http://annklefstad.com/commissions daily 0.75 2016-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463081026-5P1BLKQ321S2VTPGSZAN/LS+HealingHands2.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040793460-Z3DY3IYPLW7N9M7BRSVD/LS+HealingHands2.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Healing Healing, 9 x 4 x 2, bronze, Douglas fir, and steel. 2012. This work was created for the Health Sciences building at Lake Superior College. It is meant to embody the flow of healing from caregivers' hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040816512-YNJHHJQ9WUX3ZYMS5BW2/LS+DSC_2102+side.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, 9 x 4 x 2, bronze, Douglas fir, steel. Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040839403-94T7LUS67O2T5CR9HWLV/LS+DSC_2117+front1.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, 9 x 4 x 2, bronze, Douglas fir, steel. Lake Superior College, Duluth MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042257790-PWRJNT69E28VTAZIL29D/LS+DSC_2135+front+upper.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042271829-LBH9IFUE9VPBBZ3ZCWO8/LS+DSC_2142+closeup+lower.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042287039-R3LOPUK0NWQWPK1UR58T/LS+DSC_2122+rec+hands+det.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040983540-SACN66H4FGG3Q30B8CK6/IronDeerSteelForestBL.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Iron Deer in the Steel Forest This work was commissioned by the Arrowhead Library Association. Here you can see it backlit by western sun in midwinter. The work is made of stainless steel expanded metal, enameled steel, and Corten (rusting) steel, and is permanently sited on the grounds of the Association's headquarters in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, on the Iron Range and near a wilderness area. The work addresses the interplay of industry and the natural world in this region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463530424-AGW0W5TT8BKYPJ4Y5AS7/IronDeerCloud1.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Iron Deer in the Steel Forest, stainless steel expanded metal, enameled steel, and Corten steel. 14 x 14 x 14. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041021408-2IKKQG5T07TMGZO3KNWX/IronDeerCloud2.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Iron Deer in the Steel Forest, stainless steel, enameled steel, and Corten steel, 14 x 14 x 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463709596-3HQOG4YPGA2QFGHI3114/Earth+Heaven+Prairie+Sky1.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Earth : Heaven / Prairie : Sky This work was commissioned by Metro Transit of Fargo / Moorhead, and is sited at the main passenger depot in Fargo's downtown. The work addresses the importance of sky and wind in the landscape; its multiple pieces have sightlines that pierce them; the translucence of expanded metal means that when the buses move around them, the light effects are remarkable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463713925-Q8UH3GD81NYFA6MCOC3B/Earth+HEaven+PRairie+Sky2.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Earth : Heaven / Prairie : Sky, Fargo Metro Transit, 12' x 8' x 14' , stainless steel expanded metal, Corten steel, concrete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041053793-Z6A80K7XCRP9E0YQOEJC/70+history.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Unearthing History This bronze high-relief work, about 2' x 6' x 6" deep, hangs in the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda. It hangs, as you can see here, directly below the lower-relief plaque commemorating the Spanish- American War, which has hung in the Rotunda since the 1920s. "Unearthing History" has an unusual story: the Philippine Community of Minnesota had long found the narrative on the original Spanish American War plaque to be historically inaccurate. They petitioned the Minnesota Legislature, which granted them $10,000 with which to commission another artwork that would tell the real story of the war and the Philippines. I was chosen to do this work, to provide a setting for their words. I chose to illustrate an implied story: that of coming upon three stone tablets, overgrown on the jungle floor, telling a story that can now be seen. The plants, the machete, the rifle, are all from the era and place of the conflict. The nineteenth-century modeling style put it in relation to the earlier work above it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041077396-DNC9X6M9DI0YQRV5ZOCP/71+history.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Unearthing History, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041091845-FY4GFXLSDZ4YR0U3HWS8/72+history.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Unearthing History, detail: papaya plant, house gecko, and other Philippine wild flora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463428482-7BYZNINWXFFWV0WUYW44/68+perpich.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Tall Pine: Memorial for Rudy Perpich This work was commissioned by the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and is sited in their entry atrium. The bench (slab redwood, Mesabi granite, and steel I-beams) is the work of Glenn Gordon of St. Paul, Minnesota. I made the wall piece, which is a slab of quarter-inch steel, pickled and waxed, with bronze castings of white-pine branches in various patinas fastened to it with relief spacings. The significance of the design and materials all relate to the origins and character of Rudy Perpich, who was a beloved governor of Minnesota and who, with his wife Lola, founded the school. Gov. Perpich was a remarkably tall man who was very attached to his native Iron Range, while still being a sophisticated citizen of the world. He was also a man of great honor, who, in his political career, took the high road. White pines are native to the northern boreal forests, and are the tallest things around. Each is distinctively formed, a true identifiable individual. That is both what Gov Perpich was, and what he encouraged in his namesake arts school, a free public boarding school for the arts in Minnesota which has been remarkably successful in graduating students who go on to successful and creative lives in the arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463432027-LVGUCUAP9OQIRWTUFWWD/69+perpich.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Tall Pine, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463411393-1QS2VQ0OYL48T44QH1FP/67+perpich.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Tall Pine, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041132887-M6G1IK7GTCK1RR48UJ5W/12+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Floodwaters, for Harriet Island (model) This sculptural environment was a collaboration with sculptor Jeffrey Kalstrom; we collaborated on making and installing the bronze wave forms, while I did the stoneware tile friezes inset into the curving walls. It was made for the levee gate at Harriet Island Park in St. Paul, and makes graphically evident the function of that gate by depicting in baroque bronze the floodwaters that in earlier years often devastated the surrounding neighborhood. The stoneware tiles depict flood debris; mostly plants, but mixed with occasional artifacts that were lent by residents of the neighborhoods and which I made press molds of, so that I could inset these pieces of human culture into the flow of the plant material in the tiles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150485779-GIZQ2SQ3IGLXJJZNPGU9/13+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Floodwaters, for Harriet Island (bronze) See the previous image of the model for the piece for a full description. This is the levee gate with the bronze wave forms installed. Each side is about 26' x 12' x 3'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041156277-8OCEWDP65HNSXV6SYKCP/14+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze section, south wall, 26' x 12' x 3' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150514980-YX1CT287LO5D64PV4H8E/15+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, detail, bronze section, north wall. 26' x 12' x 3' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041172810-LVSFZVC81JD0PDYY2CIO/17+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150416184-95C52ORYZGHC9QAVZIJC/16+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041191774-55PRRHCT5WK8A19021GJ/18+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze detail. The bronze has a complex hot patina using ferric oxide, liver of sulphur, and other acids, finished with a hot wax and buffed. This gives it its variegated, shifting colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150455950-DFVYPZQF5R3CJZCYV6GW/19+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Floodwaters: Stoneware tile frieze The frieze is 24' long and 4' high at the highest end. Tiles are set into a recess in the curving concrete wall. Clay shrinkage had to be calculated very precisely to allow the tiles to fit the preexisting recess. The stoneware tiles used in this portion of the commission were handformed from high-fire stoneware with an iron-oxide component (cone 10). Slow-fired and fully vitrified, this clay body was tested outside for one full Minnesota fall, winter, and spring, set up in southwest sun for maximum temperature variance, to ensure that it would not absorb moisture or spall in these harsh conditions. The tile wall is unglazed, and has exhibited no change in almost 15 years of exposure to the famously brutal Minnesota weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041207173-FHLPD7NY7B55QYA10KRB/20+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, tile detail. Each tile is @ 10" square, and is one inch thick. Mortar is a sanded concrete grout, and all surfaces are sealed with tile sealant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041271724-5AI157D9CVX494TPDGRZ/28+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Garden Park Columbia Garden Park was commissioned as a joint project from Jeffrey Kalstrom and Ann Klefstad by the City of Minneapolis as a Neighborhood Gateway. The site was 1 acre, and the work consists of this entire site. Many components are involved. Here you see the initial arc of community garden beds, and the wooden railroad-style water tower, which are the heart of the park. Columbia Park is a railroad workers' neighborhood, near the giant Shoreham Yards, the main railyard for the Twin Cities-- a huge nexus for wheat transshipment. It is, in some way, the motor that produced the wealth of the city-- the connection between the agricultural industries that built Minneapolis and the prairie wheatfields that produced the golden grain that built Minneapolis. From the top of the small park we built, from the Wheat Bench, you can see a grand vista of the glass towers of downtown Minneapolis, miles away. The park then has motifs of circles (circular crushed-limestone pathways), as Native prairie people hold the circle to be sacred, of vernacular farm architecture and shelterbelts, and of the railroad-- as seen in the functioning water tower, which enables the gardeners to water their raised beds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578837801-TA1O2V7UEEIV1LTCKGNH/ColumbiaView.