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June 4, 2023 Open until 5 pm

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Weisman Art Museum

New York–based artist and author Pablo Helguera will give a presentation describing his collaborative projects as an artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art, and performance. His talk will focus on the potential and the challenges in artistic work that draws on fields of knowledge situated outside the arts. A discussion with artist Sam Gould and WAM curator Boris Oicherman will follow the talk.

Cosponsored by the Department of Art, Department of Chicano & Latino Studies, the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), and the Office for Equity and Diversity of the University of Minnesota.

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Call for Collaboration: Rebuilding the Library at the University of Baghdad

The Weisman Art Museum (WAM), the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), and the Minnesota Design Center (MDC) invite University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and students to collaborate with the internationally renowned artist Wafaa Bilal and help reimagine the once-besieged library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. During the next academic year (2020–21), WAM, ICGC and the MDC will host Wafaa as a fellow. In preparation for the fellowship, Wafaa will visit…

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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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Boris Oicherman, Curator for Creative Collaboration, receives Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship

  Scientists, architects, educators, psychologists, artists—seemingly disparate, these people gathered in May 1970 in the studio of the artist Robert Irwin to learn together: what does it take to build habitable environments in space. This was the First National Symposium on Habitability of Environments, designed by artist Robert Irwin and the space program psychologist Ed Wortz. They believed that art, as a discipline dedicated to subjective experiences, is in the unique position to offer insights on the perspective of the…

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