Index of Articles and Essays

Dock on lake itasca The Big River Continuum

The Weisman Art Museum announces the creation of The Big River Continuum.
A person sleeping in a string tent Walk Back to Your Body

What does it mean to be in conversation with your body? Many social, cultural, and political conventions we live by today discipline how we experience our bodies. They are often defined by their productivity, utility, fitness, and so on, but rarely through vulnerability and reflection. Through this series of collaborations between artists and researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School, we ask you to consider the ways in which your body features (or, perhaps, does not feature?) in your daily lives, disrupting the automatized ways in which we navigate the world.
Students outside WAM WAM-O-RAMA RECAP
person sitting in art exhibit Peng Wu and the Art of Sleep

Peng Wu and the Art of Sleep a reflection by Susan Armington
8 portraits WAM welcomes new Collaboration Incubator residencies

The start of the semester brings five new Collaboration Incubator residencies to the Target Studio. A platform that supports collaborations between artists and UMN researchers, the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration was created to allow time and space for relationships to grow and develop into professional networks.