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<h2>Leslie Barlow: Within, Between, and Beyond</h2>
<p>Leslie Barlow’s MAEP exhibition “Within, Between, and Beyond” explores representation, race, family, and belonging.</a></p>


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<div style="display: none";><strong>General admission is free.</strong> Special exhibitions, classes, and some talks and special events do require <a href="http://tickets.artsmia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tickets</a>: reservations are recommended.</div>
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<li>Monday: Closed</li>
<li>Tuesday: Closed</li>
<li>Wednesday: Closed</li>
<li>Thursday:  10am-5pm</li>
<li>Friday:  10am-5pm</li>
<li>Saturday:  10am-5pm</li>
<li>Sunday:  10am-5pm</li>
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<p><i>The museum is closed July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.</i></p>
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Film Festival: Within, Between, and Beyond

Virtual Conversation: Within, Between, and Beyond

<p>Tuesday, October 19, 2021<br />
4pm-5pm<br />
This event is free and streamed on Zoom.<br />
Click here for Zoom registration (available on October 1st).</p>
<p>In this discussion moderated by MidWest Mixed, participants and collaborators of the “Within, Between, and Beyond” project will come together for a roundtable about their experiences as interview and portraiture subjects. </p>
<h2 class="border-top-3 padding-top">About the speakers</h2>
<p>Alissa Paris is a mother, teaching artist, and space-maker who identifies as a queer, Black/latinx/white, cisgender womvn living on Anishanaaabeg &amp; Dakhóta people’s stolen land, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2014, Paris co-founded and currently serves as the Executive Director of MidWest Mixed, a Minnesota-based volunteer-led organization dedicated to the diverse experience of multiracial and mixed-race people as well as transracial and transnational adoptees of color. For more than a decade, Paris has served as a Teaching Artist and led dance workshops across the Twin Cities region. As an engaged and active member of the local Twin Cities arts community, Paris has a passion for performing in works that drive dialogues for change. Her approach and practice are grounded in movement and incorporate bringing body awareness to our work. Paris is so honored to lead in the third biennial MidWest Mixed Conference this August.</p>
<p>Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara is a mama, writer, and anthropologist committed to community building.  She is the creator of the now retired Mixed Dreamers blog on critical mixed race studies and the Rochester Racial Justice Toolkit. Her short stories have appeared in Joyland and The Offing. She currently works as the Diversity Program Director at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine &amp; Science. She also serves as host and associate producer of R-Town, a local civic and cultural affairs show on  KSMQ-TV.   Nicole holds a B.A. in anthropology/sociology from Swarthmore College and a master’s degree in migration studies from Oxford University. Raised in New York City, Nicole now lives in Rochester, MN with her family.</p>
<p>Seth Nfonoyim-Hara is a biomedical engineer, outdoor and survival prep-enthusiast and papa to Zoraida and a Nova Sojourner. He currently works as a Senior Engineer at Mayo Clinic and serves the local youth, arts, and social justice communities in Rochester, MN through mentorship and allyship. Since college, Seth has been committed to cultivating community for mixed people and youth. Seth holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of Southern California (USC). </p>
<p>Erin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University, and is the co-founder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts collective called Free Black Dirt. She is editing, A Darker Wilderness, a forthcoming anthology of Black nature writing for Milkweed Editions (2022). In 2021, Erin was awarded the Black Seed Fellowship from Black Visions and the Headwaters Foundation. Erin teaches with Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.</p>
<p>Julia Gay (she/they) is a dancer, playwright and stand-up comedian. She is a Chinese adoptee who writes and creates to bridge the vastness between memory, heart and home. Julia was a dancer with Ananya Dance Theatre from 2016-2020 and was the recipient of The Playwrights’ Center’s 2017-2018 Many Voices Mentorship. In October 2019, as part of Dreamland Arts&#8217; Theaterwalla program, Julia produced her one-woman show, Motherlanded, exploring her personal narrative as a Chinese adoptee. Learn more about her work at www.juliagay.com.</p>


<p>Saturday, October 9th, 2021<br />
3-4:30PM<br />
Pillsbury Auditorium<br />
This event is free; tickets will be available here starting September 1st.</p>
<p>As part of “Within, Between, and Beyond”, Ryan Stopera of Free Truth Media will host a free film festival featuring short films from local artists exploring the topic of identity. Excerpts from video interviews Stopera filmed of 16 subjects who identify as mixed race people or transracial adoptees will also be included in the festival. </p>
<h2 class="border-top-3 padding-top">About the artists</h2>
<p>Ryan Stopera is a photographer, filmmaker, producer and educator based in Minneapolis. He has worked with community organizations for over 15 years including with individuals experiencing homelessness, children and families, and foster care youth, as well as in program development and affordable housing development.  He has shown work at The Walker Art Center, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Gamut Gallery, Public Functionary, Indigenous Roots Cultural Art Center and Third Place Gallery.  Ryan&#8217;s photography has been featured in Time, The Guardian, VH1 and more.  He’s the recipient of the 2018 Artist Neighborhood Partnership with CURA at the University of Minnesota, the 2019 MN State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant, the 2021 MSAB Artist Initiative Grant, and he was a 2020 Creative Community Fellow with National Art Strategies.  He is also the Co-Director of Free Truth Media, a media company using art as a tool for liberation.  Ryan is also part of the team at Public Functionary, an arts organization supporting grassroots cultural organizing and production across disciplines through the development of highly visible and resourced spaces that lead to creative collaborations and economic opportunities for early career and emerging artists.</p>
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Leslie Barlow: Within, Between, and Beyond

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Upcoming Events

Film Festival: Within, Between, and Beyond

Virtual Conversation: Within, Between, and Beyond

Blog

With love: Leslie Barlow’s collaborative portraits

How Mia’s (re)new(ed) galleries for the Art of Islamic Cultures came together

Piotr Szyhalski on drawing his 225-day chronicle of 2020, now a book

Rebel voice: Inside the Fly Zine Archive, a chronicle of punk, queer, and DIY counterculture