SEEN Opening Day

Name: SEEN Opening Day
Start: 2025-02-08T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-08T17:00:00-06:00
Location: 333 E River Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455

Schedule

Sat Feb 08 2025 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

333 E River Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455 | Minneapolis, MN

Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's spring exhibition, SEEN. The event features artist-led programming, various art activations, and activities in Open Studio. Hearty snacks and warm drinks will be provided throughout the day. All events and activities are FREE.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
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. Together they explore issues of incarceration, isolation, healing, and coming home. Representing a range of cultural, personal, and professional backgrounds and diverse forms of artistic expression, people on the “inside” partnered with people on the “outside” based on shared creative curiosities and personal affinities. This exhibition is arranged across two galleries to evoke the experiences of “inside” (carceral) and “outside” (healing and community).
The seven installations stretch the bounds of the museum as a site for community engagement and critical examination of American carceral institutions. Teams worked together to better understand and explore carceral isolation and trauma and the many ways it has caused generational harm in their own bodies and those of their descendants. To bring healing to the cycle of harm, the participants connect with their families, the community, and each other through this exhibition.
The collaborative exhibition SEEN and its related public programs aim to illuminate the effects of mass incarceration by clearing the pathways for people behind bars to have their voices heard, faces seen, and humanity recognized.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. General operating support is generously provided by Ameriprise Financial and the Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation. Special thanks to the KHR McNeely Family Fund, thanks to Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, for their support of the Weisman's exhibitions and exhibition-related programming.