Walker Art Center Announces 2025–26 Performing Arts Season
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Walker Art Center Announces 2025–26 Performing Arts Season

Five performers with light skin pose in a dark, cluttered set with a blackboard, table, and speakers.

The Walker’s 2025–26 Performing Arts Season fearlessly confronts the urgent issues defining our world, brought to life through captivating movement, light, sound, projection, text, and indelible stage images.

“Liveness is the essence of performing arts, and there is a kind of magic when performers exchange energies with viewers in real-time,” said Philip Bither, McGuire Director and Senior Curator, Performing Arts. “I am grateful to share this highly curated mix of some of the most innovative and accomplished performing artists working today, whose creations offer us inspiration, transgression, refuge, and glimpses of hope.”

The season opens on September 13 with music titans Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers celebrating 60 years of the influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Choreographer Aszure Barton and musician Ambrose Akinmusire amplify the circular dialogue between dance and music (September 18–19); while Pulitzer finalist Jlin charts new sonic territory combining her complex electronics with classical musicians and dancers (October 2). Multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily finally takes center stage with a diverse host of all-star music friends (October 10); and Rob Mazurek’s Chicago-born, internationally based jazz supergroup Exploding Star Orchestra touches down (December 5). Also featured is composer Gabriella Smith, who will make a moving plea for the planet we call home, with contemporary classical sextet yMusic (November 8); and dancer and choreographer Benny Olk curates this year’s Choreographers’ Evening celebrating Minnesota’s vibrant dance communities (November 22).

For Robert Rauschenberg’s centennial, the Trisha Brown Dance Company honors the visionary artist through his collaborative partnerships with American dance vanguards Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham (November 11). Concurrently, the Walker spotlights its decades-long relationships with Brown and Rauschenberg in Glacial Decoy—an exhibition featuring original costumes, set designs, and historical footage. In dialogue with a solo exhibition at the Walker, transdisciplinary and dance artist Rosy Simas (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron clan) creates a dynamic Native contemporary dance and sound work (May 14–16).

Moving into theater, acclaimed Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues guides audiences through an interactive play examining memory as a tool of resistance (October 28–29). The Walker’s annual experimental series Out There this year channels radical clowning and dark humor, bringing inspired voices to the McGuire Theater, including self-proclaimed “experimental clown artist” Alex Tatarsky (January 8–10), performance artist Nile Harris (January 22–24), and the French/UK duo Bert and Nasi (February 5–7). For the first time in 25 years, the legendary Wooster Group returns to the Twin Cities to reimagine the 1988 play Symphony of Rats, assembling a sweep of hallucinatory fragments into a sci-fi satire of power and delusion (February 25–28).

Other highlights include dancer/choreographer Shamel Pitts with a commissioned, world premiere Afrofuturist meditation on Black embodiment and the divine feminine (March 20–21); and Berlin-based dance maverick Meg Stuart exploring bodily consciousness through collective live music/movement improvisation (April 3–4). A special two-night engagement with composer/bassist Mali Obomsawin melds free jazz with Wabanaki traditions, featuring the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane screening with a live score performance (April 16), and a separate concert by Obomsawin’s sextet at Icehouse (April 18). Choreographer Jeremy Nedd deconstructs the hip-hop Milly Rock move as a study on transformation (April 24–25), and acclaimed experimental pop/rock artist L’Rain presents a rare live album recording (May 2).

The season wraps up with Open Machine, a new Walker commission merging speculative sci-fi with queer cultural aesthetics by choreographers and former Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener (May 29–30).

A complete detailing of upcoming events follows below. 

 

Music
AACM@60!
Saturday, September 13, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25 

“A uniquely sublime musical adventure.” —Paris Move 

As the internationally renowned AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) celebrates its 60th anniversary, leading members of the creative music collective gather for a rare meeting of titans. Composers Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) and Amina Claudine Myers (piano) share a bewitching brew of jazz- and soul-inflected inventions. Joining them are beloved Minneapolis multi-instrumentalist Douglas R. Ewart and improvisational dancer Lela Pierce. Ewart opens the evening with a cross-generational quintet made up of AACM members from Chicago and the Twin Cities. Together, they build out vast spaces for deep feeling.

