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4worldlovers: Established in 1883, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) oversees a renowned urban park system spanning 7,059 acres of parkland and water. Featured among its 185 park properties are 55 miles of parkways, 102 miles of Grand Rounds biking and walking paths, 22 lakes, 12 formal gardens, seven golf courses and 49 recreation centers. Altogether, MPRB properties receive more than 30 million visits annually.


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4worldlovers: Expanding on the nautical relationships found in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story, this collection of moving image works maneuver between globalized infrastructure and our associations with the physical and metaphorical world.

Friend, Collaborator, Life-Changer: 70 Birthday Wishes for John Zorn at 70 (Part I)

Unfiltered well-wishes from over 70 collaborators, colleagues, and friends—including actor and director Mathieu Amalric and Founder of Eastside Sound Lou Holtzman—on the eve of John Zorn’s 70th birthday.

Like a Net: Diving into the Political in Allan Sekula's Fish Story


How does living in a sea of information shift the ways artworks can be political? Curator William Hernández Luege explores this question through Allan Sekula’s Fish Story.

40 years after the groundbreaking work of Howardena Pindell and Guerrilla Girls, Laurel Rand-Lewis, the Walker’s Curatorial Fellow for Collections, explores how the data of Museum collections continues to be a tool for change.

Learning through Care at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art

Explore the unique models for participatory, responsive learning found at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA).

Free the Land, Free the People: Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Writer and researcher Yasmina Price explores Alanis Obomsawin’s 1993 film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Fourth Cinema, and using the camera as an emancipatory weapon.

4worldlovers: The Somali Museum is the home of traditional Somali arts in Minnesota. Displaying a collection of over 700 pieces, and offering educational programs about Somali traditional culture that are not offered anywhere else, the Somali Museum offers an unrivaled opportunity for Minnesotans of all backgrounds to encounter and learn about Somali traditional culture.

The Somali Museum’s mission is to use this collection as a tool for education: making it possible for young Somalis who have grown up in the United States to connect with their culture, as well as Minnesotans of other ethnic heritage to encounter Somali art and traditional culture for the first time. The Museum's programs explore the changing role of traditional arts and culture as the Somali people move across borders and time. By promoting the highest forms of Somali creativity, the Somali Museum believes that it can also help to diminish harmful prejudice and misunderstanding.

For a century, there was a cultural history museum in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. In the last 23 years, amidst war and upheaval, that museum has been destroyed and its artifacts have been scattered across East Africa and the world.

The largest Somali diaspora community in the United States lives in Minnesota. Elders and parents in Minnesota’s Somali community increasingly worry that children born in the United States lack connection to their Somali heritage. In response, a diverse coalition of community members called for an initiative to catch hold of their traditional culture before it disappears.

In 2009 Osman Ali began collecting artifacts of his native Somalia’s traditional nomadic culture. Mr. Ali traveled between Somalia and Minnesota, and offered presentations of his collection at schools and community centers. Now, the Somali Museum operates a small gallery on Lake Street in Minneapolis.

The collection on display in the museum now includes examples of everyday craftworks as well as paintings and sculptures created by artists in Somalia and the diaspora. Most of these pieces have been collected and are owned by the museum’s founder, Osman Ali, and the collection also includes pieces that have been donated to the museum by families and artists in Somalia and abroad.

4worldlovers: This exhibition features more than 50 objects from Tamara and Michael Root’s diverse collection of studio ceramics, exploring mingei (folk-craft) influences and Minnesota pottery, mid-20th century minimalism, and more.

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