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Efterklang your beer steins (free Summit)
The Green Room
Aug 2010
The Saturday, September 11 show for Efterklang/Buke & Gass will be ushered in by a pre-party in the McGuire Theater Balcony Bar, from 7-8 pm that night, with the show beginning at 8 pm. Since Efterklang/Buke & Gass will be the first show of the 2010-11 Performing Arts season, we’re celebrating with a pre-party featuring not only a keg of complimentary Summit beer but also some local gratis gastronomic goodies, courtesy of Common Roots Cafe. I’m looking forward to hearing this songlive. And openers Buke and Gass will astound; here’s atrackwherethey sound to me like a heavily syncopated, garage rock version of the Cold War Kids, which is a good thing.
Also, the Walker’s videographer extraordinaire, Andy Underwood-Bultman, just put together the trailer for the upcoming Performing Arts season and did a pretty bad-a_ s job of it, if I may say so.
Tickets are available now for…
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Views from the Open Field: 10 things to look forward to!
Field Guide
Aug 2010
Open Field will be over on September 5, but there is an awesome and diverse slew of events and opportunities left to experience.
1. mnartists.org Field Dayon Thursday August 19 will bring the Open Field to life. When else do you have the opportunity to play camera tag, listen to campfire songs, and paint in the plein air? In addition to mingling with Minnesota artists, all mnartists.org members…
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Lessons Learned 2: Piero Golia
Field Guide
Aug 2010
Lessons Learned continues with an interview featuring Los Angeles based artist, Piero Golia. I asked him to talk about the Mountain School of Art (MSA^), a tuition-free school that he co-founded in 2005. The Mountain School of Art sees itself as a cultural institution promoting a unique and rigorous blend of pedagogy. Operating out of a bar in LA’s Chinatown they offer an intensive curriculum of…
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Views from the Open Field: A Wild Utopia
Field Guide
Aug 2010
Two weeks ago, Stephen Duncombe spoke about Utopia and specifically about its nonexistence in his lecture “Utopia is No Place”. Duncombe argued that utopia should exist as a space of collective imagination, an ideal creative commons perhaps, but not as an attainable future. As an example of a useful utopian tool, Duncombe featured Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings’ public posters that were placed in…
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Locating the Open Field: a think tank in progress
Field Guide
Aug 2010
Back in early June, Colin Kloecker and I (Works Progress) helped to convene a small group of creative thinkers, makers, and doers for a conversation at the Walker Art Center. The goal of this initial effort seemed simple; As a group we would critically examine and engage the Walker’s summer-long Open Field project, an experiment that inspires multiple interpretations, and lots of questions.
Among the…
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Street as Open Field
Field Guide
Aug 2010
This post is the first of six that will recap “think tank” sessions led by Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker of Works Progress. Theses sessions are 1/3 of a larger Open Field initiative called Commons Census. For more information about the think tank, see this introductory post or the Commons Census project website. There are still three sessions left so please email us if you’d like to participate…
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Changes in New Media, job opening for a web designer/developer
Media Lab
Aug 2010
There are changes in store for the New Media Initiatives department. After being with the Walker for four years, I’ve taken a position across the river Minnesota Public Radio as a Web Designer/Developer. It is very hard for me to leave the Walker, but I’m excited about working on new projects for an even larger audience at MPR.
This means there is a job opening in New Media, and if you’re a web…