August 22, 2019
Communities React to “Remembering Rondo” | Videos by The StoryMobile
Remembering Rondo is a landmark retrospective of Rose and Melvin Smith’s expansive careers in the arts. Currently living in Eagan, MN, Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years. The works in this exhibition are drawn from the artists’ Rondo series—a sprawling body of work that stands as an elegiac anthem for that lost neighborhood and the enduring community that lives on in its wake. Hear audience reactions to the exhibition in these videos, recorded by The StoryMobile at both the exhibition opening and community day in summer 2019. Watch the videos below, and learn more about the exhibition here >>
Remembering Rondo Community Day | July 17, 2019
Remembering Rondo Opening | June 7, 2019
Photographs by Jayme Halbritter. The StoryMobile is an invention of the Saint Paul Almanac, the StoryMobile is a mobile storytelling platform that is meant to share, display, and preserve the stories that matter.
Why America Should Remember Rondo
Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith are proud Minnesota artists. Currently living in Eagan, Minnesota, they were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years—Rose for most of her life and Melvin from 1963 to 1968. The Smiths’ art consists of urban scenes and portraits that present realist, expressionist, and at times allegorical…
Member Highlight: Nayana Jha and Michael Cain
Nayana and Michael are both intimately connected to WAM. Nayana’s late father, Dr. Prabhakara Jha, taught in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Comparative Literature, and she had her high school prom at the museum the year that the Frank Gehry-designed building opened! Michael, a lifelong pianist and music educator, will begin teaching at the…
Remembering the Wellstones at WAM
Remembering the Wellstones at WAM
In honor of Wellstone Remembrance Day today, we share the exhibition postcard for Twelve Years and Thirteen Days: Remembering Paul and Sheila Wellstone, photographs by Terry Gydeson. The photographic series became a book of the same title: Senator Paul Wellstone is remembered for his infectious enthusiasm and his ardent devotion to helping all people gain a voice…