Tweed Museum of Art

The Company of Trees is on view now! Come check out some of these great pieces. 🌲☀️

The Company of Trees: Aboreal Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Tweed Museum of Art is on view now! Come check out this collection, located in the Court Gallery.

Need a finals study spot? Come to Tweed and use our study spaces! We’re also providing coffee and puzzles!

This week Gallery Gems features a walking stick titled “ #8 Flame Beaded” by Willie Little. Willie Little is an artist known for his heartfelt expressions of personal experience and incorporation of many art mediums. The walking stick featured in this week’s exhibit is made from wood, cockle-burrs, beads, and glass shards.

“ #8 Flame Beaded” is one walking stick of many in the Willie Little: Miles to go Before We Sleep exhibit located in the Lobby Gallery.

Thank you to all who came and everyone who made our latest native American fashion show a success! This past Saturday we were able to host around 500 people over the course of two events! A special thank you is in order to for their work!

This week in Gallery Gems we have a piece titled “Dutch Blue Bird Jar” by the American artist David Levi. This piece is made with handblown glass. Over the course of his career, Levi has enjoyed unraveling the expressive possibilities of the glass medium.

“Dutch Blue Bird Jar” can be found in the Ceramics and Glass exhibit located in our Featured Niche Case.

Come see our newest Exhibit, Then & Now: Ojibway Cultural Traditions! This exhibit explores the cultural traditions of the Ojibway people. Discover how their artistic techniques have been preserved and transformed in today's world!

Now open, John Hitchcock: Blanket Songs! Along with the artist's characteristically exuberant prints and drawings, Blanket Songs features neon, video, and audio recordings. This exhibit will draw you in with a dazzling convergence of image, light, sound, and movement.

We have a special Gallery Gems for you this week!

This artwork is from current UMD student, Sophia Hopkins. Titled “Beats of Bagley”, this piece is made of wood with a foam heart in the chest. Sophia explains that this work is inspired by the deer that roam the UMD and the Bagley nature areas. This piece is a tribute to those deer and Bagley.

“Beats of Bagley” is in our Annual Student Exhibition in the Court and Sax Galleries. As you can see in the background of these pictures, there is a ton of beautiful and interesting student art on display! Come check out the ASE!

Our upcoming Fashion Show and event night are almost here! Make sure to come check out this one-of-a-kind experience!
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Back at it again with Gallery Gems!

This week we have two Inheritance Jars titled "What We Pass On" by the artist Beth Lo. She is a Chinese-American artist who mixes her cultural heritage in vessels and sculpture. In this piece, Lo states that she references her son by incorporating an image of a child "as a symbol of innocence, potential and vulnerability".

"What We Pass On" is part of our Clay Culture exhibit located in the Balcony Gallery!

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This week our featured art piece is “Hold Me Now” by Jeffery Gibson. This piece is made of many materials including: ceramic, copper, tin, brass jingle cones, beads, driftwood, log, and a metal base. Jeffery Gibson is an American Chocktaw-Cherokee artist known for his painting and sculptures. His art takes influence from popular music, fashion, literature, cultural and historical theory, and his heritage.

“Hold Me Now” is a featured work form the Tweed’s Permanent Collection and can be found in our Lobby Gallery!

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This week we are highlighting a piece titled "Conservation" by Humaira Abid. This piece is made from carved pine and laser-etched fir. Humaira Abid often uses art to comment on the struggles refugee women face in America. She often aims to inspire and empower women with her work.

This piece is part of a new exhibit in our study room titled "If I'm An American..." curated by the Art History 3360 class at UMD. Come check out the outstanding curation work by your peers!

Come check out our newest exhibit: From Where They Came: Portraits from Ukraine by Katherine Turczan, located in the Special Exhibits Gallery.

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This week’s artwork is “French Coast Scene”, an oil painting by artist Charles-François Daubigny. Charles-François Daubigny was part of “The Barbizon School”, a group of 40 artists who embraced realism and naturalism in their paintings. They sought the serenity of rural settings to escape industrialization. They often painted landscapes like this one.

This painting along with more from “The Barbizon School” was part of our “French Barbizon” exhibit that was recently taken down to make room for our Annual Student Exhibition! Keep an eye out for more gallery gems to come!

