
UROC Gallery
Current Exhibit

Creative Communities: Cultural Connections through Art Education—Through June 30, 2025
Experience a powerful exhibition celebrating cultural identity through art, presented by UROC, COMPAS, SEWA-AIFW, and the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery. This exhibit features work from community members led by COMPAS Teaching Artists Amy Wilderson and Shakun Maheshwari, highlighting African American and South Asian creative traditions. This enriching initiative was made possible in part by the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) through funding from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Closing reception will take place at UROC on May 24, 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Reception is free and open to the public. Registration not required.
Past Exhibits
Soulforce: The Movements of Memory—Through February 28, 2025

Investing With North Minneapolis

September 3 through October 22
Exhibition Celebration
4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, September 26
Program at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
UROC’s Investing With North Minneapolis exhibit highlights community-informed student projects in support of an equitable and green North Minneapolis.
The Play Project: Photography by Eric Melzer

Through July 18
Project Naptural: A Socio-Cultural Initiative for Naptural Living Through March

Opening Reception & Natural Hair Expert Panel
5 p.m., Wednesday, January 17
Counterspaces 2.0

Through October
Art and Faith Bridging the Jewish and Black Communities:

The University of Minnesota Religious Studies Program and its partners will host an exhibit and two-day community-oriented opportunity to learn about and engage with the intertwining histories of the Jewish and Black communities in North Minneapolis. The exhibit and symposium, titled Art and Faith Bridging the Jewish and Black Comm
The World Inside You:

Investing in North Minneapolis

August 5 through September 12
The Investing in North Minneapolis exhibition presents community-informed student projects supporting an equitable and green North Minneapolis. In fall of 2021, North Minneapolis residents worked with University of Minnesota architecture students to develop urban planning ideas for North Minneapolis. Ranging from after-school activity centers to green art streets, Investing in North Minneapolis is an exhibit of those ideas in 20+ large format sketches and architectural renderings.
Embrace Humanity

Through August 3, 2021
Together

About the Artist
Sarah Sampedro is a Minneapolis-based photographer interested in social systems, relationships, community, and belonging. Her interest lies in revealing some of the hidden factors that construct social relationships: she has photographed her Minneapolis neighborhood in the midst of an argument over historic designation and gentrification, created a multi-media installation using racially restrictive real estate contracts from Hennepin County, and traveled across Europe to research and photograph border walls.