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Upcoming Events
Currents: Adaption, Brilliance and Joy
Exhibition dates: December 7, 2023 – February 25, 2024
Location:
Minnesota Museum of American Art
350 Robert Street North
St. Paul, MN 55101
Accessibility
- Out of care for our community and those living with chronic or terminal illnesses, please wear a mask in the galleries on Fridays from December 7, 2023 – February 25, 2024. High-quality masks will be offered to those who are in attendance.
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The group exhibition features interdisciplinary works by artists Victoria Dugger, Ariella Granados, Aurora Levins Morales, Kelley Meister, and Lynda Mullan. They each consider the ways disabled artists guide us forward through the present, and inevitably toward futures that prioritize and embrace all the complexities and joys of radical access and care.
Kindred to bustling bodies of water that move over and around boulders, and gusts of air that bend branches and leaves, Currents: Adaption, Brilliance, and Joy references the strength, influence, and adaptability of disabled people and our communities.
Currents: Adaption, Brilliance and Joy also invokes the current moment. This exhibition takes place during multiple mass-disabling events. There are more people who are becoming disabled everyday––be it from the ongoing pandemic, effects of the climate crisis, or the brutality of war.

Archive II: Regeneration
Exhibition dates: November 1 – January 3
Programming
Art Speaks: Archive II – Regeneration with Raíz Symbiotisk
November 16, 2023 starting at 6pm
Location:
Textile Center, Mary Giles Gallery
3000 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Accessibility
- Designated accessibility parking in lot behind building
- Audio assistance devices available upon request for meetings and events
Fungal lore and knowledge have been passed along since ancestral cultures. In recent years, fungi have been in the spotlight in the research and innovation of human well-being and environmental remediation with a growing realization of the existing interspecies entanglements. Raíz Symbiotisk’s curatorial motivation was to delve into this subject and research art practices in the intersection of science and technology, with a keen interest in the human, non-human, and post-human.
Archive II: Regeneration is the second part of the exhibition and public program that highlights local and national artists whose practices intersect fungi and textiles. Raíz Symbiotisk has been investigating the ways fungi are utilized in textiles both literally and metaphorically. Multiple symbolisms can be extracted from fungi, of life and death, of the boundaries of the human, and of new ways of thinking and collaborating. Fungi embody interconnected and supportive communities. Examples of these intersections include:
- Sustainability innovation / symbiotic and parasitic relationships between fungi and natural fibers
- Dye and pigment extracts
- Fungal imagery, references, and history

Past Events
Inventadas
September 23 – November 17, 2023
Opening Reception and Performance Premiere
Saturday, September 23rd, from 3-8pm
Saturday Morning and the Faces We Remember
September 16 – September 30, 2023
Public Functionary
Opening Reception and Conversation
Saturday, September 16, from 5-9pm
Archive I: Diverged Origins
July 13, 2023—August 31, 2023
New Studio Gallery
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 13, 5-8 p.m
New Studio Gallery
Programming:
Curators Discussion with Raíz Symbiotisk and Emerging Curators Institute Director Barak adé Soleil
Thursday, August 24, 5-7pm
Open Dialogue: Tara Aisha Willis, Barak adé Soleil, and 2023-24 ECI Fellows
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Hosted online via Zoom
Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin: A Curatorial Talk by Kablusiak
February 1, 2023
All My Relations Gallery
Sutures
October 30, 2021-February 20, 2022
Minnesota Museum of American Art
Additional Programming
Seeing New Potentialities
A conversation between Suriya Khuth, Cheryl Mukerji, Prune Phi, Sopheak Sam, and Daniella Thach on Sutures.
Zoom hosted by Minnesota Museum of American Art
Saturday, November 13, 2021
12-1:30pm (Central Time)
Info Session
January 11, 2022
Hosted via Zoom
6pm (Central Time)
After, Other, and Before
September 25 – December 31, 2021
Franconia Sculpture Park
Additional Programming:
Virtual Dinner & Discussion: Kehayr Brown-Ransaw
Streamed via Facebook Live
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
6pm (Central Time)
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 25, 2021
4-6pm
Dinner and Discussion: Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, Timothy Manalo, Nico Sardina, Beau Tate, Kieran Tverbakk
Streamed via Facebook Live
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
6pm (Central Time)
bisakaabiiyang (returning to ourselves)
October 14-December 11, 2021
All My Relations Arts
Additional Programming
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
6-8pm
Closing Reception
Fluid Futurism: A Virtual Conversation with Adrienne Huard and Coyote Park
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
6pm
Curating and Commoning: The gallery as a porous space
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Hosted via Zoom
6-7:30pm (Central)
Curating Change
September 28, 2021
Hosted via Zoom.
6:00-7:30pm
To Look Back and Wonder
June 23, 2021
Zoom hosted by The Minnesota Museum of American Art
6:00–7:30 pm
Burn Something
August 2020 – August 2021
Exterior of the Family Partnership
1527 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55407
Flores Oscuras Horror Show
October 31st & November 1st, 2020
The Robert’s Lot & Community Garden
2948 Chicago Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN
Doors open at 5:30pm
Information Session
August 24, 2020
Zoom hosted by The Minnesota Museum of American Art
6:30–8:00 pm
Curating As Healing
April 19, 2020
Zoom hosted by the Minnesota Museum of American Art
1pm-2pm (CST)
We Are New Again
(Original Dates) March 16 – May 21, 2020
Marsden-Gustafsen Gallery at Film North
550 Vandalia St., Suite 120, St. Paul, MN 55114

Revitalizing Symbols
January 10 – February 14, 2020
Artistry
Opening Reception: January 10 | 6-8pm
Panel Discussion: January 28 | 7pm
Collective Curating
September 28, 2019
The Minnesota Museum of American Art
1-4pm
Artist-Centered Curatorial Practice
August 28, 2019
The White Page
6:30-8:30pm
Curating as Artistic Practice
July 21, 2019
Weisman Art Museum
11–4 pm
Information Session
June 11, 2019
Film North
6:30–8 pm