Jill Vuchetich

An exploration into Ettore Sottsass’s radical approaches and visions for design ranging from giant nonfunctional ceramic objects to utopias created by the collapse of cities and the Memphis Group.

For over 80 years, Franz Marc’s painting Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses) has called the Walker home. Jill Vuchetich, the Walker’s archivist, explores the history of this artwork at the Walker.

An architect turned museum director, a few acres of land, and a bold idea for the future of design in America formed the Idea House project. Learn how this innovative design program featuring full-scale, single-family homes for public exhibition debuted at the Walker Art Center in the 1940s.

A exploration of humor’s history at the Walker by way of Marcel Duchamp, urinals, and bumper stickers.

A glimpse into the Walker’s Rosemary Furtak Collection of over 2,000 artists’ books from the 1940s to today.

On Mother’s Day 1987, 430 women over the age of 60 gathered in the Crystal Court of the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis to be part of a ceremonial performance art work honoring older women. In conjunction with the Walker’s 24-hour streaming of a related documentary on May 10, we share a look at artist and activist Suzanne Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt from Walker archivist Jill Vuchetich.

Over more than five decades, the Walker has celebrated the art of Robert Indiana, from purchasing beloved works like The Green Diamond Eat The Red Diamond Die (1962) to commissioning a poster for a Gertrude Stein opera to, just last year, adding one of the artist’s signature works, a LOVE sculpture, to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.