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10/22/2025

Happening soon! Thursday 10/23 | Pins for Change: Button Making Workshop, Weitz Commons, 4–5:30 p.m.

Join the Perlman Teaching Museum and Chicago-based community activist Isaac Silver for ‘Pins for Change’, a hands-on button-making workshop. Learn about the history of activism through Silver’s Buttons of the Left archive, , and design your own protest button to express a cause you care about!

✨Register following the link in our bio.✨

Email questions or accommodations requests to [email protected]

This event is presented in connection with the Perlman’s current exhibition ‘Ahimsa’ by Pedro Reyes.

Video by Buttons of the Left.

10/09/2025

Get creative for a cause! Join the Perlman Teaching Museum and Chicago-based community activist Isaac Silver ( ) for a hands-on button-making workshop exploring art, activism, and the history of protest design.

✊ Button-Making Workshop: “Pins for Change”
📅 Thursday, Oct 23
🕓4:00–5:30 PM
📍 Weitz Commons

Make your own button inspired by a cause you care about and check out historic examples from the Buttons of the Left archive, which documents decades of struggles for peace, justice, and equality.

This is a unique chance to mix art and advocacy, turning your ideas into tangible symbols of change.

Space limited to 50 participants. Register now following the link in our bio.

Email questions or accommodations needs to [email protected]

This event is presented in connection with the Perlman’s current exhibition ‘Ahimsa’ by Pedro Reyes.

09/24/2025

✨ Join us this evening for the opening of Pedro Reyes’ ‘Ahimsa’ at Carleton College!

Opening Events – Tonight, Sept 24:
6 PM | Pedro Reyes Ward Lucas Lecture (Weitz Cinema)
7 PM | Tree Planting Ceremony 🌳 (Union & 4th)
7:30–9 PM | Exhibition Opening + Reception

In ‘Ahimsa’, Reyes transforms weapons of war into tools for peace and collective action. Featuring works made from decommissioned fi****ms alongside campaigns for nuclear disarmament, the exhibition demonstrates how art can mobilize communities toward change and a safer, more just future.

More info + links in bio.

🌿 Pedro Reyes: Ahimsa
📍 Weitz Center for Creativity & Perlman Teaching Museum
📅 Sept 24 – Nov 19, 2025

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09/23/2025

This fall, the Perlman Teaching Museum presents ‘Ahimsa’, a solo exhibition by artist Pedro Reyes (b. 1972, Mexico City, Mexico). Through sculpture, video, inflatables, and community projects, Reyes transforms weapons of war into tools for peace and collective action.

Featuring artworks made from decommissioned fi****ms alongside campaigns for nuclear disarmament, the exhibition demonstrates how art can mobilize communities toward change and a safer, more just future.

🌿 Pedro Reyes: Ahimsa opens at Carleton College!
📍 Weitz Center for Creativity & Perlman Teaching Museum
📅 Sept 24 – Nov 19, 2025

OPENING EVENTS

✨ Tonight, Sept 23
7 PM | Amendment to the Amendment

A workshop which invites community members to become active participants in reimagining and proposing revisions to the U.S. Second Amendment. The evening will feature live music performed on instruments forged from melted-down fi****ms, part of Reyes’ celebrated ‘Disarm’ series.

Tomorrow, Sept 24
6 PM | Ward Lucas Lecture (Weitz Cinema)
7 PM | Tree Planting Ceremony 🌳 (Union & 4th)
7:30–9 PM | Exhibition Opening + Reception

More information and links available in our bio.

04/04/2025

There is still time to apply for 2025/26 student worker roles at the Perlman Teaching Museum!

All applications (form + resume) are due next ⭐️Tuesday, April 8th⭐️ by midnight. Find the link to the application page and form in our bio and on our website.

We’re hiring for several positions:

✨ Museum Curatorial Student Worker (2 spots, 4 hrs/wk): Dive into artistic research, help plan exhibitions, draft labels, and engage with the Carleton Art Collection! Perfect for detail-oriented students passionate about art history and contemporary art.
🤝 Museum Attendant (6 spots, 4-6 hrs/wk): Be a friendly face in the galleries! Greet visitors, answer questions, ensure artwork safety, and even get some study time in. Ideal for outgoing and reliable individuals.
💡Museum Events Student Worker (2 spots, 4 hrs/wk): Help bring exciting art events to campus! Brainstorm ideas, collaborate with artists, and support event ex*****on. Great for creative and communicative students.

Ready to join our team and get hands-on museum experience? Our supportive work community offers personalized mentorship, valuable experience, and will expand your knowledge of art! As one student worker said, “I enjoy working at the Perlman Teaching Museum because it gives me the chance to see art and learn about artists I otherwise wouldn’t.” Apply now!

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02/28/2025

We still have three spots open for today’s Lunch with a Curator event with Natalie Bell, Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Interested students are welcome to come without advance registration, first come first serve.

🗓️Date: Friday, February 28th
🕦Time: 12-1 p.m.
📍Location: Boliou Hall, Room 140

About the Event:

The Perlman Teaching Museum and Art and Art History Department at Carleton College invite you to ‘Lunch With A Curator’, a professional development talk by Natalie Bell, Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge and originating curator of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s current exhibition by Basel Abbas and Ruane Abou-Rahme.

