http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:05:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en War, energy, humanitarian intervention, public education, women's reproductive rights, the death penalty ... somewhere on the long list of policy positions among the presidential candidates is the arts. Or at least for one of them. Americans for the Arts asked the presidential candidates to provide their positions on the arts and ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/03/arts-president/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eHlW2AQgs[/youtube] Without a vehicle like "American Idol" to discover the next great voice-over talent, programmers at the Walker turned to their own colleagues to pluck the voice for upcoming radio spots to promote the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Ocean. Here's a glimpse from the casting couch at Wednesday's auditions. http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/07/02/eavesdrop-070208/ There are only a few more days to create and submit signs for My Yard Our Message. Since the project started in May, we've gotten over 200 submissions, but there is plenty of room for more. It's easy to make a sign, we've got templates and all you have to ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/06/27/reminder-days-yard-signs/     From the moment the Republican National Committee chose to coronate its 2008 presidential candidate in St. Paul, hundreds of strands of people mobilized to have a presence. Republican Party officials populate one of the spectrum; on the other, the broad swath of individuals and interest groups driven to protest the ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/06/25/unconvention-unscripting-political/ In conjunction with The UpTake and The UnConvention, we have just launched a new video project: I Approve This Message. The project is similar in scope to the Tell Us a Story About the Suburbs video project we did for Worlds Away. We want you to tell us what questions ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/06/24/rnc-dnc-approve-message/