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.

In this first part of a trilogy of interviews, Chinese artist Wen Hui traces her journey from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to the creation of What is War.

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

Brooklyn-based artist-writer Ayanna Dozier joins Zia Anger (My First Film) to discuss pain, pleasure, and filmmaking.

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.