Join storyteller Laura Packer for a three-session workshop that explores stories from life, nature, and family, inspired by The Bear. The workshop will conclude with a fourth session where participants will share their stories with friends, family, and community.
This retrospective exhibition highlights 40 years of Peyton Scott Rusell's career. It examines how graffiti art has been a genre that followed Peyton and eventually became the one craft that transcended all other mediums, earning Peyton national and international recognition.
WBCA is pleased to host an evening with some of the artists from Latin Art in Minnesota, in conversation and anticipation of the release of the book in early 2023. Join us in this space for an evening of collaborative storytelling and conversation.
Instructor: Mayumi Amada
Come join us for treats and an art activity with Mayumi Amada. Mayumi is a Japanese artist who had the inaugural exhibition, Water Flows Life Blooms, in the new Ford Family Gallery when WBCA reopened in the Fall of 2021. Mayumi is back at WBCA to share her talents with us again. She will lead a fun Mother’s Day make-and-take project. Muffins and refreshments will be provided in honor of Mother’s Day. All ages and abilities are welcome.
At this immersive and interactive evening with author Marcie Rendon, participants are invited to hear Marcie read from her new Cash Blackbear novel, Sinister Graves, then will spend the remainder of the session in an open studio environment, creating artwork in conversation with her work.
Time shifts memories into ambiguity and into new memories. Each time we remember the past, it has become a new past: slightly altered, blurred or more exaggerated and specific. Can we trust our memory and its story?
Marcie will talk about her own relationship with crime fiction, her work with people in correctional facilities, share poetry inspired by these topics, and talk about the intersection between corrections, trauma, art, and healing.
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. In this artist talk, Beverly Tipton Hammond shares the powerful historical connection between African Women’s Head Dress and the hats worn today in the church by African American women.
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. This artist talk with A. Drew Hammond is an examination of images that connect the 16th century origins of American white supremacy with African Americans’ 400-year history of struggle to resist and overcome it.
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. Hear from Kennedy Simpson as she discusses the question: how have Black people struggled to create and interrogate images of self-identity in a historical context of white racism?
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. Through images, Donald Walker will explore the essential nature of our nation’s tragic and enduring contradiction between the goal of equality before the law and the reality of subjugation and marginalization.
The Laramie Project Q&A will consist of a panel of five people from the LGBTQ+ community. This is an opportunity to hear and better understand their stories and perspectives.