Slow down. Look closely. What do you see? Artist Allan Sekula spent seven years learning about and documenting the global shipping industry for his series of photographs titled Fish Story. Follow the lead of Sekula and other photographers who use their cameras to reveal rich stories hidden in plain view.
Free First Saturday features free gallery admission on the first Saturday of every month. Gallery admission tickets are available in advance online and on-site on the event day from the Main Lobby desk; quantities are limited. Free admission 10 am–5 pm; activities 10 am–3 pm.
Activity Information
Art-Making Activity: Collage Stories, 10 am–3 pm
Photographs can tell us stories about the world we live in. Often these stories are more complex than a single photograph can communicate to us. Join teaching artist Leslie Grant to create a collage by combining photographs of boats and other objects to craft your own visual story informed by Allan Sekula’s Fish Story.
Art-Making Activity: Cardboard Camera, 10 am–3 pm
Make your own cardboard camera for close looking! After decorating and assembling your camera, use it to focus on details in the world around you. Sekula paid close attention to the colors, lines, angles, textures, and shapes present in his environment. What catches your eye? What stories do you want to tell?
Art-Making Activity: Slide Film Keychains, 10 am–3 pm
Take home a bit of photography and Walker history in the form of a keychain made from recycled slide film. Featuring images of past exhibitions, artworks, and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, each slide once belonged to the Walker archives. Since being digitized, the original slides are no longer in use.
Tour for Families, 11:30 am
Tour for General Audiences, 1 pm
Join a Walker educator for a family-friendly guided tour of artworks on view in the galleries at 11:30 am (40 min.), or take a guided tour for general audiences at 1 pm (60 min.). Tours meet at the Main Lobby desk, five minutes before the tour start time. Tours explore a selection of artworks across current exhibitions and include interactive discussion.
Visit the Walker Art Center Library, 10 am–3 pm
The Walker’s library is open! Explore the stacks and find inspiration in the library’s collection of artful books. The library entrance is through the Art Lab.
Watch a Short Film, 10 am–3 pm
Stop by the Bentson Mediatheque to watch the short film Our Days in Dongshi, a documentary created by a group of elementary school students focusing on work and daily life in a coastal community of oyster farmers. The 10-minute film will loop between 10 am and 3 pm. This relaxed screening is appropriate for all ages.
Accessibility
The short film will be captioned.
To request accommodations for this program or for more information about accessibility, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
For more information about accessibility at the Walker, visit our Access page.
Bio
Leslie Grant is a photographer and researcher based in Minneapolis. Her practice focuses on work and the communities that form around sites of labor, such as a salt mine in Upstate New York, a logging town in British Columbia, a sugar refinery in Brooklyn, and a geothermal bore field in Northfield, Minnesota. She incorporates different types of images and archival materials to tell multilayered and open-ended stories about people at work.
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