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- Weisman Art Museum presents SEEN, work by incarcerated artists made in collaboration with artists and activists "on the outside" to bring to light the experiences and humanity of those living behind bars
- Weisman Art Museum partners with Twin Cities-based Capption to offer multilingual, accessible information in the galleries via smartphone
- Weisman Art Museum launches new Native American Artist-in-Residence Program, part of the museum’s Truth & Repair Initiative
- Weisman Art Museum presents Seeking for the Lost, portraits by Christopher E. Harrison of those sold or “lost” during slavery, as described in local Black newspaper classified ads from the period
- Weisman Art Museum Announces Kendra Greendeer, PhD as the new Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions
- Weisman Art Museum presents The Other Four, multimedia works by contemporary artists exploring touch, taste, smell, and sound
- Weisman Art Museum presents Urban Cadence, street photography from Lagos and Johannesburg
- 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 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 Library Services to support a Truth and Reconciliation project with Indigenous communities
- Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez is Named the New Director of University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum
- The Weisman’s Target Studio for Creative Collaboration to Receive $140,000 from National Funders for On Site, Supporting the Development and Exhibition of Incarcerated Artists’ Work
- American Alliance of Museums Honors Former WAM Director, Dr. Lyndel King, with 2021 Award for Distinguished Service to Museums
- Weisman Art Museum Will Reopen on Feb. 11, 2021
- WAM’s Upcoming Artist-Led Programs Tackle Questions of Truth, Culture, and Power this Election Season
- Weisman Art Museum Will Reopen on October 1, 2020
- Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection
- Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle
- Rose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo
- Baggage Claims
- Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India
- Director Lyndel King Announces Retirement in 2020
- Vanishing Ice
- New Commissioned Work, One Portrait of One Man, by Beth Lipman
- Prince from Minneapolis
- WAM Announces Boris Oicherman as the Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Spreads Awareness of the Father of Neuroscience
- The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States
- Valeria Luiselli Reading
- The Talking Cure
- Silver River
- 2016-2017 Exhibition Season
- Clouds, Temporarily Visible
- The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
- Local Time opens the night of Northern Spark
- WAM Welcomes Frank Gehry’s Standing Glass Fish
- Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
- Tony Smith Sculpture Installed at McNamara Alumni Center
- Trains that Passed in the Night: The Photographs of O. Winston Link
- WAM featured in exhibition by the AAMD and the Department of Education
- Native Kids Ride Bikes and Fall 2014 Exhibitions
- WAM@20: MN opens with Northern Spark
- Siberia: Imagined and Reimagined
- The Youth/Dhallinyarada
- WAM@20 and 2013-2014 Exhibition Season
- Reviewing the Real
- International Museum Day 2013
- Threads Design Competition
- Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art
- Weisman Art Museum 2012-2013 Exhibition Season
- Tenuous, Though Real
- No White Fashion Show
- Plaza Design Competition Winner
- WAMdemonium Opening Event
- Weisman Art Museum 2011-2012 Exhibition Season
- WAMarchy Declared at the Weisman
- Common Sense: Art and the Quotidian Explores the 20th Century Problem of the Everyday
- To Have It About You: The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection Showcases a Major New Gift to the Weisman
- Weisman Art Museum 2009-2010 Exhibition Season
- To Have it About You: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
- Au Courant: Robert Rauschenberg’s Currents
- Stories of the Somali Diaspora: Photographs by Abdi Roble
- Eduardo Kac: Natural History of the Enigma (April 17 – June 21)
- Changing Identity
- Hindsight is Always 20/20
- By the People, for the People: New Deal Art at the Weisman
- Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power
- Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation
- Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change