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Matthew Fluharty

Art of the Rural

Matthew Fluharty is a visual artist, writer, and field-based researcher living in Winona, Minnesota, a town placed along the Mississippi River. He is the Executive Director of , a member of , and he serves on the Board of Directors for .  Matthew’s poetry and essays have been widely published in the US and abroad and are present within the field-establishing publication  (Jam Sam, 2014), as well as in . 

His collaborations with M12 Studio have recently been featured at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Fe), and the Iowa State Fair. His multidisciplinary collaboration with Jesse Vogler in the  of the Mississippi River was recently the subject of an exhibition at Central Features in Albuquerque and the recipient of a grant from the Mellon Foundation.