MATTERS OF THE M

"Hilo de la Sangre" opens July 11, 2024

On view July 11 through December 1, 2024
Artists Reception, Thursday, August 1, 2024
Nancy and John Lindahl Gallery

Organized with Grupo Soap del Corazón, this exhibition brings together Latine visual artists from across the diaspora to consider the significance of blood as the most essential component of life. Its concealed fluidity in our bodies helps us disregard its significance on a daily basis. When revealed, its vibrant, visible color signifies life and signals alarm.

As it flows through bodies, blood carries embodied knowledge of linkages, some strong as an iron cable and others frail as a strand of hair. The complexity of this venation, of these linkages, demonstrates humanity and, simultaneously, inhumanity. For featured artists, these themes open intimate conversations about culture, ancestry, heritage, hierarchy, immigration, gender, and personhood.

Featured artists:

Betty Árbol, Nancy Ariza, Ricardo Bennett-Guzmán, Carlos Castro Arias, Luis Fitch, Julia Garcia, Martin Gonzales, Rigoberto A. González, Roberto Lopez-Rios, Emily Luna, Dougie Padilla, Marcela Rodríguez Aguilar, Alonso Sierralta, Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera, Xavier Tavera.

"Together" on view through October 13, 2024

Together on view through October 13, 2024.

Together features artworks from professional artists and their families, focusing on how they influence each other. Artworks in Together are hung at a lower level, making it easier for kids to see. Bring the whole family!

“For me the process was really beautiful because I got to bring my son into the studio and see how he works,” said Sayge Carroll of working with her son, Morgan Laramy.  

Artists: Sayge Carroll, Morgan Laramy; Preston Drum, Elvis and Leroy Drum; Isa Gagarin, Rae Gordon; Pao Her, Vince and Kailee Yang; Amanda Lovelee, Walden Waites; Avigail Manneberg, Kaiah and Micah Manneberg-Tompkins; Emmett Ramstad, Kit Aizura Ramstad; Anna Marie Shogren, Wally Glenn-Shogren; Aki Shibata, Atom Shibata Pliner and Yukiko Shibata Colburn; Jonathan Thunder, and Mino Hart Thunder

"Here, Now: Selections from the Collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art " opens in September

HERE, NOW
September 26, 2024–May 2027
New Museum Wing

The first major exhibition of permanent collection works since 2013, this exhibition will bring together 150 artworks across media-paintings, works on paper, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, and jewelry-from historically significant and notable new artists alike. Here, Now explores kinship systems and interconnections between artists including George Morrison (Grand Portage, Ojibwe) and Louise Nevelson, Grant Wood and Elizabeth Catlett, Warren MacKenzie and Joan Mitchell.

In the Heart of St. Paul

Fall, 2024-St. Paul, MN-Final details are being completed on the M's new wing, which will triple the current gallery spaces, and open in late September.

Recently, the Cass Gilbert-designed stained glass arcade ceiling was reinstalled after months of restoration and repairs. “[Cass Gilbert] raised the profile of Minnesota…raised the bar for what people wanted architecturally here in the Twin Cities,” says Marjorie Pearson, an architectural historian, Cass Gilbert expert and former president of the Cass Gilbert Society. Read more about the M’s home, the Pioneer Endicott Building, here.