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Collected Item: “Walker Art Center Poem”

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Walker Art Center Poem

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Social media post from the Twitter page of the Walker Art Center.

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Tweet from the Walker Art Center sharing a piece from their sculpture garden that relates to the need for social distancing. The piece is a placard with an inscribed poem that reflects on connection and the act of breathing. Museums have been relying on their collections to relate to the current pandemic, even in ways that are humorous or fall outside of meaning an artist may have originally intended.

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Minneapolis, museum, art, poetry, social distancing,

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https://web.archive.org/web/20200508104259/https:/twitter.com/walkerartcenter/status/1256617206621843460

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Walker Art Center

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2020-05-02
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