Artists Have to Keep Pushing Forward: Eve Fowler on Artist Curated Projects
How do artists support one another? Known for championing emerging queer artists, Los Angeles based artist Eve Fowler discuses her ongoing project Artist Curator Projects (ACP) that has presented exhibitions of local artists for over 15 years.
How do fragments reflect desires to hold onto history? Rose Salane discusses her series that explores the relationship between objects taken, and then returned, to archaeological park of Pompeii.
How can coral be multilingual? Artist Chang Yuchen discusses their inspirations and exploration of language in their work Coral Dictionary.
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Exploring the myriad of ways research is utilized and rejected by artists, this series opens questions about how artists engage with, question, and produce research.
Examining artists living with HIV from the 1980s through today, the Walker Art Center and Visual AIDS co-present a series that considers the enduring urgency found at the intersection of art, AIDS, and activism.
Gathering a variety of perspectives from throughout Minnesota and beyond to consider the relationship between artists and their localities, this ongoing series explores placemaking and home.
Gathering voices from throughout the US, this series makes visible the collaborative nature of queer nightlife and the continued impact this art form has on individual artists and communities alike.
Exploring the relationship between photography, spiritualism, science, art, and belief, this series traces image-making’s relationship with visible and invisible worlds.
Is a sculpture court the name of the exhibition or an architectural description of the space? At the Walker, it can be both. Archivist Jill Vuchetich explores this deceptively simple concept from the Renaissance through today.
Minneapolis-based painter Kim Benson discusses her work Wall Flower, the materiality of painting, and the medium’s unique ability to connect the past, present, and future.
A Large Number of Artists Make Their Homes Here: Henriette Huldisch on the Walker’s Collection
The Walker's chief curator and director of Curatorial Affairs sits down to talk about the role of museum collections, the local art ecosystem, and the surprises of snow maintenance.
I Don’t Pretend to Have the Answers: Rik Garrett and Kirlian Photography
From a technique supposed to have measured the “auras” of a living being to that used by a priest who claimed to have photographed the crucifixion, artist and educator Rik Garrett explores photography's alternative processes developed to capture esoteric subjects.
Can You Imagine Anything Better? Christine Burgin on Spirit Photography and Conceptual Art
What relationships exist between spirit photography and conceptual art? Publisher and gallerist Christine Burgin discusses the mediumistic work of Hilma af Klint, Jackie Gleason’s library of the paranormal, West Coast conceptual artists, and confronting the unseen.
From a 1948 Children’s Fair to Keith Haring, Glenn Ligon, and a toy by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, archivist Jill Vuchetich explores the Walker's history of exhibitions for children.
Psychic Possibilities: Spirit Photography in the 20th Century and Beyond
What can a Chicago bellhop who could project images on film using only his mind, floating orbs, ectoplasm, and spirits communicating via VHS tell us about 20th 20th-century history of photography? More than meets the eye.
Every Picture is a Ghost: Photography and the Invisible
Spiritualism has been a part of photography since its inception in the late 1800s, but this history has often been hidden or brushed aside. Tracing this intertwined lineage, photographer and author Shannon Taggart explores why the use of photography to capture the invisible is increasingly relevant today.
What Makes an Object Bad? Jessi Reaves on Making Sculpture
Known for a sculpture practice that confounds preexisting notions of function and beauty, artist Jessi Reaves discusses the limits of enamel paint, landlord specials, and how material process influences her work.
This photo essay by Diana Soderholm, a photographer and the Walker’s Chief Guard, captures behind-the-scenes portraits of Walker staff as they imbue the Walker with their many creative talents.
Through her journal entries, artist Chang Yuchen explores how a residency on Dinawan Island in Malaysia helped to conceive her ongoing project Coral Dictionary.
Wielding collage as a tool of Black feminist resistance, Kandis Williams discussed her work Triadic Ballet and its relationship to Bauhaus, Black embodiment, and looking longer and harder inside oneself.
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language Roundtable Conversation
Moderated by Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), this roundtable gathers Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) and her women artistic peers Christi Belcourt (Métis)and Marie Watt (Seneca Nation) for a generative exchange about their artistic practices, supports, and commitments.
Minnesota State Fair: 170 Years of Creative Activities
In the lead up to its revamping, Kathy Berdan traces the history of the Minnesota State Fair's Creative Activities Building–from its origins as the Womans' Activities Building to today's bounty of artistic expression we all know and love.
How can an artwork make its politics legible or illegible? This series explores how art and politics often intertwine, examining dimensions of political engagement as contemporary artists respond to pressing matters of their time.
An examination on how artists of Central Eastern Europe developed various response to living amidst turbulent ideologies, dissolving superpowers, and shifting nationalities that often employed collaboration and group efforts.
Explore the exuberant and wide-ranging work and life of artist Pacita Abad through this series of articles that dives into her materials, techniques, and experiences.
Exploring the use of humor as a form of resistance across today’s art and design practices.
Through short interactive narratives, this ongoing series presents behind-the-scenes tours of your favorite outdoor sculptures.
A series of commissioned opinion pieces featuring provocative reactions to the headlines by Ron Athey, Gordon Hall, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Postcommodity, Ana Tijoux, Jack Whitten, and others.
Offering perspectives from those closest to the art, this recurring video series gives voice-of-the-artist perspectives on work on view.
In serial form, a 10-part curatorial essay from the 2014 exhibition <i>9 Artists</i>, which featured Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Hito Steyerl, Danh Vo, and others.
Avant Museology is a two-day symposium exploring the practices and sociopolitical implications of contemporary museology.
Through a single interface, an array of voices are invited to respond to pressing questions that surround the work of making, presenting, understanding, and living with art today.
A memoir series by the late Walker director Martin Friedman, recounting his encounters with artists including Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and John Cage.
In interviews with Laurie Anderson, Paul Chan, Trevor Paglen, JoAnn Verburg, and others, this series examines artists’ approaches to small-p politics—issues of power, inequality, and participation.
