Artwork on the Move: The Walker’s Custom Crates

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Artwork on the Move: The Walker’s Custom Crates

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Crate logo design for the exhibition ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962 - 1964, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2005. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.

After closing at the Walker, many of our exhibitions travel to other museums across the world. To safeguard the invaluable artworks during transit, talented staff in the exhibitions department at the Walker design and build custom crates. For over three decades, this team has created custom spray-paint stencils for each exhibition that distill its themes into a single image.

Displayed within the Walker offices, a collection of these crate stencils reflect the creativity and craft that is inherent to all we do at the Walker.

Pulling back the curtain, this collection reveals a small sample of the craft and artistry that goes into all of the work at the Walker.▪︎

Crate logo design for the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2008. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2015. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2008. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1993. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
A wood square peice of art with an illustration in the center
Crate logo design for the exhibition Frida Kahlo, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2007. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2014. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
A wood square peice of art with a red and blue painted circle near the top right.
Crate logo design for the exhibition The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2011. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Bruce Nauman , Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1994. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition 9 Artists, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2014. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2000. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2003. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2009. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2003. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Pacita Abad, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2023. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition ara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2007. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1999. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2011. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Joseph Beuys Multiples, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1997. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Robert Gober: Sculpture And Drawing, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1999. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975–1995, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1995. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Peter Fischli & David Weiss: In a Restless World,, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1996. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Duchamp's Leg, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1994. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Recollection: Lorna Simpson, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2010. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition The Art and Films of Bruce Conner: 1933–2008, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2009. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition The Photomontages of Hannah Höch, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1996. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 1995. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition The Talent Show, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2010. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2003. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962–1972, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2001. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2020. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2005. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition American Art 1961–2001, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2021. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2006. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2022. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Cameron Jamie, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2006. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2013. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Allan Sekula: Fish Story, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2023. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2020. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Paul Chan: Breathers, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2022. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2022. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Jason Moran, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2018. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2018. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition International Pop, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2015. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
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Crate logo design for the exhibition Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2007. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
A wood square peice of art with an illustration iof a cowboy hat in the center
Crate logo design for the exhibition Brave New Worlds, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2008. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
A wood square peice of art with painted hands and an outline of a bird in blue.
Crate logo design for the exhibition The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2011. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.
A wood square peice of art with hand painted mushrooms in the center.
Crate logo design for the exhibition From Here to There: Alec Soth's America, Walker Exhibition Installation Department, 2010. Photo by Kameron Herndon. Courtesy Walker Art Center.

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