Many thanks to all of you for making the third annual Art Sled Rally a magnificent success.

Here’s a few photos to tide you over until next year!

photos by Anna Lethert

Presented by South Sixteenth High Jinks

Your double-decked, winged, jumping and fire breathing sleds hit the slopes of Powderhorn Park!

What?

Watch the antics of outrageous never-tried-before art sleds*, or drop in yourself with a contraption of your own. Each sled and its creator will take to a decorated hill accompanied by throngs of spectators. Live music, a warming tent, hot chocolate and coffee will round out the afternoon’s activities.

How?

The free Art Sled Workshop at Powderhorn Park Community Center’s gym has come and gone, but feel free to design and build a sled on your own, and show up with your contraption on the decorated northwestern slopes of Powderhorn Park, January 30, 2010. Use cardboard, wood, steel, fabric… anything goes on ice. Check our gallery if you need some inspiration.

Why?

Sledding is one of the cheapest, easiest, and liveliest of winter activities. It’s unpredictable and thrilling to watch, and the geography and spirited character of our neighborhood makes something like an “Art Sled Rally” entirely possible.

Who?

This project is presented by artists and neighborhood residents in collaboration with Powderhorn Park, the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, and the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association.

by ee cummings

all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winter’s not forever, even snow
melts; and if spring should spoil the game, what then?

all history’s a winter sport or three:
but were it five, i’d still insist that all
history is too small for even me;
for me and you, exceedingly too small.

Swoop (shrill collective myth) into thy grave
merely to toil the scale to shrillerness
per every madge and mabel dick and dave
–tomorrow is our permanent address

and there they’ll scarcely find us (if they do,
we’ll move away still further into now

A six pack of Art-Sledders take to the slopes at the second annual Art Sled Rally in Powderhorn Park, dressed as a six-pack of Grain Belt Premium.

Images from the second annual Art Sled Rally, held on February 7, 2009.

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Photos from the first annual Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, held on February 16, 2008

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Photos from the Winter Show, 2007 at Columbia Heights Golf Course

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Photos from “Wild and Wacky Cardboard Sled Derby” in Pennsylvania, similar event with impressive sleds… got any ideas? We’ve no idea who they are but here’s their site.

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Photos from the All Hokkaido Cardboard Sled Competition, Japan.

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Photos from the wide world of art sleddism. Posted as an inspiration to those of you on the road to art sled glory.

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