Cargill Gallery presents: The Binding is Just a Way to Keep It All Together

Hennepin County Library announces its next Cargill Gallery exhibit, The Binding is Just a Way to Keep It All Together, an exhibit that explores bookmaking, narrative, and sequence. The exhibit, featuring 19 artists from the Interact Center for the Visual & Performing Arts, gathers hand-bound volumes and small folded zines, repetitive paintings and stashes of paper, and lines of poetry and stapled packets of text, to play with elements of story-and bookmaking. In each artist’s work, a narrative unfolds, whether across pages or frames, whether explicit or abstract. In the Interact studio, ideas are stacked, piled, taped, bound – coming together over the course of days, years, or decades. As studio facilitator Presley Martin points out, “the binding is just a way to keep it all together.”

Visit the exhibit at the Cargill Gallery, located on the second floor of Minneapolis Central Library, from June 6 through July 27, 2025.

Related events

• Exhibit tour with curatorial team
  Saturday, June 7, Noon to 1 p.m.
  Join co-curators Colleen Harriss, Brittany Kieler, Presley Martin, and Jonas Specktor for a guided tour of the exhibition.


• Closing reception and book viewing
  Thursday, July 24, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
  Join us for a closing reception that celebrates the 19 artists included in the exhibition. There will also be an informal book viewing where visitors can see the insides of select publications by Interact artists.

This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. The exhibit and events are free and open to the public.