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Picnic Shelter Here is a view from the Wheat Bench to the Picnic Shelter, built in vernacular post-and-beam style with a corrugated iron roof, seen over the native prairie plants of the wildflower garden in front of the What Bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150666024-O6MO5A9MODFYK6U74QQ4/33+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Picnic Shelter Picnic Shelter in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041307333-7S76PYE449SVD4Q21TJX/29+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Wheat Bench Here is the Wheat Bench, facing the wildflower garden and engaged with the rest of the park with the crushed-limestone circular pathways that connect the park features. These crushed-limestone paths use the same quarry that supplies baseball fields in the region, and are wheelchair-safe. The center of the Wheat Bench plaza is a millstone, reproduced in concrete, that is a mandala-like evocation of the flour mills of Minneapolis. The Wheat Bench and plaza is 26' long and 12' deep. Inset into the bench back are three bronze castings of actual ears of wheat that I cut from a field near Crookston, Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041326131-IUVCQTQCOKEOM1ZI7IJ7/31+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Wheat Bench Here the Wheat Bench can be seen with the two silver maples we planted as shade trees just behind it. The lot when we started had been an industrial waste dump, with no trees, and its subsoil was full of chunks of asphalt and slag from a foundry. Some of those slag chunks are preserved in the rock garden winding its way through the prairie wildflowers in front of the Wheat Bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041342331-H8QLVBMFDN5I7MMCUSMY/32+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Wheat Bench Here is one of the bronze reliefs of prairie wheat installed in the back of the Wheat Bench. There are three of them, two smaller and the central one larger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578790395-JM3B9QJD35RSDXAQK0Q7/Waterfall%26PoolDet.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Archimedes' Waterfall This work was commissioned from Ann Klefstad and Jeffrey Kalstrom for Hibbing Community College, and depicts the flow of natural resources from their "wild" state into usable forms. The work overall is 34' long, 18' tall, and about 2' - 3' deep. This detail is of the Archimedes' spiral constructed of milled lumber, locked together with a structure of interlocking steel rods, and carved, the spiral picked out with gold leaf to use the dramatic sidelighting of the windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578813153-6RZJR2SCNCH8OJZ6SWZ5/waterfall1Below.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Archimedes' Waterfall Here is the work from below. The waterfall forms are created using white-cedar logs that grow in dramatic curves in the walls of the precipitous boreal creeks that fall down to Lake Superior in this region. These trees grow in stone canyon walls, fall into the water, and swirl in waterfall pools. We pulled them out of the creeks, peeled and oiled them, and bolted them into the waterfall form you see. The "pool" is formed of milled lumber and carved with the spiral of the first historical engineer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578821425-7CCYJQT6APWYPXYODM77/Waterfall2Above.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Archimedes' Spiral Here is the work seen from above. Hibbing Technical College, where this work is sited, trains young people in engineering and building finished work from natural raw materials. That is what this work addresses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578827595-1GHA8NX94OWI433H4N29/5YrOldChair.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Five-Year-Old's Chair This work was commissioned by the Duluth Community Garden program as one of a group of works made by members of Common Language, a Duluth artists' coop. The inspiration was my then-five-year-old son, whose valiant struggles with the oversized adult world were moving to me. I took an old kitchen chair and scaled it up so that the resulting piece was as big for a 6' adult as a regular kitchen chair was for a five-year-old. It serves as a viewing bench high on the hill above Duluth, at the site of a community garden. Almost 20 years later, it is still there and solid-- it was built of local white cedar and reinforced with steel by Jeffrey Kalstrom. http://annklefstad.com/outdoorinstallations daily 0.75 2013-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365460693264-3LN6CXCE2SRLQN0R5E5O/oi+03+Language.jpg Outdoor Installations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369771212661-HYL25Y9RNLOWYNJJ4UUR/Guardian+dog%2BWeb.jpg Outdoor Installations - Guardian Dog This lifesize stoneware dog was made during a Jerome Foundation residency at St. Johns Pottery with Richard Bresnahan. It is woodfired stoneware and has gone through several summers and winters outdoors. It refers to the long traditional of guardian animals at gateways. I have made others like it--it is an ongoing series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041951957-BT14VYGOH8W9MVRLUBAL/g+24+winter+deer.jpg Outdoor Installations - Winter Deer This lifesize stoneware deer was also made during my Jerome residency. It was in the Minnesota Museum of Art 3D Biennial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365464064367-NAWMLZZA58171CNE3JT3/g+74+mountains.jpg Outdoor Installations - Walking Mountains These stoneware slab-built works are 5' tall; there is a fifth one as well. They are shown as a group, whose immediate inspiration was Rodin's Burghers of Calais. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365464093742-JHN54AIGN0SWVVXEI89R/g+75+mountains.jpg Outdoor Installations - Golden Mountain: Spiral Bell This bronze cast bell is struck with the cast-bronze branch striker. It has a long period of oscillating resonance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042014533-PVP7V8TB2ZNKIMN5WT7R/oi+03+Language.jpg Outdoor Installations - Language This work was made for Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. It consists of two 30' telephone poles with a rope ladder with carved white-cedar rungs. The rungs are carved with words: concrete nouns describing the surroundings low down ("stone," "aster"); further up, adjectives also referring to nearby qualities ("gritty", "purple"); farther up still, abstract terms of judgement such as "beautiful; at the top, speculative descriptors such as "divine". One could climb the work; as one climbs one can read the words; the higher you go the broader the view, but it can get rather uncomfortable, being so far away from the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150910558-CYSGC5UBNDBGHBVJAFNR/oi+04+Language.jpg Outdoor Installations Language, at Franconia Sculpture Park. Note the words on the ladder rungs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579160006-0WT90PEMSELUIQGOINVG/oiAIDS_Mem1.jpg Outdoor Installations - Nest Nest was a temporary AIDS memorial commissioned from me by Forecast Public Artworks for Loring Park in Minneapolis. It consisted of several young saplings planted on a rise in the park, surrounding one cast-bronze sapling. The import of this is simply that most young ones grow up, mature, grow old, but those who get AIDS will not (this was in an earlier time, before effective drug treatment of AIDS). In front of the array of saplings was the nest itself: a berm planted with beach grass and enclosing a sheltering 7' long "beach" of white sand and smooth stones. It was an attempt to imagine a kindly grave, one that we can share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579161749-EJOIA0CW7NPDKC4KKOOY/oiFishfinder1.jpg Outdoor Installations - Fish Finder Fish Finder was a temporary artwork built on the site of the current Lake Superior Aquarium. It was a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom. Modeled on similar constructions made of stones (the Pukaskwa Pits) found on beaches along the north shore of the lake, which were built in paleo times, before the current Ojibwe and later European occupants arrived, it serves as a solar calendar. (This is the apparent function of the Pukaskwa Pits.) Two poles stand near the constructed berm. If one sits in the recess built into the back of the berm, the rising sun at the horizon lines up with the central fish pole at the autumn equinox, and with the tall slender pole to the side on the date of the spawn of lake trout on a shallow manmade reef just outside the Duluth Harbor mouth (the view from Fish Finder is down the ship canal outside the harbor). The work preserves an ancient tradition of finding fish based on one's knowledge of the environment where one lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579163482-5433QNE4W0J5EH532US5/oiFishfinder2.jpg Outdoor Installations Fish Finder, at the Duluth harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150941267-80V5FGKZLN9NDFO9XQUM/oi+05+315+June+14a.jpg Outdoor Installations - June 23, 3:15pm This piece is titled for the time it was painted. Noticing the rapid movement of sun-created shadows across a surface, and interested in ways of noticing time through one's surroundings, I created a tent-like structure of bungee cords and aluminum tube, covered with cotton cloth, and cabled it into a grove of trees in Chester Park in Duluth. Then I painted (quickly) the shadows that fell on the cloth at a particular time of day. The shadow then moved away from the painted lines; the next day it moved up to, matched, and moved away from the painted image. This work was produced through a Forecast Public Artworks grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150952500-Y9515U25UHN1B6CLQT08/oi+06+315+June+14b.jpg Outdoor Installations June 23, 3:15pm. This photo was taken about 4 pm. The shadows have shifted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463175679-U4J6H0O4NZV5HEJJMF2H/39+Teahouse.jpg Outdoor Installations - House of Beasts: Boreal Teahouse House of Beasts, 14' x 14' x 14', wood, steel, glass, a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom, was a year-long installation in the park opposite the Thunder Bay Gallery in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. This was an exchange project between the city of Thunder Bay and the Tweed Museum at UMD. Eventually the House of Beasts Teahouse moved to the Sax Courtyard at the Tweed Museum for another year, when it was dismantled. The House of Beasts is meant to be a meditative space for thinking, alone of in groups, about the relationship of people with the woods. Built of native green poplar which gradually shrank, admitting stripes of light, and punctuated with windows printed with "beast faces" created by generating abstract symmetrical patterns, the corrugated steel roof had a square "smoke hole" that admitted light and rain and, below it, a mirror embedded in forest duff in the place of the hearth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463161625-E23LH96MG4O8RSPH7AG1/40+teahouse.jpg Outdoor Installations House of Beasts interior, with mirror reflecting the sky hole and the shadow of one of the "bug face" windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579169058-BW1VLIO1E68NX0SHC5V4/oiHouseOfBeasts.jpg Outdoor Installations House of Beasts, showing one of the windows and the "verandah" surrounding the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041985168-0HYKHPHWZHVSOPTZX2V5/g+Swimmer+in+garden.jpg Outdoor Installations - River Swimmer River Swimmer is a bronze maquette for a project for Goldstone Development, which I turned into a garden sculpture. Figure and base overall, 30". Base is concrete and steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041969145-5GX546GRVCAA5GHWZGWU/g+nymph+side.jpg Outdoor Installations - Garden Nymph This 32" bronze is an early garden sculpture of mine. http://annklefstad.com/studiowork daily 0.75 2016-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365460837782-BGYIN65DVAPC9EGNQ39K/s13Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457909337183-NX6Y7QNDGLS497EJNT75/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Steel Wave This 2' x 3' photo, taken from my boat on Lake Superior, is printed on galvanized steel on a shaped support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457891590047-NR60ZDGY7QRKEFAUVSLO/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Fog This 3' x 2' image of Lake Superior fog was shot from my boat and is printed on galvanized steel on a shaped support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457890490500-XYNR4I9YG8MPKVI5W4UV/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Near Madeleine Island The Walk on Water series of photographs are shot out on Lake Superior from my kayak or sailboat. These are printed on galvanized steel on shaped supports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457890735637-CZ67P5Z78TUC3GBI0LBK/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Evening Bay A 4' x 2' image of the St. Louis Bay printed on galvanized steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041909166-XHZJ61SDTOCUT8B4QB0L/sInstallZeitgeist.