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EXHIBITIONS: NOW ON VIEW
Designs for Different Futures
Discover a range of thought-provoking and brain-tickling projects by designers who are envisioning futures big and small, practical and whimsical, critical and sometimes downright utopian. This new exhibition asks us to imagine futures different than what we might expect, while painting a fascinating portrait of the present.
An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018
An Art of Changes surveys six decades of Johns’s practice in printmaking, highlighting his experiments with familiar, abstract, and personal imagery that play with memory and visual perception in endlessly original ways. The exhibition features some 90 works in intaglio, lithography, woodcut, linoleum cut, screenprinting, and lead relief.
Don’t let this be easy
In this new exhibition, discover the diverse and experimental practices of womxn artists in the Walker’s collection—many of whom challenge traditional museum categories and collecting practices to this day. Explore artworks spanning some 50 years including paintings, sculptures, moving image works, artists’ books, and materials from the archives.
Walker at Home
Online Screening
Through Oct 26
Collection Playlist: Surface Tension & This Action Lies
Enjoy two witty yet existential takes on the mundane: Hollis Frampton’s short film Surface Tension is paired with James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s This Action Lies.
Online Event
Thu, Oct 22
Design Lab: Family Futures
Learn about ways design methods can be applied to motherhood during this interactive workshop led by Alexis Hope, featured artist in Designs for Different Futures.
Online Event
Fri, Oct 30
Teen Takeover: Unmuted Mic
Teens are invited to join the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council for a virtual open mic with featured artists VIAL, theMARAJ, and EVV—plus games, giveaways, and cool conversations.
MN Artists
Artist Grants
The Walker is partnering with ten Twin Cities-based arts organizations to make direct grants in support of local artists.
Walker News
Message from Executive Director Mary Ceruti
Dear Walker Art Center Community,
As some of you may have seen from social media posts or local news stories, a group of Walker Art Center employees recently informed us of their effort to organize a union for Walker staff. The Walker positively affirms and respects the right of employees to unionize and if a majority of our employees vote for a union in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board, the Walker will recognize it and work with them. I have also heard from staff that do not see the benefit of a union at the Walker and do not want to join.
I believe that the Walker is a unique institution that has done much to create innovative models for interdisciplinary programming and public engagement over the last few decades. Our opportunity moving forward is to continue reimagining how a museum like ours can be structured, and to continue seeking employee input and feedback in ways that could help us create new and exemplary models for both programming and our internal structures.
We encourage all of our staff to engage in open and respectful dialogue about this important issue. They should all be clear about the purpose and goals of the union, what the organizers hope to achieve, and about both the benefits and drawbacks that staff might experience.
I want to assure the entire Walker community that as I continue to engage staff in this dialogue, our overarching commitment to the work that we do—bringing outstanding and relevant experiences with art to this community—has not changed.
Mary Ceruti
Executive Director
SPACE FOR RESPITE AND REFLECTION
WALKER READER
Nicole J. Caruth
Shadows at the Crossroads
Honoring important Minnesotans of color, this work by Twin Cities artists Ta-coumba T. Aiken, Rosemary Soyini Vinelle Guyton, and Seitu Jones embeds the shadows of figures, including Harriet Robinson Scott, Maḣpiya Wic̣aṡṭa, and Kirk Washington, Jr., into the Garden’s footpaths.
Online Experience
Available Now
Black Vessel for a Saint
Conceived as a secular sacred sanctuary, Theaster Gates’s sculpture consists of a black brick tempietto that’s home to a statue of Saint Laurence, salvaged from a church in the artist’s South Side Chicago neighborhood.
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Garden Fund
The ongoing maintenance of sculptures in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is supported entirely by donations to the Garden Fund. Your gift also supports the development of educational programming in and around the Garden.
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