone who's always on the cutting edge of the Twin Cities art scene, Andy Sturdevant is your man. [...] Picture someone with a stocky build and round spectacles, deep red beard and natty attire, and you have Andy Sturdevant. It's as if Walt Whitman were in an art rock band." [MPR Profile, April 2011]