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Zeitgeist Arts painting show, 2012 This is the atrium at the Zeitgeist Arts building in Duluth, MN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041497748-9DTWRX4CAPG9IN4G4XNL/s04Klefstad_13_Med.jpg Studio Work and Shows - "Living Room" at Gallery 13, Minneapolis "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041518181-UBUIRANUV9Y1LT2FFP89/s11Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041535182-IKPB1ACLWNNN26FHX9XX/s12Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. They are part of an ongoing series called "Forest." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041567974-BYQOEHG5YBLA2S3OCQ6Z/s13Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. The wolf here is called "Grimm's Wolf" and depicts human view of wolf as predator: the Big Bad one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365151251871-9DP5E7Q6L8G644X1ESX0/s14Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. This is Grimm's Wolf in steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041590259-RYZTJDFRCV86NSG0BYQA/s15Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. Grimm's Wolf, here, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041607935-CU9J4LWRW0FN1VHXJVQZ/s16Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041767653-JH2T7SWICQLWFARY17WH/s16Klefstad_13__01.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room," Gallery 13. The placement of the Forest panels give unexpected views of somewhat tongue in cheek "forest beings." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041687562-3WL8IK2M0VM03EUUABNI/s17Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041787492-16QTV06ZQCHK8ZYKBTOL/sGallery13+wolf__03.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. Here is the other wolf, seated, keeping an eye on the deer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041812355-4MQYSFHRI7Y7062KS2ZD/s01Klefstad_Gallery13+Med.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. Another component of "Living Room" was a group of Lake Superior water images printed on steel, glimpsed here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041827924-WQQHA7ZDQQ9CMJO5PL9X/s02Klefstad_13_Med.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041848935-FIGM8O1NE8K4AWNRZC09/sWalkonWater3.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water These are images of the surface of Lake Superior, which I shoot with a digital Nikon from my boat. I have a kayak and a small Cape Dory sailboat that I take out into the lake and shoot water images from. I collect only images of the water surfaces, trying to show what the water looks like as itself only, not as a scenic or picturesque item in the image repertoire. The water images can be seen at walkonwaterannklefstad.blogspot.com In this incarnation the images are digitally printed on galvanized 18ga. steel and bracketed to the wall. They fall in a natural curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365971484250-IOIT4BHN8Y50SRFHMDL7/sWalkonwater+install2.jpg Studio Work and Shows Walk on Water images in a show at Central Lakes College, MN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365151403140-1DML3F28FGSJBEXRXSFU/sForest2.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Forest An exhibition of Forest as an installation at University of Wisconsin River Falls gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041890949-7OR6P54TUNBRC8PX7F5W/s+73+mountains.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Floating Mountain Floating Mountain is part of a series of "Mountain" works that I did at St Johns Pottery while on a Jerome Foundation residency. I was interested in sculpture that levitated, and in bells. This work was shown in a group show at the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579020539-4EC77LIKQDFO5H0CIKCZ/sForestDAI.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Forest Detail from an exhibition of Forest at the Duluth Art Institute gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579024621-AYPLM9TFTWCQS2TYK5AG/sGuardian4.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Guardian dog Maquette for public project at University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579042291-FUIXF80DRY2AK7CJZLUX/sRapunzel.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Rapunzel A collaborative project with Jeffrey Kalstrom for the Botanica show at the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN. It is a playfully surreal version of the famous Rapunzel story. "Rapunzel" is type of radish, one of the very first spring vegetables, and gives a clue to the origins of the story in myths of fertility and fecundity. In this depiction, the radish herself is perched high in a tower, sprouting rivers of golden hair as evidence of a magical link to the goddess. The piece is 9' tall, the tower is painted wood, internally lit; the radish is fired white stoneware, tinted with paint; the hair is unravelled hempen rope. This show, curated by Peter Spooner, toured a number of museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579003534-SMGCN0UMZ5FHDHOSCTQD/sDeerLegs.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Deer Stilts This work, a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom, was made for a show called "Appliance" at Northland College in Ashland, WI. The themed group show looked for interpretations on the word. We thought it would be interesting to think of prostheses that would give humans new abilities, and made these deer stilts that enabled us to take very long steps, see far, and leave deer footprints. They are carved of basswood and painted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579027946-YX0D13JRX1JW3GR5CTJR/sDeerLegs2.jpg Studio Work and Shows Deer Stilts in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578974081-6BBTBZUEK77N7NMIEFEB/sRedRoom1.jpg Studio Work and Shows - The Red Room The Red Room was done as a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom for Intermedia Arts' Art in Space program. We created this large two-part installation to explore all aspects, metaphoric, visceral, and literal, of the color red. We called on community members to donate red items and compiled lists of what people associate with red, from Communism to anger to Santa to red willows, to blood and life and Mustang cars and foxes and deer. There is a small house sheathed in red-dyed cheesecloth scrim and a "back yard" that depicts a modernist forest in low lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578981022-30KW0ZBBAOVCJ9YM7WRK/sRedRoom2.jpg Studio Work and Shows Red Room interior. There were dioramas in the cupboard, the windows, and the oven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578997590-3T88K3JFIVQTP32QPJQQ/sRedRoom3.jpg Studio Work and Shows Red Room "exterior" shot. Deer, fox, suspended animal carcasses, "trees". http://annklefstad.com/blog daily 0.75 2018-08-21 http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/8/26/and-the-wolf-too- monthly 0.5 2013-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1377527245205-Y8IOYGF82UWP7X2R78FY/wolf+SM.jpg In The Studio - and the wolf too . . . http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/8/26/the-girls-are-ready-for-their-debut- monthly 0.5 2013-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1377527188269-DOZ9JYNL9CN0QXB12M3X/3+deer+SM.jpg In The Studio - The girls are ready for their debut . . . http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/8/26/with-their-audience-by-the-barn monthly 0.5 2013-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1377527115783-8FS4EXMJ5FPZ4CLQSGV5/ZooMemSM.jpg In The Studio - with their audience, by the barn http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/8/26/jebs-closeup- monthly 0.5 2013-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1377527037929-RYV2I7AQDPZOTE0OZ6NZ/ZooJebHeadSM.jpg In The Studio - Jeb's closeup . . . http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/8/26/zoo-animals-are-done monthly 0.5 2013-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1377526964344-QYJ07YG3NTQPE90VHXFG/ZooMem3SM.jpg In The Studio - Zoo animals are done http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/5/26/franconia-at-art-a-whirl-maquette-show monthly 0.5 2013-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369588985899-WVYHO5R43E16N2MFSMMO/Pack%26Herd+FranconiaMaquetteSM.jpg In The Studio - Franconia at Art a Whirl: Maquette show Deer and wolf in paper from "Pack and Herd"-- these can be scaled up to life-size and made in Corten steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369589211938-4866R085JFSX5AAFR94X/Pack%26Herd+FranconiaMaquette2SM.jpg In The Studio - Franconia at Art a Whirl: Maquette show http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/5/19/a-goat-in-wax- monthly 0.5 2013-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1368990600415-XJAUULGIQTI7B61Y842Q/goat+wax+in+studio+AK.jpg In The Studio - A goat in wax . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1368990655552-P82OVYRW9PZDVVRVL8XF/Goat+w+ears+AK.jpg In The Studio - A goat in wax . . . Ears, tail, and beard were cast separately . . . http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/5/19/next-steps-in-casting-wax monthly 0.5 2013-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1368990227069-QZGASNVZYXK4F3DPCT8I/zoo+molds+soaking.jpg In The Studio - next steps in casting wax Goat leg molds soaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1368990291649-NG3TOISBQB4HQR6OWAD0/zoo+waxpot.jpg In The Studio - next steps in casting wax Electric roasters make good wax pots because the heat is totally controllable, and you can hold the wax at about 150 degrees. One goat leg has just been poured-- just waiting about 10 minutes for a quarter-inch of wax to solidify in the mold, then I'll pour out the rest, back into the pot. Like making a chocolate Easter bunny! