MSAB 2026-Creative Individuals

Examples of artistic work

Look Up, Lake
Look up, Lake hosted a series of public flag making workshops for community to share what they find important about Lake St. After conversations with Lake St stakeholders, I created 6 symbols to represent ideas about Lake Street. At workshops participants selected up to 3 symbols that represented what they felt was most important about this place, arranged them on a pre-made blank flag and we sewed them on. Flags displayed here are some of the 180 flags that were made and visually communicate what your neighbors think about this amazing street!

Mobile Sign Shop
The Mobile Sign Shop (MSS) is inspired by the vernacular of wooden/engraved/painted/handmade signs found in National/State parks and at cabins and homes in Greater Minnesota and beyond. The MSS is housed in a trailer that provides an attention getting location stocked with sign making supplies. This trailer is not a standard utility trailer, but recognizable as a location for activity, painted brightly, with flags and sample signs. Inserting a non-standard, incongruous tool into public space, brings out people’s curiosity and willingness to engage.

The MSS provides guidance and prompts on how to make a custom sign along with materials, paint and brushes etc, as well as staff to carve letters with a router. How it works: participants are welcomed and receive a blank wooden sign blank- 1”x”4 x 12” or 16” board. They are instructed in process and sign making prompt, then use a pencil to write word on sign blank. Sign Shop staff take the sign and carve the word/s with a router. Participants then take the sign and paint it at a communal painting table.

The Temporary Table Tennis Trailer
The Temporary Table Tennis Trailer (TTTT) engages residents, business owners, patrons and passers-by in the sport of ping pong (also known as table tennis), through creating Popup Ping Pong Parks. An Olympic sport, table tennis can be played by people of any age or skill level including singles and doubles. The Popup PP Parks will be places for play, conversation and connection.

The Temporary Table Tennis Trailer consists of a steel top mounted to a trailer allowing it to travel anywhere. A detachable tow bar and four trailer jacks level and stabilize the table. It follows standard dimensions for a Ping Pong table, 5′x 9′ with a height of 30 inches with a metal net. The table functions perfectly for the sport, it is meant to feel the same in play as any tournament quality Ping Pong table. Paddles and balls are always with the table to facilitate spontaneous play. Benches are provided for spectators and players to hang out and converse and balls can have conversation prompts to facilitate play and conversation.