ASL interpretation

Wed, Apr 3 2024

In connection with the Weisman's spring exhibition, The Other Four, participating artists Liza Sylvestre, Christopher Jones, and Rotem Tamir will convene for a roundtable discussion on the ways in which The Other Four promotes intimacy between audience and artwork through touch, breath, and close listening. The panelists will explore disability justice, phenomenology, and meaning-making beyond visual aesthetics. 

Sat, Jan 7 2023

Conversation begins at 6:30 p.m.

Join Rosy Simas for a conversation with Haudenosaunee scholars Dr. Mishuana Goeman and Dr. Joe Stahlman as they discuss Simas’s installation and performance of she who lives on the road to war, currently on view at the Weisman Art Museum. This is a post-performance gathering after a 2 p.m. show of she who lives on the road to war  at the Weisman Art Museum. (Update 1/3: The 2 p.m.

Wed, Apr 13 2022

Described by a Minneapolis critic in 1935 as a “painter’s painter,” B.J.O. Nordfeldt was an artist whose prolific career evinced constant experimentation with subjects, genres, and media of modernist art. The Swedish emigrant lived throughout the world—from his early training and teaching in Chicago and the dynamic art scenes of Paris and New York to his participation in popular American art colonies in Provincetown, Santa Fe, and Lambertville, New Jersey.

Sat, Oct 9 2021

Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Join us at the annual Cine Latino Film Festival at St. Anthony Main Theatre at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 for the U.S. premiere of FINLANDIA, a film by Horacio Alcalá.

Wed, Jul 14 2021

For the cellist Rebecca Merblum, music has never been a standalone art. It was never just about playing for the audience, but about listening and experiencing people and things around you. For her, sound and listening have always had topography. Each is connected to experiences and relationships. And then the pandemic emerged, and Merblum’s relationship to performance and music drastically shifted.

Wed, Jun 16 2021

Online Artist Talk: Seitu Jones in Conversation With Douglas Kearney

Seitu Jones is a multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer known for his large-scale public artworks and environmental design. Working both independently and in collaboration with other artists, Jones has created over forty large-scale public art works.

Wed, May 19 2021

The Legacy of Bearing Witness While Black in Minnesota

Virtual Event: A dialogue with Dr. Allissa V. Richardson and Dr. Danielle K. Kilgo

Join us on Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. (CDT) for a talk, conducted via Zoom, by Dr. Allissa V. Richardson, journalism scholar and author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Dr.

Wed, Feb 17 2021

In 1997, Margaret Rose Vendryes published an essay, “Hanging on Their Walls: An Art Commentary on Lynching, The Forgotten 1935 Exhibition,” in the anthology Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century. That "new" century is now a generation old.  Recent protests demanding an end to violence against black people, particularly black men, are echoed in the art that populated that brief, and forgotten, 1935 exhibition.

Wed, Jan 27 2021

Join us on January 27 for a virtual conversation about the exhibition We Are the Story between curator Carolyn Mazloomi and artist Penny Mateer. Register on Zoom to participate in the audience Q & A or stream the talk on YouTube.

Tue, Nov 3 2020

Hosted by the Theater of Public Policy and Tane Danger
Featuring comics Suzie Afridi, Usama Siddiquee and Amer Zahr

On the night of 2020 Presidential Election, the Theater of Public Policy and comics Suzie Afridi, Usama Siddiquee, and Amer Zahr will collaborate for an evening of comedy and commentary on the incoming election news coverage and reflection on the state of "Amreeka," as the word is pronounced in Arabic.