The Rebel Loon Archive preserves and publishes visual and written art responding to current issues in Minnesota.

Extraordinary art is often dismissed because it is created by ordinary people: those outside the traditional art world, who hesitate to even call themselves artists. The Rebel Loon Archive welcomes these voices, juxtaposing them with work by award-winning artists and authors. This helps build collections with diverse, fresh perspectives and visual language.

These artworks will be primary sources for future generations. For example, much of the art preserved in the Archive is not documented outside of the artist’s original post on social media. More concretely, hundreds of protest signs were donated to us after No Kings 3 rather than being destroyed.

The Archive will publicize submitted works through art books, museum exhibits, and a publicly accessible digital archive, so that these artworks can be appreciated and studied far into the future.

As of August 2026, than 550 artists so far have come together to contribute their work to the Archive. All art is used with explicit permission, and artists retain all rights to their work. Artists are never charged any kind of fee to share work with the Archive, and all artists published in a physical volume receive a complimentary copy. The Archive exists because of artists’ generosity, and while we hope to someday be able to pay honoraria for selected pieces, treating our artists with dignity and respect is the least we can do.

This art matters, but people matter more. The Rebel Loon Archive is proud to financially support the Immigrant Defense Network, UNIDOS MN, Friends of the Boundary Waters, and other vetted causes with a portion of sales proceeds. If you are considering donating to the Rebel Loon Archive but are considering giving to mutual aid instead, choose mutual aid every time.

The Rebel Loon Archive is fiscally sponsored by Springboard for the Arts.

Art credit: Love, Minneapolis by Eliza Wheeler