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1368990450154-2U90IBXBQQ80V6V6AN2W/Zoo+Goatleg.jpg In The Studio - next steps in casting wax The resulting hollow leg . . . http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/5/18/wax-casting-process monthly 0.5 2013-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1368930571216-V3YU0W2DKFLSUU7SDGDB/zoo+goatmolds.jpg In The Studio - wax casting process mold pieces for the Jeb the goat . . . http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/5/4/were-getting-closer monthly 0.5 2013-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1367682974843-0KYLW88YGE31QGSLKSSA/SheepGoatSM.jpg In The Studio - We're getting closer! Bruce Wayne (foreground) and Jeb (behind). These animals are about 22 inches at the withers. http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/4/25/views-of-the-goat-in-process monthly 0.5 2013-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1366921310337-SG3YH2740RP20KEG467O/goatface%2Cclay.jpg In The Studio - Views of the goat in process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1366921376852-NSU9OVHG6TTJKL2WNY7W/goat+top%2C+clay.jpg In The Studio - Views of the goat in process http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/4/25/the-goat monthly 0.5 2013-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1366921742510-D3FFW6GMBA60Z4XZCWYZ/goatface%2Cclay.jpg In The Studio - The goat Goats have mysterious eyes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1366921803837-T6B5J8OOQLWFBCXCXAZ2/goat+side%2C+clay.jpg In The Studio - The goat http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/4/25/the-armature monthly 0.5 2013-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1366921673704-09VGSK05CLHZP4YLTQAC/sheep+armature%2C+zoo.jpg In The Studio - The armature Armature for the sheep sculpture. http://annklefstad.com/blog/2013/4/25/a-new-commission-barn-animals-for-the-zoo monthly 0.5 2013-04-25 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/goat monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/sheep monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/animal+sculpture monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/plaster+mold monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/moldmaking monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/bronze+casting monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/blog/tag/bronze+sculpture monthly 0.5 http://annklefstad.com/pack-and-herd daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746622265-UFGQ3X46XTDABFSMEWKG/PH_13_detailSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746622265-UFGQ3X46XTDABFSMEWKG/PH_13_detailSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746539689-ICTPP48SIJUON7NHF3FE/PH_2wolf_maquSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746556155-6W4MCBMU8VSO8Q0YS52Q/PH_deer_maquSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746573730-251FJWR33BYX39BOD63N/PH_RWolf_maquSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746612276-OBOMFOZIPGFC0EZBQFGR/PH_3+deer+SM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746686496-MS54RGTOI2BKRU9017SN/PH_13_viewSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746929364-QW17ENTHMR1IJVTZRE45/PH_13_SmWolfSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378746963719-8MR2CJ96JEXXZOI59WLM/PH_RWolf_rearSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747017672-8QDXOKHUNW9JD4EW8FKH/PH_IronDeer1SM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747188449-C38WM4OOCEFDXWWN2LBF/PH_IronDeer2SM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747236730-R4PUPWRCTDT2RG9MHSXC/PH_Spooner_frontSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747260397-Y7G9M6JH5TOIG1XZFIVN/PH_Spooner_SM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747288444-IWY2RS3F9ZJ1A4UEGJSL/PH_CherDeerSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747319838-7BMGJE698RWP7JPKI7LY/PH_BF_SM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747369621-5KRWOBNKGSZHAR789Q6W/PH_RoseDeerFrontSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747426019-TIKT6RWDQ66NG83491K7/PH_RoseDeerSM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1379341539497-9N72GX5TFEUPIDFD054E/wolf+SM.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661913526699-XSEWFGZU2F8S0SEYRELV/11+Klefstad+YoungOne+copy.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661913526863-QU02U28X9EBM9PJTVC3D/12+Klefstad+YoungOne+copy.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661913570686-FCRVBNWTD010FAA9URBZ/Klefstad_Ann_7.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661913621832-PQS91FRNDYW2HO8QZN6L/08+Klefstad+PackHerd.jpg Pack and Herd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661913677413-BYY6Y9L1UTQ3PR41963B/IMG_20190903_133756531.jpg Pack and Herd http://annklefstad.com/paintings daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365460594631-M90SPEYZ5XX72SNFAB02/p58+hands.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150770180-5XBYL86KUR34LHC2HGW8/pSpirit+Deer+installed+copy.jpg Paintings - Spirit Deer Here are the Spirit Deer in the formal dining room of their owner. 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Bulletin enamels on wood panel. 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Freedom Freedom is a 22' steel sculpture created for the city of Fergus Falls, MN, as the centerpiece for the new roundabout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882468421-4SV1XNN868VB6L3DQK2K/Freedom2+Web.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom Freedom is a 22' steel sculpture created for the city of Fergus Falls, MN, as the centerpiece for the new roundabout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882364671-OGX0Z4U16EPGKOW400VW/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom, detail A detail of the steel sculpture Freedom, a 22' work for the roundabout in Fergus Falls, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882235308-EAENVVE3LTQWDTZ2PSOW/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom A detail from Freedom, a 20' steel piece for the roundabout in Fergus Falls, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1453422112952-VPAM9H97TLRK098KV3QJ/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom "Freedom" is a sculpture that acts as a gateway in the center of the roundabout at the entrance to Fergus Falls. It was inspired by the columns of seagulls that follow the tractors through the fields in this rural region of lakes and farms. Steel, catalyzed paint (Imron), stainless steel, on concrete footings. 22’ x 4’ x 5’. 2015. $42,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882633285-3SYXHM9MJDRDDDM0NUM3/Klefstad+EstuaryPlazaView.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, St. Louis County Government Services Building This is an overview of the plaza; my work creating 3 large benches and 8 bronze animals, also incorporating some of the basalt rocks native to the area, is meant to humanize the plaza and engage building clients and workers in a warm dialogue with the natural world which is such a feature of this city.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882684005-66CSSN2OUT8GDZZ1N8HH/Klefstad+EstuaryPlazaView2.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Waters Bench This 14' long bronze bench is supported by the pillar at one end and the island of basalt at the other. Over it two bronze terns fly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882723196-NMYUOYDL0B2LOXUVPGPV/Klefstad+FrogbenchOtter.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza; Frog Bench, Otter This is one of two native douglas fir benches ornamented with bronze frogs. The Otter welcomes people to the plaza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882770604-H00GO55FN3EKUF2MRILE/Klefstad+FrogBench1.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Frog Bench #2 Here is the second Frog Bench; here you can also see the colored concrete that outlines the artwork areas, creating the "estuary"-- the meeting place of two environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882793513-KDY844UG003B5MZ1DGZK/Klefstad+Frog.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Frog Bench detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882826697-33SE61EAJG0FP46FC65O/Klefstad+Turtle.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Turtle Rocks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882853049-NM0OEFCKGCHB9A6DQUCC/Klefstad+TurtleFace.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Turtle Rocks, front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882871158-9CQSC80V63Y7S1BXW6GS/Klefstad+TurtleRocks.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Turtle Rocks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882905431-XIZ3359WW8Y7ZDGLKA6Q/Klefstad+Fox.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Fox This lifesize cast bronze fox engages people entering and leaving the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882922032-R9QTS1LFNDSQGZYI3QQ7/Klefstad+FoxFront.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Fox detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882944871-UTISUY9FLS0PLQ6ZTFRF/Klefstad+Terns2.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Terns Two terns fly high above the Waters Bench; the plaza has many details that people can notice over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882964069-6FR6QIVA8ZLJEAFEWVDL/Klefstad+Terns.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Terns, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882993183-Q9LNA60PU3AIF4CJBDDH/Klefstad+Beaver.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Wayfinding Beaver One of the concerns of the selection committee was wayfinding: the surface parking for the building is across a busy street, and people often do not use the crosswalk. The Beaver points them to the crosswalk in the hopes that a witty encouragement will help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457883019841-9R1U5AVX5ZJG7UMYMZI4/Klefstad+BeaverFr.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Beaver, front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457883043921-XR13JVC5S4M3AEUEPEJB/Klefstad+BeaverPond.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Beaver in Pond The Beaver is sited in the midst of a pebble mosaic that evokes a beaver pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457883065381-MFK1HDDCPP2ODQFJMSJD/Klefstad+BeaverBk.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza: Beaver, back detail All the bronze animals are epoxied into holes drilled into either the stones or the concrete of the plaza, fastened with welded stainless steel threaded rod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748988924-5FLFS8QAB12CEEQH0YVL/ZooMem2SM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat and a babydoll sheep. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748993830-TH7DSLVH1A53VFUAFOJE/ZooMem3SM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat and a babydoll sheep. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748981702-KYH5MO5EV9J6VO9LPD2R/ZooJebSM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748997251-V18L5YGHX0WNDFTHRCX0/ZooMemSM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat and a babydoll sheep. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748976641-S71FR4UMA4PM6W9623ZM/ZooJebHeadSM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1453423191044-EDL3CFM33SXVYY1QCFTS/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial to the Barn Animals Children like Bruce Wayne and Jeb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042311985-AJUDEMB65HNLA6JGF0J5/pDPSB+Trees+in+Season.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 Trees in Season, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041435690-F7MBQKRCH0M6SGKKTIEU/pDPSB+Trees+site.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Trees in Season This work was commissioned by the Duluth Public Safety Building, to be a calm and engaging focus at the entrance to the police station. The work is 6' high x 9' wide, and is painted in asphaltum on plywood. It depicts an alder thicket in spring, a old willow and alders on a summer evening, and a cottonwood in a thicket in winter. http://annklefstad.com/comissions-20172019 daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558723487895-RU5LQWWXU6FLEKDNGVM2/Klefstad01d.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Fox Path, May Park, St. Paul “Fox Path” is a sculptural bench for the City of St. Paul, sited in May Park, next to a playground. The fox is cast stone colored with acid stains and sealed. She sits on a cast concrete bench, and the mosaic forms a path in which blue flowers turn to fox footprints. A QR code on the piece leads you to a website that talks about urban wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558723487895-RU5LQWWXU6FLEKDNGVM2/Klefstad01d.