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Walker Publishing

For over 75 years, the Walker Art Center has explored the cutting edge of publishing across form and content. This continues today through our print and digital publishing endeavors.

Print Publications
Print Publications

Print Publications

Since its founding, the Walker’s design team has produced a wide range of catalogues, magazines, and publications that examine this evolving medium.

Past Publications

Walker Reader
Walker Reader

Walker Reader

The Walker’s experimental digital publishing platform advances new ways of writing about the arts and culture.

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Living Collections Catalogue
Living Collections Catalogue

Living Collections Catalogue

This digital publication presents unique documents, original scholarship, and rich media about artworks from the Walker Collections.

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MnArtists Archive
MnArtists Archive

MnArtists Archive

From 2001–2025, Mn Artists served as a critical arts writing platform about, by, and for Minnesota’s local artist community.

Browse the Archive

The Walker’s The Library and Archives features over 40,000 books, as well as the Rosemary Furtak Collection.

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Publishing Stories

What does it mean to design around the idea of a ‘surface’?

Nazlı Ercan

Design

What does it mean to design around the idea of a ‘surface’?

How can Kandis Williams’s approach to exploring Blackness in layered and shifting ways inform a catalog? Designer Nazli Ercan explores.
Reframing Sophie Calle: An Interview with Julia Born

Ben Schwartz

Design

Reframing Sophie Calle: An Interview with Julia Born

Swiss graphic designer Julia Born sits down to discuss how she employed an intricate typographic and graphic system int he exhibition catalog Sophie Calle: Overshare.
Multiple Realities Book Design Notes

Design Visual Arts

Multiple Realities Book Design Notes

How does Acid Communism lead to a book? Exhibition catalogue designer Žiga Testen explains.
Designing Pacita Abad

Mylinh Trieu Nguyen

Design Visual Arts

Designing Pacita Abad

Designer of the exhibition catalogue for Pacita Abad, Mỹ Linh Triệu Nguyễn explores how the artist's woven trapunto paintings, maximalism, and Philippine pre-colonial scripts influenced the creation of this unique book.
On Designing Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts

Ben Schwartz

Design

On Designing Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts

From Homer to Joyce and even shards of wood, designer Ben Schwartz traces their influences and process of creating the catalogue for Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts.
A Warm, Lazy Day: Paul Chan Interviews Brian Huddleston on Designing the Catalogue for Paul Chan: Breathers

Paul Chan, Brian Huddleston

Design Visual Arts

A Warm, Lazy Day: Paul Chan Interviews Brian Huddleston on Designing the Catalogue for Paul Chan: Breathers

The Walker Design Studio recently worked with artist Paul Chan to design the catalogue to accompany his upcoming exhibition, Paul Chan: Breathers. In this reverse interview, Paul Chan talks with catalogue designer Brian Huddleston about his beginnings in type design and the process of creating the typeface he designed for the book.
On Designing Siah Armajani: Follow This Line

Aryn Beitz

Design Visual Arts

On Designing Siah Armajani: Follow This Line

"My first question was how might the concept of tracing become a conceptual thread that would formally tie the book together?" Aryn Beitz shares a behind-the-scenes look at the process that birthed the intricately layered, 448-page exhibition catalogue for Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, now on view at the Met Breuer.
On Designing Jason Moran

Design Performing Arts Visual Arts

On Designing Jason Moran

From catalogue chapter headings inspired by jazz gig posters to the graphic identity for LOOP magazine, here's a look at the designs for the Walker's Jason Moran exhibition, created by 12:01—Office of Hassan Rahim.  
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