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June 3, 2023 Open until 5 pm

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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

Join artist in residence Anna Marie Shogren and Jean Wyman and Kristine Talley of the Center for Aging Science and Care Innovation in the School of Nursing for an open conversation about the relationship between choreography and health care. This conversation is a culmination of their collaboration to study how choreographic knowledge can contribute to innovative treatment and improved geriatric care, and how the language of health care can inform new choreography.

 

This event is part of a collaboration between the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration and the UMN Medical School.

 

Meet Boris at the Water Bar

WAM’s curator for creative collaboration, Boris Oicherman, is relocating his office hours to the the Water Bar, a space that is nurturing creative collaborations in the Twin Cities. As the curator of WAM’s Target Studio for Creative Collaboration, Boris is dedicated to cultivating collaboration opportunities at WAM. During his office hours he will be available for an informal conversations, no appointment needed. Stop by the Water Bar  and enjoy a glass of H2O and a refreshing conversation. Water Bar &…

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The Reality of the Beautiful Brain

Right now at the Weisman Art Museum there is a lot of buzz about brains. Following the opening of The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal last week, there is a lot of excitement about neuroscience, microscopes, and the relationship between art and science. However, as developed as our brain imaging technologies may be, we still have a lot of room for development in our conversations around mental health on campus. This year in the WAM Collective, we have been focusing…

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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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