Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros’s Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.

Eiko Otake & Wen Hui
What Is War
April 11-12, 2025
McGuire Theater

SHABAKA
March 20, 2025
McGuire Theater

How can one understand places through wandering? Artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) explores this an more in their work Visions of an Island.

Dreamers’ Circus
March 4, 2025
McGuire Theater

For nearly 40 years, the Design Studio at the Walker has produced original posters for the annual Insights Design Lecture Series. Gathered here is a small selection of these posters that trace the evolution of graphic design at the Walker and throughout the globe.

Marking her newest Performing Arts Commission, we look back at Eiko Otake 44th years of collaboration with the Walker through behind-the-scenes images, interviews, and video documentation.

Autumn Knight
Autumn Knight Live at the Walker, 2025
February 20-22, 2025
Walker Cinema

Jaha Koo
Cuckoo
February 6-8, 2025
McGuire Theater

In the lead up to their first major museum survey, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Christine Sun Kim sat down with the exhibition curators to discuss how musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English– impact her wide-ranging approach to art-making.

Members of the 2024–25 Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council declare a globally dispersed museum that is nowhere and anywhere—a Heart Gallery—made of treasured belongings that comfort, memorialize, and transport.

In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.

In conjunction with Kandis Williams’s first museum survey at the Walker, curator Taylor Jasper explores Williams’ deeply researched practice and its emerging visions of liberation.

In the lead up to opening of the exhibition, Ways of Knowing, Walker curator Rosario Güiraldes sat down with art critic Claire Bishop, artist and writer Nicolás Guagnini, and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina for a roundtable discussion around the themes of artists, research, and knowledge.

Edgar Arceneaux
Boney Manilli
January 23–25, 2025
McGuire Theater

Artists Lis Rhodes and Aura Satz, longtime friends and collaborators, explore ideas of notation and how films can be “scores.”

The day after the South Korean president declared martial law, artist Jaha Koo sat down to discuss how art, performance, and hacking rice cookers can address the inescapable past that casts shadows across our lives today.

Forced Entertainment
Exquisite Pain
January 9–11, 2025
McGuire Theater

Edgar Arceneaux discusses his career in visual arts, Milli Vanilli, and a family connection to the controversial Disney film Song of the South that led to his reimagining the stage musical.

Twin Cities based artists Taoheed Bayo and Mark Odumuyiwa reveal their collaborative approach to creating the locally focused Something to Say Magazine.