Mutual care, history, interconnectedness, and resilience are but a few of the many things we can learn from plants and the places we are rooted. Learn about the place where the Walker currently resides—once an expanse of marshland and meadow—which holds meaning for Dakota, Ojibwe, and Indigenous people from other Native nations who live in the community today.
Find inspiration in the natural world on a guided garden tour at 7 pm with Kait Ryan, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board lead horticulturalist, to explore the native plants found in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Artist Delia Touché will be leading a drop-in art-making activity to make bookmarks influenced by the art of braiding sweetgrass. Materials and instructions for creative activities are open to all ages and experience levels.
Guests are also welcome to stop into the Mediatheque to view ReMembering: Singing Waters, an original choral film that explores Minnesota as a place of both home and exile for Indigenous people, LGBTQ people, and immigrants. Interconnected stories are brought to life through choral music, spoken word, animation, and life-size puppets.
Galleries are open late and free on Thursday nights from 5–9 pm.
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a partnership between the Walker and the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.
Bios
Delia Touché was born in Devils Lake, ND and is part of the Spirit Lake Nation. She is a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Assiniboine artist based in the Midwest. Delia’s work acknowledges the estranged and complex relationship she has with her Indigenous culture. On a mission to reconnect to her culture while exploring how colonialism created the complex relationship she has with her “Indian” identity. as well as the Indigenous Diaspora, she is working her way back home through various modes of making. Delia’s practice is influenced by family photo archives, Dakota cultural framework, Native nuances, dark humor, Indigenous diaspora, and pop culture. Delia has been exhibited across the United States at venues such as M Contemporary Art, Plains Art Museum, and The Art Galleries at Austin Community College, to name a few. Delia has her work in permanent art collections at the University of North Dakota and St. Olaf College’s Special Collections Department. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a Master of Fine Arts in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art where she received the Gilbert Fellowship.
Kait Ryan joined the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board five years ago as the Horticulture Supervisor. Prior to that, she was the Garden & Grounds Manager for the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden & Glass in Seattle, WA. Working in public horticulture allows Kait the opportunity to see her work improve the quality of life of visitors to the park system. She believes that gardens create memories that can last a lifetime. Kait holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Horticulture from the University of Minnesota.
Accessibility
The Walker hillside and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden are wheelchair accessible. Some activities may take place on grass and gravel surfaces.
Assistive listening devices will be used to ensure participants can hear the facilitator. Participants will be given complimentary disposable headphones to use or may bring their own (compatible with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack).
The Walker is happy to arrange ASL interpretation with at least two weeks advance notice.
To request accommodations for these programs 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.
