(salt: for anyone who has ever lost someone)

Opening Reception takes place from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Gallery opens at noon.

(salt: for anyone who ever lost someone)

Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present: (salt: for anyone who ever lost someone), new work by Hawona Sullivan Janzen.  

She needs to talk to you about salt. When her pandemic fever dreams  compelled her to investigate the hidden properties of salt, Hawona Sullivan Janzen  discovered the uncanny: connections between her ancestor’s enslavement, global spiritual practices, and the veil between this life and the great beyond. 

Through material explorations, ancestral portraits, and live and recorded performances  (salt: for anyone who has ever lost someone) comes into itself as  one part installation, one part interrogation, and one part a story of coming home. 

On View: April 24 - May 31,  2025 (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 12-6pm and by appointment)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Gallery open noon to 7:00 p.m.

Mark your calendar for Performance & Artist Talk: Sunday, May 18, 2:00 p.m.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hawona Sullivan Janzen is a St. Paul, Minnesota-based plural media artist, writer, curator, and composer  who believes that art is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. Born and mostly raised on her family’s farm just outside Shreveport, Louisiana and trained as a historian and poet from childhood, much of her work is rooted in storytelling traditions with a distinctive focus on grief, loss, love, and hope. 

Sullivan Janzen’s  work has been featured on National Public Radio,  Twin Cities Public Television, developed into a jazz opera  at the Soap Factory Gallery, installed on St. Paul’s Dale Street Bridge,   printed onto lawn signs for the “Love Letters for the Midway”  and “250 Stories: Lanesboro Takes to the Road” public art project, and produced by Mixed Blood Theatre  and Pillsbury House Theatre as works for the stage.    She is a recipient of several awards including: the Jerome Foundation Naked Stages Performance Art Fellowship, City of Lanesboro Artist-in-Residence,  McKnight Foundation Artist Neighborhood Partnership grant,  and a Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership grant.   She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. 

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