program: Aragti Wadaag Residency
2024-2025 Aragti Wadaag Residency
Aragti Wadaag is a residency program by Soomaal House of Art designed to provide artists with a supportive environment to think, work, and develop their creative practices. Aragti Wadaag aims to amplify artists' voices within the Somali community and create more equitable experiences for Somali-American artists in the greater art community…
Exhibition in May, 2025.
exhibition: spearwave
spearwave V4.N1
spearwave is coming back. It is a short, intimate exhibition and gathering space for conversations about art and culture. We hope this gesture will foster interconnectedness and, using spearwave as a foil, allow these artists a fresh opportunity to experiment with new ways of bringing to you the fruits of their artistic conceptions.
Exhibition in April.
award: ArchivesSpace Diversity Partnership
ArchivesSpace Diversity Partnership
Soomaal House has been awarded the 2024-2027 ArchivesSpace Diversity Partnership, enhancing our archives' digital and physical accessibilities. The Soomaal House Library & Archives Center, supporting Somali artists and communities in Minnesota and beyond, focuses on three areas: Contemporary Somali Art, History of Somali Minnesotans, and History of Somalia & Somalis in the diaspora.