Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center will extensively rebuild mnartists.org, its arts engagement site, in response to feedback from both users and the field. Using open-source applications at every layer, it will reshape the site as an aggregator incorporating an advanced search engine, social tagging, and other user-tested features to support a Web 2.0 environment. Once the redesign is complete, the Walker will share the installation profile and source code and create a supporting toolkit to assist museums, libraries, and other organizations in freely replicating the site and program. Living within the open-source community, the applications institutions develop as they adapt and tailor the site will sustain its user-generated evolution and help the field address the changing and converging roles of institutions as catalysts, collectors, curators, marketplaces, and commons within the new realities of the twenty-first century.