Tim Gihring, “Art, Mindfulness, and Meaning,” in “Eternal Questions. New Answers: How four CLA scholars are changing the way we think about truth and knowledge,” in CLA Magazine, August 6, 2019, print and online.
“Jan Estep,” MN Originals, Twin Cities Public Television, April 4, 2014, view online. In this artist profile, produced by Minneapolis Public Television, I talk about my illustrated maps, the contemplative installation Are you there, Guanyin?, and the neuroscience and art project Thinking Portraits. Filmed on location at the Minneapolis Museum of Art (MIA), Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, and my home studio.
Scott F. Parker, “Jan Estep In and As Art,” interview for The Believer Magazine Logger, January 21, 2014. read
Regan Golden-NcNerney, "What Lay Hidden: A Conversation Portrait with Jan Estep," 2015. read
"Beyond the Modernist Understanding of Consciousness,” video recording of a public forum discussing embodied cognition, neuroscience, and the potential connections between science and the arts and humanities. I presented my fMRI drawings and shared my views on the topic, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study, UMN, February 26, 2015, view online [my talk begins at 36:30 minutes].
Monica Manolescu, “Jan Estep, Beneath the Surface (of Language),” and Chantal Bax, “Jan Estep, Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein,” Cartographies de l’Amerique, Transatlantica 2/2012, June 18, 2013.
David Evans, The Art of Walking: A Field Guide (London, England: Black Dog Publishing, March 2013).
Peter Shea, “Interview with Jan Estep,” video produced by Bat of Minerva for Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, January 25, 2013. view online
Joel Hagen, “Imaginationland,” mnartists.org, June 22, 2012. read online
Mason Riddle, “A Place By Any Other Name: ‘Regarding Place’ and ‘Power and Place,’” Quodlibetica, Constellation 18, February 2012.
Tucker Hollingsworth, “A Conversation with Jan Estep,” Minnesota Photo Blog, December 30, 2011. read online
Taylor Isaacson, Interview with Jan Estep, November 17, 2008. read
Michelle Grabner, “Jan Estep [Wittgenstein Project],” MCAD/McKnight Artists 2006-2007, exhibition catalogue (Minneapolis: MCAD/McKnight Foundation, 2007). read
Patricia Briggs, “Words Give and Take: An Interview with Jan Estep,” Hot Air Sincerely, exhibition brochure (Milwaukee: Barrow and Juarez Contemporary Art, 2007). read
Regan Golden-McNerney, “…the Writing on the Wall,” Susceptible to Images, May 23, 2007. read
Mary Shafer, “Off the Beaten Path,” in CLA Today, University of Minnesota, Winter 2006. read
Ben Rutter, Jan Estep: Ad Infinitum, The Optimist and the Skeptic, exhibition brochure (New York: Art in General, 2005). read