Today at the Weisman Art Museum, the WAM Collective had the pleasure of partnering with Small World Coffee Hour (SWCH), a student organization that has been around for 20+ years serving up hot coffee as a way to bring together international and domestic students from around the world. For the Weisman edition of SWCH we set our sites on Pan-America, the geographic region featured in our current exhibition Pan-American Modernism on view at the Weisman through January 1st. Together members…

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Alta and Jesse Keller are coffee entrepreneurs, music enthusiasts, and overall neat people. They operate Coffee Cart MPLS, a mobile espresso bar that efficiently brews Dogwood coffee with a fun twist. This year WAM Collective asked Coffee Cart MPLS to bring lattes into the gallery as part of our January Open Mic Night event. The collaboration was such a success we decided to bring them back for our final 2017-18 Study Night. I recently had the chance to ask them a few questions…

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Isabel Bishop Noon Hour, 1935 Etching, 6 ⅞ x 4 ¾ inches 1965.28.7   ABOUT THE ART In Noon Hour, from 1935, Isabel Bishop depicts the casual lunchtime conversation between two young women who are liberated briefly from their secretarial or sales desks. While many twentieth-century artists captured distinctly “American” scenes, Bishop focused on the fleeting, private exchanges between female office workers.   ABOUT THE ARTIST After growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Isabel Bishop moved to New York City at…

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