Featuring:
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) & Amina Claudine Myers (piano, organ) duo

Douglas R. Ewart & Inventions:
Douglas R. Ewart (composition, poetry, electronics, didgeridoo, winds, percussions), Melvin Gibbs (bass), Mankwe Ndosi (vocals, little instruments), Lela Pierce (choreography, improvisational dance), Davu Seru (drums, percussion), Edward Wilkerson Jr. (didgeridoo, winds)

 

Dance & Music
A a | a B : B E N D 
Aszure Barton & Ambrose Akinmusire
Thursday–Friday, September 18–19, 7:30 pm
Northrop
Copresented with Northrop
Tickets start at $25 

“It’s magical. You can’t take your eyes off it.” —tanznetz 

A a | a B : B E N D is a glitch in the matrix. The brainchild of acclaimed choreographer Aszure Barton and eminent trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire, this large-scale dance piece remixes ballet with vogue, jazz with electronica, analog with digital. Responding to a live score composed and performed by Akinmusire, 12 hooded figures fire in and out of unison like nodes in a network. With audience members seated on and around the stage, B E N D amplifies the circular dialogue between dance and music, transforming the theater into an alternate universe.

 

Music & Performance
n! = 3! (Permutation of Three)
Jlin
Thursday, October 2, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented with Liquid Music and Northrop
Tickets start at $25 

“One of the most forward-thinking contemporary composers in any genre.” —Pitchfork 

Electronic music composer Jlin makes her Twin Cities debut with n! = 3! (Permutation of Three). In this daring production, the Pulitzer Prize finalist charts new sonic territory with help from percussive dance improvisor Leonardo Sandoval, violinist/composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, and members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Approaching live instrumentation with digital precision, the Gary, Indiana, native invokes Russian composer Igor Stravinsky as much as Chicago footwork godfather RP Boo. The evening features Jlin’s solo work and expands outward into duets and full string quartet, mirroring the artist’s trajectory into the wider unknown.

 

Music
Bitterness Is Not A Bridge 
Shahzad Ismaily
Friday, October 10, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25 

“Summarizing exactly what Ismaily does—let alone, how he’s so good at it—can feel a little like bottling wind.” —New York Times 

Like water to seed or light to leaf, Shahzad Ismaily has long sustained the projects of others. Highly sought-after as a musical catalyst, the Pakistani American multi-instrumentalist now takes center stage. Ever the collectivist, Ismaily gathers a group of esteemed collaborators to help tend the soil. His South Asian jazz influences mesh with Beth Orton’s American folk stylings; his improvisatory genius dovetails with Nels Cline (Wilco)’s expansive guitar vision; his lyricism buoys Alan Sparhawk’s (Low) melody lines. For the first time in a long time, we witness the source become the fruit.

Featuring: Audrey Chen (cello, vocals), Nels Cline (guitar), Dosh (keys, drums), Shahzad Ismaily (multiple instruments), Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton as Ida (multiple instruments), yuniya edi kwon (violin, vocals), Beth Orton (guitar, vocals), Alan Sparhawk (guitar)

 

Theater/Performance
By Heart 
Tiago Rodrigues
Tuesday–Wednesday, October 28–29, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25 

“A fully rendered homage to the human memory, to the words we keep in our hearts so we will never forget them.” —The Theatre Times 

Tiago Rodrigues begins By Heart with an assurance that everything will be “calm and normal.” What he omits is just how un-normal “normal” can be. The acclaimed Portuguese playwright proceeds to invite 10 volunteer audience collaborators on stage to learn a sonnet live, while Rodrigues weaves in personal stories and literary references. Inspired by his grandmother, who must increasingly rely on memory as her vision deteriorates, the artist engages memory as a tool of resistance. In a time when key words and ideas are being scrubbed from the record, Rodrigues reminds us that it is we who are the keepers.

