October 11, 2025 – May 16, 2026

A Living Collection: 1950 – 2025 consists of artworks selected from the Tweed Museum of Art’s founding collection and acquired each succeeding decade, including new acquisitions made in 2025. The title of the exhibition was inspired by A Living Gallery, the first exhibition of The George P. Tweed Memorial Art Collection in the Tweed’s Duluth home in 1950.

In marking the museum’s 75th year, this exhibition asserts that a museum’s “permanent collection” should not be fixed or immutable but nurtured as a living resource that is actively, re-contextualized, researched, reinterpreted, and shared for the benefit of all.  As the Tweed’s collection has grown through transformative gifts and acquisitions, these additions continue to offer opportunities to shift and reimagine how we teach, learn, and convene through art.

Artists in the exhibition include Rosa Bonheur, Julie Buffalohead, Sandra Byers, Andrea Carlson, Judy Chicago, Barbara Crane, Ruth Cuthand, Agnes Denes, Marita Dingus, Ruth Duckworth, Marisol (Escobar), Cary Esser, Elise Ferguson, Beverly Fishman, Lynn Geesaman, Nan Goldin, Marion Greenwood, Michelle Gregor, Vivika Heino, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Karen Karnes, Friedl Kjellberg, Mika Negishi Laidlaw, Doris Lee, Lucy Lewis, Terri Loewenthal, Clara Mairs, Sally Mann, Julie Mehretu, Judy Onofrio, Beverly Pepper, Irene Rice Pereira, Faith Ringgold, Cara Romero, Judith Roode, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Elspeth Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Anne Kessler Shields, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kiki Smith, Toshiko Takaezu, Helen M. Turner, Stella Waitzkin, Kara Walker, Kay WalkingStick, Patti Warashina, Marie Watt, Dyani White Hawk and Marion Post Wolcott.