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Christy Klancher

@stpauligrrrl.bsky.social

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from the land of sky blue waters. fan of human rights, live music, and dogs. crop artist. mediocre curler and softball player. she/her.

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · Sep 2

MN State Fair crop art 2025 thread:

1. This year, the Minneapolis Institute of Art sponsored two prizes, so there were lots of entries inspired by fine art. These are the two winners:

#cropart #seedart #mnstatefair

My Chagall Dream by Jeanne Morales of Minneapolis— a woman in a gown appears to fly over Minneapolis landmarks like First Ave, the state fair giant slide, the Hook and Ladder, in seeds and grains, some painted.

Ceci n’est pas un corn dog by Amy & Steve Saupe of Saint Paul. A corn dog and French text (this is not a corn dog, after Magritte, in small natural colored seeds

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 19h

Damn, how big of an age gap was that relationship?!

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 23h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 1d

@artsmia.bsky.social oops forgot to tag you here too!

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Shrugh—I had a typo but now I love this new word I created combining shrug and ugh, meaning I don’t know and I don’t care. @merriam-webster.com do I win a prize

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

Alt: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Riding into Wednesday like

Two earthenware camel statues from the Tang Dynasty, a dromedary in the foreground and a bactrian behind it with a little dude with one armed raised in a pointy hat riding between its humps At Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 2d

That time when Clive was floofy and stripey

Clive, a cream and tan doodle with floofy hair and a pink nose, standing by a white picket fence that has sunlight shining through the slats onto the deck and onto Clive too

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

Many unusual birds on walkies today!

(We also saw the chickens, but they’re always there so I forgot to take a pic)

Clive, a shaved cream and tan doodle with pink nose, and Felix, a dark brown doodle with silvery highlights, on leash on a sidewalk. Clive is looking at me and Felix is looking at half a dozen turkeys in between some bushes in the yard next to us.

More turkeys on this side of the street!

Clive and Felix don’t care one whit about this flock of plastic flamingoes in a yard

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

Me, chatting with the help desk because I waited too long to renew my password while I was trying to come up with one I liked as much. (I now have a quickly thought up mediocre password for the next 3 months.)

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure he’s just jamming under a flower garden

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

It was a truly lovely party though!

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe Scott really has 6 fingers…

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

Choose your direction wisely (on Ayd Mill)

A yellow diamond sign at a split in the road with black arrows pointing down to the left and right. There is graffiti on the left arrow that says “Dem” and on the right says “Rep”. There is also a graffiti on a nearby no right turn sign but I can’t make it out

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

Made it home a little wetter

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

First female runner

A female runner seen from the side running didn’t the street. A person sits in a chair on the grass on the other side of the street, caught mid clap

Same runner a little bit further back with cheerers

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

We got some drips

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

First runners in front of Macalester (I missed getting a pic of the first wheelchair racer)

Two men running side by side down a street weigh people cheering and part of Clive in view

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

Waiting for the marathoners on Summit

A dark brown doodle with silver highlights and a cream and tan doodle, and my calves and feet on the grass by a street

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

We went across the river for a Tour de Minneapolis: Eat Street Crossing, Litt Pinball (not picture), Sebastian Joe’s, Let it be house

View of the patio from the open window of the bar at Eat Street Crossing

Two bowls of ramen from Staff Meeting on a pine table

A cinnamon ice cream cone with the sun going down behind it on a street full of detour and road construction signs

A 2 and a half story beige house with reddish brown trim. The roof over the front porch is famous for being on the cover of Replacements’ album Let It Be. It’s easy to tell this is the house because Let It Be is painted on one of the risers on the front steps

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 4d

My phone reminded me I was here

A small church with steeple on Lake Bled, Slovenia, framed by greenery, blue sky with fluffy clouds

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 6d

Also is that a speed thing? They want you to slow down, which you need to do if you want to read the fancy font. I’m sure that’s it 😀

Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 6d

We fancy in Saint Paul

a cartoon of a cat with the words keeping it fancy on it

Alt: a cartoon of a cat with the words keeping it fancy on it

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 6d

I finally recovered from Riot Fest and I realized I haven’t posted all the crop art pics from the State Fair yet! I’ll try to post some more this weekend. Anyway, you should check out the Lambrini Girls if they come through your town:

An all woman band on stage at Riot Fest featuring a singer wearing a Fuck Ice tee; guitar player with red hair, and a drummer in a white tank top

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 28d

Look after each other.

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 7d

Clive, after being super chill about no mom walkies since June, is now demanding them after one day of me back to almost normal post surgery. I guess it’s a fair trade. And, hey, I found a cool new little free library after we stopped at the best one (with treatos).

Clive, a shaved cream and tan doodle with pink nose, and Felix, a shaved dark brown doodle with silver highlights, stand in front of a little free library that has books and dog treats

A little free library in a neoclassical style with a faux marble top that says “Carnegie compact library”