 

Music
An Evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic  
Saturday, November 8, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented and co-commissioned by the Walker, Liquid Music, and Schubert Club
Tickets start at $30 

“Smith evokes the beauty, terror, and joy of the natural world.” —New York Times 

Gabriella Smith is an environmentalist as well as a composer. Channeling both the awe-inspiring beauty of nature and the effect of the climate crisis in sound, Smith makes a moving plea for the planet we call home in Aquatic Ecology. Acclaimed chamber ensemble yMusic presents the Twin Cities premiere of the major new work, which was written for the sextet. The 40-minute piece brings to life hidden ecosystems, featuring raw and processed field recordings from sources including California tide pools and Polynesian coral reefs. The evening opens with the composer herself performing as a duo alongside her longtime creative partner and yMusic cellist Gabriel Cabezas, playing music from their celebrated album Lost Coast and more.

Featuring:
Gabriella Smith (voice, violin, electronics) & Gabriel Cabezas (cello, electronics) Duo

yMusic: Alex Sopp (flutes), Mark Dover (clarinets), CJ Camerieri (trumpet), Rob Moose (violin), Nadia Sirota (viola), Gabriel Cabezas (cello)

 

Dance
Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown, and Cunningham Onstage
Trisha Brown Dance Company with Merce Cunningham Trust
Tuesday, November 11, 7:30 pm
Northrop
Copresented with Northrop
Tickets start at $74 

“Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg’s talent … prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage.” —New York Times

Few artists have shaped the visual/scenic landscape for contemporary dance as profoundly as Robert Rauschenberg. Celebrating his centennial year, the Trisha Brown Dance Company pays tribute to the visionary artist through his collaborations with American dance vanguards Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham. Audiences will experience two landmark works featuring Rauschenberg’s signature stage designs: Brown’s Set and Reset explores themes of visibility and invisibility, while Cunningham’s rarely performed Travelogue brims with humor and curiosity. Together, these works re-create a defining era in dance history.

Concurrently, the Walker spotlights its decades-long relationships with Brown and Rauschenberg in an exhibition featuring original costumes, set designs, and historical footage of Glacial Decoy (1979), and a related set of activities/events that reflect these major innovators’ continued influence (see Choreographers’ Evening, Rashaun and Silas and more to come).

 

Dance
Choreographers’ Evening 2025
Curated by Benny Olk
Saturday, November 22, 4 and 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $20 

“Dance that inspires, challenges, and entertains.” —Minnesota Star Tribune 

The Walker’s annual dance showcase celebrates Minnesota’s vibrant and diverse dance communities. Each year, a roster of local choreographers and movement artists delivers powerful performances curated by a notable Minnesota dancemaker. This year’s program is curated by dancer/choreographer Benny Olk.

 

Music
Exploding Star Orchestra
Friday, December 5, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $20 

“The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds.” —Magnet Magazine

If Rob Mazurek is a jazz astronaut, then Exploding Star Orchestra (ESO) is his space station. Inspired by the sounds of “meta-versal transformation,” the Chicago-borne crew of all-star musicians descend upon Minneapolis in a flurry of arpeggios and stardust. Known for their varied production methods and collective improvisation, the group continues the legacy of Chicago’s avant-garde scene while pushing ever deeper into space. In this iteration of ESO, 10 major players, including cellist Tomeka Reid and pianist Craig Taborn, join forces for their next mission. Where they are headed, only the cosmos know.

