An annual Walker Art Center ritual returned for its eighth year just before Christmas: The Year According to, our take on the year-end listicle, featured 24 artists’ perspectives on what made 2019 unique. Contributors ranged from filmmakers and activists to choreographers and authors, fashion designers and magazines to photographers and playwrights. As always, a format that can seem quite cliche yielded both substance and surprise.
Participating in the 2019 edition were:
Alexis Mark
Art + Museum Transparency
Pelenakeke Brown
Taeyoon Choi
Cyrus Dunham
Jes Fan
Tia-Simone Gardner
Girls Like Us
Anthea Hamilton
Hammer
Pao Houa Her
Emily Johnson
Jim Jarmusch
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Carolyn Lazard
Cristóbal León
Richard Maxwell
Jon-Kyle Mohr
Marianna Simnett
Sonya Sombreuil/Come Tees
Angela Two Stars
Xiaolu Wang
Tetsuya Yamada
LinYee Yuan/MOLD Magazine
The project couldn’t have happened without the help of so many at the Walker, chief among them designers Brian Huddleston (whose unreleased typeface Mulberry is featured in the identity) and Somnath Bhatt (who made the hand-drawn icons), digital designer Jas Stefanski, and design director Emmet Byrne.
