February Target Free Thursday Nights Feature Life Drawing, Mystery Local Celebrity Gallery Tours, and More
Target Free Thursday Nights
For Fun. For Free. For Everyone.
February 6, 13, 20 & 27
Free Gallery Admission 5–9pm
Special Events Below
Life Drawing with Leslie Barlow
Thursday February 13
Walker Art Center, 6pm
This winter through May, try your hand at life drawing in front of a live nude model. All levels are welcome at these monthly, self-directed workshops guided by artist and educator Leslie Barlow. We provide the materials; you provide the creative flow.
Darin Rinne, co-owner of Wet Paint, will be on hand before the workshop to give demonstrations of art materials and help you pick out your supplies.
Leslie Barlow is a Minneapolis-based visual artist. Barlow has exhibited locally and nationally, and recently she has presented solo exhibitions at Public Functionary (Minneapolis) and the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine’s University (Saint Paul). In addition to her studio practice, she also teaches at the University of Minnesota, Metro State University, and Juxtaposition Arts, serves on Made Here’s artist advisory panel, and helps run the newly founded organization MidWest Mixed. She received her BFA in studio art from the University of Wisconsin–Stout (2011) and her MFA with an emphasis in drawing and painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2016).
Wet Paint is an influential, independent art supply store located in Saint Paul. Offering over 40,000 different items, it is known for its knowledgeable & friendly staff.
Mystery Celebrity Tours
Thursday, February 20
Walker Art Center, 6pm
Up for something a little more spontaneous? On select Thursdays this winter, a surprise local celebrity will guide you through the Walker galleries. Could it be your favorite chef? Maybe your favorite DJ? Is it your mom? Come find out when winter is at its coldest.
The February 20 tour also includes American Sign Language interpretation.
Featured Playlist: Short Films by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar
February 1–29
Bentson Mediatheque
Choose your own film adventure in the Walker’s Bentson Mediatheque. With more than 300 titles from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection available for you to explore, the unique self-select cinema brings together a nearly a century of cutting-edge film and video in an immersive, big screen environment. Plus, you can enjoy playlists assembled by curators, artists, and special guests as well as presentations that engage with eclectic themes.
Available throughout February, this playlist showcases short films by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar in conjunction with Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film.
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Workers describe the death of a GM plant as the last truck comes down the line two days before Christmas in 2008. Interviews with talented, experienced tradespeople abandoned in the wake of change reveal the multifaceted impact of the loss of livelihood, purpose, and friends. 2009, 40 min
Sparkle
Legendary dancer Sheri “Sparkle” Williams—one of the few outside of New York to receive the prestigious Bessie Award for Individual Performance—suffers her first serious injury in nearly 40 years. As her 50th birthday approaches, she is forced to consider whether she has the will to return to the stage. 2012, 18 min
Making Morning Star
Experience the joys and challenges of developing a new American opera. Made in Cincinnati, the film captures the delicate balancing of personalities during intense artistic collaboration. Will the opera be ready on time? 2016, 37 min.
Double Feature: Growing Up Female and Union Maids
Thursday, February 20
Walker Art Center, Free
These free screenings are a part of the Dialogue and Retrospective Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film.
“I wish every high school kid in America could see this film.” —Susan Sontag on Growing Up Female
Growing Up Female, 7 pm
Directed by Julia Reichert and Jim Klein
Growing Up Female is the very first feature-length film of the modern women’s movement. Considered controversial and exhilarating on its release, the film examines female socialization through a personal look into the lives of six women, ages four to thirty-five, and the forces that shape them—teachers, counselors, advertisements, music, and the institution of marriage. A time capsule of a generation’s feminist issues, sometimes intersecting with race and class, the film illuminates a complex system of institutions upholding internal and external oppression. Selected to the National Film Registry in 2011. 1971, DCP, 52 min.
Union Maids, 8 pm
Directed by Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, and Miles Mogulescu
Reichert interviews three “Union Maids” on their experiences as organizing women of the Labor movement. Fighting for humanitarian rights, these radical workers reflect on their lives filled with purpose and struggle. Frustrated by the privileged class’ participation in the women’s movement and caught up in race and gender discrimination within class warfare, their voices echo and contextualize many social justice issues today. 1976, DCP, 48 min.
Next Generation of Parks: Marla Spivak
Thursday, February 27
Walker Art Center, 7pm
MacArthur Fellow Marla Spivak joins us for the Next Generation of Parks event series. Founder of the Spivak Honey Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota, she’ll discuss her globally renowned research into the demise of honeybees, the need to protect the vital species, and efforts to restore populations through pollinator-promoting parks and greenspace. Presented by the Minneapolis Parks Foundation in partnership with the Walker.
Gallery Tours with Walker Curators
February 27, 6pm
Walker Art Center
Join a Walker curator for a special tour of a current exhibition. Curator Vincenzo de Bellis tours I am you, you are too in February—one of the last chances to see the exhibition before it closes on March 1.