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October 4, 2023 Open until 8 pm

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Sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students are invited to explore contemporary Native arts, create their own artwork, develop storytelling skills, and perform for their friends and family in this hands-on workshop. Graduate students in the Arts in Education master’s program from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction have developed this workshop to help students experience the vibrancy of Native art in Minnesota, and connect their own lives to the creative process. The session takes place from 1 – 5 p.m.

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Image: Jim Denomie, Attack on Fort Snelling Bar and Grill, 2007, oil on canvas. The Frances M. Norbeck Fund.

Educators in Action | Connecting Past and Present through Indigenous Art

Elementary school students oberves objects cased in glass beside an educator.

  Associate Professor and Director of the Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud State University, Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, a citizen of the Lower Sioux Community, has worked with pre-service teachers for the majority of her career in education.  “As a scholar and as a teacher, I have some ambitions, and it’s to change the paradigms of all Minnesotans,”  St. Clair said. “So, I have this sort of modest ambition.”  Viewing education as a tool of colonization for Dakota (and…

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WAM opens two new exhibitions this summer, on the Big River as “a way of knowing” and documenting urban change, past and present

Artwork by Berenice Abbott and Giovanni Battista Giovanni

  The Weisman Art Museum is pleased to present two new exhibitions opening in June: Capturing Change: The Urban Images of Berenice Abbott and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, opening June 3 in the Edith Carlson Gallery; and Bimiwetigweyaa — Tcubúhatceh (The Sound the River Makes Flowing Along / The Ripple and Roar of a Flowing Stream), an exhibition-in-progress by artists-in-residence for the Big River Continuum project, Karen Goulet (Ojibwe) and Monique Verdin (Houma), on view in the Target Studio for Creative…

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Focus on the Collection: The Past and Present of Helen Frankenthaler’s Cravat

Cloudy, water-based applications of purple, green and orange split the painting horizontally into thirds. A few think horizontal lines stretch across the painting.

Luminous swaths of green, yellow, and purple spread and seep through the surface of the canvas, capturing the attention of gallery visitors. The paint still looks alive with movement nearly fifty years after its deployment. The brilliant colors captivate viewers immediately, but after observing for a minute or two, one may be inclined to ask, “What is it?” Discerning the subject of Helen Frankenthaler’s 1973 painting, Cravat, is a challenging, perhaps even futile, task. The limited research done on this…

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