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Fox Path, May Park, St. Paul “Fox Path” is a sculptural bench for the City of St. Paul, sited in May Park, next to a playground. The fox is cast stone colored with acid stains and sealed. She sits on a cast concrete bench, and the mosaic forms a path in which blue flowers turn to fox footprints. A QR code on the piece leads you to a website that talks about urban wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558721371871-KYWIS4QV2J5EE0VLZY41/FoxyInstall-23SM+copy.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Fox Path, May Park, St. Paul https://static1.squarespace.com/static/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/630eb438809f785b360d5862/630eb4770168735e08421ee5/1661908087340/ Commissions 2017-2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558721425369-TLWMW7E7BZVB5SWQTK8Z/FoxyInstall-19+small+copy.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Fox and friends Ollie and Lorenity helping to install her https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661908331392-R9D15NA7LRBWK6KU902F/Klefstad_Ann_1.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Turtle Bench, Kettle Park, Eagan, Minnesota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661908330451-U7NQO6YX13TKS2BKL7F8/Klefstad_Ann_2.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Turtle Bench, Kettle Park, Eagan, Minnesota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661908690280-KY00JGKRI62TZT3JR4J7/Lekamoia2.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Lekamoia Lekamoia embodies a Norwegian myth of a young woman rescuing her sisters by flying over a mountain. 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This work was created for the Health Sciences building at Lake Superior College. It is meant to embody the flow of healing from caregivers' hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040816512-YNJHHJQ9WUX3ZYMS5BW2/LS+DSC_2102+side.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, 9 x 4 x 2, bronze, Douglas fir, steel. Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040839403-94T7LUS67O2T5CR9HWLV/LS+DSC_2117+front1.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, 9 x 4 x 2, bronze, Douglas fir, steel. Lake Superior College, Duluth MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042257790-PWRJNT69E28VTAZIL29D/LS+DSC_2135+front+upper.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042271829-LBH9IFUE9VPBBZ3ZCWO8/LS+DSC_2142+closeup+lower.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042287039-R3LOPUK0NWQWPK1UR58T/LS+DSC_2122+rec+hands+det.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Healing, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369040983540-SACN66H4FGG3Q30B8CK6/IronDeerSteelForestBL.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Iron Deer in the Steel Forest This work was commissioned by the Arrowhead Library Association. Here you can see it backlit by western sun in midwinter. The work is made of stainless steel expanded metal, enameled steel, and Corten (rusting) steel, and is permanently sited on the grounds of the Association's headquarters in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, on the Iron Range and near a wilderness area. The work addresses the interplay of industry and the natural world in this region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463530424-AGW0W5TT8BKYPJ4Y5AS7/IronDeerCloud1.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Iron Deer in the Steel Forest, stainless steel expanded metal, enameled steel, and Corten steel. 14 x 14 x 14. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041021408-2IKKQG5T07TMGZO3KNWX/IronDeerCloud2.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Iron Deer in the Steel Forest, stainless steel, enameled steel, and Corten steel, 14 x 14 x 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463709596-3HQOG4YPGA2QFGHI3114/Earth+Heaven+Prairie+Sky1.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Earth : Heaven / Prairie : Sky This work was commissioned by Metro Transit of Fargo / Moorhead, and is sited at the main passenger depot in Fargo's downtown. The work addresses the importance of sky and wind in the landscape; its multiple pieces have sightlines that pierce them; the translucence of expanded metal means that when the buses move around them, the light effects are remarkable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463713925-Q8UH3GD81NYFA6MCOC3B/Earth+HEaven+PRairie+Sky2.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Earth : Heaven / Prairie : Sky, Fargo Metro Transit, 12' x 8' x 14' , stainless steel expanded metal, Corten steel, concrete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041053793-Z6A80K7XCRP9E0YQOEJC/70+history.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Unearthing History This bronze high-relief work, about 2' x 6' x 6" deep, hangs in the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda. It hangs, as you can see here, directly below the lower-relief plaque commemorating the Spanish- American War, which has hung in the Rotunda since the 1920s. "Unearthing History" has an unusual story: the Philippine Community of Minnesota had long found the narrative on the original Spanish American War plaque to be historically inaccurate. They petitioned the Minnesota Legislature, which granted them $10,000 with which to commission another artwork that would tell the real story of the war and the Philippines. I was chosen to do this work, to provide a setting for their words. I chose to illustrate an implied story: that of coming upon three stone tablets, overgrown on the jungle floor, telling a story that can now be seen. The plants, the machete, the rifle, are all from the era and place of the conflict. The nineteenth-century modeling style put it in relation to the earlier work above it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041077396-DNC9X6M9DI0YQRV5ZOCP/71+history.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Unearthing History, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041091845-FY4GFXLSDZ4YR0U3HWS8/72+history.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Unearthing History, detail: papaya plant, house gecko, and other Philippine wild flora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463428482-7BYZNINWXFFWV0WUYW44/68+perpich.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Tall Pine: Memorial for Rudy Perpich This work was commissioned by the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and is sited in their entry atrium. The bench (slab redwood, Mesabi granite, and steel I-beams) is the work of Glenn Gordon of St. Paul, Minnesota. I made the wall piece, which is a slab of quarter-inch steel, pickled and waxed, with bronze castings of white-pine branches in various patinas fastened to it with relief spacings. The significance of the design and materials all relate to the origins and character of Rudy Perpich, who was a beloved governor of Minnesota and who, with his wife Lola, founded the school. Gov. Perpich was a remarkably tall man who was very attached to his native Iron Range, while still being a sophisticated citizen of the world. He was also a man of great honor, who, in his political career, took the high road. White pines are native to the northern boreal forests, and are the tallest things around. Each is distinctively formed, a true identifiable individual. That is both what Gov Perpich was, and what he encouraged in his namesake arts school, a free public boarding school for the arts in Minnesota which has been remarkably successful in graduating students who go on to successful and creative lives in the arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463432027-LVGUCUAP9OQIRWTUFWWD/69+perpich.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Tall Pine, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463411393-1QS2VQ0OYL48T44QH1FP/67+perpich.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Tall Pine, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041132887-M6G1IK7GTCK1RR48UJ5W/12+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Floodwaters, for Harriet Island (model) This sculptural environment was a collaboration with sculptor Jeffrey Kalstrom; we collaborated on making and installing the bronze wave forms, while I did the stoneware tile friezes inset into the curving walls. It was made for the levee gate at Harriet Island Park in St. Paul, and makes graphically evident the function of that gate by depicting in baroque bronze the floodwaters that in earlier years often devastated the surrounding neighborhood. The stoneware tiles depict flood debris; mostly plants, but mixed with occasional artifacts that were lent by residents of the neighborhoods and which I made press molds of, so that I could inset these pieces of human culture into the flow of the plant material in the tiles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150485779-GIZQ2SQ3IGLXJJZNPGU9/13+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Floodwaters, for Harriet Island (bronze) See the previous image of the model for the piece for a full description. This is the levee gate with the bronze wave forms installed. Each side is about 26' x 12' x 3'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041156277-8OCEWDP65HNSXV6SYKCP/14+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze section, south wall, 26' x 12' x 3' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150514980-YX1CT287LO5D64PV4H8E/15+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, detail, bronze section, north wall. 26' x 12' x 3' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041172810-LVSFZVC81JD0PDYY2CIO/17+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150416184-95C52ORYZGHC9QAVZIJC/16+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041191774-55PRRHCT5WK8A19021GJ/18+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, bronze detail. The bronze has a complex hot patina using ferric oxide, liver of sulphur, and other acids, finished with a hot wax and buffed. This gives it its variegated, shifting colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150455950-DFVYPZQF5R3CJZCYV6GW/19+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Floodwaters: Stoneware tile frieze The frieze is 24' long and 4' high at the highest end. Tiles are set into a recess in the curving concrete wall. Clay shrinkage had to be calculated very precisely to allow the tiles to fit the preexisting recess. The stoneware tiles used in this portion of the commission were handformed from high-fire stoneware with an iron-oxide component (cone 10). Slow-fired and fully vitrified, this clay body was tested outside for one full Minnesota fall, winter, and spring, set up in southwest sun for maximum temperature variance, to ensure that it would not absorb moisture or spall in these harsh conditions. The tile wall is unglazed, and has exhibited no change in almost 15 years of exposure to the famously brutal Minnesota weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041207173-FHLPD7NY7B55QYA10KRB/20+floodwaters.