Target Free Thursday Nights
For Fun. For Free. For Everyone.
June 6, 13, 20, & 27
5–9pm
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.
SculpTour
Thursday, June 6
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 6 and 7:15 pm
Free
Sculpt your muscles in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden—it’s SculpTour! Abigail Johnson and Annika Hansen will lead you on a (literally) breathtaking tour with workouts inspired by works in the Garden. Get ready. Get sweaty. Get SculpTour-ed.
Thursday, June 13:
Indigenous Spirit: Gender Fluid Fashion by Delina White of IAmAnishinaabe
7:30 pm
Terrace 3
Fashion. Compassion. Identity. Unity. Be the first to see the new collection from Native designer Delina White. Indigenous Spirit: Gender Fluid Fashion is about the celebration, recognition, and inclusion of nonconformity styles with the traditional woodland influence of the Great Lakes natural environment. It will feature ten Two Spirit models from across Minnesota, the US, and Canada to model the premiere of this new line. Hosted by feature model Geo Soctomah Neptune.
Models:
Thor BearsTail (Mandan Hidatsa, Ft. Berthold & Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, ND)
Darcie Big Bear (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, MN)
Orion Dagen-Goodsky (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, MN)
Rebekah Dunlap (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, MN)
Cecelia LaPointe (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, WI & Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe, MI)
Geo Soctomah Neptune (Passamaquoddy Nation, Matahkomikuk Indian Township, ME)
Niibin Sprague (Saginaw Chippewa, Mt. Pleasant, MI)
Chadrick Toehay (Kiowa & Osage Tribes of Oklahoma)
Tony Villebrun (White Earth Ojibwe Nation, MN)
Art-Making: Maggie Thompson
6–10 pm
Garden Terrace Room
Add to this temporary art installation designed by artist Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe). See your work woven into the fabric of the night!
Music: DJ Bleak Roses
6–7:30 pm and 8:30–10 pm
Terrace 3
Turn it up with DJ Bleak Roses and dance away on the rooftop until sundown.
About Two Spirit
A gender role and sacred tradition in Native American cultures and communities across generations, Two Spirit has many definitions, and each is nation specific. The umbrella term, which bridges Native and western understandings of gender and sexuality, describes the embodiment of more than one gender residing in a single person. For more information about the history of the word, check out the video What Does Two-Spirit Mean?, hosted by Geo Soctomah Neptune. According to Delina White, “When we journey beyond tolerance and begin to appreciate individuality, only then can we embrace compassion for others and personal acceptance of ourselves.”
Delina White creates functional art using traditional methods and designs reflective of the natural woodland surroundings. She specializes in working with raw materials (hand-tanned leather, bones, and shells), metal implements (made of copper, silver, and brass), and items emulating the trade goods that first arrived in the Great Lakes area in the 1600s (such as glass beads, sequins, ribbon, buttons, coins, and mirrors). White mixes these traditionally indigenous materials with richly textured contemporary fabrics from around the world and incorporates her designs onto apparel and accessories including bags and moccasins.
Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) was born and raised in Minneapolis. In 2015, she received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Fellowship. Thompson received her BFA in textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013.
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.
Seitu Jones and Ta-coumba Aiken: Shadows at the Crossroads
Thursday, June 20, 5 pm
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Free
Public Unveiling: 5 pm
Artist Remarks and Poetry Reading by Rosemary Soyini Vinelle Guyton: 6 pm
Artwork Tours: 6:30, 7 & 7:30 pm
Join us in celebrating the opening of the newest addition to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: Shadows at the Crossroads, a commission by Twin Cities–based artists Seitu Jones and Ta-coumba T. Aiken. A continuation of a project created for Nicollet Mall in 1992, the new work consists of seven sculptures commemorating important figures in Minnesota history. Together, the artists traced the shadows of community members and then worked with the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council to select the silhouettes for the piece. Poet Rosemary Soyini Vinelle Guyton composed the lines of verse that appear within each of the sculptures, creating a lyrical reference to the life each work honors.
Installed in locations throughout the Garden, Shadows at the Crossroads is intended to be discovered by pedestrians as they make their way through the park’s pathways. Four bronze sculptures have been set into the sidewalks; two are etched into the concrete; and the final shadow exists as a work only visible when wet from the elements.
Highlights of the opening events include remarks by Aiken and Jones as well as a poetry reading by Guyton. Find out more about the artists and the stories behind this exciting new sculpture during a free guided tour, offered throughout the evening.
OTHER FREE EVENTS AT THE WALKER
Public Tours
June–August
Garden Tours
Saturdays & Sundays, 12 noon, Free
Gallery Tours
Saturdays & Sundays, 1 pm, with gallery admission
Garden Tours in Spanish
Saturdays, June 1, July 3, 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.
Picture Yourself: Pop-Up Gallery Show
Saturday June 22, 1 pm, Free
Take photos in our mini portrait studio, then display them in the adjoining exhibition space. Come and see what your photos look like off Insta and in the gallery.
Patio now open!
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.