Author: Nate Solas
I’ve been with the Walker since Oct ‘03, mere months before the Galleries closed for the Walker Expansion Project. (Because of that timing, the first two years of my Walker tenure were served in OneGroveland…) Now New Media kicks it in our hot new open plan office. Jan ‘04: Eric and I have just completed a redesign effort for mnartists.org, I’m currently focusing on a Walker-wide Site Search. Feb ‘05: I’m neck deep in Art On Call… Sept ‘06: Once more into the mnartists.org breach, this time we’re building a full-on calendaring system for them. Going to be really sweet once it’s done, but it involves a ton of new code and me learning some new stuff. April ‘07: The mnartists.org calendar has launched, finally freeing me up for numerous other projects. Currently tackling an online WYSIWYG editor for our HTML email, I’m using MooTools to do it all in realtime with AJAX. Very, very impressed and pleased with MooTools so far. November ‘08: Someday the new ArtsConnectEd site will launch, and I can work on something else. For now… Stay tuned!
Email: nate.solas@walkerart.org
My Website: http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/?author=2
The Walker has joined the growing number of institutions participating in ArtShare, the Brooklyn Museum’s art sharing application on Facebook. The team at Brooklyn launched ArtShare in November 2007, and the response was immediately positive. By adding this app Facebook users are able to rotate works of art on their profile, showing their favorites or just items that pique their interest. The app even works with Facebook Pages, and has been added to the Walker’s page here. (Like the Walker? Become a fan of our page!)
If you’re a Facebook user, give ArtShare a try and let us know what you think!
A big thanks to Shelley and Michael for making the application so open and also for working with other institutions to bring everyone online – they were responding to inquiries from us on day one and ready to help integrate our collection.
I finally had a chance yesterday to take in the Picasso and American Art exhibition with my family, and while trying to process everything I saw and heard I stumbled across Mr. Picassohead. Luckily this is posted on a holiday, because once you click on that link, say goodbye to your afternoon…!
Yesterday saw another running of the Twin Cities Marathon, and it couldn’t have been a nicer day for it. Robot Math was up early enough to snap this picture as the pack surged past the Walker.
A huge number of the runners are not from the cities – I can’t help but wonder what they thought after seeing the Walker’s facade for the first time… “Hey, what’s with this giant robot head watching the marathon?”
