Michelle Massey

The Museum of Russian Art Receives Highest National Recognition

TMORA Awarded Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums July 16, 2024 – The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) has achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded to the nation’s museums. Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-going public.  […] Read more

Pam Ingalls: In the Russian Tradition

The exhibition of paintings by Pam Ingalls presents thirty-two works by this figurative artist, displayed in TMORA’s Fireside Gallery.  Pam Ingalls loves to paint light falling on ordinary people, objects, and scenes. Raised in Spokane, Washington, she was first inspired by her parents, artists Richard and Marjorie Ingalls. She studied art at the Accademia Di […] Read more

Star Tribune: Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov has rocked the Twin Cities for more than 40 years

Zoran Mojsilov leans on one of his tree ring artworks, part of a solo exhibition at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis. Photo by Shari L. Gross Dust covered drills, hooks, chains, saws and everything else in sight in Zoran Mojsilov’s cavernous northeast Minneapolis studio near the river. Across from the studio parking lot […] Read more

Women in Soviet Art: 1930-1991

The exhibition Women in Soviet Art brings together thirty paintings by prominent Soviet artists to examine the visual representations of women during the Soviet era. Avoiding traditional depictions of the cloistered feminine world, Soviet art passionately propagated the images of women as active contributors to the socialist economy. From the TMORA permanent Collection, and on […] Read more

Peasant Women of the Russian North: Heritage of a Culture Lost

The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is pleased to present Peasant Women of the Russian North: Heritage of a Culture Lost. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, over 100 rare artifacts reveal the rich peasant culture in northern and central Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before the Soviet collectivization of farmland, […] Read more