This cache is part of the Fargo-Moorhead GeoTour, the first official GeoTour in the states of Minnesota & North Dakota.
To participate, download a passport here or pick one up at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitor Center. Use the passport to track your progress in collecting “code words” at each location. Find 20 of the 24 Fargo-Moorhead GeoTour caches to earn an official GeoTour coin, and find all 24 caches to earn a virtual souvenir from HQ.
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This geocache was placed in collaboration with local artists from Moorhead, Minnesota: my adopted hometown and a city I love dearly. It should be a quick find, but stealth will be key in keeping placement a secret. The difficulty rating is due to the high-traffic area, so if you should happen to encounter a curious muggle, please be friendly.
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” ― Joss Whedon
Minerva is the Roman goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, and magic. If you look to the south, you'll see her likeness depicted on a brick column at a nearby art museum. Several feet from this geocache, you'll see an unlikely garden: adopted city planters turned community space.
Art can be intimidating. Often, we forget we possess the power to interact, experience, and more importantly, create our own art - in whatever capacity that might mean to an individual. Artistic expression doesn’t have to be relegated to a museum or gallery.
If you've spent much time geocaching, you know that art is all around us - sometimes we just need to open our eyes and search a little to find it.
If you're interested in finding more public art, download the (free!) Geocaching Adventure app and check out the Downtown Fargo Art Tour (North & South)