Best Buy: An Essential Partner

Corporate partnerships are vital to the Walker’s success in engaging more than 700,000 visitors each year with today’s most innovative art and artists from around the world. As a longtime partner and corporate leader in creating impact, Best Buy works with the Walker to enhance the cultural life and vitality of the Twin Cities region. Headquartered in Minnesota, Best Buy supports the Walker as a corporate member and has underwritten numerous Walker initiatives over the years—from the nationally recognized teen programs and the popular Skyline Mini Golf to the Walker’s annual benefit Avant Garden. Most recently, as Lead Entertainment sponsor for the Walker’s Party In/The Garden event on September 18, Best Buy underwrote an epic lineup of performances by Dessa, DJ Shannon Blowtorch, and Questlove.

In addition to providing critical financial support, Best Buy has a long history of executives sharing their time and expertise through service on the Walker’s Board of Trustees. Best Buy’s Chief Medical Officer Daniel Grossman currently serves on the Walker’s board and co-chairs the Racial Equity Committee, which works to position the Walker as a leader in the museum field as it elevates a diversity of lived experiences and centers racial equity and inclusion in all its work. As part of the committee, Grossman has helped to establish quantitative goals for ensuring that all backgrounds (racial, social, cultural, economic, and professional) and identities are valued and contribute to excellence in governance and stewardship of the Walker.

“As an internationally recognized, multidisciplinary art center, the Walker and its programs spark our curiosity and introduce us to new ideas that help shape and inspire us as we build our collective future,” said Grossman. “Through the goals set forth by the Racial Equity Committee, we are actively working to ensure that our collective future includes a multitude of voices and represents diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and communities.”