Shepherd Room
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Reclaiming the Archive: A Salon-Style Conversation on Keeping Memory Wed, Nov 13 2024 Presented in conversation with the exhibition, Seeking For the Lost, this roundtable conversation centers on the critical importance of preserving and curating Black history and cultural heritage. This salon-style conversation aims to address ongoing efforts to recover, protect, and celebrate the rich and diverse narratives of Black communities, which have often been marginalized or omitted from mainstream historical accounts. |
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Paint & Listen: JoJo Bell and Christopher Harrison Wed, Oct 16 2024 Join us for a memorable evening with the artist and curator of Seeking for the Lost, Christopher E. Harrison and JoJo Bell. For this interactive program, you're invited to immerse yourself in the artistic process Harrison used to create portraits for the Seeking for Lost exhibition. |
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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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Waking the Oracle: Community Healing Activation Sat, Apr 27 2024 This Waking the Oracle event is presented in conversation with the Weisman’s exhibition, The Experience of Expression |
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Waking the Oracle: Community Wisdom Jam Wed, Apr 17 2024 This Waking the Oracle event is presented in conversation with the Weisman’s exhibition, The Experience of Expression |
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Performance: ICED BODIES Sat, Jan 28 2023 The iconic 1972 performance Ice Music for London by Charlotte Moorman is reimagined for today with ICED BODIES. An ice cello, dyed black and embedded with electronics is played by musician Seth Parker Woods and translated into sound by composer Spencer Topel, paying tribute to an avant-garde past while reflecting on the Black bodies lost to mental illness and violence in the African American community even now. |
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Manure and Poetry #3: An Evening with Labor Camp Orchestra Wed, Dec 14 2022 Join us for an evening of in-gallery performance, held in conjunction with the exhibition Piotr Szyhalski: We Are Working All the Time! Loosely connected to a sound project by the same name, this iteration of "Manure & Poetry "combines bits and pieces of gestures taken from all Piotr Szyhalski's performance pieces over the years. Visitors will have an opportunity to experience, live, many of the works in the exhibition usually only accessible via video documentation. |
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(In Person) Panel: River Sense Conversations Wed, May 4 2022 Big River Continuum: Cohort Conversations It is one thing to know about a river, and yet another altogether to consider the river itself as a way of knowing. The Big River Continuum is a Mississippi-long artist residency exchange that amplifies the interconnectedness of cultures, research, water and land through collaboration between the multimedia artist Karen Goulet (White Earth Ojibwe) |
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(In Person) Panel: What Is Revitalization? Wed, Apr 20 2022 What Does Revitalization Mean? The answer depends on who you might ask. |