When you work at the Walker on staff or as a volunteer you will, at least once during your tenure, be asked the following question: Why is this art? Depending on the person she or he may feel panicked or revved by this honest and valid inquiry. A number of us gathered on Open Field in its final week to discuss our take on what is art and what, well, it maybe isn’t. The group: 4 tour guides, 1 college…

There are only three days left of Open Field, and I am sure that the events to comeare going to be quite memorable. Nevertheless, as the curtains draw to a close on our cultural commons, we are all becomming a bit nostalgic about our favorite Open Field events. It was incredibly difficult to choose, but let me share with you my top ten. 1. On the rainy First Free Saturday in June, Roma di Luna  managed…

Saturday, September 4th is the grand finale of Open Field summer programming and it’s also the conclusion of the month-long residency project, “A People Without a Voice Cannot Be Heard” led by the San Francisco-based art collective, Futurefarmers, and a core group of local art school students. Together they have been exploring the topic of “voice” in a myriad of ways. For their final project they have…

Christopher Lee Kennedy spoke with me about School of the Future,on July 26, 2010,a  collaborative experiment in unschooling that took place this summer at a park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.  They offered classes that ranged from guerrilla gardening and how to make your own biodiesel to a crash course in radical library sciences. is the Director of the Institute for Applied Aesthetics an experimental…