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 Floodwaters, tile detail. Each tile is @ 10" square, and is one inch thick. Mortar is a sanded concrete grout, and all surfaces are sealed with tile sealant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041271724-5AI157D9CVX494TPDGRZ/28+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Garden Park Columbia Garden Park was commissioned as a joint project from Jeffrey Kalstrom and Ann Klefstad by the City of Minneapolis as a Neighborhood Gateway. The site was 1 acre, and the work consists of this entire site. Many components are involved. Here you see the initial arc of community garden beds, and the wooden railroad-style water tower, which are the heart of the park. Columbia Park is a railroad workers' neighborhood, near the giant Shoreham Yards, the main railyard for the Twin Cities-- a huge nexus for wheat transshipment. It is, in some way, the motor that produced the wealth of the city-- the connection between the agricultural industries that built Minneapolis and the prairie wheatfields that produced the golden grain that built Minneapolis. From the top of the small park we built, from the Wheat Bench, you can see a grand vista of the glass towers of downtown Minneapolis, miles away. The park then has motifs of circles (circular crushed-limestone pathways), as Native prairie people hold the circle to be sacred, of vernacular farm architecture and shelterbelts, and of the railroad-- as seen in the functioning water tower, which enables the gardeners to water their raised beds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578837801-TA1O2V7UEEIV1LTCKGNH/ColumbiaView.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Picnic Shelter Here is a view from the Wheat Bench to the Picnic Shelter, built in vernacular post-and-beam style with a corrugated iron roof, seen over the native prairie plants of the wildflower garden in front of the What Bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150666024-O6MO5A9MODFYK6U74QQ4/33+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Picnic Shelter Picnic Shelter in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041307333-7S76PYE449SVD4Q21TJX/29+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Wheat Bench Here is the Wheat Bench, facing the wildflower garden and engaged with the rest of the park with the crushed-limestone circular pathways that connect the park features. These crushed-limestone paths use the same quarry that supplies baseball fields in the region, and are wheelchair-safe. The center of the Wheat Bench plaza is a millstone, reproduced in concrete, that is a mandala-like evocation of the flour mills of Minneapolis. The Wheat Bench and plaza is 26' long and 12' deep. Inset into the bench back are three bronze castings of actual ears of wheat that I cut from a field near Crookston, Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041326131-IUVCQTQCOKEOM1ZI7IJ7/31+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Wheat Bench Here the Wheat Bench can be seen with the two silver maples we planted as shade trees just behind it. The lot when we started had been an industrial waste dump, with no trees, and its subsoil was full of chunks of asphalt and slag from a foundry. Some of those slag chunks are preserved in the rock garden winding its way through the prairie wildflowers in front of the Wheat Bench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041342331-H8QLVBMFDN5I7MMCUSMY/32+columbia.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Columbia Park: Wheat Bench Here is one of the bronze reliefs of prairie wheat installed in the back of the Wheat Bench. There are three of them, two smaller and the central one larger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578790395-JM3B9QJD35RSDXAQK0Q7/Waterfall%26PoolDet.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Archimedes' Waterfall This work was commissioned from Ann Klefstad and Jeffrey Kalstrom for Hibbing Community College, and depicts the flow of natural resources from their "wild" state into usable forms. The work overall is 34' long, 18' tall, and about 2' - 3' deep. This detail is of the Archimedes' spiral constructed of milled lumber, locked together with a structure of interlocking steel rods, and carved, the spiral picked out with gold leaf to use the dramatic sidelighting of the windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578813153-6RZJR2SCNCH8OJZ6SWZ5/waterfall1Below.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Archimedes' Waterfall Here is the work from below. The waterfall forms are created using white-cedar logs that grow in dramatic curves in the walls of the precipitous boreal creeks that fall down to Lake Superior in this region. These trees grow in stone canyon walls, fall into the water, and swirl in waterfall pools. We pulled them out of the creeks, peeled and oiled them, and bolted them into the waterfall form you see. The "pool" is formed of milled lumber and carved with the spiral of the first historical engineer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578821425-7CCYJQT6APWYPXYODM77/Waterfall2Above.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Archimedes' Spiral Here is the work seen from above. Hibbing Technical College, where this work is sited, trains young people in engineering and building finished work from natural raw materials. That is what this work addresses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578827595-1GHA8NX94OWI433H4N29/5YrOldChair.jpg Commissions 2000-2013 - Five-Year-Old's Chair This work was commissioned by the Duluth Community Garden program as one of a group of works made by members of Common Language, a Duluth artists' coop. The inspiration was my then-five-year-old son, whose valiant struggles with the oversized adult world were moving to me. I took an old kitchen chair and scaled it up so that the resulting piece was as big for a 6' adult as a regular kitchen chair was for a five-year-old. It serves as a viewing bench high on the hill above Duluth, at the site of a community garden. Almost 20 years later, it is still there and solid-- it was built of local white cedar and reinforced with steel by Jeffrey Kalstrom. http://annklefstad.com/outdoorinstallation daily 0.75 2013-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369771212661-HYL25Y9RNLOWYNJJ4UUR/Guardian+dog%2BWeb.jpg Outdoor Installations - Guardian Dog This lifesize stoneware dog was made during a Jerome Foundation residency at St. Johns Pottery with Richard Bresnahan. It is woodfired stoneware and has gone through several summers and winters outdoors. It refers to the long traditional of guardian animals at gateways. I have made others like it--it is an ongoing series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041951957-BT14VYGOH8W9MVRLUBAL/g+24+winter+deer.jpg Outdoor Installations - Winter Deer This lifesize stoneware deer was also made during my Jerome residency. It was in the Minnesota Museum of Art 3D Biennial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365464064367-NAWMLZZA58171CNE3JT3/g+74+mountains.jpg Outdoor Installations - Walking Mountains These stoneware slab-built works are 5' tall; there is a fifth one as well. They are shown as a group, whose immediate inspiration was Rodin's Burghers of Calais. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365464093742-JHN54AIGN0SWVVXEI89R/g+75+mountains.jpg Outdoor Installations - Golden Mountain: Spiral Bell This bronze cast bell is struck with the cast-bronze branch striker. It has a long period of oscillating resonance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042014533-PVP7V8TB2ZNKIMN5WT7R/oi+03+Language.jpg Outdoor Installations - Language This work was made for Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. It consists of two 30' telephone poles with a rope ladder with carved white-cedar rungs. The rungs are carved with words: concrete nouns describing the surroundings low down ("stone," "aster"); further up, adjectives also referring to nearby qualities ("gritty", "purple"); farther up still, abstract terms of judgement such as "beautiful; at the top, speculative descriptors such as "divine". One could climb the work; as one climbs one can read the words; the higher you go the broader the view, but it can get rather uncomfortable, being so far away from the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150910558-CYSGC5UBNDBGHBVJAFNR/oi+04+Language.jpg Outdoor Installations Language, at Franconia Sculpture Park. Note the words on the ladder rungs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579160006-0WT90PEMSELUIQGOINVG/oiAIDS_Mem1.jpg Outdoor Installations - Nest Nest was a temporary AIDS memorial commissioned from me by Forecast Public Artworks for Loring Park in Minneapolis. It consisted of several young saplings planted on a rise in the park, surrounding one cast-bronze sapling. The import of this is simply that most young ones grow up, mature, grow old, but those who get AIDS will not (this was in an earlier time, before effective drug treatment of AIDS). In front of the array of saplings was the nest itself: a berm planted with beach grass and enclosing a sheltering 7' long "beach" of white sand and smooth stones. It was an attempt to imagine a kindly grave, one that we can share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579161749-EJOIA0CW7NPDKC4KKOOY/oiFishfinder1.jpg Outdoor Installations - Fish Finder Fish Finder was a temporary artwork built on the site of the current Lake Superior Aquarium. It was a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom. Modeled on similar constructions made of stones (the Pukaskwa Pits) found on beaches along the north shore of the lake, which were built in paleo times, before the current Ojibwe and later European occupants arrived, it serves as a solar calendar. (This is the apparent function of the Pukaskwa Pits.) Two poles stand near the constructed berm. If one sits in the recess built into the back of the berm, the rising sun at the horizon lines up with the central fish pole at the autumn equinox, and with the tall slender pole to the side on the date of the spawn of lake trout on a shallow manmade reef just outside the Duluth Harbor mouth (the view from Fish Finder is down the ship canal outside the harbor). The work preserves an ancient tradition of finding fish based on one's knowledge of the environment where one lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579163482-5433QNE4W0J5EH532US5/oiFishfinder2.jpg Outdoor Installations Fish Finder, at the Duluth harbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150941267-80V5FGKZLN9NDFO9XQUM/oi+05+315+June+14a.jpg Outdoor Installations - June 23, 3:15pm This piece is titled for the time it was painted. Noticing the rapid movement of sun-created shadows across a surface, and interested in ways of noticing time through one's surroundings, I created a tent-like structure of bungee cords and aluminum tube, covered with cotton cloth, and cabled it into a grove of trees in Chester Park in Duluth. Then I painted (quickly) the shadows that fell on the cloth at a particular time of day. The shadow then moved away from the painted lines; the next day it moved up to, matched, and moved away from the painted image. This work was produced through a Forecast Public Artworks grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150952500-Y9515U25UHN1B6CLQT08/oi+06+315+June+14b.jpg Outdoor Installations June 23, 3:15pm. This photo was taken about 4 pm. The shadows have shifted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463175679-U4J6H0O4NZV5HEJJMF2H/39+Teahouse.jpg Outdoor Installations - House of Beasts: Boreal Teahouse House of Beasts, 14' x 14' x 14', wood, steel, glass, a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom, was a year-long installation in the park opposite the Thunder Bay Gallery in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. This was an exchange project between the city of Thunder Bay and the Tweed Museum at UMD. Eventually the House of Beasts Teahouse moved to the Sax Courtyard at the Tweed Museum for another year, when it was dismantled. The House of Beasts is meant to be a meditative space for thinking, alone of in groups, about the relationship of people with