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September 27, 2023 Open until 8 pm

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Celebrating Rondo artists and community members past, present, and future in an evening packed with activity. Free to participate! Let us know you’re coming>>
 
STORYTELLING AND POETRY | 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
+ Join Beverly Cottman in the galleries for storytelling, and Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Clarence White for poetry writing.
 
FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION | 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
+ Watch Rondo: Beyond the Pavement, a documentary that presents the perspectives of Rondo elders as told through the point of view of young Rondo media makers. A panel discussion with participants involved in the film will follow.
 
ALL–EVENING | 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
+ Dive into Rose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo, an exhibition that explores the Rondo neighborhood’s history through collage, painting, and sculpture.
+ Record your reflections of the exhibition with the Storymobile, a project of the Saint Paul Almanac where filmmakers work with visitors to record their stories.
+ Free Big Bell Ice Cream and refreshments from Heritage Tea House & Cafe on the plaza.

Why America Should Remember Rondo

Painting by artist Rose Smith. Mother and child sit on a bench with luggage at the mother's feet. Other figures wait in the transit hub in the background.

  Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith are proud Minnesota artists. Currently living in Eagan, Minnesota, they were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years—Rose for most of her life and Melvin from 1963 to 1968. The Smiths’ art consists of urban scenes and portraits that present realist, expressionist, and at times allegorical takes on Black life in America. The works in this exhibition are drawn from their Rondo series—a sprawling body of work that stands as an…

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Remembering the Wellstones at WAM

Remembering the Wellstones at WAM

In honor of Wellstone Remembrance Day today, we share the exhibition postcard for Twelve Years and Thirteen Days: Remembering Paul and Sheila Wellstone, photographs by Terry Gydeson. The photographic series became a book of the same title: Senator Paul Wellstone is remembered for his infectious enthusiasm and his ardent devotion to helping all people gain a voice in American politics. In a remarkable collection of more than seventy photographs, Twelve Years and Thirteen Days commemorates the Wellstones’s commitment to social and economic…

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Press

Press

Media contact: Susannah Schouweiler, Director of Marketing and Communications, susannah@umn.edu Weisman Art Museum Presents an Eclectic Survey Exhibition, Doug Argue: Letters to the Future Weisman Art Museum Presents Message from Our Planet, with work by 19 International Artists at the Forefront of Digital Art Weisman Art Museum Weisman Art Museum Presents a Major Survey Exhibition, We Are Working All the Time!, by Multimedia Artist Piotr Szyhalski Weisman Art Museum receives a grant of nearly $240,000 from the federal Institute for Museum and…

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