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<h1 style="font-size: 2.75rem;">Meet at Mia: Summer Series</h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Connect, create, kick back! Meet at Mia is a new series of free Thursday evening events for adults. Get to know us—and each other—with live music, art making, special programs, and unique food and drink (for purchase). No registration or secret handshake required.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This summer, find something new nearly every week in Target Park! Join us for a bike night, a movie in the park, or a courtyard concert. Enjoy artmaking led by local artists and organizations</span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: -.31rem;">Domestic Idols</h2>
<p>A colossal puppy, an abandoned tricycle, an unnaturally manicured lawn: are these the markers of a suburban idyll—or signs of something more complicated, even subversive? Explore this free exhibition in the Bell Family Decorative Arts Court until September 29.</p>


<p><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/join-and-invest/membership/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="cell-image" src="https://images.artsmia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/21144456/180211_mia356_0724.jpg" alt="Museum visitors in the galleries at Minneapolis Institute of Art, November 2021." width="391" height="261" /></a></p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: -.31rem;">Become a Mia Member</h2>
<p>Contributions from members provide essential support to Mia and a year of valuable benefits to you! Join Mia or renew your membership today.</p>


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<h2 style="margin-bottom: -.31rem;">Youth and Family</h2>
<p>Make memories every month at Family Day, get creative in studio programs, and play and learn with your toddler in the Family Center and Mini Mia.</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: 10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Wednesday: 10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Thursday:  10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–9<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Friday:  10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Saturday:  10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Sunday: 10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></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

Vitality Arts: Watercolor Workshop 2.0

Friends Lecture: JoAnn Verburg

Vitality Arts: Portraiture for Everyone!

Vitality Arts: The Art of Weaving: An Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving

<p>Tapestry weaving has been practiced across cultures for more than two thousand years and is a fascinating contemporary art form. Weavings can be created using inexpensive tools and simple techniques, making it a highly engaging and accessible medium.</p>
<p>This five-session workshop, led by visual artist, designer, and tapestry weaver Lynda Monick-Isenberg, will teach you how to weave patterns and pictorial designs in brilliant colors and textures. You will prepare the frame loom, practice fundamental weaving techniques, and finish the textile—all within a collaborative learning environment. We will visit Mia’s galleries to view works in the museum’s textile collection and learn about tapestry’s place in historical and contemporary art.</p>
<p>Tuesdays (five weeks), 1 to 4 p.m.<br />
November 12–December 10, 2024<br />
Studio 112 at Mia<br />
No experience necessary<br />
All materials provided<br />
Anyone 55+ is welcome to register</p>
<p>We offer a limited number of scholarships and a sliding scale of ticket prices to accommodate all learners.<br />
Pay what you can: $225 / $175 / $125<br />
Please email <a href="mailto:vitalityarts@artsmia.org">vitalityarts@artsmia.org</a> for scholarship information.</p>
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<p>Have you always wanted to try portrait drawing but didn’t know where to start? Mia’s beginner portraiture class will help you gain the skills and confidence to succeed at drawing the human face. Each week students will create gesture drawings, contour drawings, and even collage from a live model. We’ll explore a range of drawing styles, such as cubism, realism, and cartoon art, and take short tours of Mia’s galleries to inspire and inform our projects.</p>
<p>Wednesdays (five weeks), 1 to 4 p.m.<br />
October 16 – November 13, 2024</p>
<p>Studio 112 at Mia<br />
No experience necessary<br />
All materials provided<br />
Anyone 55+ is welcome to register</p>
<p>We offer a limited number of scholarships and a sliding scale of ticket prices to accommodate all learners.<br />
Pay what you can: $225 / $175 / $125</p>
<p>Please email <a href="mailto:vitalityarts@artsmia.org">vitalityarts@artsmia.org</a> for scholarship information.</p>
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<p>JoAnn Verburg is known for her exquisite landscapes, intimate portraits, and innovative techniques in photography and video. The artist and curator Elizabeth Armstrong will discuss together for the first time the new exhibition “JoAnn Verburg: Aftershocks.” Verburg will go beneath the surface of her ravishing and mesmerizing images to explore her feelings of loss, dread and hope in a time of worldwide change and upheaval.</p>
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<p>Back by Popular Demand! In this 5 week workshop students will work from observation, photographs, and their imaginations to create vibrant, delicate, and luminous works using this translucent medium. Learn new skills or refine your existing painting practice.</p>
<p>Students will learn traditional and non-traditional approaches to watercolor painting, including how to transfer an existing drawing to be used as the base for a painting, how to execute washes and blends, and how to achieve a variety of textures. Traditional techniques such as wet on wet, wet-on-dry, and dry brush will be demonstrated.</p>
<p>Wednesdays (five weeks) 1:00-4:00PM<br />
September 18, 2024 – October 16, 2024</p>
<p>Studio 112 at Mia<br />
No experience necessary<br />
All materials provided<br />
Anyone 55+ is welcome to register</p>
<p>We offer a limited number of scholarships and a sliding scale of ticket prices to accommodate all learners.<br />
Pay what you can: $225 / $175 / $125</p>
<p>Please email <a href="mailto:vitalityarts@artsmia.org">vitalityarts@artsmia.org</a> for scholarship information.</p>
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Meet at Mia: Summer Series

Domestic Idols

Become a Mia Member

Youth and Family

Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Events

Vitality Arts: Watercolor Workshop 2.0

Friends Lecture: JoAnn Verburg

Vitality Arts: Portraiture for Everyone!

Vitality Arts: The Art of Weaving: An Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving

Blogs

Becoming art smart: How Mini Mia helps preschoolers discover the value of creativity—and museums

Bohemian rhapsody: The surprising story behind Mia’s sublime new patio painting

Dog days: A brief, fur-filled history of canines in the collection

When art was an Olympic “sport”

Meet at Mia: Summer Series

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Domestic Idols

Become a Mia Member

Youth and Family

Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Events

Vitality Arts: Watercolor Workshop 2.0

Friends Lecture: JoAnn Verburg

Vitality Arts: Portraiture for Everyone!

Vitality Arts: The Art of Weaving: An Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving

Blogs

Becoming art smart: How Mini Mia helps preschoolers discover the value of creativity—and museums

Bohemian rhapsody: The surprising story behind Mia’s sublime new patio painting

Dog days: A brief, fur-filled history of canines in the collection

When art was an Olympic “sport”