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Leesa Kelly and Howard Oransky will celebrate the launch of their new book, Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising, at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13 at the Minneapolis Central Library in the Doty Board Room. They will be joined by local artists Amira McClendon and Seitu Jones. The program will be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but encouraged; please register here: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/66fdaec47fde612f00ee269f.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Picturing and preserving the murals made in Minneapolis following George Floyd’s murder
It would be difficult to overstate the local, national, and international impact of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police on May 25, 2020, and the Minneapolis uprising that followed. This book shows the reverberations of these events through the prolific and spontaneous appearance of murals in Minneapolis and St. Paul during the subsequent months.
An exhibition companion and collaboration between the Katherine E. Nash Gallery and the grassroots organization Memorialize the Movement (MTM), Art and Artifact features 100 color images of murals that were created in the Twin Cities in 2020. The contributors provide historical and interpretive context for the art, situating the efforts of MTM to collect, save, and display the Twin Cities murals as part of a larger preservation effort that simultaneously occurred nationwide.
Contributors: Leslie Guy, Amira McLendon, Seph Rodney.
Distributed for the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota.
LEARN MORE at https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918989/art-and-artifact/.
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Minneapolis Central Library, 6437 Perry Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55429-2063, United States,Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
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