January Target Free Thursday Nights Feature Life Drawing, Sculpture Garden Snowshoe Tours, Winter Films and More
Target Free Thursday Nights
For Fun. For Free. For Everyone.
January 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30
Free Gallery Admission 5–9pm
Special Events Below
Photo: courtesy Wet Paint.
Life Drawing with Leslie Barlow
Thursday, January 9 & 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.
Photo: Angela Lundberg for Walker Art Center.
Mystery Celebrity Tours
Thursday, January 16 & 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.
Winter fireside, 2019. Photo: Carina Lofgren for Walker Art Center.
Winter at the Walker 2020
Thursday January 23 & 30
Cozy Crafts and Cocktails, 5–8:30 pm
Moonlight Snowshoe Tours, 6 and 7:30 pm
We’re getting hygge-with-it this Winter at the Walker! Treat yourself to some color therapy with free gallery admission. Trek through the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden on snowshoes (courtesy of the Center for Outdoor Adventure at the University of Minnesota) and reacquaint yourself with the sculptures under a wintery night sky and the glowing city skyline. Cozy up in our Main Lobby–turned–warming house with a drink and crafts provided by the Textile Art Center.
Victor Kossakovsky, Aquarela, 2019. Photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics.
Aquarela
Directed by Victor Kossakovsky
Thursday, January 30, 7pm
Walker Cinema
Part of Winter at the Walker, the Great Northern and the Walker Art Center present an evening wintry fun and film. From the Bentson Mediatheque to the Walker Cinema, this evening will feature films reminding us of why we love the cold North and why we need to keep the North cold. You can also cozy up in our Main Lobby–turned–warming house with a drink and crafts provided by the Textile Art Center.
Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. A visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is Aquarela‘s main character. —Sony Pictures Classics
Gerald Potterton, The Ride, 1963. Photo courtesy Walker Art Center, Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection.
Featured Playlist: Hit the North
Thursday, January 30 5pm
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 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.
Enjoy the cold with experimental films that celebrate Northern climes: The Ride (Gerald Potterton, 1963), a slapstick comedy with a riotous toboggan run; 21st Annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (Skip Blumberg, 1983); and Jonathan Rattner’s lyrical The Interior (2015) and Further In (2016), about dog mushers in the secluded Alaskan interior.
This playlist is also available throughout the month of January for self-selection in the Bentson Mediatheque.
Tour of the exhibition 5 Ways In, 2019. Photo: Pierre Ware for Walker Art Center.
Gallery Tours with Walker Curators
Thursday, January 30 & February 27, 6pm
Walker Art Center
Join a Walker curator for a special tour of a current exhibition. Curatorial fellow William Hernandez Luege explores The Expressionist Figure in January, and 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.
The January 30 tour also includes American Sign Language interpretation.