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Oct 14 ❄️ Today's performance of THEM, an activation by artist Piotr Szyhalski, has been canceled due to the weather. Join… https://t.co/lDHCarHsW4

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Target Studio: Artist in Residence

Target Studio artist in residence Alison Hiltner invites you to interact with her first prototypes generated from her experiences at the Visible Heart and the System Regeneration laboratories. She is exploring the possibility of creating a touchable, physical interface for the heartbeat. She wants to know your thoughts when interacting with the first generation of these objects, Tethers. They are exploring ways to forge connections with ourselves and others.

At certain intervals throughout the evening there will also be performances choreographed by Chris Schlichting. These performances will offer another layer of how our actions are both spontaneous and learned.

Participating Dancers include: Mirabai Miller, Tori Cassagranda, Marggie Ogas, Julia Bither, Hettie Stern, Rachel Clark, Nicole Stumpf, Laura Selle Virtucio, Marisol Herling, Shui Xian, Emilia Bruno, and more to be announced.

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Submit your film! Making Connections via Big Bridges

Bridges are everyday fixtures that help people make connections. Big Bridges, on view now through December 6th in the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration, seeks to do the same thing. The exhibit is a platform for collaborative interaction between artists, poets, filmmakers, architects, engineers, museum gallery visitors and web surfers. In conjunction with the exhibit, filmmakers are now being asked to submit short films based on poems written by the winners of the national poetry contest, another related program. Selected films will be screened…

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As Seen, Part 4: Tethers

Register to attend the culmination event of Alison’s work here>> Alison Hiltner is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates sculptures and installations around biologically-inspired themes and esthetics. Alison collaborates with Dr. Paul Iaizzo, the director of education in the Lillehei Heart Institute and the Visible Heart® laboratory, and Dr. Brenda Ogle, an associate professor in the Stem Cell Institute in the Department of Bioengineering. Together they are working to learn how sculpture can inform cardiac device creation and how cardiology research can inform…

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Target Studio for Creative Collaboration

The Target Studio for Creative Collaboration at WAM is a unique museum space dedicated to collaborations between artists and scholars. It is a workplace, a convening space, a laboratory, a gallery, and a classroom. It hosts workshops, discussions, exhibitions, performances, and symposia. It is dynamic, evolving, and unpredictable, as all true collaborations are. The program of the Target Studio does not stop at the museum walls. Its relationships spread across departments at the University of Minnesota and throughout the Twin…

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