March 25, 2021
Download the free CloudGuide app to access the tour, short videos, and more. While in-person public tours are suspended for the safety of our visitors and staff, the Weisman is thrilled to announce that our free audio tour is now available on CloudGuide! Enhance an in-person experience in the galleries (keep an eye out for…
March 11, 2021
We’re so excited to introduce you to the Weisman’s first-ever Digital Content Team, who will work closely with WAM’s education, communications, and programs staff to create fresh stories for the Weisman’s social media channels. This spring’s team of University of Minnesota student storytellers are an impressive lot: their combined skillsets and experience include amazing moving…
March 9, 2021
We are thrilled to introduce you to this year’s WAM Collective Officers, a dynamic group of University of Minnesota students who care deeply about communities, art, and making a difference. The WAM Collective meets weekly to discuss the museum field and to plan programming for the campus community which includes activities like study nights, art-making-opportunities,…
January 25, 2021
Communications Internship Reports to: Director of Marketing and Communications Hourly Pay: $15.00/hr (10 – 15 hours per week) Organization Summary: Since its origin in 1934, the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) has been a teaching museum for the University of Minnesota. Today, education remains central to the museum’s mission to make the arts accessible – intellectually,…
January 22, 2021
On View: January 29 – May 16, 2021 In the midst of the Great Depression, visual artists in the United States were put to work through the relief efforts of the New Deal, not only to provide a living wage but to bolster the spirits of the general public. Many used the opportunity to portray…
January 4, 2021
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist In 1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist together with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, conceived do it, an exhibition based entirely on artists’ instructions, which could be followed to create temporary art works for the duration of a show. do it has challenged traditional exhibition formats, questioned authorship, and championed art’s ability to exist…
December 28, 2020
Piotr Szyhalski—the Polish-born and trained, American multimedia artist—has built a dynamic, richly varied body of work over the last thirty years. The Weisman Art Museum’s Piotr Szyhalski/Labor Camp: We Are Working All the Time! will be the first exhibition featuring works from across his extraordinary career to be critically considered together. Central to this project,…
December 14, 2020
“Did you eat?” is something you say if you have been away from someone for an hour or a decade. Something you understand in your mother tongue, even if you don’t speak the language. Something that means, “I love you. I care about you. Can I share what I have with you?” This zine is…
December 14, 2020
Download accessible text (PDF) About the Artist AAROHI NARAIN (she/her) is writer and food enthusiast from New Delhi. aarohinarain.com ©YOLOW zines 2020, excerpted and reproduced with permission READ MORE FROM DID YOU EAT? >>
December 14, 2020
Download accessible text (PDF) ABOUT THE ARTISTS Mary Ann Thomas (she/her) is the brown queer daughter of Indian immigrants and co-author of Asking for Elephants. postcardsfrommat.com / Instagram @postcardsfrommat Blue Delliquanti (they/them) — Blue is the creator of the webcomic O Human Star. bluedelliquanti.com ©YOLOW zines 2020, excerpted and reproduced with permission READ MORE FROM DID YOU EAT? >>