Alleys are used by neighborhood residents for making shortcuts across town, stowing garbage, fixing cars, playing children's sidewalk games, and other domestic functions that often happen out of sight. But unlike official city streets, they don’t have names. There’s a vibrancy in these back alleys that pedestrians don’t encounter on the main thoroughfares of Minneapolis.What if we could name Minneapolis’s alleys? And instead of having them named for land developers, politicians, or in numerical order like our city streets, we could give them names that corresponded with our own experiences, memories, and stories? Andy Sturdevant's MAEP exhibition “Alley Atlas” is an invitation to name every alley in the city of Minneapolis, as chosen by you, the people that live or work near them every day.Using the desks and three wall maps in this gallery, visitors are welcome to select an alley near their home or place of work, and give it a name of their choosing using the provided pencils and labels.As the exhibition continues, the number of contributions will grow and the maps will show how the alleys have their own culture that runs parallel to the already familiar and well-named city streets.Also on display are some artworks from the MIA's permanent collection depicting historical alleys, as well as a guidebook on Minneapolis alleys, assembled from newspaper accounts, fiction, the city charter, and other sources.