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June 3, 2023 Open until 5 pm

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Artist in residence Alison Hiltner will be joined by 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 for a panel discussion.

The panel will discuss each lab’s differing approaches to reconstructing cardiac systems and how Hiltner’s weekly experiences within both labs are starting to cross-pollinate these connected worlds as she begins to develop a narrative experience that explores reconstruction as a physiological and sociological act.

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

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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Art and Health

Five figures kneel on a pink carpet in the galleries, inspecting and playing around with a number of tethers that Hiltner has constructed. At the center of the image, Hiltner is demonstrating how the device works.

Artists by nature are exploring the human condition and experience. Researchers conduct studies to improve human health. They seem unrelated at first glance. However, the parallel between scientific curiosity and artistic inquiry is meaningful. In the fall of 2018, artists and researchers embarked on a year-long residence program through a partnership between Boris Oicherman, Target Studio Curator for Creative Collaboration, and Dr. Timothy Schacker, the Vice Dean for Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Researchers often work so intensely in…

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FEAST: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Exploring the intersection between art, food, and hospitality; FEAST takes us through the course of the artist-orchestrated meal. Starting in the 1930’s with the Italian Futurists crusade against pasta and continuing into today with Tom Marioni’s Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest form of Art. Artists emphasize the elevation of the meal as a space for understanding, exchange, and, art. The pieces in FEAST act as archives for the meals that have and will occur both in and outside…

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