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<p><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/amano-kazumi-prints-from-the-kimm-grufferman-collection"><img loading="lazy" src="https://new.artsmia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1965-自我像（鏡）-2019.78.24-1-1.jpg" alt="" width="391" height="261" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-97324" srcset="https://new.artsmia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1965-自我像（鏡）-2019.78.24-1-1.jpg 391w, https://new.artsmia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1965-自我像（鏡）-2019.78.24-1-1-346x231.jpg 346w" sizes="(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px" /></a></p>
<h2><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/amano-kazumi-prints-from-the-kimm-grufferman-collection" style="color:black">Amano Kazumi: Prints from the Kimm-Grufferman Collection</a></h2>
<p><a style="color:black" href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/amano-kazumi-prints-from-the-kimm-grufferman-collection">“Amano first studied under Munakata Shikō, Japan’s best-known contemporary print artist, who is famous for his roughly executed black-and-white designs.</a></p>


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Third Thursday: Egypt?s Sunken Cities

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<p>Whether it’s a masterpiece by a celebrated artist, a contemporary work that speaks to our times, or the creation of someone whose talents were previously overlooked, Mia collects artworks that reflect the full breadth of human creativity.</a></p>


<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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Plan Your Visit

Book Launch: Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp&#8217;s COVID-19: Labor Camp Report

Virtual Family Day: Family Portraits

Virtual Artist Talk: Leslie Barlow

Film Festival: Within, Between, and Beyond

<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 video interviews he filmed of 16 subjects who identify as mixed race people or transracial adoptees. Other short films exploring themes from the show will also be screened. Stay tuned for a list of films soon.</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>


<p>Sunday, August 15th<br />
1-2PM Conversation in Pillsbury Auditorium<br />
2-3PM Book signing in Fountain Court<br />
This event is free; registration is required. </p>
<p>This conversation will also be livestreamed on Zoom.<br />
Please register here for an in-person ticket or for the Zoom link; tickets available on July 30th.</p>
<p>In support of the Piotr Szyhalski/Labor Camp&#8217;s COVID-19: Labor Camp Report exhibition currently on view at Mia, join professor and artist Piotr Szyhalski, professor, artist and writer Colette Gaiter, and Mia curator Gabriel Ritter in a conversation moderated by Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) and one half of publisher Frank. Stay after the conversation for a special book signing; books and Labor Camp prints available for purchase.</p>
<h2 class="border-top-3 padding-top">About the book</h2>
<p>In collaboration with Frank—a new publishing platform— artist Piotr Szyhalski’s daily COVID-19: Labor Camp Report has been transformed into a book. By taking the form of a printed publication, Szyhalski&#8217;s timely and important drawings offer us a way to remember and reflect on not just the past year, one marked by the coronavirus pandemic and an incredible reckoning happening across the globe. Organized chronologically,  the COVID-19: Labor Camp Report book features lushly printed, large-scale images of each drawing, including never-before-seen sketches, newly commissioned essays and reflections on the work, as well as all the artist’s texts written as part of his daily Instagram posts. The book embodies Szyhalski’s ceaseless and diligent practice, one that continues to provoke, confront, comfort, and inspire its audience. His ongoing Instagram posts continue to gain hundreds of likes, comments, and followers, sparking interest from around the country and the globe, asking for more. Deeply inspiring, Szyhalski’s work offers a space to confront the complexity, uncertainty, and absurdity of our current moment, all the while reminding us of the importance of compassion, criticality, and change.</p>
<h2 class="border-top-3 padding-top">About the speakers</h2>
<p>Gabriel Ritter assumed the role of Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) in May 2016. Since that time, he has overseen major touring exhibitions including When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art &#038; Migration (2020) and Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters (2017) and organized ambitious reinstallations of the permanent collection galleries including Now Where Were We? (2016-17) and the co-curated Mapping Black Identities (2019). Recent projects at Mia include Rituals of Resilience (2020, co-curated w/ Chaka Mkali) and Piotr Szyhalski: COVID-19 Labor Camp Report (2020). In addition to the exhibition program, Ritter is responsible for growing and diversifying Mia’s Contemporary Art collection, with increased focus on female artists, artists of color, and those who openly identify at LGBTQ+. Ritter holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also earned his M.A. in art history.</p>
<p>Piotr Szyhalski is a Polish-born, U.S.-based multimedia artist who established Labor Camp—an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts, a blog, and an archive of online resources. Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation), sound, media art, and design, Szyhalski’s multilayered works often explore communication/exchange, extreme historical phenomena, and relationships between the individual and society/history/time. His work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues as the International Center of Photography, the New York Expo Film Festival, Siggraph, ISEA Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal, and featured in a variety of catalogues and publications. Pieces are in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.</p>
<p>Colette Gaiter is a professor in the departments of Africana Studies and Art &#038; Design at the University of Delaware. She previously taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the University of Minnesota, and Columbia College Chicago. After working as a graphic designer in New York City, she became an educator, artist, and writer. Her visual work, which has been exhibited internationally, ranges from digital prints and artist books to websites and interactive installations. Since 2004, Gaiter has written about former Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’s work, including his current international human rights artist activism. Her essays on his work appear in the books Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas and West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 as well as journals and other publications. The 2019 book Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Manchester University Press) includes her essay on Douglas’s work and its relationship to international Maoism in art. Gaiter’s writing and visual work always investigate creative activism.</p>
<p>Courtenay Finn is a curator and writer based in Cleveland. She is currently the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) and one half of Frank, a small publishing imprint for artist projects. Prior to her time in Cleveland, she was Senior Curator at the Aspen Art Museum (AAM), where she organized thematic exhibitions such as Lost Without Your Rhythm, Gravity &#038; Grace, The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, and The Blue of Distance as well as solo shows of works by Margaret Kilgallen, Yto Barrada, Haris Epaminonda, Mickalene Thomas, Anna Sew Hoy, and Alice Channer.</p>


