Laura Billings Coleman
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Featured in MCAD's CUT/PASTE 2024 Painting can be a solitary pursuit, but not the way Leslie Barlow ‘16 practices it. From her...

The first Black president of the Minnesota Senate, Bobby Joe Champion wants people of color to see themselves in politics North...

Digital scholarship helps colleges build a more diverse curriculum Written for Macalester Today, Summer 2021 In today’s Germany, nearly...

Infodesigner Arlene Birt ‘02, inspires action by humanizing hard data Written for MCAD’s CUT/PASTE, Spring 2023 The United Nations...

For actor, dramaturg, and arts leader Faye Price ’77, theater can play a leading role in promoting social justice. By Laura Billings...

A fixture at Como Zoo, famous for her art work and her flair with textiles, Amanda the orangutan, who died at 46, was the quintessential...

The artist known as HOTTEA, ‘07, looks for new ways to build on the beauty of impermanence Since graduating from MCAD with a degree in...

Minnesota often leads the country in voter engagement — a trend that’s playing out at many of the state’s private colleges, too. At the...

Surviving the pandemic put serious pressure on Minnesota’s small businesses.  By Laura Billings Coleman | From the Fall 2020 Edition of...

During finals week last December, Helen Meigs ’21 decided to ditch her schoolwork and travel to Washington, D.C. A new Democratic...

Lane Bunkers (B.A. ’85) lives just a few miles from his desk at the Kenyan headquarters of Catholic Relief Services, but some days he...

People have been asking me what I remember about Nick’s final recitation of “Who Dares to Say,” and I have to tell them that not one of...

May 15, 2018 To our dear friends, My impetuous and Homeric husband, Nicholas Joseph Coleman, recent gold medal winner of the 2018...

With a reality star in the White House and late-night comedy ratings soaring, Ariel Dumas ’05 has found the perfect time to succeed in...

Few people have studied the optics of abortion as closely as Amy Hagstrom Miller ’89, which is why she put on a bright purple suit the...

A Turkish shopping adventure Originally published in the Salon.com anthology Wanderlust If there is something missing from the American...

Book review for Star Tribune It’s 1914 in Helen Simonson’s new novel, “The Summer Before the War,” and while the world is holding its...

I wrote this little essay for the back page of Macalester Today, and I love the illustration Eric Hanson did for it. I’d never be caught...

Originally published in Mpls/St. Paul magazine, October 2008 Though I’ve been a meat-eater most of my life, I’ve always been squeamish...

A Beginner’s Guide to the Boundary Waters If you are raising children in Minnesota, it is your duty to take them to the Boundary Waters...