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Yale Redpath Professor Meleko Mokgosi Featured Artist in the MIA “Giants” Exhibit to speak and give tour

The Yale Alumni Association of the Norwest invites you to the Minnapolis Institute of Art to Break bread with an art ‘Giant’ Meleko Mokgosi on June 1 at 10 AM

Grammy-winning superstar Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz, have made the Minneapolis Institute of Art only the third stop for “Giants", a groundbreaking exhibit drawn from their world-class art collection. While the exhibit boasts large canvasses from global Black artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, there is a whole room of 30-plus art pieces from Botswanan painter and Yale University art professor Meleko Mokgosi.

Please join the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest as we welcome Prof. Mokgosi as a Redpath speaker for a breakfast in Mia and a tour of “Giants.” 10 a.m. June 1, Mia.

10 am at MIA: Intimate Breakfast, Talk and Tour with Yale Redpath Speaker Prof. Mokgosi. Meet in the Wells Fargo Room. $60 fee includes “Giants” exhibit tickets. (BOLD Alums $20)

2 pm at MIA: Join a public talk in the Pillsbury Auditorium with Mokgosi and Casey Riley YC'93, Mia’s Chair of Global Contemporary Art. (Complimentary for YAANW members.)

Questions? Contact yaanw@yaanw.org

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