Sara Hanson's Bio Scenic Travel Machine

Sara Hanson’s Bio Scenic Travel Machine landed in NE MPLS to research life on Earth and to share information, experiences and remnants from its travels. The rover collected Message Portraits of you, your message and the rover in an interplanetary space-factory-scape of dolls, doll molds, space junk, and orbital debris cast in metal. "You Are a Real Doll" invites you to delight in, imagine and share experiences, stories, memories – examine, investigate and survey the histories and cultural connotations of the doll.

Virtual Adjustments

In lieu of visiting the gallery in person, Sara Hanson and NE Sculpture | Gallery Factory hosted opportunities for virtual participation for Sara Hanson’s Bio Scenic Travel Machine: Message Portraits from the Casket Arts Factory in Northeast Minneapolis. 

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, anyone could send in photos of themselves to info@bioscenic.com to create Message Portraits, which can be sent to anyone—friends, family, or “unspecified recipients.” These portraits approximated the live, physical experience of having one's photo taken in the Gallery by Hanson’s Bio Scenic Travel Machine.

Social media & website links: 

Sara Hanson

Website:

• https://sarahansonwow.com/

Facebook

• https://www.facebook.com/bioscenicearthlaboratory

Instagram: 

• @sarahansonwow
• @wowmobilemetallab
• @bioscenic
• @youarearealdoll

NE Sculpture | Gallery Factory

Facebook:

• https://www.facebook.com/northeastsculpture

Instagram:

• @northeastsculpture

About the artist:

Sara Hanson is a Minneapolis-based sculptor, public artist and community collaborator who brings accessible opportunities to interact with and participate in art into communities, public spaces and unexpected places. Hanson’s work invites exploration and discovery of identity, time and place while offering a connection to others and the universe. Her work has been exhibited locally at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, a TEDx Minneapolis event, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and at parks, schools, businesses and organizations. Sara has been awarded grants from Forecast Public Art, Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and a commission from the City of Minneapolis for an Artist-Designed Public Drinking Fountain. In 2005, Hanson founded Broadcasting WOW (Workshop On Wheels), a traveling sculpture foundry that creates community public art and most recently expanded the operation to a renovated city bus, the WOW Mobile Metal Lab and Show!