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SUMMARY:NEPNA Fest
DESCRIPTION:Northeast Park Neighborhood Association invites you to celebrate Northeast Minneapolis! \nThe WOW brings an opportunity to pour metal to create your own Souvenir Artifact – a small sculpture or pendant.  No experience necessary.  Ages 5+. \nFree food\, live music\, information tables from local community organizations\, fun activities\, and more!  Bring your family\, bring your neighbors\, and join us at Northeast Park. \nABOUT NORTHEAST PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION \nNortheast Park Neighborhood Association (NEPNA) is a nonprofit corporation governed by a volunteer board of directors.  It is recognized by the City of Minneapolis as the official neighborhood organization for the Northeast Park neighborhood.  Anyone who lives\, works or owns property in Northeast Park is eligible to volunteer\, support\, and become a voting member of NEPNA.
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/nepna-fest/
LOCATION:NE Park and Rec Center\, 1530 Johnson Street NE\, Minneapolis\, 55418
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:Open Casket Fun Filled Fall Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Three Buildings (and the Sculpture Quad outdoor maker/fun space) open for you\, your friends and family this fun-filled Fall weekend!\nHot Metal (and cool castings)\, Hot Dog Cannon (and fries)\, Hot Cider (and rum)\, Hot Popcorn (and butter) and Hot Fire (and warmth)!\nFriday\, November 10th 5-10pm\nSaturday\, November 11th 10am-8pm\nSunday\, November 12th 12-5pm \nLotsa arts\, crafts\, artists\, food\, drink\, music and interactive activities inside\, but…. \nCHECK OUT THE SCULPTURE QUAD (the parking lot with action) \nWOW MOBILE METAL LAB\nFriday 5-10pm\, Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 12-5pm\nCabinet of Curious Castings\nGet on the bus\, choose a mold or two and pour metal.  Cast your own Souvenir Artifact – found objects\, natural elements and 3d printed designs – to create your small sculpture\, necklace\, pin\, pendant\, ornament\, bolo tie\, etc.  Lead-free pewter into small silicone molds. All ages. 15-30 minutes. $10-20.00. No pre-registration required. \nHOT DOG CANNON IS BACK – this time with fries!\nAndrew MacGuffie’s (IN) Famous Cannon and Hot Potato Fryer\nFriday 5-10pm\nThis is a blast-off! Your hot dog is wrapped cozy in foil\, put in the cannon for you to catch out field! You choose your catching tool – hands\, mitt\, net\, helmet\, picnic basket or what-have-you!? Condiments available post-award-winning-catch! And\, grab your fries! $5-8.00 \nWOW MOBILE METAL LAB\nSaturday 1pm-4pm\nLAST OUTDOOR METAL POUR OF THE YEAR!\nCrucible Metal Pour Workshop:  Sand Mold Direct Carve Aluminum Caskets\nLearn how to carve imagery\, designs\, words into a sand mold of a casket form.  Choose from imagery and ideas here or create your own (molds are 4″x11″ approx). Then\, learn how to pour aluminum from a crucible furnace into the mold\, file/grind/polish your casting and colored inks are optional.  Ages 9 + up. 8 participant limit. $50.00 per mold. Pre-registration required\, purchase tickets here. \nAll weekend at Casket Art Main Building:\nFood: Gastro Truck\, Potter’s Pasties\, Groveland Chocolatiers\, and Corner Coffee\nSpeakeasy in the basement mixing craft cocktails\, sponsored by 45th Parallel\, Stray Dog\, and Northeast Minneapolis Arts District\nMusic on 4th floor in Casket Main Building
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/open-casket-fun-filled-fall-weekend/2023-11-10/
LOCATION:Casket Arts Sculpture Quad Parking Lot\, 1720 Northeast Madison Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55413\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:Open Casket Holiday Market
DESCRIPTION:Families and friends that pour metal together\, have more fun! \nMake + Take and Holiday Market\nCreate your own cast metal gifts or choose from an array of cast metal treasures for purchase.\nCast a small sculpture\, ornament\, amulet\, wine stopper\, pendant\, bolo tie\, cuff links or what-have-you? $15.00/all ages.\nI’m pulling out all of the molds for this one! RBG collars\, the Owl from the Chinese Bronzes exhibit at MIA\, cuttlebone castings and more. \nSculpture\, wearables and good fortune trinkets\, baubles and curios for sale from my personal collection and of course\, the WOW collection. \nHot beverages\, eats and treats for you! \nThis event will take place inside of the Casket Arts Factory building (my studio space)\, not the WOW bus.\nThe Factory building is located north of the Casket Arts Main building and west of the Carriage House.\nLook for the big Paul Bunyan on the building waving his axe. \nThe WOW thanks you for your support and love.
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/open-casket-holiday-market/
LOCATION:Casket Arts Factory Building\, 1720 Northeast Madison Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55413\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art-Object Making
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SUMMARY:Cast Your Metal RBG Dissent Collar Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Every collar has a story……come and cast yours. \nInternational Women’s Month has us honoring and celebrating many women from around the globe.  In this workshop\, we are remembering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her history breaking accomplishments here\, in the US\, and  internationally. \nCreate your design (or choose one from the collection)\, carve into a cuttlebone mold and pour lead-free pewter to make your dissent collar sculpture\, necklace\, brooch\, bolo tie\, hat pin or what-have-you?! Ages 10+.  No experience necessary.  This workshop will be in the Casket Arts Factory (not on the WOW bus). \n“You know\, the standard robe is made for a man because it has a place for the shirt to show\, and the tie\,” Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. “So Sandra Day O’Connor and I thought it would be appropriate if we included as part of our robe something typical of a woman. So I have many\, many collars.”  RBG began to be selective with her collar choice for the day as to convey a subtle meaning\, and\, as we like to think\, about her political communication with her jabot choices. \n 
URL:https://wowmobilemetallab.com/event/cast-your-metal-rbg-dissent-collar-workshop/
LOCATION:Casket Arts Factory Building\, 1720 Northeast Madison Street\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55413\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250604T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250604T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250628T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250628T130000
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CREATED:20250618T165357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250618T165909Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T131426Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260228T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260228T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260414T000000
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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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