The Weisman Art Museum is organizing BioMess, an exhibition by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr of SymbioticA an artistic laboratory at the University of Western Australia. The exhibition will celebrate the incredible diversity of life and challenge our perceptions of norms and strangeness in the natural world. In preparation for the exhibition, the artists invite scientists to propose examples of organisms in the animal kingdom that defy cultural ideas of the self, bodies, gender, sex, identity, and reproduction.

Meet the 2020 Gallery Hosts—your fearless and friendly student tour guides. Together they lead What'sArt?, a program designed to help audiences find meaning in any artwork. These 15-minute drop-in conversations are led by these guides and focused on a single artwork. So come ignore the labels and get lost in the work with this year’s guides: Brielle, Étienne, Özge, Sage, and Shannon.

Not pictured: Etienne Angulo-Umana

Playwright, poet, and writer Marcie Rendon (Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation) has been in residence at the Target Studio since Fall 2019. She is a community arts activist and a curator who supports other Native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art. In her work with WAM, Marcie researchers the causes and effects of the disproportionate rates of incarceration of Native American women in Minnesota, and develops a performance and an exhibit to be presented in September 2020.

In recognition of Women's History Month, Amoke Kubat (YO MAMA'S HOUSE, is curating a Pop Up Museum in the Target Studio. This follows Amoke's curation of Black History Month, and is called ART & SOUL: Indigenous, Rural and Urban HERstories Month.

Watch this space for more!

ALYA ANSARI, Target Studio Assistant

Very few of us leave our college careers with much of anything tangible that endures the wear and tear of time. Our theses, hole-punched and bound to perfection, sit collecting dust in closed dresser drawers. Our artworks, once bold and daring, are repurposed or recycled. Journals are tossed, books are returned; even friendships begin to fade as we each go our separate ways.