A giant bronze bunny marks the gateway to the Hale, Page, Diamond Lake neighborhood in Minneapolis. Created by Jeff Barber in 2002, the larger-than-life rabbit lounges at a trail intersection and practically beckons children to climb on the sculpture.

All four exterior walls (and the fence out back) of Fat Lorenzo’s Italian restaurant in Minneapolis were covered in murals created by local artist Ed Charbonneau in 2008. There’s a heavy Italian theme and even an appearance of the Mona Lisa, giving extra character and charm to this local restaurant just south of Lake Nokomis.

Local muralists Broken Crow collaborated with Over Under again for a large format mural at iWare in the spring of 2011 near the popular 13th & University intersection in Northeast Minneapolis. This mural is only a few blocks from their 2009 collaboration at Shuga Records. This work faces the parking lot of the popular music venue the 331 Club and serves as a backdrop to several outdoor concerts.

Watch a time-lapse video of the mural being created.

This sculpture adds a touch of whimsy and imagination to a big box parking lot. Created by Gary Price, the piece features a tiny boy at the base of the sculpture that you might miss while driving by. The easy-to-miss boy is reading a book and imagining the sculpture into existence.

This mural at Shuga Records in Northeast Minneapolis is a collaboration between Broken Crow (Mike Fitzsimmons and John Grider) and Over Under, completed in 2009. In two years, this work is one of the most recognizable pieces from Broken Crow in Northeast Minneapolis.

You can find out more information on this large mural project at Design Junkies or by visiting Broken Crow’s Flickr photostream.

The Crucible by Stuart Nielsen is a cast bronze and stainless steel sculpture sitting just of Washinton Avenue at Amundson Hall at the University of Minnesota. Thousands of students pass by this sculpture each day that sits outside one of the university’s engineering buildings.

Four untitled assemblies of stainless steel wedges by Charles Biederman sit outside Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota. Installed outside the south entrance near the Weisman Art Museum, these wedges are embedded in a simulated natural setting during the spring and summer while providing a stark contrast in the fall and winter against a blanket of white snow.

This assemblage of bronze sculptures by artist Ian Dudley sits within the natural foliage outside the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. Attempting to recreate the confrontation between a large moose and a pack of several wolves, visitors to the museum find themselves in the middle of this standoff just prior to entering the museum. The complete name of this work is Wolves and Moose (Canis lupis, Alces alces), Predator and Prey, often shortened by faculty and students to Wolves and Moose.

This bronze sculpture by Theo Ruggles-Kitson commemorates the lives of the student soldiers that fought in the Spanish-American War from 1898-1899 from the University of Minnesota. The young soldier, facing west poised for battle, sits outside the Armory Building, just off University Avenue on the north end of campus.

This large, interpretive molecule was created by Amy Toscani and installed in 2008 at the entrance to the Molecular and Cellular Biology building at the University of Minnesota. This large molecule is 32″ tall and close to five tons worth of colored, welded shapes. While the piece is designed is to resemble the component particles of a molecular form, it does not represent any specific molecule. To date this piece is untitled by the artist.