Thursday Nights with Walker Art Center
October 5, 2009 • written by Alicia Meyer
The Walker Art Center, a center dedicated to art and cultural education, is offering some exciting new programs for teen exploration of the arts. The Walker Art Center is the world leader of teen programming. The center’s teen programs are dedicated to connecting teens to contemporary art and artist. Some of these programs include the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC), a group consisting of 12 teenagers who organize events and programs for other teens; Teen Exhibitions and Showcases; giving teenagers the opportunity to show off their own artistic works in a professionals way and receive positive feedback from their peers; Teen Art Workshops, provide teens to interact with local and national artist; and the WATCAC Target Free Thursday Nights, events and programs that interest teens, such as exhibitions, files, videos, screenings, and performances.
Some events that are taking place within the next few months:
- Target Free Thursday Nights: Every Thursday night in October (1st, 8th, 15th, 22th, 29th )
o Each Thursday night includes free gallery admission from 5-9pm, and free special events.
o October 1st Special events include:
Sound Bites: Haegue Yang’s Installations, and 6:30 and 7pm
Poster Mart, 5-7pm
Drawn Here: Contemporary Art in Conversations Film Screening/Discussion: Dies Young, Stayed Pretty, 7 pm
October 8th Special events include:
Panel Discussion: There’s Just Something about Clay, 7pm
October 15th Special events include
Sound Bites: Tour Guide Choice: Collection Favorites. 6:30 and 7pm
Film: Burn after Reading, 7:30pm
October 22nd Special events include:
Sound Bites: Haegue Yang’s Quasi MB, 6:30 and 7pm
Artist Talk: Astra Taylor on the unschooled life, 7pm
Film/Discussion: Inside Iraq, 7:30pm
October 29th Special events include:
Student Open House: School of Rock, 5-9pm
For more information about the Walker Art Center and their upcoming events go to www.walkerart.org
Filed Under Arts and Academics, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
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