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Out with the Dialog Table, in with the Touch Wall

Media Lab

If you’ve explored our galleries, you’ve probably noticed the Dialog Table tucked into the Best Buy Info Lounge just off one of our main arteries. It’s a poster child of technical gotchas: custom hardware and software, cameras, projectors, finicky lighting requirements… Despite all the potential trouble embedded in the installation, it’s actually been remarkably solid […] If you’ve explored our galleries…

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What Makes a Healthy Art Community?

mnartists.blog

Lately I have been thinking a lot about what local artists need. Over the last year we on the mnartists.org team have been diligently planning for the new mnartists.org website. During the discovery phase of the project, we often returned to the question that launched the mnartists project in the first place, back in 1999. […] Lately I have been thinking a lot about what local artists need. Over…

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A Family Guide with Todd Balthazor

Field Guide

By Rachel Kimpton. Just how much work really goes into planning a day of engaging activities? Where do all the brilliant ideas for a public program come from? How does one correctly articulate and transform an inspiration into an idea and then to the tangible end product? To offer a little insight, we decided to […] Just how much work really goes into planning a day of engaging activities? Where do all…

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Frank Theatre’s Wendy Knox on Out There’s 25th Anniversary

The Green Room

In celebration of Out There’s 25th anniversary, we invited theater professionals from near and far — Jeff Bartlett, Wendy Knox, Young Jean Lee, and Mark Russell–to share their perspectives on this annual festival of boundary-crossing performance. Once the leaves drop from the trees here in Minnesota, we’re on that slow march into the long, dark, […] In celebration of Out There’s 25th anniversary, we…

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Rolling out the Red Carpet for the British Arrows

Walker Seen

On December 7, more than 70 members of Contemporaries, the Walker’s young professional affinity group, got to avoid long lines and fighting for seats at the sold-out screenings for the British Arrows and instead rode the elevator to the Garden Terrace Room for a relaxing reception with plenty of tables and chairs for a leisurely private viewing. Prior to the screening, Contemporaries […] On December 7…

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Indoor Forest Therapy Courtesy of There’s Only One by Richard Barlow

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Wedged between the student mailboxes and Einstein Bagels inside the student center at Augsburg College is a sliver of a gallery that Richard Barlow has transformed into a forest. Or, more accurately, he’s made a subtle, delicate, and stunning representation of a forest rendered in white chalk on blackboard-painted wall: There’s Only One. The shape […] Wedged between the student mailboxes and…

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Gallery Runway: 1

Teens Blog

Is fashion art? Or perhaps art is fashion. What do the two really have in common? I have toured the wonderful galleries of the Walker Art Center in search of fashion inspiration. With the pieces I have found I will attempt to personally answer the question connecting these two worlds of fashion and art. What I find enticing about Rupersberg’s piece is his exotic use of color. This really draws extra…

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Fritz Haeg meets Walker Home & Garden Club

Walker Seen

Last week Walker’s Home & Garden Club provided a warm and scrumptious potluck welcome to artist Fritz Haeg, who was on a site visit in preparation for his forthcoming residency that kicks off next spring. Not to diminish the conversation, which was a great exchange between the Home & Gardeners sharing their domestic passions and […] Last week Walker’s Home & Garden Club provided a warm and scrumptious…

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Circumstantial Evidence of Balthazor Korab’s ‘la dolce vita’

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With its sensuous curves, arcs, and swoops, mid-century modern architecture can have a dizzying effect (martini not required)—and never more so than when captured in the iconic images of architectural photographer Balthazar Korab. So it’s no surprise that, in the 1960s, when presented with an opportunity to climb atop and photograph from the private rooftops […] With its sensuous curves, arcs, and…