EVENTS
POETRY READING + RECEPTION
CHRISTIAN MICHAEL FILARDO
10/21/26, 8 PM
Join us for drinks and a short reading of new poems by The Cloud House resident Christian Michael Filardo, a Filipino American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Their work utilizes photography, poetry, sound, and sequencing to create complex visual narratives. Filardo has exhibited work across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, including locally in a solo show with Nightclub (2022). They have released books with Bleu Acier Press, Friend Editions and Pomegranate Press.
In the estuaries of my mind a lamb is drowning in a puddle
shepherd splitting cane near the rubble of the Parthenon
driving flock into my backend while I dream
what shall I wake to but desire for Paris and debt the size of a pink lady
a pacemaker where a lovers’ arrow should be
- from Callery Pear by Christian Michael Filardo
Christian Michael Filardo.
ARTIST TALK + SCREENING
Sonja Thomsen
10/13/26, 4-5 PM
Sonja Thomsen will present a screening and conversation drawn from Two Schools, a multi-channel film in development centered on Hazel Larsen Archer and Lucia Moholy, two photographers whose images built the canonical visual records of Black Mountain College and the Bauhaus. Both women’s contributions were made peripheral by the institutions they helped define. The excerpt screened from Two Schools currently draws on three years of archival research, including sustained collaboration with Hazel Larsen Archer's daughter Erika Zarrow, who holds the family archive in Tucson.
Presented during her residency at the Cloud House, Thomsen will introduce the project and screen a section of the film, followed by an open conversation. The evening offers an early encounter with the work while it is still actively taking form.
Sonja Thomsen is a Milwaukee-based artist whose twenty-year practice uses light as a tool for intergenerational collaboration with women whose contributions to art history were absorbed into other people's legacies. Working in photography, large-scale installation, kinetic sculpture, film, and artists' books, she builds new material vocabularies from sustained archival research. Her current project, Two Schools, is a multi-channel film and installation examining Lucia Moholy and Hazel Larsen Archer, the photographers whose images built the canonical records of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. She has exhibited at the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin; the Reykjavik Museum of Photography; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the Walker Art Center Library, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She was the 2025 Josef Breitenbach Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and is Full Professor Adjunct in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sonja Thomsen. Two Schools (still frame detail), 2026 - ongoing.
ARTIST TALK + OPEN STUDIO
DEE CLEMENTS
9/29/26, 5:30 PM
Join us for an artist talk and open studio with Chicago-based artist Dee Clements, in Minneapolis for a residency with The Cloud House. Clements works in sculptural basketry, ceramics, and painting, with interests in ethnography, feminism, and craft. During her residency, she is focused on new sculptural paintings that explore decorative arts, nature, and the human impact on the planet.
Dee Clements work has been included in recent exhibitions at Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami), Nina Johnson Gallery (Miami), R + CO (New York) and Kasmin (New York).
Dee Clements.
ARTIST TALKS
CHANG SUJUNG + PATRICK MOHUNDRO
8/4/26, 5 PM
We are pleased to invite you to two back-to-back artist talks with Patrick Carlin Mohundro & Chang Sujung.
Chang’s work draws from narratives of everyday life, human migration, absurd dreams, and language (especially English idioms). Since moving to the US from South Korea, Chang has explored questions of belonging and concepts of home. For the artist, “The body itself is a highly organized container, one that depends on other containers—clothing, architecture, and the surrounding environment. This has led to projects that reimagine garments as sculptural forms. Sleeves and shirt cuffs become sites of intimacy and reflection, while skirts emerge as shapeshifting structures that transform into vessels.”
Patrick Carlin Mohundro makes “work adjacent to painting and sculpture: objects, perhaps, ideas, maybe. Hammers pass through glass, candles flop and smell like flesh coated in Speed Stick®, porcelain simulates canvas while stained glass stands in for paint.”
Patrick Carlin Mohundro. Vertical Construction with Mirror and Glass, 2026. Mirror and glass. ½ x 132 in.
Patrick Carlin Mohundro. Stacked Color, 2026. Stained Glass
½ x 132 in.
CONVERSATION
Luis Mejicanos + Rachel Collier
7/29/24, 5 PM
Join us for a conversation with Luis Edgar Mejicanos, The Cloud House’s current artist in residence, and Minneapolis-based artist Rachel Collier. Offering a poignant exploration of childhood longing, vulnerability, and the complexity of human emotion, Mejicanos's blend of sentimentality and vibrancy invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of youth and self-discovery. Rachel Collier's materials are activated by a meditative and resilient process rooted in non-representational painterly tradition. While referencing the languages of maps and topography, Collier’s language deconstructs from the grid to imagine transcendent space.
Following the conversation, we invite you to join us for a reception with the artists and to view works by Mejicanos made during his residency. Paintings will be available for sale to benefit the residency. We look forward to seeing you there!
Luis Mejicanos. Pizarra, 2023 (detail). Oil on canvas. 50 in x 74 in. Courtesy of the artist.