the woods. Built of native green poplar which gradually shrank, admitting stripes of light, and punctuated with windows printed with "beast faces" created by generating abstract symmetrical patterns, the corrugated steel roof had a square "smoke hole" that admitted light and rain and, below it, a mirror embedded in forest duff in the place of the hearth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365463161625-E23LH96MG4O8RSPH7AG1/40+teahouse.jpg Outdoor Installations House of Beasts interior, with mirror reflecting the sky hole and the shadow of one of the "bug face" windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579169058-BW1VLIO1E68NX0SHC5V4/oiHouseOfBeasts.jpg Outdoor Installations House of Beasts, showing one of the windows and the "verandah" surrounding the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041985168-0HYKHPHWZHVSOPTZX2V5/g+Swimmer+in+garden.jpg Outdoor Installations - River Swimmer River Swimmer is a bronze maquette for a project for Goldstone Development, which I turned into a garden sculpture. Figure and base overall, 30". Base is concrete and steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041969145-5GX546GRVCAA5GHWZGWU/g+nymph+side.jpg Outdoor Installations - Garden Nymph This 32" bronze is an early garden sculpture of mine. http://annklefstad.com/index daily 1.0 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748930833-PRSJFTIXR0D54SAG666G/ei82eWE.jpg Index https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/cc7080f5-e0ee-4225-b1b2-41c8d49f4d46/01+Healing+Tree.jpg Index - Make it stand out Commissions 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558721371871-KYWIS4QV2J5EE0VLZY41/FoxyInstall-23SM+copy.jpg Index - Make it stand out Commissions 2017-2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1458511796258-3YYI8PLZ9XOTC218FC7S/image-asset.jpeg Index Commissions 2014-2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365555702156-3AVQFB9X3PL8U16TSHWJ/LS+HealingHands2.jpg Index Commissions 2000-2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1771370279312-0M0UUVRGO24Y22ST7N4L/02Klefstad+CrowandTree.jpg Index - Make it stand out Ink on Panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1771371132803-EDIXA9OL9YT3M9MR5PNX/waves3SM.jpg Index - Make it stand out Colored Pencil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1771371475414-ES20J5PFF6JV3AII0OE6/A+Klefstad+-+Frog+6x8.jpg Index - Make it stand out Intaglio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365555835110-0ALARJM8IDRF08TKJUDJ/s13Klefstad_13_.jpg Index Studio Work and Shows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365555917364-9BY4MJ9BXY2U7A022YFL/oi+03+Language.jpg Index Outdoor Installations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1771368937353-YZCDWMST3ZEPYSXGR4MC/CrowsFlyingInstalledDCM.jpg Index - Make it stand out Murals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1771371749635-ZLKCUXEHGV3460IBH7RA/2_WalkonWater.jpg Index - Make it stand out Galvanized Steel Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365555983348-32IS9PW48X0QWSH99IA3/p58+hands.jpg Index Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910668622-T8B6JSN9QF1ORZ3L9GT1/02+Klefstad+CarbonOtter.jpg Index - Make it stand out Carbon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378747966375-RQSG62VW7J4QTUAZHRQC/PH_3+deer+SM.jpg Index Pack and Herd http://annklefstad.com/the-artist daily 0.75 2013-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1366064489869-6NAI51VQ2WQM31V08IZC/AK+pic+2012.jpg Contact information and bio http://annklefstad.com/about daily 0.75 2013-04-04 http://annklefstad.com/studioworkandshows daily 0.75 2013-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457909337183-NX6Y7QNDGLS497EJNT75/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Steel Wave This 2' x 3' photo, taken from my boat on Lake Superior, is printed on galvanized steel on a shaped support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457891590047-NR60ZDGY7QRKEFAUVSLO/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Fog This 3' x 2' image of Lake Superior fog was shot from my boat and is printed on galvanized steel on a shaped support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457890490500-XYNR4I9YG8MPKVI5W4UV/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Near Madeleine Island The Walk on Water series of photographs are shot out on Lake Superior from my kayak or sailboat. These are printed on galvanized steel on shaped supports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457890735637-CZ67P5Z78TUC3GBI0LBK/image-asset.jpeg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water: Evening Bay A 4' x 2' image of the St. Louis Bay printed on galvanized steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041909166-XHZJ61SDTOCUT8B4QB0L/sInstallZeitgeist.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Zeitgeist Arts painting show, 2012 This is the atrium at the Zeitgeist Arts building in Duluth, MN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041497748-9DTWRX4CAPG9IN4G4XNL/s04Klefstad_13_Med.jpg Studio Work and Shows - "Living Room" at Gallery 13, Minneapolis "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041518181-UBUIRANUV9Y1LT2FFP89/s11Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041535182-IKPB1ACLWNNN26FHX9XX/s12Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. They are part of an ongoing series called "Forest." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041567974-BYQOEHG5YBLA2S3OCQ6Z/s13Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. The wolf here is called "Grimm's Wolf" and depicts human view of wolf as predator: the Big Bad one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365151251871-9DP5E7Q6L8G644X1ESX0/s14Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. This is Grimm's Wolf in steel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041590259-RYZTJDFRCV86NSG0BYQA/s15Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. Grimm's Wolf, here, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041607935-CU9J4LWRW0FN1VHXJVQZ/s16Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041767653-JH2T7SWICQLWFARY17WH/s16Klefstad_13__01.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room," Gallery 13. The placement of the Forest panels give unexpected views of somewhat tongue in cheek "forest beings." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041687562-3WL8IK2M0VM03EUUABNI/s17Klefstad_13_.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041787492-16QTV06ZQCHK8ZYKBTOL/sGallery13+wolf__03.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. Here is the other wolf, seated, keeping an eye on the deer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041812355-4MQYSFHRI7Y7062KS2ZD/s01Klefstad_Gallery13+Med.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. Another component of "Living Room" was a group of Lake Superior water images printed on steel, glimpsed here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041827924-WQQHA7ZDQQ9CMJO5PL9X/s02Klefstad_13_Med.jpg Studio Work and Shows "Living Room" was a one-person show at Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle St., Minneapolis, MN. The animals are life-size, Corten steel, the panels, both freestanding and wall-hung, are each 4' x 8' plywood, painted in asphaltum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041848935-FIGM8O1NE8K4AWNRZC09/sWalkonWater3.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Walk on Water These are images of the surface of Lake Superior, which I shoot with a digital Nikon from my boat. I have a kayak and a small Cape Dory sailboat that I take out into the lake and shoot water images from. I collect only images of the water surfaces, trying to show what the water looks like as itself only, not as a scenic or picturesque item in the image repertoire. The water images can be seen at walkonwaterannklefstad.blogspot.com In this incarnation the images are digitally printed on galvanized 18ga. steel and bracketed to the wall. They fall in a natural curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365971484250-IOIT4BHN8Y50SRFHMDL7/sWalkonwater+install2.jpg Studio Work and Shows Walk on Water images in a show at Central Lakes College, MN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365151403140-1DML3F28FGSJBEXRXSFU/sForest2.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Forest An exhibition of Forest as an installation at University of Wisconsin River Falls gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041890949-7OR6P54TUNBRC8PX7F5W/s+73+mountains.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Floating Mountain Floating Mountain is part of a series of "Mountain" works that I did at St Johns Pottery while on a Jerome Foundation residency. I was interested in sculpture that levitated, and in bells. This work was shown in a group show at the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579020539-4EC77LIKQDFO5H0CIKCZ/sForestDAI.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Forest Detail from an exhibition of Forest at the Duluth Art Institute gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579024621-AYPLM9TFTWCQS2TYK5AG/sGuardian4.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Guardian dog Maquette for public project at University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579042291-FUIXF80DRY2AK7CJZLUX/sRapunzel.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Rapunzel A collaborative project with Jeffrey Kalstrom for the Botanica show at the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN. It is a playfully surreal version of the famous Rapunzel story. "Rapunzel" is type of radish, one of the very first spring vegetables, and gives a clue to the origins of the story in myths of fertility and fecundity. In this depiction, the radish herself is perched high in a tower, sprouting rivers of golden hair as evidence of a magical link to the goddess. The piece is 9' tall, the tower is painted wood, internally lit; the radish is fired white stoneware, tinted with paint; the hair is unravelled hempen rope. This show, curated by Peter Spooner, toured a number of museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579003534-SMGCN0UMZ5FHDHOSCTQD/sDeerLegs.jpg Studio Work and Shows - Deer Stilts This work, a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom, was made for a show called "Appliance" at Northland College in Ashland, WI. The themed group show looked for interpretations on the word. We thought it would be interesting to think of prostheses that would give humans new abilities, and made these deer stilts that enabled us to take very long steps, see far, and leave deer footprints. They are carved of basswood and painted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579027946-YX0D13JRX1JW3GR5CTJR/sDeerLegs2.jpg Studio Work and Shows Deer Stilts in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578974081-6BBTBZUEK77N7NMIEFEB/sRedRoom1.jpg Studio Work and Shows - The Red Room The Red Room was done as a collaboration with Jeffrey Kalstrom for Intermedia Arts' Art in Space program. We created this large two-part installation to explore all aspects, metaphoric, visceral, and literal, of the color red. We called on community members to donate red items and compiled lists of what people associate with red, from Communism to anger to Santa to red willows, to blood and life and Mustang cars and foxes and deer. There is a small house sheathed in red-dyed cheesecloth scrim and a "back yard" that depicts a modernist forest in low lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578981022-30KW0ZBBAOVCJ9YM7WRK/sRedRoom2.jpg Studio Work and Shows Red Room interior. There were dioramas in the cupboard, the windows, and the