Featuring: Mikel Patrick Avery (drums), Damon Locks (voice, samplers), Rob Mazurek (director, compositions, trumpets, voice, bells, video), Nicole Mitchell (flutes, electronics), Tomeka Reid (cello, electronics), Angelica Sanchez (piano), Luke Stewart (bass), Craig Taborn (piano/synth), Chad Taylor (drums), Victor Vieira-Branco (vibraphone)

 

OUT THERE 2026: RADICAL CLOWNING AND DARK HUMOR 

Out There tickets are currently only available as part of a four-show series package. Package buyers get 15% off all tickets (30% for Walker members). Single tickets go on sale at a later date.

 

Performance
Sad Boys in Harpy Land 
Alex Tatarsky
Thursday–Saturday, January 8–10, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25
Midwest debut 

“A thrilling and frenetic mental breakdown of a show.”  —New York Times 

Sad Boys in Harpy Land is a clown show about wanting to die. Confronting anguish through humor, self-proclaimed “experimental clown artist” Alex Tatarsky ushers audiences through the absurdist hellscape of their mind. Through a series of existential vignettes, they fuse the narrative bones of their own story onto those of equally tormented protagonists, drawing on sources including Goethe, Dante, and Seinfeld. A splintering coming-of-age story, Sad Boys challenges the idea of individual malady, embracing instead the messy maze of shared struggle.

 

Performance
this house is not a home 
Nile Harris
Thursday–Saturday, January 22–24, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25 

“A whole kettleful of biting, boiling, truly gonzo theatricality that’s equal parts deadly serious and gleefully self- (and everyone-) mocking.” —Vulture 

Brace yourself. In this house is not a home, Nile Harris tears apart the walls of American identity, literally and figuratively. Erecting an inflatable bounce house as a stand-in for institutions like the nonprofit arts sector and the besieged US Capitol, Harris stages a raucous demolition of white liberalism. Supported by dancer Malcolm-x Betts and performance artist Crackhead Barney, this house eviscerates the circus of public discourse via improvised clownery and dark humor. Armed with irony, rage, and blaring live music, the show asks the question: what is left when the facade of “home” collapses?

 

Theater
L’Addition 
Bert and Nasi
Thursday–Saturday, February 5–7, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25 

“It’s very weird, and extremely funny.” —New York Times 
★★★★ “Superbly absurd comedy.” —Guardian 

L’Addition plays out like a deranged game of telephone, except that the message being passed is a single scene on an increasingly distorted loop: A man at a café orders a drink. A waiter pours the drink. And a waiter pours the drink. And he cannot stop pouring the drink. Each escalation of the otherwise everyday scenario introduces a more outlandish set of circumstances. Through physical comedy and radical miming, French/UK duo Bert and Nasi expose the nonsensical social scripts that govern our world.

 

Theater
Symphony of Rats 
The Wooster Group
Wednesday–Friday, February 25–27, 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 28, 3 and 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $30 

“Mesmerizing … sci-fi satire underscored like a merrily suspenseful summer blockbuster.” —Los Angeles Times 

For the first time in 25 years, the legendary Wooster Group returns to the Twin Cities. In this blockbuster production, they reimagine Symphony of Rats, the 1988 play by fellow experimental theater maestro Richard Foreman. At the story’s center is a megalomaniac US president who is losing his mind. From his perch on a toilet throne, he fields what he believes to be alien transmissions, while a series of surreal vignettes unfolds. Grand in scale and meticulous in design, the Wooster Group assembles a sweep of hallucinatory fragments into a sci-fi satire of power and delusion.

Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk.

 

Dance/Performance
Marks of RED
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Friday–Saturday, March 20–21, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented and co-commissioned with Northrop
Tickets start at $25 

“Virtuosic and unrelenting.” —LA Dance Chronicle 

Marks of RED is a visceral journey of rupture and rebirth. Led by dancer/choreographer Shamel Pitts, the piece explores the multiplicities within Blackness. Anchored in the distinctive Gaga movement style in which Pitts was trained, an all-femme cast of dancers gather to create a cocoon-like space for profound transformation. Drawing inspiration from sumo wrestling, butoh dance, and techno music, Pitts molds ritual, movement, and sound into an Afrofuturist meditation on Black embodiment.

