November 15, 2022

Weisman Art Museum receives a grant of nearly $240,000 from the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services to support a Truth and Reconciliation project with Indigenous communities

Exterior photograph of Weisman Art Museum

Weisman Art Museum (WAM) is pleased to announce that the museum has received a grant award in the amount of $239,912 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as part of the agency’s competitive Museums for America program. WAM is one of 120 organizations across the country to receive a Museums for America…

June 28, 2022

On The Nature of Shoreham Yards: An Interview with Gudrun Lock and Boris Oicherman by Miranda Trimmier

Artist Gudrun Lock an curator Boris Oicherman stand side by side, in front of Lock's "wall of underpants" in a recent exhibition at WAM.

“This interview has been edited for length and clarity”: It’s a throwaway phrase, a quick way of indicating that a printed conversation has been pruned of the false starts, fillers, tangents, and rabbit holes that might have unfolded in the three-dimensional dialogue on which it’s based. The process of smoothing and shortening interviews is…

March 21, 2022

COVID Updates and Announcements

Photo of the exterior of Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Masks Are Welcome, But Not Required March 21, 2022: As of today, masks are welcome, but not required for visitors and staff at the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) and WAM Shop, in accordance with University of Minnesota policy and current public health guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

September 15, 2021

Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez is Named the New Director of University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum

WAM's newly named director, Alejandra Pena-Gutierrez, looks directly into the camera. She's standing in front of a dark, blurry background.

September 15, 2021, Minneapolis, MN — Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T. A. Croson has announced that Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez will be the next director of the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum (WAM). Peña will begin her new role at WAM on November 29, 2021. An internationally accomplished museum leader and arts professional,…

June 3, 2021

Arts Access: Beyond the Senses

A group of seven people stand in a semi-circle around a sculpture. At the right of the circle, Liza is signing. Some are looking at Liza directly, others are looking intently at the sculpture.

Every experience is a multi-sensory experience, whether we actively perceive it as such or not. Changes in sensory input, likewise, change our composite experience of the world. Even so, people with sensory loss are rarely consulted during the planning process of collective experience-creation; not included in the development of those experiences, people with sensory…

April 29, 2021

The Weisman Will Close to the Public this Summer for Maintenance Work

Daytime photo of the exterior of the museum

The University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum (WAM) will temporarily close its galleries and in-person shopping at the WAM Shop to allow for maintenance inside the building over the summer. The museum will be closed to the public beginning Monday, May 17, with plans to reopen in fall 2021, upon completion of scheduled maintenance. Earlier…

August 25, 2020

How Does Your Garden Grow? – “Tending Our Gardens” by L. Kling

Download accessible text (PDF) About the Artist L. Kling (they/them) making zines and fermenting food with care and magic on occupied Dakota and Anishinaabe land. Instagram @YOLOWzines @picklewitch ©YOLOW zines 2020, excerpted and reproduced with permission Read more from How Does Your Garden Grow? >>

August 25, 2020

How Does Your Garden Grow? – “Resilience” by Heather C. Lou & “Hanged One” by Arnée Martin

About the Artist heather c. lou (she/her/hers) is an angry gemini earth dragon, multiracial, asian, queer, cisgender, disabled, depressed, and anxious womxn of color artist based in st. paul, minnesota. Instagram @hclou About the Artist Arnée Martin (she/they) is an artist/arts educator originally from Charleston, SC/Edisto Natchez/Kusso land. Instagram @argh_margh ©YOLOW zines 2020, excerpted…

August 25, 2020

How Does Your Garden Grow? – “Green Onions” by Paulina Hoong

Download accessible text (PDF) About the Artist Paulina Hoong (she/her) is a 2nd-generation Chinese woman from rural Minnesota. Instagram @paulinahoong ©YOLOW zines 2020, excerpted and reproduced with permission Read more from How Does Your Garden Grow? >>

August 25, 2020

How Does Your Garden Grow? – “Food Shelf Bounty” by Soraya Daneshmand and sen holiday

Download accessible text (PDF) About the artists Soraya Daneshmand (they/them) is a biracial, queer vegan that lives in the Twin Cities. Instagram @soraya_dee sen holiday (they/them) makes art and comics on stolen Dakota and Anishinaabe land. skyveincomic.com ©YOLOW zines 2020, excerpted and reproduced with permission Read more from How Does Your Garden Grow? >>