WOW Mobile Metal Lab and Show

Happy Tater Daze Saturday! Your public transportation metal caster here letting you know that it is an easy breezy day to pour metal in the bus and leisure your way around this park and take in all of these wonderful activities.

Celebrate Brooklyn Park: Tater Daze Parade and Community Gathering honors the myriad of cultures, heritages, and histories that enrich our City of Brooklyn Parks’s identity! Saturday, May 30, 10-4pm with Cast Metal Make + Take (expect a tater tot option!) 1-4pm. Enjoy food trucks, live music, inflatables,games, community resources and more. Brooklyn Park Community Activity Center 5600 85th Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443

Bridging scientific knowledge and human relationships with water at the “We Are Water MN” 2026 traveling exhibit.I am thrilled to be offering a Cast Metal Make+Take at the Capitol Region Watershed on May 27, 4-7pm.

Science and art walk hand-in-hand as you transform your vision into a tangible creation. Choose from a variety of we are water Minnesota themed molds - frog, loon, water molecule - made from sculpted clay, natural elements and 3-D prints for you to cast your own small sculpture or wearable. Experience the transformation of liquid metal into a solid casting. Choose your mold, poor metal, watch as it becomes a solid and pop it out! For ages five and up. No experience necessary.

The We Are Water MN 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.

We 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.

Minnesota Humanities Center, MN Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Historical Society, University of Minnesota Extension.

I’m participating in a fun project with my friends that generates funds for Northeast Minneapolis Families in Need through the where 100% of donations go directly to families! created the fantastic Hold Fast Minneapolis image and is available for prints and t-shirts. / is organizing, screen printing and doing pop-up events. I love this phrase (and image!) so very much that I created a mold to cast metal boot lace buckles and am currently designing more molds for rings, pins, necklaces, bracelets, barrettes, and bolo ties. More information to follow for next pop-up and on-line orders. "Hold fast" is an old nautical phrase and symbol meaning to hold on tight, persevere through difficult times, or remain steadfast in one's beliefs, values, or commitments. Originating from Dutch/Norwegian sailors ("houd vast") to secure rigging during storms, it implies resilience and endurance

Hot metal morning on a cold winter day! I get to create and share stories with my incredible northeast Minneapolis neighbors and community at our Co-op. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to offer a workshop with Art Lives Here - Thank you for the wonderful work that you do for the community, farmers, businesses, artists, etc.

When life’s in a pickle, you race it!
Celebrate National Pickle Day with Dills on Wheels: This Country’s in a Pickle — a community art event raising money to fight hunger. Join us Saturday, November 15, 2025, from 3–8 PM in the Sculpture Quad @ NE Sculpture, Casket Arts Factory Building,
during Open Casket – Fall Open Studios. Every dollar raised supports Second Harvest Heartland, providing six meals for Minnesotans in need. Expect pickle races and plenty of briny fun for a good cause.

Public art event by artists Alyssa Baguss, Andrew MacGuffie, Sara Hanson, and Pocket Toscani.

3 – 8 PM Saturday, November 15, 2025
Location: Sculpture Quad @ NE Sculpture, Casket Arts Factory Building. Part of: Open Casket – Fall Open Studios

We’re raising funds for Second Harvest Heartland, where every dollar provides three meals for Minnesotans facing hunger. Guests can also bring non-perishable food donations for Good Works Food Shelf in Northeast Minneapolis.

Activities include
 Pickle Races (3–6:30 PM)
 Double Dill Dare You: Taste pickle ice cream & dill pickle Jell-O
 Pickle Piñata
 Metal Pickle Casting with Sara Hanson’s WOW Mobile
 The Pickle Dome (weather permitting)
 Pickle themed hotdogs by Sweet Lou’s Craft Sausage & Butchery
 Picckleback Lemonade