OPEN STUDIO + BBQ
Luka Carter + Keioui Keijaun Thomas
6/7/24, 6–8PM
Join us for an open studio event with The Cloud House's Artists in Residence, hosted on Dreamsong's campus. Luka Carter and Keioui Keijaun Thomas will be sharing drawings, ceramics, apparel and photography in our Cinema. Outside, enjoy a backyard BBQ on Carter's ceramic grill! At 8pm, we will screen an excerpt from Thomas' Come Hell or High Femmes: Act 2. The Last Trans Femmes on Earth: Dripping Doll Energy, which imagines a lush and verdant post-apocalyptic world inhabited by surviving “dolls” — trans femmes so flawless they are no longer considered real. Through camouflage and metamorphosis, the artist reclaims what it means to be Black and queer in nature, forging new ways to exist in relation to the American landscape.
Keioui Keijaun Thomas photographed by Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist.
SCREENING
Black Dreams & Black Time
6/9/2023, 7PM
Black feminist performance artist Gabrielle Civil presents a selection of video work from across her two decade career. Taking its title from her latest performance memoir the déjà vu: black dreams & black time (Coffee House Press, 2022), this screening will include videoperformances, performance documentation, and live art action. Civil will flashback to her Twin Cities collaborations with artists Miré Regulus, Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, Sayge Carroll, Moe Lionel, Rosamond S. King, and more. Civil will also preview Pilgrimage, her durational live performance premiering at Franconia Sculpture Park later in June. This event will close with a brief talkback and reception.
Photo: Sayge Carroll. Courtesy of the artist.
ARTIST TALK
Mañiañin
4/21/2023, 7PM
Join artist Pio Abad and curator and writer Erin Robideaux Gleeson for Mañiañinu: To appear as a reflection; to be mirrored, a live research session that meanders with Ivatan song and documentary photography through past, present and future wet migrations, partially shared language, indigeneity between colonial escape and national fictions, archeology as speculative reconstruction, and more. Followed by a light brunch inspired by Austronesian food cultures.
This event will conclude Pio Abad’s FD13 week-long residency in Minneapolis, following his celebration with and contributions to his aunt Pacita Abad’s solo exhibition, publication and programs at the Walker Art Center (April 15, 2023 – September 30, 2023). The materials and ideas engaging this live research are toward Abad’s new commission for Small World, the 13th Taipei Biennale (November 18, 2023 – March 24, 2024).
Documentary photographs by Pio Abad (2023). Left: Jade artefacts excavated in Hualien; Right: Tatala boats of the Tao (Yami) people, Lanyu Island.
WALKTHROUGH
Memories of Future Fires
8/3/2022, 5PM
Please join us for a walkthrough of Memories of Future Fires with the artist, Tali Weinberg.
Through weaving and sculpture, I trace relationships between climate crisis, extraction, illness, and sense of place; between personal and communal loss; and between corporeal and ecological bodies. In my newest work I interweave petrochemical-derived materials, plant materials, and landscape imagery to draw connections between climate crisis, fossil fuel extraction, and the buildup of toxic plastics in the earth, water, and our bodies.
Forest fires; smoke inhalation; microplastics in our ecosystems, blood, and lungs; loss of homes past and future. The hand-woven pieces in “Memories of Future Fires” each start with photos I took in a fire-decimated landscape in the Pacific Northwest. I reduce the trees in these landscapes down to their fundamental shapes before rematerializing them with petrochemical-derived monofilament. As I look to connections between the life-sustaining circulatory systems that are both internal and external to the human body, the abstracted tree forms also begin to evoke hearts and lungs. Up close, the transparent, porous, woven structures take shape as cells and flames.
Tali Weinberg, Arterial, 2022 (detail),Handwoven plant fibers, petrochemical-derived dyes and monofilament. 86 x 112 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
PERFORMANCE
Chaw Ei Thein
12/4/2021, 8PM
In solidarity with the multi-ethnic civil disobedience movement across Myanmar today, this new performance* by Chaw Ei Thein was developed for and during the artist’s FD13 residency in the Twin Cities, home to the largest community of Karen peoples in the United States. FD13 Director Erin Gleeson will open the event with a brief introduction to Chaw Ei Thein’s practice in relation to political and performance art histories in Myanmar. Following the performance is a reception with the artist. Masks + proof of vaccination are required.
*Performance may contain violent content based on experiences of the artists/speakers.
Chaw Ei’s Thein’s FD13 residency is hosted by Dreamsong’s Cloud House Residency, which provides accommodations and support for visual artists who are developing, exhibiting or curating new work in the Twin Cities.
Film still of Chaw Ei Thein from Min Min Hein’s documentary film Listen (2017). Courtesy of the artist.
SCREENING + CONVERSATION
Anocha Suwichakornpong
3/15/2022, 7PM
Dreamsong is pleased to present a program of short films by the prominent filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong, visiting Cloud House Resident. The program features work made over the last 15 years that shape-shifts between genres by way of a deep engagement with the history of cinema. Blurring the line between fantasy and reality, the films confront historical trauma in striking, intimate narratives. Sharing an interest in myth, historical memory and marginalized communities, Suwichakornpong’s short films present insightful vignettes and character studies through a feminist lens.
The program features 6 short films and will be followed by a conversation with Anocha Suwichakornpong and Rebecca Heidenberg, and a Q&A.
Film still from Overseas (2012) co-directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong and Wichanon Somumjarn. Courtesy of the artist.