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March 25, 2023 Open until 5 pm

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Weisman Art Museum

WAM student Gallery Hosts want to talk art with you! Gallery Host Conversations are casual, 15-minute drop-in tours focused on teaching audiences how to find meaning in any work of art. Each tour focuses on a single piece on view, and you’ll dig deep to find or create a narrative of your own. So come ignore the labels and get lost in the work.

Gallery Hosts will meet you at the front desk five minutes before the tour is scheduled to start. Check out all the upcoming tours on the calendar below>>

April 3 | Wednesday | 1:00 p.m.
Laura discusses Joel Ross’s Room 228

April 6 | Saturday | 11:3o a.m., 12:00, 12:30, 2:30, and 3:00 p.m.
Join us at any one of these five tours during Slow Art Day at WAM.

April 10 | Wednesday | 6:15 p.m.
Cheryl and Serena discuss Marsden Hartley’s Standing Female Nude

April 21 | Sunday | 1:00 p.m.
Cheryl and Serena discuss the paintings of Edith Carlson

Student Tour Guides | Gallery Hosts

A student guide with her back turned to the camera exclaims about a painting on the wall; A group of 8 people form a semi-circle around her, listening intently

  Apply to be a Gallery Host | 5 Spots Available   Stipend: $200 Academic Credit: 2 credits depending on qualifications Internship Dates: Three four-hour orientation sessions on January 14, 15, and 16, 2020; Flexible schedule between February – May 2020 depending on class schedule. Eligibility: Registered UMN undergraduate, graduate or professional student. Apply: Please submit cover letter and resume to WAM’s Director of Education, Jamee Yung, at jtyung@umn.edu by Tuesday, December 10, 2019.   WAM Gallery Hosts lead 15-minute, drop-in conversations that teach…

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Meet the Gallery Hosts!

A student guide with her back turned to the camera exclaims about a painting on the wall; A group of 8 people form a semi-circle around her, listening intently

Meet the 2020 Gallery Hosts—your fearless and friendly student tour guides. Together they lead What’sArt?, a program designed to help audiences find meaning in any artwork. These 15-minute drop-in conversations are led by these guides and focused on a single artwork. So come ignore the labels and get lost in the work with this year’s guides: Brielle, Étienne, Özge, Sage, and Shannon.   Ozge Ahunbay “Hello, I am Özge and I am currently a sophomore at the University of Minnesota studying…

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University Gallery Silk Screen Process

Long considered as a commercial method of print production, the silkscreen process received a new appreciation in the mid-1930s, when artist Anthony Velonis, tasked by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with a project to promote the city government, embraced…

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