open call: 2025-2026 Residency
2025-2026 Aragti Wadaag Residency APPLICATION IS NOW OPEN!!
The residency application for the 2025-2026 year is currently open and it is due on June 27, 11:59 PM. Please make sure to read about the benefits and eligibility of the program. Applicant must be resident of Minnesota since June 27, 2024. All of your questions can be sent to admin@soomaalhouse.com.
DUE FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 11:59 PM
current exhibition: 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…
May 8 – June 21, 2025
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.