Feb 2018
“Secrets of Being Black: Duluth Edition” Screening & Discussion
The University of Minnesota Duluth College of Liberal Arts Change Team is sponsoring a screening of The Secrets of Being Black: Duluth Edition in Montague 80. Following the film there will be a discussion with Classie Dudley, one of the producers. The Secrets of Being Black: Duluth Edition is a locally produced film that examines the views, experiences and perspectives of Blacks living in Duluth today. The film contains reflections by the African Heritage Community on Black culture, housing issues,…
Find out more »Sep 2018
Bagley 5K (Walk for Wishes)
The Walk for Wishes 5K through Bagley Nature Area is raising funds to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The event is being hosted in partnership with the University of Minnesota-Duluth athletic department. Participants must register online at walkforwishes.com by Sept. 23 to guarantee a t-shirt. Registration is $15 for UMD students and $20 for community members. Check-in starts at 9 a.m. and the race begins at 10 a.m.
Find out more »Mar 2019
STEM Discovery Day: The Weird, the Wonderful and the Why in STEM
A hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities day designed for middle- and high-school students at UMD. This is a free all-day event, including lunch for registered students.
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The Chemistry Show
The University of Minnesota Duluth Chemistry & Biochemistry Club presents its annual chemistry show in Chem 200 of Brian Kobilka Hall. UMD students show off their experiments at this all-ages event.
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UMD Open Studio
Open Studio is an open-door community event that shows what the University of Minnesota Duluth's School of Fine Arts & Design has to offer. The event takes place in Art & Design classrooms and art studios on campus. There will be hands-on activities like print-making, bead-making, wheel-throwing, photography, animation, letter-block stamping, drawing and more. All areas will be represented, including studio art, art history, and design. There will be giveaways and a selfie station.
Find out more »Oct 2019
The Providers Film Screening
The Providers features family physician and alum of the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program Dr. Leslie Hayes, who will join in for a panel discussion after the screening, along with Dr. Heather Bell ('09) and Dr. Kurt Devine ('89), who currently practice in rural Minnesota.
Find out more »Visual Culture Lecture Series: Masha Zavialova
Dr. Masha Zavialova gives a lecture at the University of Minnesota Duluth's in Montague Hall 80. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Masha Zavialova received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota. As TMORA’s Chief Curator and Head of Exhibitions & Collections, she has curated more than fifty exhibitions at the museum. She also works on independent curatorial projects and writes for art catalogs. She is an award-winning translator of African American women writing into Russian, a co-director of the folk…
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[email protected] Vaping Presentation
University of Minnesota Duluth public health students host a presentation in the UMD Garden Room about the vaping epidemic and its health effects. Students will table at 6:30 p.m., present at 7 p.m. and take questions from 8 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
Find out more »Dec 2019
Embracing Identities Through Literature
Local Minnesotan authors Lucie B. Amundson and Linda LeGarde Grover speak and answer questions on their award-winning novels at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Lucie B. Amundson, the author of Locally Laid, writes about the highs and lows of starting a middle-agriculture chicken farm. Linda LeGarde Grover, author of Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year, writes about Native American resilience and recently won the Minnesota Book Award. This event will be held in room 480 on the second floor of…
Find out more »Feb 2020
Visual Culture Lecture Series: Michael Barnes
Michael Barnes developed a passion for the medium of lithography during his graduate studies at Iowa and has focused on this process for much of his work since. Barnes now resides in St. Charles, Illinois and is a professor of printmaking at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
Find out more »Mar 2020
Visual Culture Lecture Series: Christina Z. Anderson (Cancelled)
Due to COVID-19, all UMD School of Fine Arts events are canceled through April 1.
Find out more »Apr 2020
Visual Culture Lecture Series: Abby Haddican and Kimberlee Joy Roth (Cancelled)
This event has been cancelled. UMD Student Exhibition Jurors Abby Haddican (graphic design) and Kimberlee Joy Roth (studio ceramics) will speak in Montague Hall 70 on the UMD campus. Haddican holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Minnesota, and received her design education at the College of Visual Arts. Her work has been recognized by Communication Arts, the TDC, Print, AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, AIGA Minnesota and the Tokyo Type Directors Club, among others. When…
Find out more »Oct 2021
Slackline Clinic
Build balance and core strength at the RSOP slackline park. Instructors will be on hand to teach the basics of setting up lines and the finer points of walking and beginning skills.
Find out more »Dec 2021
Herbarium Tour and Plant-Mounting Workshop
The Arrowhead Native Plant Explorers tour the Olga Lakela Herbarium at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Following the Herbarium tour at noon, they will meet at the Bagley classroom for a herbarium specimen-mounting workshop. Attendees can learn basic mounting practices for preservation in natural history collections. The focus of the workshop will be mounting specimens from the ongoing "Flora of Glensheen" project. No prior plant identification or herbarium experience necessary. Materials will be provided. Pressed plant specimens created at the workshop…
Find out more »Jan 2022
Saturday Morning at the Races: UMD
Children ages 14 and under are invited to three Saturday Morning at the Races events. Participants will receive an official Saturday Morning at the Races T-shirt and post-race snacks. Registration is between 9 and 9:50 a.m., with races beginning promptly at 10 a.m. 2022 Schedule Jan. 8 – College of St. Scholastica Jan. 22 – University of Minnesota Duluth Feb. 5 – University of Wisconsin-Superior Distances vary based on age from approximately 1/8 mile, 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile. Masks…
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Mind-body Practices for Winter Biking
Mind-Body Trauma Care Lab will guide a session exploring mind-body practices and mindful movements to cultivate warmth and connection on and off your bike — or whatever your mode of winter transportation may be. Props will be available. Drop-in any time. Held in-person and online. This event is a part of Zeitgeist's Winter Bike Week.
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