Target Free Thursday Nights: Summer Edition at Walker Art Center Wraps Up in August with Outdoor Concert, Toy-Making Workshop, Artist Talk with Lauri Lyons
The Walker Art Center’s special
Target Free Thursday Nights: Summer Edition
concludes in August, featuring an outdoor concert and workshops designed to get visitors discovering, questioning, and creating art outdoors. The season’s final Skyspace/Soundspace concert, an exclusive, one-night-only set merging music and sculpture with performance inside and around James Turrell’s meditative Sky Pesher, 2005 chamber in the greenspace on the west side of the Walker, features local rockers Solid Gold, who recently performed at the sold-out Rock the Garden event. Seating capacity inside the Turrell sculpture is limited; please arrive early for seating inside. Patrons are welcome to bring a blanket and listen to the sweet sounds drift out onto the Walker’s grassy hillside. Refreshments available at the outdoor cash bar, located on the greenspace near the Angus Fairhurst gorilla sculpture, and at the Garden Grill by Wolfgang Puck, open Thursdays from 5–8 pm.
August also sees the return of Remake, Revamp, a workshop series that harnesses the creative talents of some of the Twin Cities’ most creative, forward-thinking fashion designers. In the FlatPak House on August 6, from 6–9 pm, participants will take tips from toymaker/artist Asia Ward on how to create their own misfit plaything.
Taking place indoors is an exhibition/artist talk with photographer Lauri Lyons, presented by Walker Teen Programs (August 20). Lyons presents her collaborative mobile exhibition Home Is Where You Make It, featuring large-scale photos of homeless youth, and discusses her art and her collaborations with young people. Also in August, patrons can take part in Sound Bites gallery talks focusing on artists featured in the exhibitions The Quick and the Dead (August 6) and Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (August 20), as well as on artists featured elsewhere in the Walker galleries, such as Isamu Noguchi (August 13) and Tomás Saraceno (August 27).
Target Free Thursday Nights: Summer Edition
August 6, 13, 20, 27
Galleries open 5–9; special events follow.
Free
Thursday, August 6
Sound Bites: A Search for Buried Art: Kris Martin’s Anonymous II, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Remake, Revamp: Make Your Own Misfit Toys, 6–9 pm
FlatPak House
My Little Pony + Care Bear + Furby = a robo plushy retrofit! Misfit toymaker/artist Asia Ward shows participants how to craft lovably odd playthings. Toys are provided, but if you wish, bring your own.
Thursday, August 13
Sound Bites: Isamu Noguchi’s Theater Set Element from Judith, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Thursday, August 20
Sound Bites: Lucio Fontana’s ceramics, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Exhibition/Artist Talk
Home Is Where You Make It: Lauri Lyons, 6:30 pm
Cinema
Free tickets available from 5:30 pm at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk
Working through the Kulture Klub Collaborative, photographer Lauri Lyons and local teenagers are creating Home Is Where You Make It, a mobile exhibition of large-scale portraits of homeless youth. Take in the show and join Lyons for a conversation about her art and her collaborations with young people. Her photographs and essays have appeared in Vibe, the London Observer, and Fortune, and she has shown her work at the International Center of Photography, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Civil Rights Museum.
Walker Teen Programs sponsored by Wells Fargo. Support provided by Best Buy Children’s Foundation. Walker Teen Programs are also supported by the Surdna Foundation.
Thursday, August 27
nnartists.org Field Day at the Walker, 11 am–10 pm
Walker Art Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Picnic on the grass and socialize with fellow artists as DJs and performers set the scene at this daylong extravaganza for and by Minnesota artists, musicians, writers, poets, and community members. Members of mnartists.org receive free admission to the Walker galleries. Visit mnartists.org/fieldday for the full lineup of events and participating artists.
11 am–8 pm: .org Mall
Bazinet Garden Lobby
See why Minnesota is a great home for artists. Meet mnartists.org members, representatives from arts organizations, and other partners to learn about services and opportunities for artists, audiences, and inquisitive citizens.
12 noon–1 pm: mnLIT Picnic
FlatPak House
Geoff Herbach of the Electric Arc Radio players and author of _The Miracle Letters of T. Rimber_g teams up with artist/writer/Salon Saloon creator Andy Sturtevant to host a matinée event in the Garden. They will be joined by authors of mnartist.org’s mnLIT competition for live readings of their winning flash fiction and poetry compositions.
1–5 pm: Greenspace Games
Outside Bazinet Garden Lobby
Whether you go in for hardcore tactics or free-for-all antics, join the artistically (and not necessarily athletically) inclined for lawn sports in the Walker’s west-side park. Recruit your own team to challenge rivals in an organized tournament or show off in a pickup game of kickball, badminton, or dodgeball. Register teams online at mnartists.org/greenspacegames.
mnartists.org is a project of the McKnight Foundation and the Walker Art Center.
Sound Bites: Tomás Saraceno, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Skyspace/Soundspace: Solid Gold, 8:30 pm
James Turrell’s Sky Pesher, 2005 and Walker greenspace
Summer winds down in style with an experimental performance by this trio, which creates gorgeous collisions between digital and analog instrumentation by mixing heavy beats with surprising twists on Americana. This is the culminating event of mnartists.org’s daylong field day extravaganza.