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SUMMARY:Casting our Biofacts
DESCRIPTION:Casting Our Biofacts\nCast metal artifacts (small sculpture\, wearables\, pocket toys)\nfrom Westwood Hills Nature Center \nExperience the ecology of the park through the cast metal process. \nVisitors of Westwood Hills Nature Center and learners from Project SOAR (a community education program for adults with disabilities) are invited to participate in workshops with artist\, Sara Hanson/WOW Mobile Metal Lab (retired MTC city bus turned workshop on wheels) and Nature Center naturalists to collect natural elements from the park\, create molds and metal castings for a Souvenir Artifact Make + Take that will be offered to a larger audience during the St. Louis Park Art Fair\, Saturday\, September 4\, 10-5pm. \nMONDAY\, August 19\n6-7:30pm            Project SOAR walk with a naturalist and cast metal Make + Take \nTUESDAY\, August 20\n12-4pm                Visit with Sara on the WOW bus \nWEDNESDAY\, August 21\n10-11:30am     Visitor walk with a naturalist and cast metal Make + Take\n*look for an early morning live interview with Sara on the WOW bus featured on WCCO/CBS Minnesota stream at 6:15am/6:40am and later at 9am\, noon and 4pm. \n12-4pm                Visit with Sara on the WOW bus \nTHURSDAY\, August 22\n12-4pm                Visit with Sara on the WOW bus \n6-7:30pm           Visitor walk with a naturalist and cast metal Make + Take \nFRIDAY\, August 23\n12-4pm                Visit with Sara on the WOW bus \nSATURDAY\, August 24\n10-4pm                Make + Take Event\nHop on the WOW bus and choose a mold\, pour pewter\, do minimal finishing work to create your own small sculpture\, wearable or pocket toy.\n3:30-5pm           Project SOAR walk with a naturalist and cast metal Make + Take \nSATURDAY\, September 7\n10-4pm                St. Louis Park Art Fair\nSt Louis Park Rec Center\nSouvenir Artifact Make + Take\nParticipants are invited to choose one of the molds that was made during the workshops to cast on the WOW to create their own small sculpture\, wearable or pocket toy.  Project SOAR participants will be docents to invite fair-goers\, share the process and guide them through the process. \nSara Hanson is the 2023 recipient of the Arts and Culture grant made possible from The St. Louis Park Friends of the Arts.  All participation is free and open to the public.  Ages 5+ for cast metal Make + Take. \nWestwood Hills Nature Center\nwww.stlouisparkmn.gov/government/departments-divisions/parks-rec/westwood-hills-nature-center\nProject SOAR\nwww.projectsoarmn.org\nWOW Mobile Metal Lab and Show\nwww.wowmobilemetallab.com\nSt. Louis Park Friends of the Arts and St. Louis Park Art Fair\nwww.slpfota.org \nSara Hanson is a Minneapolis-based public artist\, cast metal maker and educator.  Her artistic practice includes public sculptures/projects (Bio Scenic Travel Machines)\, operating the WOW Mobile Metal Lab and Show and teaching/collaborating within communities to create cast metal public sculpture.  She creates and brings accessible opportunities for individuals and communities to participate in or interact with an art project or creative process that invites personal expression/collective vision and the opportunity to share it with a larger audience.
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/casting-our-biofacts/
LOCATION:Westwood Hills Nature Center\, 8300 West Franklin Avenue\, St. Louis Park\, 55426
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:Cast Your Metal Nano-Machine Structure
DESCRIPTION:Today is the day to cast and create your own Nano-Machine! Pour metal into molds and design your own protein structure casting – that could enable you\, others\, living organisms (bacteria\, plants\, animals) – to do anything. Imagine and wonder\,  if you could create a protein – a building block for a cell \, a structure to provide a specific biological function – what would you design your protein to do? I’m excited to share my interactive sculpture project that I’m creating for the Hormel Cancer Research Institute\, information about their CryoEm microscope\, and PROTEINS – the fundamental building blocks of all life on earth\, at the atomic level! Thank you to the Hormel Institute\, Austin Area Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board. \nThis activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board\, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/cast-your-metal-nano-machine-structure/
LOCATION:Horace Austin Park\, 600 Main Street North\, Austin\, MN\, 55912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:Good Neighbor Days
DESCRIPTION:Good Neighbor Days! \nWe’re excited to bring the WOW to Howard Lake\, MN for this fun-filled weekend full of music\, food\, games\, and community for their Good Neighbor Days.  Check out the days events on City of Howard Lake link below. \nScience and art walk hand-in-hand as we transform your vision into a tangible creation. Choose from a variety of molds created from natural elements\, 3D prints and found objects to cast your own small sculpture or wearable.  For ages 5 and up. This is a public event that is free of charge.  This program was made possible with Arts & Cultural Heritage Funds from Minnesota’s Clean Water\, Land\, and Legacy Amendment.
