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Cropped image of a woman in a clown suit, sitting at a desk surrounded by a dense assortment of clowning memoriabilia Laughing Matter

Sat, Mar 1 - Sun, Jul 20 2025

Humor is more than jokes. It is a tool for essential reflection on and relief from societal norms, and it is made relevant through lived experience and culture shared across generations, gender, geography, and many other “g” words. As dinner with your parents’ friends can prove, humor is not always universal.

SEEN

Sat, Feb 8 - Mon, May 19 2025

Weisman Art Museum presents SEEN, an exhibition created as part of a years-long collaboration with We Are All Criminals (WAAC), curated by WAAC director and founder, Emily Baxter. SEEN features currently incarcerated artists in collaboration with artists, activists, and academics in the Twin Cities community.

Kara Walker Keynote Lecture with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Kara Walker, Winslow Homer, Blackness, & AI with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Sat, Sep 28 2024

As part of the opening day celebration of the exhibition, Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), the Weisman Art Museum presents a keynote lecture on "Kara Walker, Winslow Homer, Blackness, & AI" with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw. 

Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop Performance

Sat, Sep 28 2024

As part of the community day in celebration of the exhibition Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), the Weisman presents a BIPOC-developed and -led shadow puppetry performance by Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop. 

Kara Walker Opening Day Kara Walker: Opening Day

Sat, Sep 28 2024

Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's fall exhibition, Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).

A black and white archival magazine illustration from the Civil War is overlaid by two faces in silhouette Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Sat, Sep 28 - Sun, Dec 29 2024

Weisman Art Museum is proud to present the exhibition, Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Kara Walker, born in 1969, is one of the most intellectually provocative and creatively productive artists of her generation. Her groundbreaking work revisits archival material to challenge dominant narratives of American history, exploring race, gender, sexuality, violence, identity, and social justice.

Seeking for the Lost Newspaper header image Seeking for the Lost

Sat, Aug 3 2024 - Sun, Feb 16 2025

Seeking for the Lost views the details of often overlooked histories with an artistic lens. Featuring portraiture by contemporary artist Christopher E. Harrison, this exhibition explores the unbreakable familial bonds expressed through ads in the St. Paul newspaper The Appeal; presents the post-Reconstruction goals of Minnesota’s Black press; and shows how literacy informed the lives of Black Americans after the Civil War. 

The Experience of Expression

Sat, Mar 2 - Sun, Jul 21 2024

The expressive nature of fine art is a well-known concept, largely popularized by the early twentieth-century European Expressionist movement and New York-based Abstract Expressionism that emerged a few decades later. Artists often create their work with expressive intent, but art objects can also gain a sense of agency aside from the artist, particularly when presented to a viewer. 

A close up of silicone nubs which fill with air in tandem with a heartbeat sensor. The silicone nubs are white but a faint red plug is visible inside—the nubs are held in place by stainless steel clips and rest in a stainless steel basin. The Other Four

Fri, Feb 9 - Sun, May 19 2024

The Other Four assembles a varied display of 16 multimedia works by 21 contemporary artists that forefront the senses of smell, taste, touch, and sound. Exploring the richness of the human experience, the exhibition engages audiences primarily through nonvisual – the other four – senses.

person standing in construction building with fabric around shoulders like cape Urban Cadence

Fri, Oct 6 - Sun, Dec 31 2023

Urban Cadence tells the multifaceted stories of two urban environments—Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa—experienced through the artistic expressions of photography and video.