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UROC Gallery
Current Exhibit
![The Play Project](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_half/public/2024-03/play-project.png?itok=ItKGmRX9)
The Play Project: Photography by Eric Melzer
Through July 18
Minneapolis-based photographer Eric Melzer uses black-and white-documentary photography to celebrate neighborhood play and good health during times of social and climate crisis. This chapter of the project features pickup basketball players from Minneapolis's Peavey Field Park. The project has earned ten international awards to date and is showing in UROC's Mississippi Gallery. Melzer is nationally recognized for his photography of people, places and the natural world.
Past Exhibits
Project Naptural: A Socio-Cultural Initiative for Naptural Living Through March
![Hairitage Gallery](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2023-12/hairitage-gallery2.png?itok=bfxqzyrg)
Opening Reception & Natural Hair Expert Panel
5 p.m., Wednesday, January 17
Counterspaces 2.0
![Counterspaces](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2023-07/counterspacesimage_0.png?itok=uS-xkZy2)
Through October
Art and Faith Bridging the Jewish and Black Communities:
![Art and Faith Bridging the Jewish and Black Communities](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2023-04/church.png?itok=tYYQ170O)
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:
![An artistic painting around the text: "The world inside you is wild and smooth, made of colors, cells, textures, and sounds- It's the song you'll sing with your magical voice."](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2022-09/the%20world%20inside%20you2_0.png?itok=uUJUK5eB)
Investing in North Minneapolis
![Illustration of a pocket neighborhood from a ground view](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2022-06/pocket%20neighborhood%20final.png?itok=EdXsQR5Y)
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
![An artistic interpretation of a trumpet player sitting on a map of the United States](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2022-02/We%20Got%20This_1.jpg?itok=lpWOCPrR)
Through August 3, 2021
Together
![Collage of the several of the images from the Together slideshow](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2021-07/together%20collage.jpg?itok=HZCUbJRt)
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.
Minnesota Black Fine Art Virtual Show
![A woman faces the sea and raises her hands, broken shackles on her wrists](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2020-11/Breaking%20Free%20BY%20IVY%20VAINIO.jpg?itok=GbYorC9E)
"N the No"- February 1 through March 28, 2020
![Ta-coumba Aiken](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2020-01/ta-coumbaAiken_publicArtist_ArtActivist.jpg?itok=H245PO7x)
Artivist Ta-coumba Aiken brings his distinctive, healing-focused renderings to the UROC Gallery for "N the No." Part exploration, part investigation, the show asks, "What is the truth? How might you live differently if you knew the truth?"
She Inspires Me
![She Inspires Me image](/sites/uroc.umn.edu/files/styles/gallery_image/public/2019-11/image1.png?itok=1-QPmZxl)