Why did you decide to become members? When we moved from rural Minnesota back to the Minneapolis area about a year and a half ago, joining the Walker was one of the first things we did. We’ve enjoyed this place for years, and appreciate having our imaginations and perspectives challenged. We frequently attend exhibitions and performing arts events so a membership makes sense. Do you have favorite…

Spotted in the Performing Arts office today: Assistant Curator Michèle Steinwald wearing her passion for dance on her chest. The LIFE/DEATH/DANCE Venn diagram was screenprinted on a sweater from home she says, during the Movement Research Festival. Spotted in the Performing Arts office today: Assistant Curator Michèle Steinwald wearing her passion for dance on her chest. The LIFE/DEATH/DANCE Venn…

In anticipation of summertime mini-golfing, Nicola, Suzanne, and Bryan Carpenter have been preparing their fearless troop of gnomes for the battle ahead. These gnomes are central to the Carpenter family’s artistic vision: their mini-golf hole is also a foosball course in which garden gnome strikers will block the participant’s way to the hole. There are 13 […] In anticipation of summertime mini-golfing…

Painter, Painter, now on view at the Walker Art Center through October 27, 2013, includes a selection of living artists responding to the materiality and open-endedness of the medium of painting, as well as the fluidity of the role of artist as painter. Operating as painters creating new work in a time of unlimited ontologies, we […] Painter, Painter, now on view at the Walker Art Center through October 27…

I really like this Joann Verburg piece. The overall tone is very pastel. I like the subtle and dreary greys and greens and then the little pops of pink. The fact that the newspaper is in the middle of the picture and is less colorful than anything else draws our attention to it and we notice the “twin towers” on the front. The solemn tone in the picture can also be brought about by acid washed denim…

What do you listen to in your studio? We asked this question to each of the artists included in the current Painter Painter exhibition. The artists responded enthusiastically with personal playlists, notes and reflections of what inspires them  or just what is currently stuck on repeat in their studio. The Painter Painter Playlist blog series will […] What do you listen to in your studio? We asked this…