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A New Art on Call Tour That Focuses on Deep Description
Are you familiar with the Walker’s Art on Call program? It’s a way to access information about works of art—piecing together a personalized audio tour—through your mobile device, home phone, or...
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Family Adventures: 2011 in Review
From the organized chaos of Free First Saturday to the eloquent discoveries of Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate, it has been quite a year in Family Programs at the Walker. With each event carefully...
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Theatre Play: Free First Saturday January
Free First Saturday was filled with theatrical enthusiasm this month. Mu Performing Arts presented Hmong Tiger Tales, three short plays based on Hmong folk stories about tigers including Tiger and...
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Giddy Excited For Lifelike
by Emma Cohen Ever wondered what it would feel like to be a mouse? Or a giant? Or to travel through secret spaces on your way to work? At our smash-hit March Free First Saturday event, we asked kids...
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Getting to Know the Walker’s John Greenwald
Courtesy of Courage Center If you’re a frequent Walker visitor you’ve maybe met John Greenwald. He’s one of our guards and is often poised to greet people as they enter the art center by the Garden...
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Viewfinder: Experiencing Cunningham Through Your Own Body
by Susan Rotilie Last Wednesday evening a group of 18 people joined tour guide Lucy Yogerst and me for a tour of Dance Works I: Merce Cunningham/Robert Rauschenberg. It was a tag-team tour in which...
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Asking Art: Global Change
Every four years, the September energy of a new school year coincides with political intensity leading up to national elections. Influenced by this moment and last night’s opening of The Living Years,...
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November’s Free First Saturday: Experimental Expression
By Rachel Kimpton Guests in front of Bruce Conner’s “Night Angel”. The warm welcome of family-friendly programming grows all the more enticing as winter creeps its way closer. November is always a busy...
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Negotiating Spaces
What does a welcoming entrance look like? How do people in wheelchairs maneuver around the Sculpture Garden or the galleries? Can other sensory elements like smell and touch be part of a space where...
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A Year in Review: Highlights of 2012
By Rachel Kimpton. From the doors of the Walker Art Center to happenings around the city, state, country, and world at large, 2012 was indeed a whirlwind of a year. After putting our heads together, we...
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Scores for Art by Lightsey Darst
A dance critic, poet, and author of Find the Girl (Coffee House Press, 2010) and the forthcoming Dance (September 2013), Lightsey Darst was the first writer selected to participate in The Writers and...
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The Evolution of a Salad
Nivea Cream Piece by Alison Knowles. Performed February 14, 1993, during the In the Spirit of Fluxus opening by L. Van Wieren, J. Anfinson, S. Shinazaki, B. Sobocinski, and T. Carlsom. Alison Knowles...
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I Love That Photo! Or, An Ode to Solitude
Rothko and Me. Submitted by Eric Mueller If there’s one thing I’ve learned as the coordinator of Coffee House Press’s In The Stacks program, which places writers and artists into residencies in...
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Inspired by Whitten: Painting with Ed and Jeremy
Ed Charbonneau picked at a layer of plastic wrapped along the edge of a large canvas. Leaning forward, he delicately pulled upwards, raising the Saran wrap away from the painting and lifting up a thick...
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