Minneapolis

Award-winning chef Christina Nguyen and her husband, Birk Grudem, find inspiration for their dishes in travel and family.

Husband-and-wife restaurateurs Birk Grudem and Christina Nguyen share a simplified version of this classic Thai meat salad.

Minnesota photographer Wing Young Huie, whose parents emigrated from China, will soon release a new book, "Chinese-ness," a broad look at identity in both the United States and China.

“I’m the sort of person that people immediately tell their secrets to,” says artist Lisa Luck, whose business Daughters and Sons pops up around the Minneapolis area. “In the grocery store, or wherever. I think I have a rigid way of thinking in some ways, so I try to be purposeful by being empathetic.”

On the western edge of North Minneapolis and Golden Valley, husband-wife creative team Tia and Souliyahn Keobounpheng occupy a ’70s-style ranch home in the way that only two architecture-school graduates could.

“Architecture is about society and about our aspirations and about culture,” he says. “Le Corbusier saw it as an instrument of social change. That was such a new thing to me."

This labor of love for the unexpected becomes a kind of art in itself—one of patience and resolve that, as Josef Harris puts it, “takes your whole life to practice.”

Crow murmurs thesepaintings to me andi whisper them to you

Entrepreneur and wordsmith Chaun Webster grew up in North Minneapolis and still lives within one mile from his childhood home.

“It’s not that poetry is dead. It’s that a kind of poetry is dead."

A Minneapolis-based artist discusses her road to creativity.

A fashion editorial by Attilio D'Agostino.

"If someone comes up to me and says they loved something, that’s all I need."

An artist transforms the white box into a trippy parallel universe.

Jones has perpetually redefined what it means to make art happen.

A profile of Kate Arends, St. Paul-based founder of the Wit & Delight brand.

I feel fortunate that the work I get to do every day is creative.

Diane Yang, executive pastry chef at Spoon and Stable in Minneapolis, shares a delicious and comforting recipe to break the grey of winter.

“Keep it simple.” This has become the fundamental principle behind chef Diane Yang’s much-lauded approach to desserts.

Minneapolis and St. Louis artists highlight the geometric, mixed-materials jewelry of the moment.

These St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Paul designers spotlight the clean lines and cozy looks of this season's trends.

In a world filled with mass-produced fast fashion, Lisa Hackwith’s handmade collection sewn by a small team of talented seamstresses in her Minnesota studio stands out.