From the first organized games, through the Millers, the World Series wins by the Twins, to today's ownership drama, Minnesota baseball is full of stories. Learn about the rich history of baseball in our state with fellow enthusiasts.

Frida Kahlo lived an illustrated life. She was brutally honest with herself and with the public, often using her paintings as a form of art therapy. Her short life was a constant struggle between tragedy and pain, creativity and artistic success. Together we'll discuss her life and times and the lasting impact of her profound work.

In 1839, 53 Africans were captured in western Africa in what is modern day Sierra Leone. The Transatlantic slave trade had been banned by international treaty. But a number of European countries turned a blind eye to violations. Shipped to Cuba and sold to slave traders, the 53 were given Cuban identities in what amounted to a human trafficking operation for African slaves. Boarded on a Schooner called the Amistad, the 53 rose up and killed the ship's captain and a crew member. Taking control of the schooner, it sailed aimlessly in the Atlantic along the United States coast. Seized by a United States Coast Guard ship, African would be charged with Murder and Piracy in the United States. Learn about this early abolitionist's fight to free the Africans. The case had consequences for United States international relations with Spain and the division between the American north and South pre-Civil War.

Hilma af Klint was a talented Swedish artist whose public work was the height of conventional realism at the dawn of the 20th century. Decades after her death, a treasure trove of paintings and works on paper revealed an artist who created monumental abstracts in daring colors inspired by spiritual guides from another realm. These works predate the modernist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, considered the forefathers of the abstract avant-garde. What do these paintings mean and why did she work in secret? Is the world finally ready to accept the secret paintings of Hilma af Klint?

Celebrate a few of the women artists who captured their unique and distinct perspectives of the world through photography. Spanning the realms of photojournalism, war correspondence, Surrealism and societal commentary, this presentation will feature the work of Dorothea Lange, Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons.