Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Phone: (612) 375-7624
Fax: (612) 375-7575

URL: www.walkerart.org
Email: info@walkerart.org

An internationally respected contemporary art center, the Walker houses one of the largest and most respected museum-based performing arts departments in the country that supports dozens of commissions, developmental residencies and presentations annually. Walker is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audience. We take a multi- disciplinary approach to the creation, presentation, interpretation, collection and preservation of art. Our programs examine the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures and communities. The McGuire Theater, opened in 2005, serves not only as a stunning new platform for presentations, but also as an essential working laboratory and production center, offering innovators the support, time and resources to finish technically mounting large-scale work.

The Walker commissions and presents new work on local, national and international levels and has recently increased its support and presentation of a wide range of global work. We support established and innovative masters, mid-career artists and a range of emerging voices in contemporary dance, dance theater, experimental theater, new music-theater, performance art, new puppetry, avant-jazz, electronic music, contemporary classical music, international / global music and experimental pop / rock. We mainly select artists with whom we have ongoing relationships or those we have researched and sought out, but we remain open to receiving proposals and inquiries from artists who fit our mission and who are forging new directions.

House Capacity: 385

Disciplines: Dance, Performance Art, Music, Theatre, Puppetry, Spoken Word, Multi-Discipline, Interdisciplinary, site specific, installations in galleries