Ellen Mueller and Sarah Evenson are 2025 McKnight Book Artist Fellows, announced Saturday by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Each will receive $25,000 in unrestricted funds to explore and deepen their art practices.

Mueller is an interdisciplinary artist who examines how capitalist systems affect everyday life, with a focus on environmental issues, according to a release from MCBA. Evenson is a gay, transgender artist whose work highlights themes of resistance, queer joy and the strength and creative potential of the transgender body.

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