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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 6
We Take Everything With Us
Celebrate new works by filmmakers from the Twin Cities and the Midwest! Explore the unique visions and voices of 11 emerging artists using experimental moving image practices in this online cinema showcase, guest curated by Valérie Déus and Merit Thursday.
Online Event
Thu, Oct 1
Design Lab: Tree Time
Nurture a new relationship with a tree during this workshop guided by Karen Lutsy (assistant professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota), inspired by the Future Library project featured in Designs for Different Futures.
Online Event
Sat, Oct 3
Reading and Book Launch: Kao Kalia Yang
Join this virtual storytime to hear Kao Kalia Yang read her new picture book The Most Beautiful Thing. Drawn from her childhood experience as a Hmong refugee, the story offers a window into the life of a family with little money and a great deal of love.
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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