<p>Celebrate the beauty and diversity of all families! Family Day in September will be hosted by MidWest Mixed, a Minnesota-based organization that centers mixed people and transracial adoptees of color. Explore long time MidWest Mixed team member Leslie Barlow’s MAEP exhibition &#8220;Within, Between, and Beyond,&#8221; which features our stories of mixedness, family, and belonging. Get a one-of-a-kind coloring sheet designed by Barlow and be inspired to paint your own unique family or community portrait. Put on loose clothing and interact with a pre-recorded movement lesson for all levels and ages, led by Alissa Paris, Director of MidWest Mixed, a Minnesota-based organization that supports mixed people and transracial adoptees of color.</p>
<h2>Free Family Day Artist Totes</h2>
<p>During August&#8217;s Family Day weekend (August 7–8, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.), you can pick up a free Family Day Artist Tote at Mia’s Third Avenue entrance. You will receive a watercolor paint set and instructions on how to create still-life sculptures and paintings.</p>
<p>Materials in the kit complement the Virtual Family Day program’s activities but are not essential to enjoying the activities. Totes are available while supplies last.</p>
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painting of a family of four by Leslie Barlow

<p>Thursday, September 16, 2021<br />
5:30-6:30PM<br />
This event is free; registration is required. Tickets will be available on September 1st.</p>
<p>Join this free talk with MAEP artist Leslie Barlow in conversation with collaborator Lola Osunkoya and independent curator and arts administrator Keisha Williams as they unpack and discuss “Within, Between and Beyond”. As mixed race, Black women in the Twin Cities, they will share their personal understandings of the limitations of a “single story” and what it means to them to hold a multiplicity of identities and intersections. Additionally, they will explore why identity representation is affirming, but not the end-all to building a more abundant future for generations to come.</p>
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<p>Leslie Barlow is a visual artist and educator living and working in Minneapolis, MN. In her visual art practice, Barlow&#8217;s current work uses figurative oil painting to share stories that explore the politics of representation, identity, otherness, and race. Barlow is an instructor at the University of Minnesota, is a part of the organizing team at MidWest Mixed, a member of the mural collective Creatives After Curfew, and she also supports emerging artists as the Director of PF Studios and Studio 400. Barlow is a current Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and McKnight Visual Artist Fellow.</p>
<p>Lola Osunkoya is a licensed psychotherapist and owner of the counseling practice, Neither/Both LLC. Lola has created and facilitated racial identity-based content for local and national education, media, and community development platforms.  As an emerging artist, Lola uses writing and multimedia art to explore themes of identity, bringing theoretical concepts about race to mainstream art and conversations. Healing from the damaging impact of racism is a central theme of her work. </p>
<p>Keisha Williams is the Curatorial Department Assistant and Artist Liaison in Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She holds an MA in Visual Arts Management and Curating (2017) and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies (2015). She is curator of “Joe Horton: Vessel” (2019), co-curator of “Mapping Black Identities” (2019-2020) and “Mapping Black Identities: 3 Films” (2019) exhibitions, and co-founder of the Curatorial Advisory Committee at Mia. She is a contributing author to the recent Routledge publication “Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity and Critical Event Studies”, 2019.</p>
<p>Generous support for Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) provided by McKnight Foundation. Additional support provided by RBC Wealth Management.</p>
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Amano Kazumi: Prints from the Kimm-Grufferman Collection

My Mia Membership

New to Mia

Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Virtual Events

Book Launch: Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp’s COVID-19: Labor Camp Report

Virtual Family Day: Family Portraits

Virtual Artist Talk: Leslie Barlow

Film Festival: Within, Between, and Beyond

Blog

Making contact: “Supernatural America” explores our long fascination with the unexplained

The first gay art star supposedly succumbed to scandal—the truth is more complicated

Pride at Mia: Ollie Easter on museums, inclusion, and the art of fanny packs

Art and empathy: Four thought leaders explain the connection