The WAM Files exhibit features a series of exhibition posters from the 1960s that can all be attributed to the same artist/designer. The name "Robert Clark Nelson" is found in small type on the edges and corners of several posters created to promote University Gallery exhibitions throughout the decade.

From the outset of the University Gallery program for the 1935-1936 academic year (the second year of its existence), the gallery's focus on contemporary art was evidenced by the first exhibit that opened that season.

When an artist creates a piece of art, they produce something visually connected to the viewer and to themselves. If a group of people design and create a piece of art together, they make a life-long connection with one another, which is shown in what they produce.

The 15th Avenue 'Gateway' Mural project was the idea of a graduate student who walked under the 15th Avenue underpass and saw this dim space as a “blank canvas” and a way to build community.

We have reached that time of year again – Welcome Week – the week-long series of events that welcomes a fresh crop of new students to another University of Minnesota academic year.  Over the course of the next few days, thousands of students will be moving into their dormitories. Parents and friends will be helping these students haul all sorts of personal items – televisions, video game systems, laundry baskets, etc.

Autumn is starting to settle in on campus - the leaves are starting to change, the light in the sky has taken on an amber hue and there is palpable excitement in the air. We're still buzzing off of WAM-O-RAMA last Friday and are looking forward to filling you in on what we have planned next! In the meantime, you can get your WAM fix by stopping in next Wednesday 9/19 for the film Second Nature, The Biomimicry of Evolution at 6:30.