The Interact Collection
Every Artist. Every Voice. Every Possibility.
The Interact Collection
Art has no rules for who can create it, and no boundaries for what it can become. This collection celebrates the artists of Interact and the many perspectives, passions, and possibilities that emerge when creativity is truly open to everyone. Interact artists are breaking down the boundaries around who and what an artist can be, creating space for more ideas, more expression, and ultimately, stronger art. Meet the artists behind Momentum’s latest collaboration and discover what happens when we create without limits. Every Artist. Every Voice. Every Possibility. A Collaboration with Momentum Digital Art Gallery
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WE ARE ARTISTS. Founded in 1996, Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts is a nonprofit arts organization in St. Paul, Minnesota, dedicated to empowering professional artists with disabilities. Through visual art, theater, and creative collaboration, Interact creates opportunities for artists to share their work, develop their practice, and challenge traditional ideas about who gets to be an artist. Together, Momentum and Interact joined forces to bring the artists’ work to a new audience, transforming a selection of original artworks into a collection of digital wallcoverings that celebrates creativity without boundaries.
IS A CREATOR. Kaia Burg’s energetic drawings bring memories and imagination to life through expressive marks, vivid color, and simplified shapes. People, animals, butterflies, and invented forms fill her compositions, often stretching to the edges of the page.
Drawing from both memory and imagination, Burg develops each composition intuitively. A shape might become a tree, flower, or figure; a triangle might suggest a mountain; a patch of color might become a butterfly wing. Her drawings transform familiar forms into something entirely her own. “ It’s in my head ,” she says. Burg has been creating for as long as she can remember. Since joining Interact in 2021, her work has been exhibited at Minneapolis Central Library’s Cargill Gallery, University of Iowa Healthcare, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, HGA Architects & Engineers, and Interact Gallery.
Pencil on Paper
IS A PAINTER.
When asked what he would like people to know about his work, Carl Clark says, “I wanted to pass time.” Clark composes expansive spaces – skies, fields, mountains, and seas – with contemplative, measured strokes. He brings a pragmatic approach to his paintings, lacing them, every now and then, with a liminal quality. A small town, articulated in transparent hues, recedes softly into a mountain. Ships traverse grey waters, appearing to be at once moving, frozen, or sinking.
Some works seem to suggest the supernatural, with indecipherable structures and enigmatic, billowing puffs of light. In others, dramatic shifts in scale present minute details huddled inside grandiose vistas. Looming hills are dappled with tiny houses, their windows and doors so small as to be painted in just a few weightless gestures. Clark (b. 1965) has practiced at Interact since 2016. In 2021, he presented work in WILD GOOSE, a two-person exhibition at Interact Gallery with New York-based artist Jack Arthur Wood, Jr. He has been featured in Interact’s booths at the Outsider Art Fair in New York in 2025 and 2026, as well as at Creativity Explored x Open Invitational Art Fair in San Francisco in 2026.
Snow Capped Mountains
IS A SEEKER. Sarah Armstrong’s luminous paintings capture the stillness and beauty of Minnesota’s North Shore and beyond. Rich swaths of pigment and loose yet measured brushstrokes convey the peace she finds in nature. Her process is calm and intuitive, leaving room for discovery along the way. “You have to be patient,” she says. “If something doesn’t look right, you keep trying and paint over, paint over, paint over, until you find what you were looking for.” For Armstrong, each painting is a new beginning. “I love starting the day with a blank canvas.”
Growing up in Duluth, Armstrong spent summers camping with her family in state parks along Lake Superior, experiences that continue to inspire her work. A lifelong singer, she studied music education in college and remains active in the Twin Cities music community as a member of the Oratorio Society of Minnesota and MacPhail Center for Music’s Sonomento Adult Choral Ensemble, where she performs as an alto. Armstrong began painting about six years ago and has since led public painting workshops through Interact. Her work has been presented at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, the Diana E. Murphy Federal Courthouse, and Interact Gallery.
Mushrooms
IS AN EXPLORER. David Bauman’s work reflects a lifelong fascination with animals and the natural world. His subjects ranged from big cats, raccoons, and dinosaurs to an extensive series of sharks and whales.
