Swing into the opening party for Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf. The course is open through Labor Day.

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These come from Walker staff photographer Gene Pittman, who captured some of the fun and frenzy in the week leading up to tonight’s opening of Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf.

If you’ve taken a stroll down Vineland Avenue recently, you might have noticed that there is some activity happeneing on either side of the street. Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf and Design for the Other 90% are both being installed right now, opening to the public next week. Walker photographers Cameron Wittig and Gene Pittman captured some of the action:

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Rain or shinestart practicing your putting. Zoran Mojsilovis installingPig’s Eye Landfill on the course of Walker on the Green. The large wooden assemblage was trucked in this morning with the assistance of an imposing crane. It’s mostly made of elm branches and trunks that were salvaged from a wood recycling site in town. Zoran says, “The mouse hole lines up with the cup just right. Now onto finishing the green.”

For more information on Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf visit http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2008/05/13/artists-green-makers-mini-golf/

Small packages hold big ideas at Walker on the Green: Artist-designed Mini Golf. Here are the artists, architects, and designers chosen through an open call to create green-themed holes destined to challenge players’ senses as much as their games:

Andrew MacGuffie; Brett Smith and Erin Smith: Chris Pennington, Eric Velde, and Nate Carney Kulenkamp; Ed hernandez and Yves Roux (BBDO Minneapolis); Geoffrey Warner and Blake Loya (Alchemy Architects); Jason Brown, Elizabeth Scofield, Frederic Scofield, and Sean Frank (Survival Design); Maura Rockcastle and Regan Golden-McNerney; Kevin Kane and students (City of Lakes Waldorf Law School); Zoran Mojsilov; Tyson McElvain and Dan Winton (Julie Snow Architects); James Dayton Design; Phil Docken and Kirk McCall (Walker Art Center).

The course opens May 24 on the greenspace adjacent to the Walker’s Vineland Place entrance. Course hours are 10 am to 8 pm every Wednesday through Sunday, through September 7.