This is the final installment in the Walker and Northrop’s three-year partnership with Pitts.

 

Dance/Performance
All the Way Around
Meg Stuart
Friday–Saturday, April 3–4, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25 

“[Meg Stuart has] a reputation for unfailingly imaginative, provocative avant-garde theater dance … vivid in its own brainy, sometimes unruly way.” —New York Times 

For Meg Stuart, the body is a memory palace. Known for her punk spirit and raw physicality, Stuart explores bodily consciousness through collective improvisation. In All the Way Around, the Berlin-based dance star is joined by avant-jazz bassist Doug Weiss and pianist Mariana Carvalho. Together, they create a shifting landscape of shared somatic knowledge. With limited seating, this performance offers audiences an intimate window into the emergence of a new body of memories.

 

Music/Film
Sugarcane with Live Score 
Mali Obomsawin
Thursday, April 16, 7:30 pm
Walker Cinema
Tickets start at $25 

“[Sugarcane] is immersive and incredibly beautiful, shot like poetry … The result is both stunning and sobering.” ––New York Times 

Sugarcane is a film screening animated by a live film score performance. The eponymous Oscar-nominated documentary follows an Indigenous community grappling with the painful history of a residential school run by the Catholic Church. Centering on members of the Williams Lake First Nation in present-day British Columbia, the film unfolds alongside a haunting score filled with tender character studies and sprawling landscapes. Written by composer/bassist Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) and brought to life by her trio, both film and score stands as a testimony to Indigenous struggle and resilience.

This is night one of a two-night engagement with Obomsawin.

 

Music
Mali Obomsawin Sextet
Saturday, April 18, 7:30 pm
Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis
Copresented with Icehouse
Tickets start at $25 

“Potent commentary on indigenous heritage, autonomy and experiences … gripping, dynamic and thunderous … ” —JazzTimes 

For Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation), the language of free jazz and the language of Wabanaki are variations on a shared theme. Together with her sextet, the Grammy-nominated composer/bassist weaves the prosody of one into the syntax of the other. Stories emerge: atonal winds wail over woozy bass lines; voices crescendo over beating hand drums. Melding Wabanaki songs with religious hymns and jazz traditions with Québécois folk music, Obomsawin chronicles the complex histories that have come to shape Abenaki life today.

This is night two of a two-night engagement with Obomsawin.

 

Dance
from rock to rock… aka how magnolia was taken for granite 
Jeremy Nedd
Friday–Saturday, April 24–25, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $20 

“This truly stunning production … was rightly met with a standing ovation.” —Voice (Cambridge, UK)

When rapper 2 Milly proclaimed, “I milly rock on any block,” he codified a cultural trend that, alongside other Black social dances like the Whip/Nae Nae and Hit Dem Folks, came to define the mid-2010s. A decade later, the US-born, Switzerland-based choreographer Jeremy Nedd deconstructs and reframes the Milly Rock. In from rock to rock… aka how magnolia was taken for granite, Nedd and his four-member ensemble iterate on the distinctive rocking arm motion, looping it across shifting figurations in a beautifully lit, icy granite stagescape. A study on transformation and communal joy, the piece reclaims the popular dance move as an evolving language within Black culture.

 

Music
L’Rain – Live at the Walker 
Saturday, May 2, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $20 

“Theatrical, elliptical, and bewitching … Every harmony, loop, and skit engorged with verve.” —Pitchfork 

In the great tradition of live concert albums, acclaimed experimental pop/rock artist L’Rain presents a very special night at the Walker. The Brooklyn–based multi-instrumentalist assembles her full band for a show that is part concert, part cross-disciplinary video performance. Drawing on influences from Brahms to J Dilla, Philip Glass to Animal Collective, L’Rain recasts known pop forms into abstract narratives and impressionist gestures. L’Rain – Live from the Walker gives audiences the rare opportunity to witness the making of a live album and to shape the space in which it is born.