A family trip to Hawaii in 2005 transformed Bauman’s creative focus. Captivated by its clouds, craters, waves, animals, and volcanoes, he made Hawaii the subject of his work and, in 2014, relocated to the Big Island, where he spent the rest of his life. His work captures a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world around him. Bauman was part of Interact from 1997 to 2014, where he also performed with the theater cast. Interact continues to represent his work in collaboration with his mother, Margaret Bauman. In 2023, Interact presented an exhibition of David’s work alongside that of his longtime friend and colleague Eric Sherarts.
Menagerie
IS A DREAMER. Almost every piece Andrew Seymour has created over the last decade is titled Summer—a tribute to summers spent at his mother’s lake cabin in northern Minnesota. The memories of those summers form the heart of his work. Circular forms appear throughout Seymour’s compositions, representing people he knows and loves, from family at the lake to fellow artists in the studio. He begins each piece with a circle in the upper-left corner, then works methodically across the page in a process that echoes the rhythm of writing.
Seymour has exhibited throughout Minnesota at venues including Orchestra Hall, HGA Architects & Engineers, The White Page, Artspace Jackson Flats, Bridgewater Lofts, and Interact Gallery. In 2025, he presented Summer, a solo exhibition at Interact Gallery.
Summer
IS A MAKER.
Katie Bretzman’s quilt-like drawings offer intimate, aerial views of living spaces and scenes from home. To create them, she carefully repeats vertical marks, systematically rotating the same markers throughout each composition.
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Often about the size of a blueprint, Bretzman’s drawings reflect on her experiences within domestic spaces and built environments. Her playful use of color and pattern invites the viewer to wander through each scene, moving across vivid patches of lime, magenta, deep blue, and more. Bretzman has exhibited her work at Minneapolis Central Library’s Cargill Gallery and Interact Gallery. In 2024, she presented a two-person exhibition with HML at Gallery 120 at Inver Hills Community College.
Rainbow Patchwork
IS AN OBSERVER. For more than 20 years, Bill Crane has built an expansive body of work spanning ink drawings and acrylic paintings. Dense pages, explosive fields of color, and loosely rendered figures reveal his fascination with nature, animals, and the people around him. An avid observer of everyday life, Crane often draws inspiration from the people and places that surround him, including scenes from the Interact studio. He transforms these observations into vibrant, densely layered compositions filled with movement, color, and personality.
Crane has exhibited throughout Minnesota and beyond, including at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Diana E. Murphy Federal Courthouse, Minneapolis Central Library’s Cargill Gallery, The White Page, Artspace Jackson Flats, and Art Enables in Washington, D.C. In 2024, he presented a solo exhibition, BILL CRANE, at Interact Gallery and was the featured subject of an accompanying book published by Interact.
Tulips
IS A THINKER. Michael Engebretson’s kaleidoscopic drawings, paintings, and sculptures imagine a future beyond Earth—a utopian civilization he calls “Class Five.” In this imagined world, inhabitants are open to possibility, new ideas, and new ways of thinking.
Space vessels, hybrid beings, cyborgs, and otherworldly landscapes fill Engebretson’s work, becoming vehicles for imagining a more equitable future. His art proposes a world where humans, aliens, animals, and machines are all treated with integrity and given the support they need to thrive.
Cosmic
Engebretson was Interact Gallery’s inaugural artist in residence in 2022 and presented his first solo exhibition there in 2023. His work has also been featured by MPR News, the Star Tribune, and White Bear Press, and exhibited at New Studio Gallery, Gamut Gallery, Art Enables, and Make Studio.
IS A STORYTELLER.
Devin Wildes is a painter whose work moves freely between natural landscapes, pop culture, and abstraction. Many of his recent paintings begin with photographs sent to him by friends and family, transforming personal moments and distant places into vibrant compositions. Large swaths of bright, flat color meet delicate details in scenes spanning rural and urban landscapes across the United States and abroad. Wildes brings a distinctive perspective to each subject, finding visual possibility in the everyday as well as the imagined.
His work has been exhibited throughout the Twin Cities, including at Artspace Jackson Flats and Interact Gallery, and has received several first-place awards at the DaVinci Fest in Stillwater, Minnesota. His work has also been featured by PBS, the Pioneer Press, the Star Tribune, and Architectural Digest.
DC Metro Walls
The Interact Collection
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