Observational
Highlights
To Walk
To Walk is a poster project by Richard Wentworth featuring his characteristically anonymous photographs of places in England, distributed in towns such as Charleston, Ramsgate, and Rochester as an invitation for the public to walk and re-engage with their urban and rural surroundings.
Head Sculpture
Head Sculpture, a performance by Efrat Natan, used a T-shaped headpiece worn while walking in Tel Aviv after Independence Day to restrict vision and draw attention, questioning belonging, conformity, and militarized urban space through bodily limitation.
Strata-Walks
Strata-Walks is an interdisciplinary walking series by the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit that uses stratigraphy to explore layered landscapes. Through guided, participatory walks, it transforms walking into public pedagogy, mapping social, sensory, and historical place-based knowledge.
Foraging
Foraging by Peter Hutchinson is a six-day backpacking journal documenting a trip near Aspen. It combines personal reflections, a poisonous mushroom incident, and philosophical musings on nature and existence, marking Hutchinson’s shift from earth art to story art.
Art, Access and Urban Walking
Art, Access and Urban Walking (Love Arts Festival 2017) explored accessibility in urban and green spaces through creative expression—photography, writing, sketching, and spoken word—highlighting how chronic illness shapes mobility, energy, and mental health.
Articles elsewhere
Summer Workshop Series at Test Plot MN
Mark your calendars! The first 3 workshops connected to “A Line That Grows” at Test Plot MN have been scheduled! All offered free of charge – bring a friend: Sun, July 6, 4:30-5:30pm 5 Senses Walk, led by Ellen Mueller This exercise from the book Walking as Artistic Practice, entitled “Five Senses” will invite participants […]
Zines Acquired in National Collecting Institutions
Some fun news from earlier this spring: I learned that both Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis and Baylor University Book Arts Collection in Texas have acquired copies of my zine, Observational Walking and the Five Senses, via Minnesota Center for Book Arts where I have been consigning zines and books for several years. Additionally, Baylor […]
OLLI Course Summer 2025 – Walking as Artistic Practice
I’m delighted to share I’m doing an online talk and an in-person walk focused on my book, Walking as Artistic Practice, as a part of OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute via the College of Continuing & Professional Studies at UMN). OLLI’s vibrant learning community for people aged 50+ is host to hundreds of high-quality noncredit […]
Author Talk and Walking Workshop at Björklunden
Dear Wisconsin friends! I hope you’ll join me this Saturday, and share with your people in the region: Saturday, Aug 17, 2024 – 3pm Author and Artist Talk with Ellen Mueller Björklunden – 7590 Boynton Ln, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 Join author Ellen Mueller to try out an exercise from her recently released book, Walking […]
