Index of Articles and Essays

Poster reads: Yellow Rain - Are you ignorant or were you kept in the dark? Silhouettes of yellow helicopters and yellow rain is overlaid on a black-and-white photograph of a bare landscape. Harnessing Creativity and Discomfort to Make Positive Change in Medicine

Imagine two faculty members at a university in the US Midwest. One is a Japanese-American woman and one Latina. One works with social theory and the other works with art, psychiatry, and medicine. They work to teach and research like any of their peers — maybe even harder — and have the added labor of emotionally supporting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students on our campus, which make up 40% of the total student body.
A vivid blue and black poster design, bisected with a black silhouette of a gymnast against a blue background; on the right, blue text against black background that reads: Suni's gold medal was not the first Hmong contribution to America. Counterspaces in Medicine

     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

 
Headshots of the 2021-2022 WAM Collective officers Meet the 2021-2022 WAM Collective OfficersMeet the 2021-2022 cohort of WAM Collective Officers—a dynamic group of University of Minnesota students who care deeply about the role of art & museums in social change.

The WAM Collective meets weekly to discuss the museum field and to plan programming for the campus community which includes activities like study nights, art-making opportunities, and networking with creative professionals.
A statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of an entrance to the American Museum of Natural History with a red line obscuring the middle third of the photograph Changing Perceptions: Nona Faustine’s Contested

New York City’s American Museum of Natural History is the stuff of wonders. Filled wall to wall with countless dioramas, statues, and artifacts that are sure to jog the imagination, it is no wonder that the museum attracts five million visitors a year. The vast majority of those visitors pass through the building’s Central Park West entrance, which, for nearly 80 years, has featured a monument dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. The monument, unveiled in 1940, is flanked by two stone staircases and framed by the building’s grandiose marble façade.
A collage of various Nordfeldt paintings including portraits and landscapes. BJO Nordfeldt: American Internationalist Opens in Wichita, First Stop for Touring Exhibition

Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, announces the touring exhibition and catalogue BJO Nordfeldt: American Internationalist

The project includes fresh new archival research and major loans. The Weisman Art Museum holds the largest collection of works by this innovative, early-Twentieth-Century, Swedish immigrant artist.