In this one hour session, Natalie Bell will give insight into her curatorial path, how she got started in the museum field, and share a selection of exhibition projects which have been especially meaningful for her. She will speak for 30 to 40 minutes followed by a question and answer period. This session is ideal for students with an interest in pursuing a career in the museum sector!

About the Speaker:
Natalie Bell is Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, where she has organized recent solo exhibitions of Steina, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Raymond Boisjoly, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Leslie Thornton, Sung Tieu, and Sreshta Rit Premnath, and co-curated the group exhibition Symboints: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere. From 2013-19, she was Associate Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she curated and co-curated over a dozen solo exhibitions and several major group exhibitions, including Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon; The Keeper, and Here and Elsewhere. Prior to her work at the New Museum, Bell was an assistant curator for The Encyclopedic Palace, the International Exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

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“Aslı Çavuşoğlu: The Place of Stone,” 2018. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio. Courtesy New Museum. Alt text in image

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02/27/2025

Tune in today from noon-1 p.m.!🎧📻🔊🖤

Museum student workers are going live today, February 27th at noon on Carleton’s student-run radio station KRLX. Listen following the link in the bio or at www.content.krlx.org

Drew Rodriguez-Michel ‘25, Maddy Sriver ‘27, Alex Tananbaum ‘25, and Elias Tannira ’25 will be diving deep into our current exhibition, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, open through March 12th.

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the powerful artwork of Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, exploringhow their exhibition engages with communal song and dance, memory, and political resistance.

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Installation view: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
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01/30/2025

Join us this Friday, January 31st, 5 - 6 p.m. for an embodied tour of our current exhibition “Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us”. The tour will be led by Leila Awadallah, a Palestinian-American dancer and choreographer based in Minneapolis.

During this one hour event, participants will spend time immersing themselves in the exhibition and be guided through gestural movement prompts and mirroring practices to explore embodied responses to artwork on view. No prior dance experience is needed. This event is free and open to all.

📍Location: Perlman Teaching Museum
🗓️Date: Friday, January 31
🕦Time: 5 - 6 p.m.

For more information on the exhibition visit our website linked in our bio or “carleton.edu/museum/only-sounds”.

Thank you to the Elizabeth Nason Distinguished Visitors Fund for their support of Leila Awadallah’s week-long residency in the Carleton College’s Theater and Dance department.

“Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us” is organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and curated by Natalie Bell, MIT List Visual Arts Center. At the Perlman Teaching Museum it is organized by Sara Cluggish, Mary Hulings Rice Director. It is made possible by a hosting grant from Teiger Foundation.

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Image courtesy of Leila Awadallah, Photo: Alon Koppel. Alt text in image.

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01/21/2025

The Perlman Teaching Museum warmly invites you to an artist talk with Basel Abbas and Ruanne-Abou-Rahme ✨6-7pm on Wednesday, January 22✨in the Cinema of Carleton’s Weitz Center for Creativity.

Artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme undertake long-term research projects that center themes of collectivity, resistance, and memory. Their winter 2025 exhibition at the Perlman Teaching Museum, “Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us”, features three bodies of work from the pair’s decade-long project “May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth” (2010–ongoing). This research, spanning the past decade, explores diverse traditions of communal song and dance as a form of resistance across Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Working across a range of media — including moving-image installations, sound, performance, and poetry — their artwork centers themes of collectivity, resistance, and memory.

For more information on the artists and exhibition visit our website linked in our bio or “www.carleton.edu/museum/only-sounds”.

This exhibition is organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and curated by Natalie Bell, MIT List Visual Arts Center. At the Perlman Teaching Museum it is organized by Sara Cluggish, Mary Hulings Rice Curator and Director. It is made possible by a hosting grant from Teiger Foundation.

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Exhibition view: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2024. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Alt text in image.

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01/09/2025

This winter, the Perlman Teaching Museum presents Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, January 13 - March 12, 2025.

Working across a range of media - including moving image installations, sound, performance, and poetry - Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme undertake long-term research projects that center themes of collectivity, resistance, and memory. The artist duo will be in conversation with Museum Director Sara Cluggish on ✨Wednesday, January 22, 6-7 p.m. ✨I n Carleton’s Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema.

Among other works, the exhibition includes the three-channel video installation, Only sounds that tremble through us (2020–22), which debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2022, builds upon the artists’ digital video archive of song and dance—primarily from communities in Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen—which the artists collected from social media. At Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s invitation, three musicians and one dancer use their bodies as samplers and take up varied improvisations in response to the movements, lyrics, or sentiments they observed in these quotidian recordings. Surfacing these ephemeral gestures through reinterpretation, Abbas and Abou-Rahme ask what it means to archive sound and gesture through embodiment and look to song and dance as modes of resistance and repositories of memory in the face of loss.”

This exhibition is organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and curated by Natalie Bell, MIT List Visual Arts Center. At the Perlman Teaching Museum it is organized by Sara Cluggish, Mary Hulings Rice Director, and made possible by a hosting grant from Tieger Foundation.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition.

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May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2020-2022 (still). Alt text in image.

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