This spherical work of art by metal sculpture artist James Brenner is a construction of layered steel plates, sculpted glass, and light. The sculpture is set within an arrangement of public benches and stamped concrete featuring lettering of important aspects of neighborhood life provided by residents in the Holland Neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis. The sculpture is a joint project by the City of Minneapolis Art in Public Places, Minneapolis Arts Commission, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board, and the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association. This sculpture was dedicated on July 18, 2009 in Jackson Square Park near the corner of Jackson Street and 22nd Avenue NE.

This work by Aleksandar Maric is a key feature at the entrance to the Pierre Bottineau Public Library in Northeast Minneapolis. This newly renovated facility opened in 2003 in the former Grain Belt Brewing Complex. Come Back, installed in 2005, greets patrons near the front entrance to the library and serves as recognizable beacon near the corner of Broadway and Marshall Streets in Northeast Minneapolis.

Generation by Elizabeth Gleason Thompson is a 1979 sculpture that commemorates the hundreds of people buried at the free “potter’s field” of St. Anthony Township, now St. Anthony Village. While many of the tombstones have sunk into the ground, been removed or have crumbled away, this sculpture serves as enduring figure of the history of this acre of land.

From the dedication plaque:

The St. Anthony Township Cemetery, of “Potter’s Field,” was founded by Lewis Stone on July 14, 1853, to “be used exclusively for the uses of the public as a common and free burying ground forever and never to be used for any other purpose whatever.”

Elizabeth White, wife of Lewis Stone, died at the age of 54 years and 6 months. She was buried in this acre of former homestead farm and her tombstone lies north of this sculpture.

“Generation” commemorates the hundreds of persons buried here in one of the oldest cemeteries in Hennepin County.

This sculpture, by Elizabeth Gleason Thompson, was commissioned by the City of St. Anthony and made with the help of Girl Scout Troop 1586, the Raymond Haik family and others from the community. July 1979.

This 25-ton granite "Pioneers" sculpture was given to the City of Minneapolis by the Pillsbury family during the Great Depression. It served as the centerpiece of a park near the Central Post Office in Minneapolis called Pioneer Square. Created by John Karl Daniels, the sculpture was dedicated in 1936 on the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Charles Loring, the father of the Minneapolis Park System.

In the name of urban renewal the sculpture was moved in 1967 after being offered to anyone willing to relocate it, a move that was “greatly upsetting” to the then 90-year-old Daniels, according to Monumental Minnesota: A Guide to Outdoor Sculpture.

The sculpture now sits on the corner of 5th Avenue and Main Street NE and, in time, will be moved across Main Street into the newly constructed B.F. Nelson park on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from downtown Minneapolis.

This stelae by Foster Willey, Jr. near the intersection of 33rd Avenue NE and Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis features numerous rail motifs. The piece entitled, The 4020, illustrates the rich rail heritage that has been ever-present in the area since the early days of the City of Minneapolis.

This metal cow can be found at the corner of 2nd Street NE and 16th Avenue NE in Minneapolis. This original location of this cow was at 37th Avenue NE and 5th Street before it was painted and moved to the current location in the Bottineau Neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis.

Created by Daniel Johnson in 1970, Freedom Form No. 2 is located in Martin Luther King Park in Minneapolis. The abstract sculpture is two perpendicular sheets of metal with curving cut outs where they would have intersected.

As part of the Central Avenue reconstruction project through Northeast Minneapolis, the City of Minneapolis commissioned Foster Willey Jr. to create a number of stelae commemorating the history of the area. This stelae, found near the intersection of 35th Avenue NE and Central Avenue references the tradition of growing wheat in this area. At one time, it has been said, the wheat grown in this region was enough to feed the world. Much of the wheat grown in this area was carried south to the banks of the Mississippi River where it was ground into flour at large mills like the Washburn and Pillsbury A Mills.

At the end of 13th Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis is the outdoor studio and sculptural storage area of Zoran Mojsilov. Less a traditional studio space and more an abandoned patch of asphalt, Mojsilov’s work space is the far corner of the old Grain Belt Bottling House parking lot within a stone’s throw of the Mississippi River. You can check out the Minneapolis StarTribune’s August 2009 story on Mojsilov here.

In 2003 artists Shelby Gonzalez and Jane Elias worked with local teens to create the “Doggie ‘Do” mural on the east wall of The Groomsmen, a pet groomer in Minneapolis.