Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in February Highlighted by Drawn Here Design Lecture with Architect Teddy Cruz

The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in February are highlighted by a Drawn Here design talk with architect Teddy Cruz (February 28, 7 pm), whose work is featured in the new exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (opening February 16). A native of Guatemala, Cruz has won the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture, has his own longtime architecture practice (Estudio Teddy Cruz), and is a professor in the visual arts department of the University of California, San Diego. Also featured in February are screenings of films from the Walker’s experimental film series Expanding the Frame, including Cristian Nemescu’s short film Marilena from P7 (February 7, 7:30 pm) and Heinz Emigholz’s Photography and Beyond 1, which documents the varied architectural projects of Louis H. Sullivan (February 14, 7:30 pm); a curator-led tour of Worlds Away, at which exhibition curator and Walker design director Andrew Blauvelt discusses the many ways artists and architects respond to America’s suburban condition (February 21, 7 pm); and the workshop The Presence of Loss, led by artist/composer/musician Camille Gage and poet Juliet Patterson, on the meaning of loss in contemporary culture (February 21, 7 pm).

Target Free Thursday Nights sponsored by Target.

Target Free Thursday Nights

February 7, 14, 21, 28
Galleries open 5–9; special events follow.
Free

Thursday, February 7

Brave New Worlds Tour, 6 pm

Expanding the Frame Film: Marilena from P7, 7:30 pm

Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
In this early short, Cristian Nemescu takes us to the world of magical realism as a precocious juvenile delinquent befriends an electrically charged prostitute in Marilena from P7 (2006, 35mm, color, in Romanian with English subtitles, 40 minutes).

Thursday, February 14

Gallery Tour, 6 pm

Expanding the Frame Film: Photography and Beyond 1, 7:30 pm

Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
Heinz Emigholz, whose films focus on architecture, documents the varied projects of Louis H. Sullivan, including the National Farmer’s Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota, and the bridges of Robert Maillart.

Thursday, February 21

Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg Tour, 6 pm

Curator-led Tour: Worlds Away, 7 pm

Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Join exhibition curator and Walker design director Andrew Blauvelt for a look at the many ways artists and architects respond to America’s suburban condition. The works on view explore the landscape as a fertile place for imagining the best and the worst of modern social life. See if your own impressions of suburbia shift as you learn how the American suburb has played a catalytic role in the creation of new art.

Workshop: The Presence of Loss, 7 pm

Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab
Free, but reservations are required; call 612.375.7600.
Join artist/composer/musician Camille Gage and poet Juliet Patterson for a workshop on the meaning of loss in contemporary culture. As part of an ongoing multimedia project, The Presence of Loss, these Minnesota artists are interested in generating a public discussion on the meaning of individual and collective grieving at a volatile time in our history. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences with loss and thoughts that will inform the project. Presented in association with mnartists.org.

Thursday, February 28

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes Tour, 6 pm

Drawn Here: Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz, 7 pm

Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
In a society increasingly obsessed with policing borders and erecting boundaries, architect Teddy Cruz operates in the zone between countries, disciplines, and cultures. “We should be turning our attention away from the wall and toward the landscape, the ecology, and the communities,” says Cruz, whose work is featured in the Walker exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. He has followed that admonition with projects of passion, gaining critical acclaim for engaging issues of community, sociability, and immigration, and for collaborating with community-based nonprofit organizations on affordable, sustainable housing and its potential to transform urban policy. A native of Guatemala, Cruz has won the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture, has his own longtime architecture practice (Estudio Teddy Cruz), and is a professor in the visual arts department of the University of California, San Diego.