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Seed Art is Where It's At
and how to know when it's too damn hot
Happy Monday!
Welcome to The Flying P, a weekly newsletter covering your Phipps Center for the Arts and anything else I might want to throw your way.
Have you been following the recent political conventions? What did you think about JUST KIDDING I AM NOT ABOUT TO TALK POLITICS IN THIS NEWSLETTER.
This issue has…
A Call to Tap
it’s the way to keep coolState Fair Talk
what’s your agendaA Really Neat Technique
photo encaustic is in the Overlook

EDUCATION
Let’s take a tap class
I got an email the other day from my new friend, Barb, who was going on and on about how much fun her Phipps tap class is and how I should also take the class. She was already selling me pretty hard on it, but then she broke out the big guns:
Just think about how incredibly cool you would be if you were a tap-dancing executive director!!
Listen, I do plenty of metaphorical tap dancing all the time as Executive Director (just ask our board of directors), but I haven’t actually tap danced since college. Barb has me thinking about it.
How about this: I’ll take a dance class if you do!
PHIPPS TOP 10
best-selling upcoming events this season by tickets sold…
1. The Drowsy Chaperone (previously: 1)
2. I Am Woman…. presented by Lori Dokken (previously: 2)
3. Prancer (previously: 3)
4. Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society (previously: 4)
5. The Andrews Sisters Onstage: a Jen Burleigh-Bentz production (previously: 5)
6. Transyl-Mania (previously: 6)
7. Colleen Raye’s NYE (previously: 7)
8. Underneath the Lintel, or: The Mystery of the Abandoned Trousers (previously: 8)
9. Silent Sky (previously: 9)
10. A Brass & Organ Holiday (previously: 10)
BETTER HURRY LIST
best-selling upcoming events this season by percent sold
(i.e., closest to being sold out)…
1. I Am Woman…. presented by Lori Dokken (previously: 1)
2. Underneath the Lintel, or: The Mystery of the Abandoned Trousers (previously: 2)
3. Cabaret Night at the Phipps (fall) (previously: 4
4. Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society (previously: 3)
5. The Andrews Sisters Onstage: a Jen Burleigh-Bentz production (previously: 5)
THE WEEKEND
Farewell, Summer
My wife and I were able to hit the MN State Fair on Saturday, so our summer is officially over. ☹️ What was on our agenda? Glad you asked…
mini donuts
Fine Arts building
Sweet Martha’s Cookies (cup not bucket to avoid type 2 diabetes)
Agriculture Building
Frozen cider and seed art
Food Building
Fish n Chips and Egg Roll on a Stick
Eco Experience
random kiosk shopping
That list is fairly small and I’m not happy about how little we actually ate, but we also weren’t there all day.
I’m not the biggest state fair guy, but when one of my coworkers (coughLeeAnncough) said that Sweet Martha’s was nothing more than glorified Chips Ahoy, well…them’s fightin’ words.
Do you attend the MN State Fair? If so, do you have must-see attractions, or do you just wing it? Hit “reply” and let me know!

it was busy; go figure

seed art is a Ben must-see attraction 😄
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my favorite gallery piece of the week
This photo doesn’t do the piece justice. You really need to see these works in person (Overlook Gallery). Here’s how this artwork is made (from her rack card):
Photo encaustic begins with an original photo processed through software to emphasize certain aspects such as contrast or exposure. The photo is printed on tissue paper using a large format printer then incorporated onto a rigid substrate that has been prepared with five or more layers of encaustic medium. Encaustic medium is composed of beeswax and damar resin heated to approx. 200 degrees F. The medium is brushed on hot and fused to the previous layer using a torch or heat gun. The tissue paper photo is encapsulated using more layers of medium. Color and texture are then added on top of the fused photograph allowing for a wide variety of translucent and textural effects.

you know it’s hot outside when the PCA windows are this steamed over in the morning
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