oven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365578997590-3T88K3JFIVQTP32QPJQQ/sRedRoom3.jpg Studio Work and Shows Red Room "exterior" shot. Deer, fox, suspended animal carcasses, "trees". http://annklefstad.com/painting daily 0.75 2013-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150770180-5XBYL86KUR34LHC2HGW8/pSpirit+Deer+installed+copy.jpg Paintings - Spirit Deer Here are the Spirit Deer in the formal dining room of their owner. Each panel 4' x 6', tar on plywood panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042047726-9QJKVGPGL4Q2PRF4N6CG/p3Trees4.jpg Paintings - Trees in Season Full-size wall-hung panels (each 4' x 8') depicting trees (alders, willows, cottonwoods) in various seasons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579424866-K7HF6XYKNYUSDCGMTTAW/p3Trees3.jpg Paintings - Trees in Season: Alder Brake 4' x 8', tar on plywood panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579394654-NFL8I44JO373QTDD5EFU/p3Trees1.JPG Paintings - Trees in Season: Willow and alder 4' x 8' , tar on plywood panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579395514-MF66ED8CZYAD0WEB8AQ0/p3Trees2.jpg Paintings - Trees in Season: Cottonwood and saplings 4' x 8' , tar on plywood panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042069004-MHMGI4PQ2INVLOLVCIQI/sKlefstad+Walkonwater+1+cafe.jpg Paintings - Walk on Water 1 4' x 4', acrylic, colored pencil on birch panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042083484-S7Z0IEKVG6RWTWXEKLHN/sKlefstadWalkonwater2+cafe.jpg Paintings - Walk on Water 2 4' x 4', acrylic and colored pencil on birch panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579336934-AXGQ657GUNV35RACKCKN/pCounting1.jpg Paintings - The Counting 16' x 4', tar and bulletin enamel on plywood panels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579338422-317ZD6UO3SI9BB82KSRX/pCounting2.jpg Paintings Detail, The Counting. Bulletin enamels on wood panel. Hundreds of handprints in several colors are layered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042099444-IDNHA5BU819ZVP7BN70A/p58+hands.jpg Paintings - Invitation and Refusal 8' x 9', tar, plywood, gold leaf on wood panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579367293-RXN724Q5P746E39XK759/pGolden.jpg Paintings - Golden 8' x 4', gold powder with acrylic paint on wood panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365579367050-X27VHPDWBW1NN9XH6EBH/p2sidedDeer.jpg Paintings - Deer: Translucent This two-sided painting is executed in tar and turps on both sides of a translucent epoxy/fabric panel stretched in a wood frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1365150795037-37SM4LWUAQ73MHRBZF3I/p64+blackbird.jpg Paintings - Blackbird One of a series of small paintings in ink on cedar panel of birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910218106-X8DKFFCJIHY47UJ76DOD/01+Flight+copy.jpeg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910235606-MANKK2SY1K0QGSWV7AYO/Road+Crow+copy.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910223214-4QF1VKBQOF2MIX5S60L9/old+crowSM+copy.jpeg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910232604-WH41SNPFHA431ERRDE7B/02Klefstad+CrowandTree.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910251830-K9W37EPQXNK57GH3PQBS/03Klefstad+CrowFog.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910241677-SV84ZUIZQ7JDSU6WJYQ7/crow+flock+FB.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910245875-S21UV0G2Y1G4O6RREKNE/Crow+over+lake+FB.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910279037-LEKGUAVH4X9E81ZIHWVR/Crowland+1+copy.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910283841-IWSUOEF6MTVFQF8HG69K/Crowland+2+copy.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910282771-Q01P70HMHODLGAES5MXI/Crows+in+trees+FB.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1661910289966-M4YT4BFJBLUDSWFYYCK8/Klefstad_Ann_4.jpg Paintings http://annklefstad.com/pack-and-herd1 daily 0.75 2026-03-09 http://annklefstad.com/commissions-20142016 daily 0.75 2016-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457909591860-1FIWSS1Y6HLQJ3RG9DXY/FreedomDetail4+Web.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882468421-4SV1XNN868VB6L3DQK2K/Freedom2+Web.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom Freedom is a 22' steel sculpture created for the city of Fergus Falls, MN, as the centerpiece for the new roundabout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882364671-OGX0Z4U16EPGKOW400VW/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom, detail A detail of the steel sculpture Freedom, a 22' work for the roundabout in Fergus Falls, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882235308-EAENVVE3LTQWDTZ2PSOW/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom A detail from Freedom, a 20' steel piece for the roundabout in Fergus Falls, MN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1453422112952-VPAM9H97TLRK098KV3QJ/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Freedom "Freedom" is a sculpture that acts as a gateway in the center of the roundabout at the entrance to Fergus Falls. It was inspired by the columns of seagulls that follow the tractors through the fields in this rural region of lakes and farms. Steel, catalyzed paint (Imron), stainless steel, on concrete footings. 22’ x 4’ x 5’. 2015. $42,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882633285-3SYXHM9MJDRDDDM0NUM3/Klefstad+EstuaryPlazaView.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, St. Louis County Government Services Building This is an overview of the plaza; my work creating 3 large benches and 8 bronze animals, also incorporating some of the basalt rocks native to the area, is meant to humanize the plaza and engage building clients and workers in a warm dialogue with the natural world which is such a feature of this city.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882684005-66CSSN2OUT8GDZZ1N8HH/Klefstad+EstuaryPlazaView2.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Waters Bench This 14' long bronze bench is supported by the pillar at one end and the island of basalt at the other. Over it two bronze terns fly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882723196-NMYUOYDL0B2LOXUVPGPV/Klefstad+FrogbenchOtter.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza; Frog Bench, Otter This is one of two native douglas fir benches ornamented with bronze frogs. The Otter welcomes people to the plaza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882770604-H00GO55FN3EKUF2MRILE/Klefstad+FrogBench1.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Frog Bench #2 Here is the second Frog Bench; here you can also see the colored concrete that outlines the artwork areas, creating the "estuary"-- the meeting place of two environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882793513-KDY844UG003B5MZ1DGZK/Klefstad+Frog.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Frog Bench detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882826697-33SE61EAJG0FP46FC65O/Klefstad+Turtle.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Turtle Rocks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882853049-NM0OEFCKGCHB9A6DQUCC/Klefstad+TurtleFace.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Turtle Rocks, front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882871158-9CQSC80V63Y7S1BXW6GS/Klefstad+TurtleRocks.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Turtle Rocks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882905431-XIZ3359WW8Y7ZDGLKA6Q/Klefstad+Fox.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Fox This lifesize cast bronze fox engages people entering and leaving the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882922032-R9QTS1LFNDSQGZYI3QQ7/Klefstad+FoxFront.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Fox detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882944871-UTISUY9FLS0PLQ6ZTFRF/Klefstad+Terns2.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Terns Two terns fly high above the Waters Bench; the plaza has many details that people can notice over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882964069-6FR6QIVA8ZLJEAFEWVDL/Klefstad+Terns.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Terns, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457882993183-Q9LNA60PU3AIF4CJBDDH/Klefstad+Beaver.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Wayfinding Beaver One of the concerns of the selection committee was wayfinding: the surface parking for the building is across a busy street, and people often do not use the crosswalk. The Beaver points them to the crosswalk in the hopes that a witty encouragement will help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457883019841-9R1U5AVX5ZJG7UMYMZI4/Klefstad+BeaverFr.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Beaver, front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457883043921-XR13JVC5S4M3AEUEPEJB/Klefstad+BeaverPond.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza, Beaver in Pond The Beaver is sited in the midst of a pebble mosaic that evokes a beaver pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1457883065381-MFK1HDDCPP2ODQFJMSJD/Klefstad+BeaverBk.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Estuary Plaza: Beaver, back detail All the bronze animals are epoxied into holes drilled into either the stones or the concrete of the plaza, fastened with welded stainless steel threaded rod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748988924-5FLFS8QAB12CEEQH0YVL/ZooMem2SM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat and a babydoll sheep. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748993830-TH7DSLVH1A53VFUAFOJE/ZooMem3SM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat and a babydoll sheep. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748981702-KYH5MO5EV9J6VO9LPD2R/ZooJebSM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748997251-V18L5YGHX0WNDFTHRCX0/ZooMemSM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat and a babydoll sheep. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1378748976641-S71FR4UMA4PM6W9623ZM/ZooJebHeadSM.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial for the Barn Animals, Lake Superior Zoo Bronze, 24" tall, a pygmy goat. Commissioned as a memorial to the barn animals who died in the flood of 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1453423191044-EDL3CFM33SXVYY1QCFTS/image-asset.jpeg Commissions 2014-2016 - Memorial to the Barn Animals Children like Bruce Wayne and Jeb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369042311985-AJUDEMB65HNLA6JGF0J5/pDPSB+Trees+in+Season.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 Trees in Season, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1369041435690-F7MBQKRCH0M6SGKKTIEU/pDPSB+Trees+site.jpg Commissions 2014-2016 - Trees in Season This work was commissioned by the Duluth Public Safety Building, to be a calm and engaging focus at the entrance to the police station. The work is 6' high x 9' wide, and is painted in asphaltum on plywood. It depicts an alder thicket in spring, a old willow and alders on a summer evening, and a cottonwood in a thicket in winter. http://annklefstad.com/commissions-20172019 daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558724370502-VMOB59NFINY6RFLX0VAK/Final+LekamoiaSM.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515de910e4b0ecbdd5a9d1a0/1558723487895-RU5LQWWXU6FLEKDNGVM2/Klefstad01d.jpg Commissions 2017-2019 - Fox Path, May Park, St. Paul “Fox Path” is a sculptural bench for the City of St. Paul, sited in May Park, next to a playground. The fox is cast stone colored with acid stains and sealed. She sits on a cast concrete bench, and the mosaic forms a path in which blue flowers turn to fox footprints. 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