In October, public tours at the Walker Art Center include a special program in honor of the sixth annual Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month, an event organized by the New York–based nonprofit organization Art Education for the Blind (AEB). Special touch tours will be offered on Friday and Saturday, October 3 and 25, at 2 pm, for people who are blind or have low vision, providing opportunities to experience artworks in the collection in a tactile way.
A specially trained tour guide presents a well-balanced mixture of art-historical information and visual descriptions of the works being explored.
Offered every Thursday–Sunday at 2 pm, tours are available for the exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (through January 4), the first major retrospective of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial architects of the 20th century; Journeys to Nowhere: Selections from the Collection (through November 23), featuring a diverse group of works from the Walker’s collection which reflect on the paradox of humanity’s simultaneous destruction of nature and yearning for utopia; of ongoing collection exhibitions; and the Walker building. Sound Bites gallery talks, held on select Thursday evenings at 6:30 and 7 pm, illuminate an artist or work of art from the Walker’s world-class collection or one of its special exhibitions.
Gallery admission is $10 adults; $8 seniors (65+), $6 students/teens (with ID) and free to Walker members and children 12 and under. Admission is free with a ticket to a same-day Walker event, $4 with a ticket stub up to six days after an event. Gallery admission is free to all every Thursday evening from 5–9 pm and on the first Saturday of each month. -- www.walkerart.org
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