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This week we have a piece titled “Moon Orchids” made by Native American artist Nora Naranjo Morse . This piece is made with hand-built and wheel-thrown Santa Clara and Taos micaceous clay. Nora Naranjo Morse is a member of the Santa Clare Pueblo Tribe and she explores issues of environment, culture, and the social practice of making art with community

“Moon Orchids” can be found in our Clay Culture exhibit located in the Balcony Gallery along with many other beautiful clay artworks!

Come check out our new exhibit in the Tweed’s main lobby space, featuring pieces from Willie Little’s “Miles To Go Before I Sleep” on view now!

Welcome to Gallery Gems! A weekly showcase of some amazing artworks we have here at the Tweed.

This week we have this beautiful painting by Alison Aune, a professor of Art Education here at UMD. This piece is titled "Leading With Our Hearts". A closer look showcases the intricate and gorgeous details throughout the piece that are inspired by Swedish Patterns.

You can see this painting along with more by Alison Aune and other faculty at UMD in the Art and Design Faculty Staff Exhibition: Everything and Nothing, located in the Special Exhibits and Sax Gallery!

The 64th Arrowhead Regional Biennial Awards and Reception is on Saturday, February 3, 2024, from 12 -2:30pm in the Tweed Museum of Art! Make sure to stop by for the reception, while the exhibit is running.

We are excited to announce the winner of our recent Artistic Adhesives sticker design competition! Congratulations Erika Theien for putting together this terrific design for us. You will be able to purchase this sticker in the Tweed Museum of Art Store during our Sale running November 21st & 22nd!

Unleash your creativity on a sticky canvas! Introducing Artistic Adhesives: A Sticker Design Competition! This is your chance to design a vibrant sticker that will be displayed and sold in our museum store. Winner receives a $50 gift card. Use the QR code or visit https://forms.gle/RcUKvSRwqPYcjb1q9 to submit your design.

Take one last look at our lobby - we’re opening a NEW exhibition next week! “Black Gold” will feature artworks of sturgeons from 43 US artists as well as a zine. Check it out from October 24 until November 11!

For more information on the mixer, visit the “Our Climate Futures” link in our instagram bio.

The Art & Design faculty and staff biannual exhibition kicks off this Tuesday (10/10) at 5 pm in the Tweed Museum of Art! Make sure to stop by for the reception, the exhibit is running until February 11th.

As we leave August and welcome September, the Tweed welcomes you to check out Boris Margo’s works in "Doors of Perception."

With a print for each month out of the year, "The Months" gives life to the vivid colors and imagery that we see through the passage of time.

Image #1: The Months (August)
Image #2: The Months (September)

Both by BORIS MARGO
(Born Volochisk, Ukraine 1903-died Hyannis, MA 1995)
The Months, 1949
cello cut on paper, ed. 1/20
Collection Tweed Museum of Art, University of
Minnesota Duluth.
Gift by the Artist.

Image #3:
"Boris Margo, Ukraine-born Surrealist painter, was the UMD Summer Guest Artist of 1962 and is pictured here with his painting workshop class at the Tweed Museum."

First reception of the school year from 4-6 pm! The student gallery now features works from a group of 16 students who studied abroad in Sweden and Denmark over the summer. Come check out the journal entries, paintings, collages, and more. Welcome back bulldogs!

We snuck in 1 more student exhibit for the summer! These students prepared narrative documentary-style shorts that are airing NOW in our gallery! Come see their unique film and story-telling styles while learning about a local witch, drag queens, Lake Superior, the radio station at UMD, Nopeming Sanatorium, and the rise of AI.

"Clay Culture: Diverse Selections from the Ceramics Collection" is now on view in the upper balcony!

This show is curated by ceramics professors Liz James and Jim Klueg, featuring regional, national, and international artists of color that have added richness and diversity to the Tweed’s collection.
You will not want to miss as these 28 ceramicists of Asian, Black, Brown, and Indigenous heritage shape their ideas, values, and emotions into clay form.

"Doors of Perception: Printmakers on Language" is on view through August 12, 2023! Anne Dugan’s fabulous guest-curated show features folio suites by 4 artists that explore the interplay between visual language and the written and spoken word. Come check it out!