Opens June 2 Open Field is the summer’s creative public mash-up. It’s where our games, hobbies, talents, performances, ideas, experiments, curiosities, and lazy afternoons collide. Make stuff, share, learn, watch, or just play and hang out. Join us and turn Open Field into your own summertime experience. New activities and surprises pop up every week. read more >> Find Open Field on Facebook and Twitter On the Field: Acoustic Campfire Local musicians perform intimate acoustic sets as the sun sets on the field. Drawing Club Sit, share, draw: a weekly hangout for collaborative and social artmaking. Tool Shed Your gateway to fun with board games, art supplies, field equipment, and more. Garden Grill Serving up summer classics, plus a variety of local beers, wines, soda, and lemonade. FlatPak House Stop by the hippest visitor center in the city, our prefab Minneapolis Sculpture Garden outpost. Open Phenology Tune in to the temporal as our amateur naturalist tracks life on the Walker Campus. @openphenology. Free First Saturday: Open Laboratory Saturday, June 2, 10 am-3 pm Join us outside for the first Open Field event of the year. Learn about bugs, plants, and art through creative play with specialists from the Science Museum of Minnesota and Westwood Hills Nature Center. more >> Northern Spark at Open Field Saturday-Sunday, June 9-10, 9 pm-6 am For this citywide art extravaganza, the Walker stays up all night for s’mores, campfire concerts, storytelling, a glow-in-the-dark Drawing Club, and one-night-only gallery and garden surprises. more >> Target Free Thursday Nights Thursdays, 5-9 pm Thursday evenings are home to Drawing Club, Acoustic Campfire, drink specials at the Garden Grill, and all kinds of planned and spontaneous activities. Head inside for gallery talks, free films, and more. more >> Propose Your Own Activity Hundreds of individuals and groups have shared their activities and ideas on Open Field. How will you become part of the Open Field community this summer? Submit your proposal here. Artist Residencies Kitchen Lab June 19-30 Design and research duo Carl and Betsy DiSalvo, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, are looking at the kitchen from an array of vantage points, from food systems to families, and from fine art to public health. Join us on Thursday evenings June 21 and 28 to cook up a new kind of community kitchen— a mobile lab centered around food and social action. read more >> ROLU July 17-29 What if the inside of the museum was on the outside? What if a simple poncho transformed your visit into a performance? Members of Minneapolis-based design studio ROLU ask us to join them in building Field Collection—a lawn-friendly version of artworks from the Walker’s collection—and for a host of other activities that explore the question: when does something become something else? read more >> Open Field is sponsored by Major support is generously provided by the Margaret and Angus Wurtele Family Foundation. Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin, Minneapolis MN 55403 Share with a friend |