Target Free Thursday Nights
For Fun. For Free. For Everyone.
August 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29
Free Gallery Admission 5–9pm
Special Events Below
Get into your groove on the Walker’s rooftop with hot music, dancing, fashion, and more. Terrace Thursdays showcase a diverse lineup of inspirational individuals breaking boundaries in art and identity. Meet your people, meet new people, grab a drink, and make the more of summer!
Can’t handle the heat? Cool off in the galleries while you draw on the walls in Allora & Calzadilla: Chalk or stroll through Five Ways In.
Programming for Terrace Thursdays 2019 was designed in collaboration with a committee of local artists, activists, and community organizers. Thanks to Scott Artley, Machen Davis, Anthonia Eboreime, Nicky Leingang, Yoni Light, Oskar Ly, Meena Mangalvedhekar, Wintana Melekin, and Taja Will.
SculpTour
Thursday, August 1
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 6 and 7:15 pm
Abigail Johnson and Annika Hansen will lead you on a (literally) breathtaking Garden tour with workouts inspired by sculptures in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Get ready. Get sweaty. Get SculpToured. All ages and bodies welcome.
Terrace Thursdays: August 8
Cityview Bar & Terraces, 6–10pm
Art-Making: Kao Lee Thao
6–9:30 pm
Garden Terrace Room
Music: Indigo Crew
6–10 pm
Terrace 3
Pop-Up Performance: New Black City
7, 8 & 9 pm
Garden Terrace Room & Terraces 2 & 3
Music: Dua Saleh
8 pm
Terrace 3
Kao Lee Thao runs a 3D animation company called Folklore Studio, which produces animation for television and film.
Indigo Crew, which includes DJ Michel.Be, TaliaKnight, QueenDuin, and DJ Lady Em, spins house, electronica, reggaetón, old school funk, soul, Latin trap, 80s, hip-hop, Afrobeat, cumbia, rap, and dancehall music. Indigo Crew promotes womyn’s empowerment and celebrates community through music. According to the collective: “We are a movement, we are an atmosphere, we are INDIGO.”
New Black City is an urban dance crew that has a mission “…to change the world, one booty cheek at a time.” This collective of powerful young artists and community activators creates a more accepting and inclusive hip-hop community, where all individuals—including, but is not limited to, black, brown, queer, trans, impaired, polka-dotted, spotted, etc.—are safe to express themselves.
Dua Saleh, who identifies as gender non-binary and goes by they/them pronouns, began recording music two years ago. Their first EP project Nūr (pronounced “noor” and meaning “the light” in Arabic) is full of infectious bravado and haunting gloom. With a trademark fluidity—of sound, form, and self-presentation —Dua Saleh creates music conveys the fight for the right to define themselves for themselves.
Terrace Thursdays: August 22
Garden Terrace Room & Terraces, 6–10pm
Art-Making: La Luchadora
6–10 pm
Terrace 3
Art-Making: Women’s Woodshop
6–10 pm
Garden Terrace Room
Music: DJ Rowsheen
6–10 pm
Terrace 3
Performances: ARENA DANCES
6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 pm
Garden Terrace Room & Terraces 1, 2 & 3
Jessica Lopez Lyman, PhD, is an interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar. She researches Midwestern Chicana/ox and Latina/o/x experiences, social movements, and arts engagement. Lyman is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota. La Luchadora is an interactive, mobile, screen print cart designed to produce and circulate social justice art to the broader public. The evening’s prints focus on the water protector’s movement, Indigenous resistance, and Latina/o/x solidarities in Minnesota.
Women’s Woodshop empowers women and non-binary makers through the art of woodcraft. Woodworking is a creative and practical skill that can build confidence and strengthen the imagination. They foster community by introducing women and non-binary folks to tools and techniques through their classes as well as providing equipment and workspace.
Minneapolis-based DJ and event producer Rowsheen has toured and performed with international artists such as P.O.S and Peaches. A founding member and curator of HOOPS, a DJ duo with Babyghost, Rowsheen has also been featured at Minneapolis Open Streets, Zombie Pub Crawl, X-Games 2017 & 2018, Soundset, and Eaux Claires.
ARENA DANCES is a contemporary dance company performing the abstract work of Mathew Janczewski, which gives shape to emotions, exploring the depths and the limits of what drives us as humans to connect, to break away, to survive. Since 1995, ARENA DANCES has aimed to make dance accessible to all through the presentation of contemporary dance, educational outreach, and community gatherings that inspire and promote dialogue and diversity.
Mn Artists Presents: CarryOn Homes
Thursday, August 29
5pm
Join CarryOn Homes, a multidisciplinary, international artist group, to ask: how and why do we learn the way we do? CarryOn Homes invites Minnesota-based creatives who have experienced immigration or emigration to re-envision the museum as an experimental classroom. Through installations, performances, workshops, and more, participants can share resources and discover new paths for education.
OTHER FREE EVENTS AT THE WALKER THIS MONTH
Public Tours
June–August
Garden Tours
Saturdays & Sundays, 12 noon, Free
Gallery Tours
Saturdays & Sundays, 1 pm, with gallery admission
Garden Tours in Spanish
Saturday August 6, 1 pm, Free
Drop-in public tours are available every Saturday and Sunday. Tours of the galleries begin at 1pm and tours of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden start at 12 noon. Each tour is led by Walker Tour Guides, they provide an overview of an exhibition on view and are included in the cost of admission. Tours of the Garden are free.
Esker Grove
Sitting at the base of the Walker Hillside, Esker Grove provides Walker visitors a chance to relax indoor or outdoor on the patio, chat, and enjoy chef Doug Flicker’s cuisine along with craft beer, artisan cocktails, and Spyhouse Coffee service. Walker members save 10% on food and nonalcoholic beverages.