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Jacobo and Maria Angeles black and white photo Mexico in Minneapolis Folk Arts Residency

Internationally renowned artists visit Minneapolis, focus on reviving and enriching Mexican traditional art forms

In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, the City of Minneapolis

WAM's newly named director, Alejandra Pena-Gutierrez, looks directly into the camera. She's standing in front of a dark, blurry background. Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez is Named the New Director of University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum 

September 15, 2021, Minneapolis, MN — Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T. A. Croson has announced that Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez will be the next director of the University of Minnesota's Weisman Art Museum (WAM). Peña will begin her new role at WAM on November 29, 2021. An internationally accomplished museum leader and arts professional, Peña currently serves as executive director of Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico.
Xochi portrait Artist-in-Residence: Xochi de la LunaFall 2021 Artist-in-Residence: Xochi de la Luna

Artist-in-residence Xochi de la Luna will continue the event programming work they did with Lake Street

One of the artists of SEEN, a 2021 collaboration between We Are All Criminals and WAM's Target Studio, performs his work. The Weisman’s Target Studio for Creative Collaboration to Receive $140,000 from National Funders for On Site, Supporting the Development and Exhibition of Incarcerated Artists’ Work

The Weisman is thrilled to announce two major grant awards from national funders which will support On Site, a project to develop and exhibit new artwork jointly created by a cohort of incarcerated artists and Twin Cities artists .  On Site is a collaboration of WAM, We Are All Criminals (WAAC), and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW).
booths set up in midtown Lake Street Truth Collective

Summer 2021 Residency: Lake Street Truth Collective

The summer artists-in-residence in the Weisman’s Target Studio for Creative Collaboration, the Lake Street Truth Collective, comprise a newly-formed group of artists and cultural organizers who love Lake Street and the people who call that neighborhood home.