18 Different Artists Designed a Wondrous Mini-Golf Course in Minnesota | #50StatesofArt

Images courtesy of Can Can Wonderland

If you could design your own mini-golf course, what would it look what? What materials would you use, how would you build it? These questions are at the heart of Can Can Wonderland, an artist-designed 18-hole mini-golf course and entertainment center located in the Hamline Midway neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota. Inspired by places like the City Museum in St. Louis and Chicago’s Par King, the founders of Can Can converted a 20,000 square foot former can factory into an art-infused amusement park filled with vintage arcade games, a box fort, and numerous installations and murals.

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About five years ago when the project was first getting started, its creators sent out an open call to artists to design their own mini-golf holes. Their inbox quickly flooded with ideas and design plans from artists around the world. The Can Can team selected their favorite 18 ideas and hired the artists to travel to St. Paul and build it. Needless to say, this isn’t par for your standard mini-golf course. One hole involves bouncing your golf ball off a drum set, while another has you hit it off a tee with a baseball bat. Inside their giant pink and fluffy mastodon hole, a bartender sits making drinks and serving them out of a trap door located on the sculpture’s hip.

Can Can Wonderland is also the first arts-based public benefit corporation in Minnesota. This means their social aspirations to be an economic engine for the arts has equal weight with their for-profit business operations. Jennifer Pennington, one of the founding members of the park, writes, “we provide ongoing paid opportunities for artists of many different mediums and skill levels and we grow new audiences for the arts by engaging them in full, playful participatory art activities as well as providing an arts-immersive environment.” The park is constantly getting updated and hosting performances and events that provide steady paid work for artist.

In addition to the games and golf course, their multipurpose space has two stages where they host regional and local performers of almost every kind. If you get hungry, the park also has a restaurant, cereal bar, and an ice cream parlor. When it gets late, the park turns into a 21+ amusement park for adults with craft cocktails and beer.

Can Can Wonderland opened two weeks ago on Prior Ave. To learn more about the park visit their website and be sure to check them out on Instagram.

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