Join us on August 27th at the Walker Art Center for a day of activities with mnartists.org and the Minnesota art community.
MNARTISTS.ORG PRESENTS EVENT FOR AND BY MINNESOTA ARTISTS: FIELD DAY AT THE WALKER
Thursday, August 27, 11 am-10 pm
DAYLONG EXTRAVAGANZA INCLUDES READINGS IN THE SCULPTURE GARDEN, LAWN SPORTS, AND CONCERT BY SOLID GOLD
Picnic on the grass and socialize with fellow artists as musicians and performers set the scene at mnartists.org' Field Day at the Walker, Thursday, August 27, 11 am-10 pm, a daylong extravaganza for and by Minnesota artists, musicians, writers, poets, and community members. Members of mnartists.org receive free admission to the Walker Art Center galleries. Activities include a mall where artists can meet and network with representatives from mnartists.org, as well as other arts organizations; a mnLIT Picnic, hosted by Geoff Herbach and Andy Sturdevant, featuring readings of poetry and flash fiction by winners of mnartist.org's past mnLIT competitions; a screen-printing workshop with local fashion designers Calpurnia Peach; Greenspace Games, where registered teams can compete in various lawn sports, such as kickball; and a Skyspace/Soundspace concert in the James Turrell Sky Pesher, 2005 installation by local buzz band Solid Gold.
Visit mnartists.org/fieldday for the full lineup of events and participating artists. Register teams online at mnartists.org/greenspacegames
MNARTISTS.ORG FIELD DAY AT THE WALKER
Thursday, August 27, 11 am-10 pm
Walker Art Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
11 am-8 pm: .org Mall
Bazinet Garden Lobby
See why Minnesota is a great home for artists. Meet mnartists.org partner organizations, to learn about services and opportunities for artists, audiences, and inquisitive citizens. Featured organizations include Springboard for the Arts, Minnesota Public Radio. ARP!, The Onion/Decider-Twin Cities, ARThouse, Northern Lights, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Walker Art Center, College of Visual Arts and mnartists.org and its members.
11 am-12 noon: Kid-friendly dance with guest artist Sarah Jacobs
FlatPak House
Dance artist Sarah Jacobs presents a fun-filled hour of creative movement and kinetic play, especially tailored to engage young children. Families with children of all ages are welcome to join in and burn off some pre-nap energy.
12 noon-1 pm: mnLIT Picnic
FlatPak House
Geoff Herbach of the Electric Arc Radio players and author of The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg teams up with artist/writer/Salon Saloon creator Andy Sturtevant to host a matinée event in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. They will be joined by authors of mnartist.org's mnLIT competition for live readings of their winning flash fiction and poetry compositions.
11 am-4 pm: Family art-making workshop and Arty Pants scavenger hunt
FlatPak House
Kids are mnartists too! Families are invited to stop by the FlatPak house in the sculpture garden to nurture the artist within by making a cool, personally designed sketch pad. (Materials will be provided)
Scavenger Hunt: Field Day's family visitors are invited to traipse through the Sculpture Garden all afternoon, to hunt down fine (and not-so fine) arty treasures tucked amid the greenery and artwork.
1-5 pm: Greenspace Games
Outside Bazinet Garden Lobby
Whether you go in for hardcore tactics or free-for-all antics, join the artistically (and not necessarily athletically) inclined for lawn sports in the Walker's west-side park. Recruit your own team to challenge rivals in an organized kickball tournament or show off in a pickup game of badminton. Register teams online at mnartists.org/greenspacegames. Uniforms other creative displays of team spirit are encouraged. There will be prizes, trophies and athletic glory for winners and loser alike.
1:00 - 5:00 pm Remake, Revamp...again
Outside Bazinet Garden Lobby
Calpurnia Peach-a collaboration between Luci Kandler and Ashley Wokasch, whose line has been a hit at Minneapolis' annual Voltage: Fashion Amplified show extend their summer screen printing workshop to field day. Calpurnia Peach helps participants to design a personal emblem of summery good times, mnartists and field day and screen-print it on clothing brought from home and make your own mnartsits.org t-shirt.
3:00 pm Open Eye Figure Theatre's "The Adventures of Katie Tomatie"
FlatPak House
The artists of Open Eye Figure Theatre will present a puppet show sure to delight children and adults alike. Come to the Sculpture Garden's Flat Pak house to see "The Adventures of Katie Tomatie," one of the shows in this summer's "Driveway Tour" series by this acclaimed Minneapolis theater company.
5:30 pm Minnesota Artist "Class Photo" Photo
Outside Bazinet Garden Lobby
We invite all members of the Minnesota Art community to gather on the Greenspace for group photo. If you consider yourself part of the Minnesota Art Community...you should be here for this photo.
8:30 pm: Skyspace/Soundspace: Solid Gold
James Turrell's Sky Pesher, 2005 and Walker greenspace
Summer winds down in style with a free experimental performance by this trio, which creates gorgeous collisions between digital and analog instrumentation by mixing heavy beats with surprising twists on Americana.
Target Free Thursday Nights sponsored by Target
mnartists.org is a project of the McKnight Foundation and the Walker Art Center.
mnLIT and mnartists.org Field Day is sponsored by the Twin Cities Decider and the Onion.
Walker Art Center programming is made possible by its Premier Partners: General Mills, Target, and Star Tribune.
The Walker Art Center is located at 1750 Hennepin Avenue-where Hennepin meets Lyndale-one block off Highways I-94 and I-394, in Minneapolis.
For public information, call 612.375.7600, or visit walkerart.org.