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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |