Gallery admission is free for everyone on the first Saturday of each month. Families can enjoy live performances, films, gallery adventures, and hands-on art-making from 10 am–3 pm. Activities recommended for ages 6–12.
Share your creativity with other families in a series of four outdoor Free First Saturdays at the Walker’s Open Field, June through September. Join us for live music, stories, shows, and art-making activities— including the Drawing Club.
Raising Creative Kids Resource Fair
10 am–3 pm
Find ways to make your family’s summer innovative, inspiring, and fun, from a host of local nonprofits and retailers that specialize in creativity and kids, including Ax-man Surplus Stores, Creative Kidstuff, Kindermusik, and Zenon Dance Company.
Drawing Club
10 am–3 pm
Sketch with local artists and add to a pool of collectively created artworks. Finished works will be displayed on the Open Field Flickr page.
Art-Making for the Entire Family: A Bird’s-eye View
10 am–3 pm
What does Open Field look like from the sky? Use a tiny camera attached to a balloon to find out. Then help make an artwork on the ground that can be seen from above. Led by designers and educators from D.E.M.O. (Design Education Modus Operandi) and the University of Minnesota College of Design.
Art-Making for the Entire Family: Speed Racer
10 am–3 pm
Design and build cars or other wheeled creations to race down the Open Field hillside. Led by instructors from Leonardo’s Basement.
Performance: Roma di Luna
1 pm
Partners on and off stage, Channy Moon Casselle and Alexei Moon Casselle front one of the Twin Cities’ favorite music acts—a full-fledged band inspired by bluesmen, folk troubadours, and other roots music. All ages are welcome at this outdoor concert.
