Head to the museum for a conversation with an anti-war coalition of UMN students, faculty, and alumni on Iran sanctions. Panelists include Katayoun Amjadi, Pedram Baldari, Sina Chiniforoush, Nooshin Hakim Javadi, Alexander Jabbari, Sima Shakhsari, and Roozbeh Shirazi.
No registration required.
This event is co-sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum, Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, and the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium.
Elise Armani is a fourth year BFA candidate, with a dual degree in Gender, Women and Sexuality studies and a minor in Art History. Elise is an artist and an independent curator, and works as the Projects & Programs assistant at WAM. In the off moments when she isn’t working, Elise enjoys reading, frolicking in nature, and spending time with her pitbull (child) Lando.
Hung Liu Miss Fortune, 1995 Serigraph on rag paper, 22 x 22 inches 1995.36.5 ABOUT THE ART Hung Liu’s Miss Fortune is part of a portfolio titled 10 x 10: Ten Women Ten Prints, produced in 1995 by the Berkeley Art Center and Alliance Graphics to celebrate International Women’s Day and seventy-five years of women’s suffrage. In this work, Hung Liu explores feminine sexuality, the condition of women, and myths of immigration. Using a photograph of a child prostitute…
Research illustrates the countless mental health benefits of viewing and making art. Art therapy techniques are used for reducing anxiety and stress, processing life changes and trauma, expressing emotions, and enhancing focus and concentration. Doodling is a way for many to calm a wandering mind, organize their thoughts, and focus in on tasks at hand. For all of these reasons WAM Collective encourages and facilitates drawing and other art projects at our monthly study nights. However, for many of us however a blank page…
