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About Me

The Walker Art Center, a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences, examines the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities.

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Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Wednesday 11am-5pm
Thursday-Friday 11am-9pm
Saturday-Sunday 11am-5pm
Closed Monday

Rock the Garden line-up is announced!

Saturday, June 21, 2008 Featuring Andrew Bird, The New Pornographers, Cloud Cult, and Bon Iver. Click here for members-only advanced sale tickets!..

My Interests

Community Engagement and Enrichment. Visual Arts. Film / Video. Music. Dance. Theater. Lectures and Classes. Family Programs. Teen Programs.

I'd like to meet:

Performance, Music, Theater, and Dance fans! The preview 2007/2008 Performing Arts Season Trailer is out!
Click here to check it out!

Get the inside scoop / behind the scenes in Performing Arts at Walker here!

Music:

Martin Dosh, Andrew Bird, Jel, Deerhoof, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Tommy Shepard, DJ Excess, Lenine, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Andrew Broder, Mike Lewis, Redstart, Fog, Lateduster, Dhafer Youssef, Frode Haltli, Maja Ratkje, Nils Okland, Nortec Collective, Prezens Quartet (David Torn / Tim Berne / Craig Taborn / Tom Rainey), Drew Gress' 7 Black Butterflies, Ralph Alessi, Bobby Previte and Andrea Kleine, World Saxophone plays Hendrix, Gangbe Brass Bans, The Books, Matmos/So Percussion/Kitundu, John Zorn, Jon Langford, Black Dice, Sunn O))), Boris, Douglas Ewart's Inventions Clarinet Choir, Bill Frisell, Japanther, Juana Molina, Ruth MacKenzie, Carla Kihlstedt / 2 Foot Yard, Carla Bozulich, David Byrne, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, the Melvins, 13 + God, Blood on the Wall, Tracy + the Plastics, Wilco, and many more!

Movies:

Summer Love (Piotr Uklanski), A Walk into the Sea (Ester B Robinson), Danny Williams Factory Films, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (Jennifer Fox), 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu), Marinela From P7 & California Dreamin' (Endless) (Cristian Nemescu), Photography and Beyond (Heinz Emigholz), Prater, Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia, Ticket of No Return & 12 Chairs (Ulrike Ottinger), Milos Forman films, I'm Not There, Juno, Nanking, Bela Tarr films, Greenaway films, Latin American films, and tons more

My Blog

City Pages shout out to Dosh! 11pm show added May 3rd!

Electronic one-man band Martin Dosh steps out of the background and into the spotlightIn a booth at a neighborhood pub in south Minneapolis, a slumped and bearded Martin Dosh is staring into his beer...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:54:00 PST

Hip Hop at Walker !

watch it! ( click for video clip ) The break/s explores the personal costs of hip-hop's ascendancy from a local political/arts movement to a worldwide cultural force that creates racial and cult...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:34:00 PST

What goes through a young womans mind?

For this project Mr. Castellucci wanted to try something new. He built visual sequences for "Hey Girl!" around various symbols of femininity. Scenes reel through time and space, traversing the young w...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:24:00 PST

Call for Volunteer Performers - Dudes needed!

Participate in a stunning and powerful performance at Walker Art Center this February! Acclaimed Italian theater director Romeo Castellucci is looking for male volunteers of any age to perform in a ...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:37:00 PST

Jerome Bel Back at the Walker!

"A performance of a rare intelligence with very little means" - Le Figaro, FranceThe Walker Art Center welcomes back Jerome Bel! Jerome Bel performed The show must go on in 2005 and was highly celebra...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:54:00 PST

FREE drink with ticket!

Click the link below for a local fan's video response to the Gob Squad's Thursday night show& http://betteronme.blogspot.com/2007/09/gob-squad.html Catch them while you can, the Gobbers are here for ...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:26:00 PST

oh Emio...

So if you haven't checked out Emio Greco yet, I would. I really think this is going to be an amazing performance. Here's the blurb: " Emio Greco has emerged as one of Europe's mo...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:52:00 PST

Bands on the Run photos

Hey, we've got some photos from Bands on the Run up in our Flickr Group. Check them out and add yours:http://www.flickr.com/groups/wactac/If you're not a flickr user, sign up or post in this message i...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:27:00 PST

The Walker's Ten Top Tens

The Walker Art Center's two-year-old blog Off Center invited bloggers, artists, and critics to help us create the mother of all Top-10 lists about the best art and culture of 2006. The results were am...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:42:00 PST

Be posh, get on screen @ the Walker

I hope you're coming to the After Hours party tonight. We've got a cooooool setup that lets you get your photo taken and see it in a slideshow all over the Walker during the party. It should be pretty...
Posted by Walker Art Center on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:40:00 PST