Sway by Alexandra Beaumont
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 25, 2026, 6 - 9 PM
Exhibitions run July 25 - August 30, 2026
Sway is a solo exhibition by Minneapolis-based textile artist and dancer Alexandra Beaumont that celebrates movement as a powerful force for building community and solidarity. Her textile work focuses on collective movement, social dance, and gathering to reclaim the present through the body, with each stitch and layer reflecting expressions of collective power found in stepping in time together. Drawing from her personal experience with line dancing and her heritage as the daughter of musicians, Beaumont's pieces explore the tension of unified bodies moving within structured grids while inviting flourishes of color and swirl. Her practice features large-scale cloth banners—often centering painted, embroidered, and beaded silhouettes of friends and neighbors on sheer cloths—that capture the visual and kinetic joy of the dance floor.
Soo Visual Arts Center has exhibited over 2500 under-represented artists since opening our doors in 2001. As a leader in discovering new talent and with a strong focus on emerging artists from the state of Minnesota, SooVAC offers year-round exhibition and community programming.
Founded by visual artist Suzy Greenberg in 2001, our non-profit 501 (c)3 art space is based on the founder’s relationship with art—one that views the artistic as vital to personal and community health and vision.
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SooVAC is closed to install 3 new exhibitions. Join us for those openings on Saturday, July 25th, 6 to 9PM.