Index of Articles and Essays

Several papers on a folder A Sonnet for WAM

In the summer of 2011 while the Weisman Art Museum was closed for construction, local visual poet Scott Helmes proposed a sonnet to honor the completion of an expansion to the iconic building. The correspondence from Helmes is as engaging to look at as the artist's other works.

Helmes proposal begins:
person walking through art exhibit Many Many Many Thanks

Thank you notes. Copies of hundreds and hundreds of hand written, personalized thank you notes, jam packed and bound into sturdy 4" cloth covered binders that are labeled "datebooks".
People lined up at a desk WAM Collective 2017-2018

Meet the 2017-2018 WAM Collective!
Illustration of WAM student staff at work Thank You!

From all of us at WAM, thank you for helping raise $10,800.00 on Give to the Max Day in support of student employment at the museum.
person walking through art exhibit Remembering the Wellstones at WAM

In honor of Wellstone Remembrance Day today, we share the exhibition postcard for Twelve Years and Thirteen Days: Remembering Paul and Sheila Wellstone, photographs by Terry Gydeson. The photographic series became a book of the same title: