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Colorful rug in Persian style with horsemen, Pacman, and superheroes RugLife

Fri, Oct 10 - Wed, Dec 31 2025

Not surprisingly, the words “text” and “textile” share the same Latin root word: the verb texere, meaning to weave. Just as sentences are created by stringing words together to create meaning, cultures throughout time have carefully woven strands of wool or silk into designs rich with meaning. Sentences are stitched together to create anything from a sweeping fictional saga to a dry didactic text.
Black and white composite image of an infant crying on the left and a 100 year old woman laughing on the right. Milk/Wine

Sat, Aug 2 2025 - Sun, Mar 8 2026

We experience the present through the lens of the past—and we shape our understanding of the past through the lens of the present. — Gerald McMaster, curator, artist, and author, in “Art History Through the Lens of the Present?”
Sepia drawing of speculative city with lakes and drone-like objects in the sky. Imagining Future Cities

Sat, Jun 21 - Sun, Sep 14 2025
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.
Looking through cage bars we see a man with medium brown skin sits inside a cell and another body writing on a response card. SEEN

Sat, Feb 8 - Sun, May 18 2025

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Weisman Art Museum presents

SEEN Opening Day is February 8 SEEN: Opening Day

Sat, Feb 8 2025

Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's spring exhibition, SEEN, presented in collaboration with We Are All Criminals. This exhibition highlights the work of artists inside the carceral system, in partnership with artists on the outside. Opening day will feature drop-in artist activations in the galleries, a reading library, self-guided tours, and light bites and beverages.
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.