"Meet at Mia: Bike Night" event in Target Park at Minneapolis Institute of Art on May 16, 2024.

Meet at Mia

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.

Looking for more to do? Check out Meet at Mia: Open Studios.

February 13 Institute of Hearts
Start your Valentine’s Day early at Mia! Take part in our annual Institute of Hearts and leave your heart alongside your favorite work in the collection. Then, make your own work in our studios to the sound of live jazz. Not feeling the romance? Celebrate friendship with live performances by Lazerbeak and Friends or join the Lonely Hearts Club on a tour of Mia’s most tragic love stories.

Art Making with Akiko Ostlund
Live Performance Debbie Briggs Jazz, 5:30 p.m.
Live Performance Lazerbeak + Friends, 7 p.m.
Experience Institute of Hearts
Guided Tour Lonely Hearts Club, 6 p.m.

February 20 Power to the People
This Black History Month, experience the vibrancy of the Black community in the Twin Cities and beyond. Multi-hyphenate Kprecia Ambers shows that art is accessible to all through the art of tracing. Explore the Black Power movement of the 1960s and ’70s through film, then take a tour of African American art in Mia’s collection.

Art Making with Kprecia Ambers
Exhibition Coming soon
Film The Black Power Mixtape
Guided Tour Celebrating African American Art, 6 p.m.

March 6 Closing the Gap
Celebrate the countless contributions women have made to arts and culture this Women’s History Month. Enjoy prints by Impressionist icon Mary Cassatt and make your own art with Alexandra Beaumont. Popular DJ/MC Sophia Eris spins tunes. Explore Mia’s growing collection of women artists on a self-guided tour.

Music Sophia Eris
Art Making with Alexandra Beaumont
Exhibition “Cassatt on Paper”
In-Gallery Conversation Women in Art

"Meet at Mia: Bike Night" event in Target Park at Minneapolis Institute of Art on May 16, 2024.