Explore an exhibition, watch a film, listen to a lecture, make art, and ask questions. The conversation starts here, with free gallery admission from 5 to 9 pm every Thursday night beginning April 28.
Tours
6 pm
See new works as well as old favorites from the Walker’s collection on a tour of the galleries.
7 pm
Get acquainted with the new Walker on an architectural tour.
Drop-in Art-making Activity: Greetings from the Walker!
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 5–9 pm
Visit the new Art Lab and create a piece of mail art inspired by the architecture of Herzog & de Meuron. Then send your salutations off to family and friends across the world, who might just thank you for this savvy alternative to junk mail.
Music: DJ Tarik Moody
Garden Lounge, 5–9 pm
Kick back and relax on some plush furniture while you check the beats and breaks of DJ Tarik Moody.
Video Installation: Ericka Beckman’s Frame UP
Lecture Room, 5–9 pm
As the new Walker rose from a hole in the ground to become a shimmering cube on the landscape, artist-in-residence Ericka Beckman captured hundreds of hours of its construction on film. See Frame UP, her pinball-game inspired work, on view all evening.
Artist Talk: Ed Templeton
Cinema, 7 pm
The life of a teenager in Southern California isn’t as glamorous as the Fox drama The O.C. depicts. A product of Southern California living, Ed Templeton’s art encompasses the daily life of this professional skateboarder/artist amid strip malls, beaches, and youth culture. For this talk, Templeton discusses how his surroundings inform his painting, photography, and graphic design and presents segments from Good & Evil, a skateboarding film by his skate company Toy Machine, and Deformer, a documentary about his life by Mike Mills.