Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow

Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant’s essays offer a new way of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest. Craigslist ads, homemade signs at Target Field, and alleyways all open up with possibilities for measuring cultural time and the resonance, not provincialism, of spaces closely observed. Published to coincide with Sturdevant’s solo show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow reveals the essayist as pied piper and artist, whose canvas is the city.

Publication date: October 1, 2013

Format: Trade Paper

Dimensions: 7.25 x 9.5

Page count: 233 pages

ISBN: 9781566893374

Andy Sturdevant is an artist, writer, and arts administrator living in south Minneapolis. He has written about art, history, and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, Mpls./ St. Paul Magazine, and heavytable.com. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center, and he writes a weekly column on arts and visual culture in Minneapolis-St. Paul for MinnPost. His work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Soap Factory. Andy was born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky, and has lived in Minneapolis since 2005. For more information visit Andy’s website.

“Potluck Supper With Meeting to Follow feels like a long ambulatory conversation with an exceptionally interesting friend.” 

—The Star Tribune

“Sturdevant knows what he’s doing. He riffs on everything from being at Matt’s Bar in Minneapolis during a blizzard to a secretive art gallery called Farm.” 

—The Pioneer Press

“A guidebook to the Twin Cities spaces, art, and culture, Potluck Supper is a smart and quirky read, giving love to many local gems.” 

—City Pages

“Andy Sturdevant has established himself as the preeminent wit, flaneur and psycho-historian of the Twin Cities.”

—Modern Midwest

“In reading, in criticism, the critic should breathe new life into his subject, put on display his subjectivity, a perspective that is one of a kind. In Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow, Andy Sturdevant offers just such a unique outlook.” 

—Bookslut

“Once you finish reading [Potluck Supper], you can’t help but feel homesick for the Midwest whether you’re from there or not.” 

—Vol. 1 Brooklyn

“Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life."

—Joe Meno