Arts Blog

The Ward Lucas Lecture Series in the Arts is a fund established by the family and friends of Ward Lucas. Mr. Lucas, who died in 1961, was a member of the…

Carleton’s International Film Forum this year features a series of French films, the screenings of which are made possible by a generous grant from the Albertine Cinemathique, a program of…

Andrea Mazzariello’s music and video installation NOW, THEN runs in the Hamlin Creative Space through Monday, February 6. Every hour on the hour, the installation re-starts and plays Andrea’s album…

CAAM – a Twin-Cities based performing arts and dance academy dedicated to preserving and celebrating Chinese cultural heritage – joined with Carleton’s award-winning Chinese Music Ensemble on Sunday, October 30…

On Thursday, October 27th, at 4:30 p.m., Professors Katie Ryor and Kelly Connole will speak in the Perlman Teaching Museum about a few of the artworks on view in the…

Senior Lecturer in Drawing Dan Bruggeman opens an exhibition at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 22nd. Entitled HEAVEN, the show features a new series of landscape works on…

The exhibition “Minneapolis Protest Murals” will open at 5:30 p.m. Friday, October 14 in the Hamlin Creative Space in the Weitz Center for Creativity.  The opening will be highlighted by a talk by Leesa Kelly, founder of the organization Memorialize the Movement, at 4:30 p.m. in the Weitz Cinema.

From the Memorialize the Movement website:  Memorialize the Movement (MTM) is a grassroots organization that was created in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department and the protests that followed on May 25th, 2020. MTM was born from the need to address the lack of racial and economic justice in the city of Minneapolis. When it became clear that there was no plan for the collection and preservation of the plywood murals made by 2020 protesters and mourners, MTM’s founder, Leesa Kelly, took on the responsibility of collecting as many of these artworks as possible so that the Black and Brown stories they told would not be lost. Preserving and activating the plywood murals ensures that the story of these historic events are told by the voices of the Black community who experienced them. Our work is meant to memorialize this time and place in history and honor the original purpose of the murals, which were a means of protest. Justice is truth, and truth lives in these murals. The purpose of our work in preserving the plywood murals is to bring the Black narrative to the forefront of this ongoing fight for justice and to shed light on the issues of police brutality, police accountability, state violence, and the Black experience in this renewed racial justice movement.

Read more here.

The talk and the exhibition are both free of charge and open to the public.  Hamlin Creative Space is located on the lower level of the Weitz Center, downstairs from Kracum Hall.

At 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 13th, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs in Kracum Performance Hall.  SPCO Artistic Partner Richard Egarr leads a program of works by Benjamin Britten, Wolfgang Mozart, and Franz Schubert.   The SPCO’s yearly appearances at Carleton are widely anticipated and hugely popular – doors open at 7:30, arrive early to find yourself a seat!

All concerts at Carleton, including this one, are offered free of charge.   Seating is general admission.

Join the International Film Forum Monday, October 10 at  7:00 pm in the Weitz Cinema as we honor Indigenous Peoples Day with the screening of maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka, 2020, US, 82 min.)

“maɬni (pronounced: moth-nee) follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wonder through and contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their stories are departures from the Chinookan origin of death myth, with its distant beginning and circular shape.” (Sky Hopinka)

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