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Makeda “Keda” Tadesse’s Fellowship Exhibition Adera, Lije; Adera Lijen: a promise to protect opens Saturday, July 27th, 6pm

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Thursday, July 11, 2024 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Community Reception: Eshay Brantley’s Exhibition at White Bear Center For The Arts

WELCOME our 2024-25 Fellows

With much appreciation to all who applied this year, join us in welcoming our newest cohort: Folaṣade Adesanya, Penny Kagigebi, Lucino Sosa Montaño and Sati Varghese Mac!

Folaṣade seeks to unearth the stories of Black Transcestors(trans ancestors) who have lived in or passed through pre-1960s midwest, the relationships these ancestors nurtured in connection to the earth / the elements / the Mississippi River; activating their archives in order to inspire an expansive conversation and exhibition.

Penny invites forward Native Queer, 2-Spirit and gender expansive artists and culture bearers to join in a curatorial project celebrating and centering youth; a continuation of an ongoing relational process sparking cultural reclamation through art making and meaningful communal gathering.

Lucino hopes to create a safe space for undocumented individuals in Minnesota to share stories and experiences through various artistic mediums. Undocustories is born out of the necessity to address the lack of representation and visibility of undocumented voices in mainstream narratives.

Sati’s curatorial inquiry explores the phenomenon of transition – the personal and communal experience of concerted and embodied change. Transitions exist within many layered/global indigenous knowledges as a time for communion with oneself, often in connection with nature. Sati is interested in connecting to the ways that artists make these practices living, and live these practices as futurism.

Gratitude to our 2024 Jurors!

Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center.

Nicole “Cole” Nfonoyim-Hara, Arts Writer based in Rochester, MN. 

Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, Curator at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX.

Many thanks to Taylor, Cole and Ashley for supporting the selection of this year’s cohort of Fellows.

Click here to learn more about our 2024 Fellowship

Click here to RSVP!

Saturday, February 3, 2024 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Open House: Drew Maude-Griffin’s Exhibition at The M

Three headshots arranged side by side each with vertical orientation. On the left is Makeda “Keda” Tadesse, a portrait with a blue-gray tint. A black woman’s profile from the chest up. She is looking towards the right wearing an oversized, light-colored, off-shoulder sweater. She has dark curly hair that is pulled back with oversized black headphones over her ears. In the center is Eshay Brantley sitting upright, in a brown strapless halter. Eshay’s hair is in a passionate twist, and facing the camera she is captured without a smile, only a soft gaze. On the right is Josephine Hoffman, a fair-skinned person with long brown wavey hair tucked behind her right ear and resting on her left shoulder. From the torso up headshot, centered in the foreground, wearing a dark green shirt and thick black square glasses.

Saturday, December 16, 2023 from 11:30am-1:30pm
Reflections: Communal Conversations with the 2023-24 Fellows

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December 7, 2023 – February 25, 2024
Currents: Adaption, Brilliance and Joy

Fellows

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About

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Upcoming Events

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Partners

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Readings

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Sutures

Shifting Curatorial Values

Revitalizing Symbols

Curating As Healing

Curating Change

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Collective Curating

Artist-Centered Curatorial Practice

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Curating as Artistic Practice

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Inventadas

Two images side by side. Left: Artwork by Julie Beeler and Lucero Paniagua Ortuño. Bright pinkish-purple textile with circles of various sizes appearing to bloom and ripple into each other. The circles are different variations of teal, light pink, magenta, and white. Right: Black and white portrait of Raíz Symbiotisk standing next to each other (Pamela Vázquez Torres (left) and Emma Wood (right)). Pamela has dark straight hair, wearing a black long sleeve turtle neck and smiling at the camera. Emma has light colored hair in two braids with bangs. Emma has a nose ring and jewelry above their top lip. They are also smiling at the camera with head slightly tilted upward.

Art Speaks: Archive II – Regeneration with Raíz Symbiotisk

A young Black girl with tight braids in her hair, wearing a light pink leotard and matching tights is sitting by a window on the floor and is holding a dance shoe to her foot. The frame has a timestamp in the lower right corner that reads “NOV 6 1999. 10:12:11AM” in white letters with black borders.

Saturday Morning and the Faces We Remember

Black and white portrait of the curators Pamela Vázquez Torres (left) and Emma Wood (right) standing next to each other. Pamela has dark straight hair, wearing a black long sleeve turtle neck and smiling at the camera. Emma has light colored hair in two braids with bangs. Emma has a nose ring and jewelry above their top lip. They are also smiling at the camera with head slightly tilted upward.

Archive I: Diverged Origins

Tara Aisha Willis is sitting in a chair, leaning in and smiling warmly at the camera with hands gently clasped against her left cheek. She has dark tightly curled hair that is shoulder length and is wearing a dark purple blouse with lilac skirt and light green geometric necklace. There is a blue stained glass lamp in the background.

Open Dialogue: Tara Aisha Willis, Barak adé Soleil, and 2023-24 ECI Fellows

Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin: A Curatorial Talk by Kablusiak

bisakaabiiyang (returning to ourselves)

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To Look Back and Wonder

After, Other, and Before

Curating and Commoning

Flores Oscuras

Burn Something

We Are New Again

Curating Beyond Exhibition