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At the University of Minnesota - Department of Art, we believe that art has the power to transform our understanding of the world. Our students benefit from the resources of a world-renowned institution dedicated to research, education, and outreach. Our educators are committed to fostering creative expression and conceptual development through a broad range of art disciplines and practices, including courses in painting and drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and experimental media. Students pursue their work in our state-of-the-art facilities, mentored by our faculty, who are all artists recognized in their fields. With our work, we help to provide crucial leadership and context to the ongoing, urgent societal conversations that are taking place at the university and beyond, about our roles and responsibilities to ourselves, to one another, and to the planet itself. Come visit our 145,000 square feet of state-of-the-art facilities, attend a talk by artists and critics from our VAPC lecture series, or stop in to see an exhibition in our galleries for FREE. Our building, exhibitions, and events are open to the public and all are welcome here. Learn more about our areas of study, public programs, and creative practices at https://cla.umn.edu/art. Nash Gallery is a research laboratory for the practice and interpretation of the visual arts that presents exhibitions of local, regional, and international artists, as well as public programs and cultural events. We believe the visual arts have the capacity to interpret, critique, and expand on all of human experience. Our engagement with the visual arts helps us to discover who we are and understand our relationships to each other and society. We strive to be a center of discourse on the practice of visual art and its relationship to culture and community—a place where we examine our assumptions about the past and suggest possibilities for the future. Learn more about our exhibitions program at https://z.umn.edu/nash.

Mark your calendars for this Thursday, October 22 at 12:00 pm for our Visiting Artists and Critics Program (VACP) featur...
10/19/2026

Mark your calendars for this Thursday, October 22 at 12:00 pm for our Visiting Artists and Critics Program (VACP) featuring an artist talk by Eric-Paul Riege in the Department of Art's InFlux Space at the Regis Center for Art. This program coincides with the 32nd International Sculpture Conference, Oct 22-25, happening this week in the Twin Cities.

This artist talk is free and all are welcome.

Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) is a weaver and fiber artist working in sculpture, collage, durational performance, installation, and wearable art. Riege combines customary Diné practices of weaving, silversmithing, and beading with contemporary cultural forms to explore Diné cosmology and notions of “authenticity” as a value marker of Indigenous art and craft. He understands his artworks as animate and his practice as a link to generations of weavers in his family that aid him in generating spaces of sanctuary.

This VACP event with Eric-Paul Riege is made possible by support from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis.

Twelve months, a full cooperative printshop, and the time to follow an idea wherever it leads.Pictured left to right: Ma...
09/30/2026

Twelve months, a full cooperative printshop, and the time to follow an idea wherever it leads.

Pictured left to right: Mai Tran (MFA ‘26), Whalen Polikoff (MFA ‘24), and Horacio Devoto, the 2026-27 Jerome Early Career Printmaking Residents at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Congratulations to our two alumni on the honor.

Mai Tran’s work explores migration, cultural memory, and mythology rooted in Vietnamese tradition, and she currently is a lecturer teaching printmaking at the U of MN.

Whalen Polikoff works across painting, drawing, and printmaking in an interdisciplinary practice.

The residency includes shop access, a stipend, and critiques with visiting guests, and it culminates in a three-person exhibition at Highpoint in July 2027. We can’t wait to see what comes out of the shop.

carno lotus paradise, woodcut, inkjet, watercolor (installation), dimensions variable

Mai Tran

Under Lock and Key we Spin Silver Graggers that Shine like Twin Blue Stars, intaglio, 8 x 9.75”

Whalen Polikoff

Built across an ocean, a seven hour time difference, and whatever fit in a suitcase. 🌍Berlin-Minneapolis: Common Ground ...
09/23/2026

Built across an ocean, a seven hour time difference, and whatever fit in a suitcase. 🌍

Berlin-Minneapolis: Common Ground brings together students from the Painting Department at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin with graduate students and recent MFAs from our own Department of Art, who connected remotely to find common ground across the distance. First shown in June at Kunstpunkt Gallery Berlin, the exhibition continues a years-long exchange between the two institutions.

Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept 26, 4 to 8 PM
On view through Oct 4 at the Q.arma Building, 1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis

Come see where two continents meet. 🎨

09/15/2026

Sculpture, at its best, is an invitation: come, look, feel something together.

That’s the idea behind Let’s Meet at the Horizon, curated by Professor Chris Larson and Associate Professor Rotem Tamir (Department of Art sculpture faculty), featuring 15 artists working across Minnesota.

Carved wood, cast metal, leather, aluminum, beeswax. The range of material is as wide as the ideas behind it.

The show coincides with the 32nd International Sculpture Conference, in the Twin Cities for the first time since 1960.

📍 Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Now through December 12

Opening reception: October 21, 6-7:30pm

Play is supposed to be something you grow out of. Interplay disagrees.Interplay: A Student Showcase brings together more...
09/09/2026

Play is supposed to be something you grow out of. Interplay disagrees.

Interplay: A Student Showcase brings together more than 30 returning student artists working across mediums, all circling the same idea: forces that seem opposite but end up working together anyway. On view now through Oct. 3 in the Regis West Gallery.

Regis West Gallery, Regis Center for Art, 405 21st Ave S, Mpls (enter through Regis Center for Art East, cross the skyway to the 2nd floor)
Now through Oct. 3, Tue-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

We made the Star Tribune’s list of the best things to do in the Twin Cities this week 📰🥳“Let’s Meet at the Horizon,” the...
09/09/2026

We made the Star Tribune’s list of the best things to do in the Twin Cities this week 📰🥳

“Let’s Meet at the Horizon,” the sculpture exhibition curated by our own Chris Larson and Rotem Tamir, is on view now at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, right alongside picks like Eric Clapton at Grand Casino Arena and Laurie Anderson at the Walker.

Fifteen Minnesota artists working in carved wood, cast metal, beeswax, and sewn leather, exploring personal archives, domestic architecture, and ecological networks.

📍 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, 405 21st Ave S, Mpls

🗓️ Reception Oct. 21, 6-7:30 p.m. | Free
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue-Sat, through Dec. 12

Let’s Meet at the Horizon brings fifteen sculptors into conversation at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery starting Tuesday, ...
09/04/2026

Let’s Meet at the Horizon brings fifteen sculptors into conversation at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery starting Tuesday, Sept 8.

Expect scale, texture, and work that asks you to move around it, not just look at it.

Curated by Chris Larson and Rotem Tamir.

On view through Dec 12.

07/14/2026

Turns out “handle with care” is a whole art form. Welcome to Packing in Pieces, a new series pulling back the curtain on how artwork actually gets prepped and protected before it leaves our storage. Episode 01: Art Gallery Preparator Kaitlin Wilfing walks us through wrapping a framed 2D work, layer by layer, corner by corner, until it’s snug, safe, and ready for its next destination. Every step exists for one reason: so the piece arrives exactly as it left. 🎨📦

More episodes coming soon.

A storm, a fallen oak, and one sculptor with a chainsaw. That’s how the Lake of the Isles Pencil got its start.This past...
06/09/2026

A storm, a fallen oak, and one sculptor with a chainsaw. That’s how the Lake of the Isles Pencil got its start.

This past Saturday was the 5th annual sharpening, and thousands showed up. Curtis Ingvoldstad (BA Art ’01) carved the pencil in 2022, but his path to becoming an artist wound through engineering school, architecture, and a decade in video production before he finally leaned in.

The UMN feature on his story is a great read.

Link in bio.

05/05/2026

Nearly 500 people came out to celebrate our graduating BFA and BA students on Saturday!

The energy between Regis East and West said everything.

Congratulations to the Class of 2026! 🎓

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