If there's no cashier, leave the money in the donation box and grab the putters and golf balls that are always set out. Current prices are $14 for adults and $12 for 8 and under. He says about 45,000 people visited the mini golf course in the 2022 season (and more than a half million since 2004). Stillman created Big Stone to lure visitors off the beaten path to see sculptures in far-flung Minnetrista.
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The light filtering through the holes reminded Stillman of the light from the stained-glass windows in a church, so he calls the work "Holey Ship."īruce Stillman has transformed the hay field he bought into acres of art and fun and opened it to visitors calling it the Big Stone Sculpture Gardens and Mini Golf. He cut dozens of holes in the hull and filled them in with translucent colored plastic originally intended to make eyeglass lenses. (You putt standing inside the upside down boat.)
For example, Stillman acquired the hull of an old 34-foot long Chris-Craft boat and turned it into a feature on the golf course. The space lets him take advantage of a knack for acquiring unusual, oversized raw materials for his art. "It's just kind of an experience," says Stillman, now 64 and a lifelong artist. The couple had their first date at Big Stone and later got married there. "It's really immersive," Schwartzman says. "There's nothing like it literally in the world," says Minneapolis miniature golf aficionado Tom Loftus, who along with his wife, Robin Schwartzman, run the website devoted to all things mini golf. Add in large tree trunks, and the effect is part Stonehenge, part Flintstones. Speaking of names, the reason it's called Big Stone: The sculpture garden and some of the holes feature several massive, multi-ton stone monuments. You can turn it to face the sun, then swing up a metal arm holding a pan to a spot where the sun's beams are focused by the curved, mirror-like metal on a spot above the sculpture hot enough to cook a pizza.
Inspired by Anish Kapoor’s “The Bean” in Chicago, Stillman created the “Inverted Bean,” which is shiny enough to light paper and sticks on fire (as demonstrated here), and cook pizzas.
Stillman's oversized metal spoon and larger-than-life red cherries on display serve as playground equipment for a troop of goats.
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There's a turtle the size of a UPS delivery truck made of shiny black rubber, and a gleaming life-size rhinoceros made of Harley-Davidson mufflers, plus a sly reference to the Walker's most famous work. Next to Big Stone sits a sprawling sculpture garden filled with an eclectic and sometimes colossal mix of close to 80 installations by 16 different artists. Big Stone Mini Golf opened in 2004, and it involves a lot more than putting greens. So Stillman decided to create a course of his own on a 17-acre former dairy farm that he purchased in Minnetrista. He suggested Boom Island Park in Minneapolis as one possible site, and he floated the idea to officials in St. Bruce Stillman says he had the idea of creating a mini golf course designed by artists before the Walker Art Center did, and shopped it around to local municipalities.
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