January 12, 2022
WAM Reopens to Visitors on Jan. 19, 2022 As you plan your visit, please note the following precautions: January 12, 2022: Weisman Art Museum (WAM) and WAM Shop will fully reopen to visitors beginning Wed., January 19, 2022. After several months of closure while maintenance work was completed inside the building, the museum is, once…
November 23, 2021
Telling the Story of Kinship In my time doing research into my family history, I came across allegations that my great-grandmother died as a result of mental and physical health complications after an illegal and unregulated abortion. She’d already faced a lifetime of hardships. She was a social pariah in her small town, due to…
November 23, 2021
About the Series On September 1 2021, the Texas state legislature adopted State Bill 8, which allows private individuals to sue anyone aiding women in accessing abortions. We invited some of WAM’s past artists-in-residence to offer their reflections and commentary on this Texas law in images and/or text. Rachel Jendrzejewski chose to submit an image-only…
November 23, 2021
It’s fitting that Texas’ new abortion restrictions went into effect during the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack in the US. 9/11 and the subsequent, unending “War on Terror” inaugurated an era of surveillance that now seems inescapable. Technologies like facial recognition software have made possible the kinds of observation and social control…
November 23, 2021
About the Series On September 1 2021, the Texas state legislature adopted State Bill 8, which allows private individuals to sue anyone aiding women in accessing abortions. We invited some of WAM’s past artists-in-residence to offer their reflections and commentary on this Texas law in images and/or text. Nooshin Hakim Javadi chose to submit an image-only…
November 23, 2021
Resisting Shame “It is essential to emphasize that violence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security…
November 23, 2021
AN ACT relating to abortion, including abortions after detection of an unborn child’s heartbeat; authorizing a private civil right of action. (Texas Senate Bill S. B. 8, September 1, 2021) …starting in the mid-16th century, while the Portuguese ships were returning from Africa with their first human cargoes, all the European governments began…
November 1, 2021
Big River Continuum: PODCAST Stories of the Land/Connect Stories of the Land/Connect is a podcast series of interviews with people in northern Minnesota, sharing their lives and connections to the rural landscape. Host: Rebecca Dallinger, Curator in Residence, The Big River Continuum at Weisman Art Museum. This series is made possible through support from the…
October 28, 2021
the wider you are the emptier and the more innocent of any signal the more precious the text feels to me as I make my way through it reminding myself listening for any sound from you [1] —From To the Margin, W. S. Merwin The speaker in W.S. Merwin’s poem, To the Margin, addresses the margin…
September 15, 2021
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,…