 

Dance
A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind)
Rosy Simas
Thursday–Friday, May 14–15, 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 16, 2 and 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $30 

In conjunction with Walker gallery installation/exhibition (February–July 2026) 

“Rosy Simas Danse’s ‘Weave’… washed over the audience like a wave. It was a tactile piece, summoning the senses.” —Minnesota Star Tribune

Created by transdisciplinary and dance artist Rosy Simas (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron clan), A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:’ (i hope it will stir your mind) is a dance work, an installation, and a community engagement project. From Simas’ movement practice of deep listening to the earth, stars, ancestors, and each other comes a dynamic Native contemporary dance work that draws the audience into a space of relationality.

 

Performance
Open Machine 
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener
Friday–Saturday, May 29–30, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $20 

“Adroitly put together, [Rashaun and Silas’s] choreography is studded with real beauty and invention.” —New York Times 

Open Machine is an open experiment. In a new Walker commission, choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener return to Minneapolis for the first time since their lauded Charles Atlas collaboration, Tesseract (2017). As former Merce Cunningham dancers, Rashaun and Silas approach movement with both virtuosity and playfulness. Here, alongside five other dancers, they probe the relationship between human intelligence and machine intelligence, examining the role of surveillance in private and public life. Merging speculative sci-fi with queer cultural aesthetics, the duo creates a new embodied language, a new open machine.

 

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ABOUT ICEHOUSE 
Built in 1868 to store lake ice, Icehouse has been transformed into a lively music club in the heart of Minneapolis famed Eat Street. Since opening in 2012, Icehouse’s mission has been the same; provide a fun and uncompromising space for music fans and bands to come together and do their thing. As the reputation and event calendar grew in the early years, bigger and bigger bands took notice of Icehouse’s unique environment and uncompromising commitment to the live experience. Beyond live shows, Icehouse has grown into a place where locals could grab a drink with friends, take in a comedy show, or dance all night.

ABOUT LIQUID MUSIC 
Liquid Music is a leading producer of special projects in contemporary music, an internationally recognized laboratory for artists from across genre and disciplinary spectrums. This creative institution nurtures and realizes bold ideas from performers and composers, inspiring audiences to discover, learn, and be transformed.

ABOUT NORTHROP 
Situated at the heart of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus and a state historic landmark, Northrop has served as the university’s primary gathering place for the performing arts, world-renowned dance performances, concerts, academic ceremonies, and major civic events for nearly 100 years. From touring international and favorite local dance companies, musicians, and film screenings to the hottest comedy acts, renowned speakers, celebrated authors, and prestigious UMN lectures, Northrop offers opportunities for all ages to explore, learn, and engage.

ABOUT SCHUBERT CLUB 
Since 1893, Schubert Club has invited the world’s great recital soloists and ensembles to the Twin Cities and has promoted the superb musical talents of our community through performances, education, and museum programs. One of the first arts organizations in the country, Schubert Club remains today one of the nation’s most vibrant, relevant, and respected music organizations.

ABOUT THE WALKER ART CENTER 
The Walker Art Center is a renowned multidisciplinary arts institution that presents, collects, and supports the creation of groundbreaking work across the visual and performing arts, moving image, and design. Guided by the belief that art has the power to bring joy and solace and the ability to unite people through dialogue and shared experiences, the Walker engages communities through a dynamic array of exhibitions, performances, events, and initiatives. Its multiacre campus includes 65,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, the state-of-the-art McGuire Theater and Walker Cinema, and ample green space that connects with the adjoining Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Garden, a partnership with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, is one of the first urban sculpture parks of its kind in the United States and home to the beloved Twin Cities landmark Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Recognized for its ambitious program and growing collection of more than 16,000 works, the Walker embraces emerging art forms and amplifies the work of artists from the Twin Cities and from across the country and the globe. Its broad spectrum of offerings makes it a lively and welcoming hub for artistic expression, creative innovation, and community connection.

 

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