Sheila Regan

Minneapolis

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Columnist at MinnPost

I am an arts columnist, journalist, and critic. Words at MinnPost, the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and elsewhere.

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Articles

Macalester College Art & Art History and Music staff file to unionize

1 day ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

Staff from Macalester College’s Art & Art History Department and its Music Department are joining in an effort across the college to unionize. The staff filed for a union election on May 2 with the National Labor Relations Board. Made up of non-faculty, non-supervisory staff, the employees have declared their intention to join the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE), a union made up of service employees working in Minnesota in a range of industries.
Artist proves it’s never too late to make one’s mark

2 days ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

When Hadley Dobish, a student at St. Paul Academy, contemplated her last project of high school, it didn’t take her long to hone in on the idea of shining a light on an unsung artist: her great uncle, Don Grandbois. Grandbois, a great-grandfather in his 80s, had studied art back in the 1960s: first as an undergraduate at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and then as a graduate student at the University of North Dakota.
Winona gets a new art gallery, THIS, opening this weekend

1 week ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

Just in time for the Mid West Music Festival this week in Winona, the city is getting a new independent art gallery called THIS. The new space, run by artist Anne George, will have its first group show, “Friends & Family,” opening on Saturday, featuring 18 artists. For the first exhibition, George invited a group of artists to show whatever they wanted in the gallery, and asked them to each invite one other artist who they admired.
Katha Dance, Flying Foot and Zorongo Flamenco seek a sense of timelessness in 'Time Piece'

1 week ago | startribune.com | Sheila Regan

Three long-running dance companies in the Twin Cities are teaming up for a production called "Time Piece," bringing together different traditions of rhythm-rooted movements.
Puppet Lab offers diverse programming from emerging artists

1 week ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

A Native feminist horror story, a “Bride of Frankenstein” inspired performance with an eight foot marionette, curses, healing and cats populate this year’s Puppet Lab, an annual festival of puppetry that follows a six-month residency process for puppet artists. Originally started at In the Heart of the Beast by Alison Heimstead in 2010, Puppet Lab now operates as a program out of Open Eye Theatre, directed by Oanh Vu and Sofia Padilla.
Opera review: How does the inane ‘Barber of Seville’ become transcendent?

1 week ago | twincities.com | Sheila Regan

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture? Musical themes from the opera appear in so many movies, TV shows, and commercials — from Looney Tunes to Seinfeld to Doritos commercials, it’s probably got some of the most recognizable music ever, and yet, the plot of the opera is unmemorable.
Review: Opera star + Minnesota Orchestra = mesmerizing

1 week ago | twincities.com | Sheila Regan

In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has pulled off a stunner, with fireworks singing from not only a terrific host of soloists but also the wonderful Minnesota Chorale and Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs. The performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” set to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, ravishes with its musical delights, and the story comes through even without sets, costumes, and staging.
Artist Kandis Williams explores race at Walker exhibit

2 weeks ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

With collage, sculptural and video installations, Kandis Williams interrogates systems of power in an exhibition now on view at the Walker Art Center – the artist’s first solo museum show. “A Surface,” curated by Walker assistant curator Taylor Jasper with curatorial fellow Laurel Rand-Lewis, travels through American filmmaking, dance and theater history, Greek mythology and racialized violence, documenting control in visual forms and exploring pathways toward liberation.
Chuck Hudson and ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Minnesota Opera

2 weeks ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

The roots of Minnesota Opera’s upcoming production of “The Barber of Seville” by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Cesare Sterbini go back all the way to 1994, when it was first staged at the Ordway by Christopher Mattaliano. Seven years later, in 2001, Chuck Hudson restaged the production in his first collaboration with The Minnesota Opera.
TU Dance marks its 20th anniversary with joy, grief and transcendence

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Sheila Regan

For its 20th anniversary, TU Dance celebrated five important Black choreographers, beginning with 20th-century giant Alvin Ailey. The artists all have established a relationship with the St. Paul company over the years, and have some connection to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, where TU's artistic director Toni Pierce-Sands had been a soloist earlier in her career. Ailey's "Witness," first choreographed in 1986, kicked off things at the O'Shaughnessy in St. Paul Friday.