About Ice Out of MPLS

About Ice Out Of Mpls
Ice Out Of Mpls is a one-person print operation run out of Minneapolis by Hunter Hawes.
No staff. No studio. No committee.
Just a wide-format printer, a stack of paper, and a reason to use both.
When federal immigration enforcement escalated in the Twin Cities, I didn’t apply for a grant or wait for a gallery. I found a professional printer at a liquidation auction, taught myself how to run it, and started making posters. I put them on walls. I sold them online. I kept going.
That’s still the model.
Every print is designed, printed, trimmed, and packed here in Minneapolis on archival stock using equipment I run myself. Sizes range from 11×17 posters to pieces large enough to stop someone mid-stride on a sidewalk. The work is made to exist in public — on storefront windows, on community boards, in homes, and on walls where people gather. Not in a storage tube. I’ve been in long-term recovery for years, and that shapes how this project operates. The money from print sales doesn’t go to organizations, it goes directly to people. A young woman who needed safe housing to leave an abusive relationship. A couple in recovery raising a one-year-old on not enough. Real situations. Specific names. Direct support.

Printed media has weight. It exists beyond an algorithm. It hangs in a room. It weathers. It fades slowly. It can be carried, folded, taped up, saved in a drawer, or rediscovered years later. Digital images travel far. Physical prints stay put.
Ice Out Of Mpls is built on the belief that small, local actions accumulate. That public space belongs to the public. That a poster can interrupt a sidewalk long enough for someone to feel seen.
Everything is made here.
Everything is hands-on.
Everything is accountable.

Posters are made here in Minneapolis — designed, printed, and finished by me. Apparel is produced through a fulfillment partner.

— Hunter Hawes
Minneapolis, Minnesota