Obama honors Walker Art Center director

Walker Art Center director Olga Viso has been nominated by President Barack Obama to become a member of the National Council on the Arts. Viso has been director of the Walker since 2008.

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BMTN Staff
Updated:
Mar 8, 2018
Original:
Sep 22, 2012

Walker Art Center director Olga Viso has been nominated by President Barack Obama to become a member of the National Council on the Arts, reports the Pioneer Press.

Viso took over as director of the Walker in 2008.

Viso will join Minnesota dancer and choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy on the council, the Pioneer Press says.

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Would you watch Internet cat videos if you aren't wasting time at work? The Walker Art Center is betting that lots of people will and is now taking nominations for what might be the first Internet cat video film festival ever. What's your favorite?

Six major commissions, three world premieres and more than two-dozen performances make up the Walker Art Center's 2012-2013 performing arts season. Featuring everything from dance to experimental music, the Walker's lineup includes a two-night engagement with iconic performance artist Laurie Anderson and a project involving Wilco guitarist Nels Cline.

The Walker Art Center's collection of Internet cat videos, which generated some nationwide buzz this summer, is now touring the country. The Pioneer Press reports the Minneapolis-based museum screened its hour and a half collection of cat videos for students at the University of Massachusetts Boston last month. On Nov. 15, the newspaper says it will be shown at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.

With more than 150 ads—celebrated, debated, even hated—the annual screenings of the British Arrows Awards (formerly known as the British Television Advertising Awards) are one of the Walker’s most popular programs.

New York City transplant Frank Sonntag has quit his post as executive director of the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts just two months after it opened to the public. He writes, "after spending most of my professional life in New York, I don't feel the Minnesota culture is one I'm well suited for."

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After weeks of buildup and worldwide media attention, the online cat video festival at the Walker Art Center plays Thursday night in Minneapolis.

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