This photo essay by Diana Soderholm, a photographer and the Walker’s Chief Guard, captures behind-the-scenes portraits of Walker staff as they imbue the Walker with their many creative talents.

Through her journal entries, artist Chang Yuchen explores how a residency on Dinawan Island in Malaysia helped to conceive her ongoing project Coral Dictionary.

Wielding collage as a tool of Black feminist resistance, Kandis Williams discussed her work Triadic Ballet and its relationship to Bauhaus, Black embodiment, and looking longer and harder inside oneself.

Moderated by Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), this roundtable gathers Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) and her women artistic peers Christi Belcourt (Métis)and Marie Watt (Seneca Nation) for a generative exchange about their artistic practices, supports, and commitments.

What led to the first theatrical dance collaboration between Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg? We dive into the history of this unique creative partnership.

In the lead up to its revamping, Kathy Berdan traces the history of the Minnesota State Fair’s Creative Activities Building–from its origins as the Womans’ Activities Building to today’s bounty of artistic expression we all know and love.

How can the inner workings of technology be made more visible? Graphic designer and master paper engineer Kelli Anderson explores using pop-up books to reveal what is often hidden.

Leila Weefur explores filmmakers who reimagine the Western genre’s boundaries as a vehicle for examining power, identity, and resistance.

Writer, activist, and facilitator adrienne maree brown explore hope in the face of dystopias, what stories can be found in our DNA, and the potential that speculation has for making the world a better place.

How can Kandis Williams’s approach to exploring Blackness in layered and shifting ways inform a catalog? Designer Nazli Ercan explores.

As a part of her Cinema Residency at the Walker, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich conducted a series of interviews with Black women, including Rachel Scott, marion eames white, Ilze Wolff, and Sinnamon Love, to reflect on and extend themes in her work.

How can artificial intelligence’s decision-making process be more visible to humans? Founder of the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University, Surya Mattu, discusses their art practice that explores how AI can be made more transparent, evaluated for bias, and the ways your devices are tracking you at home.

As he gears up to embark on a North American tour with Hunx and His Punx, multidisciplinary artist and musician Seth Bogart sat down to chat about queercore, working with John Waters, and why he is glad he didn’t go to art school.

How do artists support one another? Known for championing emerging queer artists, Los Angeles based artist Eve Fowler discuses her ongoing project Artist Curator Projects (ACP) that has presented exhibitions of local artists for over 15 years.

Mathew Janczewski/ARENA DANCES
Only the perverse fantasy can still save us
May 16-17, 2025
McGuire Theater

With schools facing budget cuts, what new approaches can ensure students have access to arts education? La’Kayla Williams explores case studies.

How do fragments reflect desires to hold onto history? Rose Salane discusses her series that explores the relationship between objects taken, and then returned, to archaeological park of Pompeii.

How can coral be multilingual? Artist Chang Yuchen discusses their inspirations and exploration of language in their work Coral Dictionary.

An office for artworks? Explore the relationship between Edward Hopper‘s painting Office at Night and a unique approach to exhibition display at the Walker.

Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Tyshawn Sorey Trio & Greg Osby
April 26, 2025
McGuire Theater

Local artists explore Twin Cities’ sonic landscapes through newly commissioned original works of audio available via an interactive map.

As algorithmic systems increasingly dictate the rhythms of our reality, artist and data scientist Angie Waller delves into the broader human realities of tech and make visible the unseen forces of digital capitalism and authoritarian automation.

In this final installment of a trio of interviews with Wen Hui and Eiko Otake, the artists discuss how their differing backgrounds came together to create What is War.

In this second part of a trilogy of interviews, Eiko Otake traces her journey from the 1960s anti-war protests to the creation of their newest project What is War.