We have an incredible day planned for our next Art Explorers event! ​​

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Email Bette at jbdemars2[at]gmail.com

to join us in Art Explorers and receive the registration link and timeline.

We would love to have you join us!

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Part One

(Capped at 20 participants)

A tour dedicated to our group at the Minnesota Museum of American Art to explore the exhibit Queering Indigeneity. Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest. In seeking out and amplifying voices of Indigenous artists and culture bearers, the M, guided by Penny Kagigebi, hopes to influence the types of artists who are supported, seen, and centered at the museum, and to show both Indigenous and non-Indigenous visitors a more comprehensive and complex story of this region’s art and artists.

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Queering Indigeneity artists include Sharon Day, Ryan Young, Delia Touché, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Niibawi Ajijaak, Awanaabe Syverson, Zoe Allen, Naawakamigookwe Lera Hephner, Noah Polk, Madeline Treuer, Chewie Mason, Asin-Gwiiwizens, Sav Jonsa, Giiwedin, Nick Metcalf, and Penny Kagigebi.​

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Part Two

Following our time in the gallery, we will travel to the nearby F-O-K Studios, where we have the community lounge reserved for discussion time and lunch. Lunch will be bring-your-own, but Art Explorers will supply filtered water, coffee (hot or iced, weather depending!) and dessert/bars. In a wonderful bit of continuity from our first event, artist Martha Bird has her studio in this building and has agreed to open her studio doors to us that afternoon for tours! 

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Policies/Requests

Participation for this event is capped due to the M's tour limits.

Please do not bring additional unregistered guests with you to this tour; they will put us over capacity and impact our agreement with the M.

We will keep a waiting list if registration fills.

We don't arrange carpools, but we do ask who needs a ride and who can drive a carpool on our registration forms. Prior to the event, we will facilitate communication for ride sharing. 

Please cancel your registration if something comes up and you cannot attend.

Let us know! Someone else could use that spot! 

​Plan to attend both Parts One and Two, staying for discussion.

Community and conversation are integral parts of Art Explorers.  

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Can't join us for the tour but want to come for Part 2: the conversation?! Great!

Check out the exhibit before May 2, and e-mail Bette so we make sure we have enough desserts.

(We don't want to be short on dessert bars!)

Bette will send you directions to meet up with us at F-O-K Studios in the community lounge.

We would love to see you for fellowship time at the studios!