Selected Press & Media

  • FOX Local Minneapolis — “Mini Golf with a View Returns to Walker Art Center” (2026)

  • MPR News — “We Are Stubbornly OK: A Somali Minneapolis Artist on Resilience During ICE Surge” (2026)

  • Hyperallergic — “On Being a Somali Artist in Minnesota” (2026)

  • Portland Press Herald — “Multimedia Theater Artist Ifrah Mansour in Residency” (2025)

  • MinnPost — “Artist Ifrah Mansour Hopes Her Traveling Eggs Are an Antidote for Our Times” (2025)

  • Kennedy Center — “Ifrah Mansour” — Artist Profile, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.

  • Afar Magazine — “This Midwestern Metropolis is One of the Most Diverse Places” (2024)

  • PBS Almanac / Twin Cities PBS — “Permanent Somali Healing Aqal” (2024)

  • College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University — “The Healing Aqal Offers a Chance to Step into Somali Culture” (2024)

  • Women’s Press — “Come Inside the Healing Hut” (2022)

  • American Theatre Magazine — “Ifrah Mansour: Refracting Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes” (2019)

  • PBS NewsHour — “One Year After the First Travel Ban, Artists from Affected Countries Share Their Stories” (2018)

  • Walker Art Center — “If Journalists Are Cheetahs, Artists Are Turtles” (2018)

  • VICE — “Fleeing Civil War, A Somali Performance Artist Finds Refuge in Minnesota” (2018)

  • Middle East Eye, BBC, OkayAfrica, Star Tribune, City Pages — various features

  • Kennedy Center — Artist Profile

  • Star Tribune — “Minneapolis Artist Sews New Somali History That Crosses Generations” (2015)

Selected Writing & Publications

  • Arts Cabinet — “Invisible Gift” Vol. 14 (2026)

  • HowlRound Theatre Commons — “Being Lost It’s Like Honey on Watermelon” (2024)

  • Walker Art Center Magazine — “If Journalists Are Cheetahs, Artists Are Turtles” (2018)

  • Mizna — “The Perfect Shaah” (2018)