Tweed Museum of Art

10/30/2025

The Tweed will open at 11 am on Friday, October 31, so that all museum staff can attend the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Assembly.

10/09/2025

𝙲𝙻𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝚅𝙸𝚂𝙸𝚃
Assistant Professor Paul LaJeunesse and his painting students

10/03/2025

We are closed. Thank you for your understanding.

See you next week!

Reminder—we will be open special hours on Saturday, October 11 from 11 am – 4 pm.

07/31/2025

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙽 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚅𝙸𝚂𝙸𝚃

If you are not able to visit during regular weekday museum hours, stop by on the Saturdays below from 11 am – 4 pm.

August 23
September 20
October 11

𝘕𝘰 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 is extended through October 11!

We look forward to welcoming you (or
welcoming you back) to the Tweed.

05/02/2025

04/15/2025

Join us from 4 -6 pm on Tuesday, April 15 for the opening of Emily Markgraf’s Senior Exhibition, 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵.

On view April 15 - 26
Tweed Museum of Art

04/12/2025

It was an honor to host America’s Government Teacher at the Tweed. Congratulations on your award recognizing your significant contributions to the civic fabric of Minnesota.

04/02/2025

Due to inclement weather, the museum closed early to ensure our staff could travel safely home.

See you tomorrow in the galleries!

03/22/2025

Tweed student graphic designers at work. ⚡️🧰🪜

03/16/2025

𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽

German-born artist Ruth Vollmer (1903 – 1982) arrived in New York City after emigrating from Berlin with her husband in 1935. By the 1960s the couple had cultivated a circle of friends in the art world including artists, critics, curators, and collectors. Among these were Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, and her close friend Eva Hesse. Vollmer had her first solo exhibition at the age of 57. By 1970 Vollmer began exploring complex geometrical forms and mathematical concepts, with a particular interest in platonic solids and spirals—as seen here in this drawing, 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 (1973), from the Tweed’s collection.

Critic Roberta Smith wrote about Vollmer’s work for 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 in 1974: “Vollmer’s art is concerned with the process of discovering and exploring the logic and the systems which underlie all forms, and when it succeeds, it involves us in that process of thought too, and in the continuing sense of flow and wonder which she experiences in her work.”




*This work is not on view.*

02/20/2025

𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽

Jacob Lawrence (1917 – 2000)
𝘛𝘩𝘦 1920𝘴…𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴, 1974
Color screenprint
© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. This print is part of a portfolio issued to celebrate the American Bicentennial, in which leading American artists were asked to create works that spoke to their interpretation of independence.

Jacob Lawrence is best known for his work that depicts the African American experience. In the mid-1970s, Lawrence began making screenprints of subjects he had explored in painting throughout his career, including the sixty panels of his landmark 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 (1941). Although the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted citizenship to formerly enslaved Americans, and the 15th Amendment (1870) established a constitutional right to vote for African American men, states across the South and elsewhere in the US restricted the voting rights of Black citizens. In this print Lawrence portrays African Americans voting for the first time after migrating to the North starting in the 1920s.

02/18/2025

Delayed Opening
Tuesday, February 18

The museum will open at 12 pm today.