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/good-neighbor-days/
LOCATION:Howard Lake Public Library
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:Summer Art Intensive
DESCRIPTION:The WOW is partnering with the Edina Art Center for a four day comprehensive metal casting youth camp (ages 12-17).\nThe WOW team takes each artist through the entire process of casting metal – from safety gear to surface treatments – and demonstrates just how accessible this ancient process can be.  It’s hands-on\, interactive\, exciting\, empowering and collaborative work.  This is a fun class to experience two methods of sculpting (additive\, subtractive)\, three methods of mold-making (rubber\, cuttle-bone\, resin-bonded sand) and two metals (pewter\, aluminum). \nAugust 11 – 14\, 10am-3pm. \nRegister below on the Event Website link.\nScholarships Available through the Connect Card Program
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/summer-art-intensive/
LOCATION:Edina Art Center\, 4701 West 64th Street\, Edina\, MN\, 55435\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:We Are Water MN - Byron
DESCRIPTION:Bridging scientific knowledges and human relationships with water\nI am thrilled to be offering a Cast Metal Make + Take for the “We Are Water MN” traveling exhibit 2026 debut at their first zoo host site! Learn more about water at the newly renovated Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo\, alongside the many animals that call it home there. \nCast Metal Make + Take\nScience and art walk hand-in-hand as you transform your vision into a tangible creation.  Choose from a variety of “We Are Water MN” themed silicone molds – North American River Otter\, Bald Eagle\, water molecule – from natural elements\, 3d prints and found objects for you to cast your own small sculpture or wearable.  Experience the transformation of liquid metal into a solid casting – choose your mold\, pour metal\, watch as it becomes a solid and pop it out!  For ages 5 and up. No experience necessary. \nThe We Are Water Traveling Exhibit\nThe traveling exhibit examines water issues statewide and in local communities through personal stories\, histories\, and scientific information. It strengthens Minnesotans’ relationships with water\, exposes visitors to new perspectives\, and increases participation in water stewardship activities. \nWe Are Water MN deepens connections between the humanities and water through a network of partnerships\, a traveling exhibit\, and public events. We Are Water MN helps communities\, organizations\, and individuals make better\, more collaborative\, and more relevant choices about water. \n\nMinnesota Humanities Center\, MN Department of Natural Resources\, Minnesota Historical Society\, University of Minnesota Extension
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/we-are-water-mn-byron/
LOCATION:Zollman Zoo\, 5731 County Road 105 NW\, Byron\, MN
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:We Are Water MN
DESCRIPTION:Cast Metal Make + Take \nCelebrate “We Are Water MN” with the WOW Mobile Metal Lab\, a city bus turned cast metal sculpture foundry.  Choose your casting from a selection of water themed molds created from natural elements\, 3d prints and found objects to cast your own wearable or small sculpture.  You pour the metal\, do minimal filing and attach wearable hardware or sculpture base.  No experience necessary.  Ages 5 and up. \nWe Are Water MN deepens connections between the humanities and water through a network of partnerships\, a traveling exhibit\, and public events. We Are Water MN helps communities\, organizations\, and individuals make better\, more collaborative\, and more relevant choices about water. \nWe are Water MN is a project of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Humanities Center in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society; the Board of Water and Soil Resources; the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture\, Health\, and Natural Resources; and University of Minnesota Extension. \nWe are Water MN is funded by the Clean Water\, Land\, & Legacy Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4\, 2008.
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/we-are-water-mn/
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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