Miles Mendenhall represented the Twin Cities visual art scene to the world this summer on Bravo's reality-TV competition "Work of Art." He didn't win, but in a postmortem Q&A with
New York magazine, Mendenhall explains why he's staying in Minneapolis rather than relocating to New York:
"Could you see yourself being a part of the New York art world one day?
"'I think I'd participate in it from afar. I love Minneapolis. I think Minneapolis, for me, really works. It's a beautiful community, and it's small enough but still has a lot of networking and connections that are actually fruitful and official rather than kind of just superficial...I got a show in New York in a week--I don't think I'm allowed to say where yet. And a solo show back here in April. I just finished curating a show here in Minneapolis to raise money for the BFA scholarship program at University of Minnesota. It went really well in terms of the community really coming out to support young artists, learning and everything. The show has gotten really good reviews.'"
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