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Nikki Tundel

Carly Schmitt captures the curiosities of one neighborhood

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First look
Artist Carly Schmitt watches as her images are attached to a utility box in Minneapolis, Minn., on August 1, 2013. She took photos of items belonging to neighborhood residents and combined them via Photoshop to create the illusion of a curio cabinet.
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Artist Carly Schmitt asked people in the Lyndale neighborhood of Minneapolis to share objects that they thought best represented them for her Curiosities of Lyndale project. She then photographed the images and photoshopped them to make them appear like they are in curio cabinets along Lyndale. The result: public art covering some of the neighborhood's ugliest public structures.

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Checking it out
Passersby take in the finished community artwork in Minneapolis, Minn., on August 1, 2013. Eventually, 27 of the area's utility boxes will be altered to look like curio cabinets.
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First look
Artist Carly Schmitt watches as her images are attached to a utility box in Minneapolis, Minn., on August 1, 2013. She took photos of items belonging to neighborhood residents and combined them via Photoshop to create the illusion of a curio cabinet.
MPR News/ Nikki Tundel
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Neighborhood gathering
Artist Carly Schmitt takes photos at a neighborhood gathering for the Curiosities of Lyndale project in Minneapolis, Minn., on July 31, 2012. Residents brought items they thought best represented them and Schmitt combined images of these items into a community art project.
MPR News/ Nikki Tundel