This
invitation is sent from the Walker Art Center and the MPRB regarding
this weekend's sculpture garden opening ceremony should you wish you
attend.
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Dear Dakota Oyate Elders and Mediation Participants:
It would be a pleasure to see you again.
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Dear Dakota Oyate Elders and Mediation Participants:
Writing with thanks for your leadership and support in our efforts to find a respectful place of resolution around
Scaffold and to extend an invitation to you all—as well as
friends and family---to join us as we open the Minneapolis Sculpture
Garden this Saturday, June 10, 2017:
From 10 am to 6 pm
that day, there will be an array of free family-friendly events onsite
across the newly renovated gardens, including hand-on art-making
activities, DJs, Blue Bunny Ice Cream, and giveaways including free tree
seedlings from the Minneapolis
Park and Recreation Board. Food trucks will also be on-site.
Event Highlights Include
Official Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony, 12 noon
Join the Walker and the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden’s official opening.
Activity: Extrapolation Factory, 10 am–5 pm
Learn about the natural habitats in the Garden and discover how you can help protect those spaces. Extrapolation
Factory’s project creates an experimental habitat that will be deployed around the Walker campus.
Art-Making: Mix Up, 10 am–3 pm
Design a new image of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Create a
one-of-a-kind drawing with crayons by mixing and matching metal stencils
with artist Carolyn Swiszsz.
Free Gallery Admission: June 1–10
Visit the Walker between June 1 (from 5 pm) and 10 to enjoy free
gallery admission.
It would be a pleasure to see you again.
With gratitude and utmost respect,
Olga Viso
Executive Director
Walker Art Center
Jayne Miller
Superintendent
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
