Winter Walkerland: Feb. 5-8

Celebrate the Walkers 75th anniversary as a public art center with an eventful community weekend featuring free gallery admission and activities for the whole family. The indoor/outdoor party kicks off on Thursday night with the grand opening of the new exhibition 75 Gifts for 75 Years.

Winter Walkerland

Free Gallery Admission

Friday-Sunday, February 5-8

Hang up your coat and stay a while! With free gallery admission for all throughout the weekend, theres plenty of time to explore the new exhibitions.

Free Ice-Skating

All Weekend

Glide through a frosty winter weekend on a skating rink built for art lovers. Bring your skates and join us for some winter fun on a temporary ice rink in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Specialty Cocoa Bar

All Weekend

Need a break? Warm up with a variety of specialty hot cocoas and treats in the Garden Café. Walker members, your first drink is on us!

Family Art-Making Activities

Saturday, 10 am  4 pm

Sunday, 11 am  4 pm

Where can art take you? Come in from the cold and get together for a creative activity that lets you imagine far away (and possibly warmer) places.

Spotlight Talks: 75 Gifts for 75 Years

Saturday Sunday

12 noon  3 pm

Get the scoop from Walker tour guides as they share anecdotes about the works on view in 75 Gifts for 75 Years.

Vodka Ice Bar

Thursday, February 5

5-9 pm

Toast 75 Gifts for 75 Years on Thursday, February 5, 59 pm at the Ice Bar featuring Prairie Organic Vodka.

Opening-Night Party: 75 Gifts for 75 Years

Thursday, February 5 5-9 pm FREE

Starting at 5 pm, gallery admission is free and the new exhibition 75 Gifts for 75 Years is open to the public. Join us for an evening of festivities, frolic, and nonstop fun inside and outside.

One of several exhibitions marking the occasion of the Walkers 75th anniversary, this presentation focuses on the significant impact that gifts of art have made on the collection through its history. While the Walker has always made important purchases of art, often acquiring the work of artists early in their careers, this activity alone could not have built the museums collection into the preeminent repository of contemporary art that it is today. As institutions struggle to compete in todays global art market, the Walker is more indebted than ever to the donors who have helped to strengthen its holdings.

The exhibition 75 Gifts for 75 Years, curated by Siri Engberg, features a range of key gifts through the decades that have broadened the scope of the Walkers collections by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Joan Mitchell, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Gerhard Richter, and Vija Celmins. These will be accompanied by a broad range of more recent gifts that have come to the Walker on the occasion of its 75th anniversaryby such artists as Siah Armajani, Tauba Auerbach, David Hockney, Dianna Molzan, Frank Stella, Kara Walker, and many more.