September 20, 2021
Internationally renowned artists visit Minneapolis, focus on reviving and enriching Mexican traditional art forms In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, the City of Minneapolis Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy and the University of Minnesotaās Weisman Art Museum will host a Mexican Folks Arts Residency to strengthen and elevate the presence of and…
September 15, 2021
September 15, 2021, Minneapolis, MN ā Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T. A. Croson has announced that Alejandra PeƱa-GutiĆ©rrez will be the next director of the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum (WAM). PeƱa will begin her new role at WAM on November 29, 2021. An internationally accomplished museum leader and arts professional,…
July 26, 2021
The Weisman is thrilled to announce two major grant awards from national funders which will support On Site, a project to develop and exhibit new artwork jointly created by a cohort of incarcerated artists and Twin Cities artists .Ā On Site is a collaboration of WAM, We Are All Criminals (WAAC), and the Minnesota…
June 29, 2021
On June 7, at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors of AAM, the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, honored Dr. Lyndel King with the Award for Distinguished Service to Museums. This award recognizes Dr. Kingās exemplary work as Director and Chief Curator of the…
June 3, 2021
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…
June 1, 2021
For their final program of the semester, the Weisman Art Museumās student group, WAM Collective, convened a virtual roundtable with peer student advisory groups, the Student Advisory Council at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, and the Agents for Creative Action (ACA) of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). On the afternoon of May…
May 26, 2021
Institutions, the control of meaning, and the artist’s potential to subvert the foundations of knowledge TheĀ parable of the blind men and an elephantĀ is frequently used as an illustration of multidisciplinary research. There is an elephant (say, in the room) and blind men surround it, each touching a different part of the animal. Subsequently, each…
May 25, 2021
This summer, the Weisman’s exterior faƧade features a series of poster designs, collectively entitledĀ Just Yesterday, which will be on view through October 1, 2021.Ā Just YesterdayĀ was conceived by interning art director Mike Gaines and first-year copywriter Maggie Williams, as part of an initiative by Minneapolis advertising agency Solve, during the protests that swept the world in…
May 19, 2021
This summer, Weisman Art Museum presents the outdoor poster exhibition, Just Yesterday, developed by artists Mike Gaines and Maggie Williams. Through dynamic image layering and bold type, the campaign uses iconic pop-culture references to raise awareness around systemic racial injustice in the United States in our recent, and not so distant past.Ā Over a century…
May 17, 2021
Just Yesterday – an outdoor art installation On View: May 17 – Oct. 1, 2021 Learn More: JustYesterday.org This summer, Weisman Art Museum presents a new public art installation, Just Yesterday. The 60-foot wraparound mural will be on prominent display over the summer along the exterior faƧade of the museum at the University of Minnesota…