Olga Viso, Walker Art Center director
Walker Art Center released its 2013-2014 annual report barely in time to count as a holiday gift to its supporters and fans.
Beamed out at 8:01 p.m. December 23, the on-line report stated that the museum had balanced its $20.6 million annual budget and that the contemporary art institution has an endowment of $173 million. It claimed 280,000 visitors to its events and exhibitions last year, and an additional 400,000 who visited the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Its most successful program in financial terms was the popular Rock the Garden summer concert which brought in $1.3 million, a sum that basically covered the event's expenses.
Other "measures of success," as the report dubs them, include five Walker-organized exhibitions, 15 performing arts commissions, and 22 regional and world-premiere film and video screenings.
