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MPR Article: New exhibit celebrates Southwest Asian and North African immigrants in Minnesota

SooVAC's December show "To Your Raised Head - Stories of Immigration" is featured in MPR. Link: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/12/02/...

Star Tribune Critics' picks: Roshan Ganu's 'Gazing Into the Full Moon Night'

Ganu's show is featured in the Star Tribune. Roshan Ganu's 'Gazing Into the Full Moon Night' A moon with eyes drifts across the gallery...

MINNPOST Article: Artist Roshan Ganu explores light and darkness in multimedia installation

Columnist Shelia Regan featured Ganu's show in her bi-weekly Artscape column. https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2022/11/artist-roshan-gan...

UMN Arts Article: Black Abstraction in the Midwest: Q&A with Gregory J. Rose

Before the closing reception, Gregory J. Rose was interviewed by Russ White to talk about the show. Article link:...

Star Tribune Article: “Change Is God — Take Root Among the Stars: Black Abstraction in the Midwest”

Big thank you to the @startribune and arts writer, @aliciaeler for this feature! We are beyond humbled with the attention this show has...

BLCK Press "Change is God" Interview

Enjoy this interview Blck Press did with curator Gregory Rose and our Executive Director, Carolyn Payne! https://m.facebook.com/SooVAC/vi...

MPLSART Article: The Only Lasting Truth: on Midwestern Black Abstraction at SooVAC

Whoa! "Change is God" has gotten some really great attention online lately! If you haven't yet, pop on over to read this wonderful...

MINNPOST ARTS: Weekend picks features “You Are Walking Down Bryant Avenue” and “Inhabitants”

Shelia Regan's Artscape column covered SooVAC's shows "You Are Walking Down Bryant Avenue" and "Inhabitants" Article link:...

MPLS ART Article: The Suzy Greenberg MFA Juried Exhibition

MPLS ART wrote about SooVAC's 20th year of exhibiting MFA candidates, honoring SooVAC's Founder Suzy Greenberg, for her vision and...

Artist Reflections on 20 Years of SooVAC by Sophia Abrams

In June 2001, Suzy Greenberg opened Soo Visual Art Center, at that time it was located on 27th and Lyndale; the art space invited people...

KFAI 90.3 FM Article: MINNECULTURE | ARTIST CANDICE DAVIS UNEARTHS TRUTH IN THE SOIL

KFAI interviews Candice Davis about her show "I Was Born With a Silver Spoon In Your Mouth." Article link: https://www.kfai.org/minnecult...

Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness in St. Cloud

Our partnered exhibition with Mizna, "Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness", that debuted at SooVAC in 2019 is now up in St. Cloud at...

Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness in the News

Our current exhibition in partnership with Mizna, "Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness", is in the news! Thank you to Star Tribune...

2019 SooVAC's Artists' Holiday Shop in the News

We are grateful that we were included in the Star Tribune's list for top five spots in the Twin Cities to buy gifts for that special...

2019/2020 MCAD-Jerome Foundation Early Career Fellows in the Gallery

Congratulations to Sarah Abdel-Jelli and Zachary Betts on receiving the 2019/2020 MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Early Career...

Today, we become In the News

Alicia Eler at the Star Tribune wrote about Prerna's exhibition Today, we become over at the gallery. Make sure to read Alicia's article...

Collect Call 4 In the News!

Russ White over at MPLSART gave us an amazing write up of our upcoming show, Collect Call 4, detailing the collecting history of a few of...

Skew Lines in the News!

Here's a round up of all the write ups for Skew Lines. Good Reads All!!!! Southwest Journal HERE. City Pages HERE. MPLSART HERE.

Arts Touring Grant With Mizna

It was just announced that Mizna received a Minnesota State Arts Board Touring Grant, we are so excited to be partnering with them on...

Guess who is a must see this weekend...

Regan Golden's Prairie Constructs is listed as a must see this weekend in the Star Tribune. Read more HERE. .