Artists-in-Residence

Li Zhenhua Virtual China
May 4-7, 2006

Li Zhenhua is a multimedia artist, photographer, designer, and independent curator from Beijing who is introducing the world to the work of emerging Chinese filmmakers and artists with The Wave, a program of cutting-edge experimental film/video shorts....  read more »
Spencer Nakasako Artist-in-Residence
March-May 2006

Under the direction of Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Spencer Nakasako, teenagers from the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) in Minneapolis, Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco, and the Bronx Museum Teen Council in New York City use video to explore what freedom means to...  read more »
Ericka Beckman Ericka Beckman
July 2003 - May 2005

Over the past year, New York-based filmmaker Ericka Beckman has been creating a new work--a video installation edited from hundreds of hours of film footage of the Walker's construction site.  read more »
Spencer Nakasako with Workshop Participants Everyone Has A Story
2001-2002

Spencer Nakasako, an award-winning filmmaker, believes in a simple but powerful truth: everyone has a story to tell.

As the Walker Art Center Film/Video artist-in-residence, Nakasako took the digital media lab housed in Walker on Wheels (WoW) to Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis and...  read more »
Craig Baldwin lecture, Walker Art Center Auditorium Artist-in-Residence
2000

Filmmaker Craig Baldwin is the first to admit that he's something of a folk artist. Despite impressive art-world credentials (he studied under Bruce Conner in the 1980s, won the 1997 Alpert Award in the Arts, and was featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennial), he prefers to use inexpensive, low-tech...  read more »
Cheryl Dunye Stranger Inside
March 19-23, 1999; May-June 1999

Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside tells the story of a young African-American woman's reckless journey to become reunited with the mother she never knew, set in the harsh realities of a women's correctional facility. Treasure Lee has been in and out of the juvenile...  read more »