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A short-haired masc wearing a black tshirt with a poppy design on it (a long sleeve shirt illustrating support for Palestine) activates Rotem Tamir's artwork by blowing into a wooden slab using a piece of red plastic tubing. The Other Four Artist Talk | Virtual

Wed, Apr 3 2024

In connection with the Weisman's spring exhibition, The Other Four, participating artists Liza Sylvestre, Christopher Jones, and Rotem Tamir will convene for a roundtable discussion on the ways in which The Other Four promotes intimacy between audience and artwork through touch, breath, and close listening. The panelists will explore disability justice, phenomenology, and meaning-making beyond visual aesthetics. 

Mwatabu Okantah, Rebecca Merblum,Lesley Kadish, Rebecca Krinke (photo illustration by Anna Bride), Boris Oicherman Online Panel Conversation: "What Do You Hear?"

Wed, Jul 14 2021

For the cellist Rebecca Merblum, music has never been a standalone art. It was never just about playing for the audience, but about listening and experiencing people and things around you. For her, sound and listening have always had topography. Each is connected to experiences and relationships. And then the pandemic emerged, and Merblum’s relationship to performance and music drastically shifted.

Two photo portraits side by side of different people wearing glasses Online Artist Talk: Seitu Jones in Conversation With Douglas Kearney

Wed, Jun 16 2021

Online Artist Talk: Seitu Jones in Conversation With Douglas Kearney

Seitu Jones is a multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer known for his large-scale public artworks and environmental design. Working both independently and in collaboration with other artists, Jones has created over forty large-scale public art works.

Allissa V. Richardson and Danielle K. Kilgo photo portraits RESCHEDULED: The Legacy of Bearing Witness While Black in Minnesota

Wed, May 19 2021

The Legacy of Bearing Witness While Black in Minnesota

Virtual Event: A dialogue with Dr. Allissa V. Richardson and Dr. Danielle K. Kilgo

Join us on Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. (CDT) for a talk, conducted via Zoom, by Dr. Allissa V. Richardson, journalism scholar and author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Dr.

A black poster with photographs pinned to it STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

Wed, Dec 4 2019

WAM is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.