Curves on Ice by Mary Amerman.
Ah, St. Patrick’s Day weekend brings lots of Irish music in venues all over the county, the St. Urho’s Festival and Parade in Finland and the Dulutsen: North of North Music Festival at Papa Charlie’s, not to mention great art shows and exhibitions up and down the North Shore.
First up is the new exhibit at the Johnson Heritage Post which opened last Friday. Entitled “Chaos…Creativity…Cracks: Spirit of the Wilderness Church,” the exhibit features work by artists in the community of every age. It’s really a fun exhibit, with lots of great work by students at USD 166 as well as emerging and professional artists who live in Cook County.
Here’s a brief sampling of what you can find in this exhibit.
“Many Paths,” bead painting by Jo Wood.
“Shadows of the Night” by Sandra Burket, Cook County High School student.
“Cameron Highlands-May 1976″ by Nina Woerheide, CCHS student.
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A view of part of the current exhibit at the Johnson Heritage Post, which includes basketry, mosaics, photographs and more.
The exhibit continues through March 25. The Heritage Post’s winter hours are from 1-4 p.m. Thursday and Sunday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
North House Folk School continues its Skill Share program with a presentation by Marco Good on how to take care of chain saws, a must for people living in the Northwoods. Good is an experienced logger who has been working the woods with his horses for years. He will lead the Skill Share at North House at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Marco Good will be featured at a Skill Share at North House Folk School on Thursday at 7 p.m. He will give a presentation on chainsaw care. All invited. Free.
Good will talk about everything from the anatomy of a saw and its proper handling to how to sharpen the chain as well as share his wealth of experiences. Note: This will be a demonstration and lecture; participants will NOT be operating chainsaws during this skill share. It’s free. All invited.
Onward to the weekend! On Friday, the Grand Marais Public Library will present Rangoli Sand Art with Shakun Maheshwari at noon.
Shakun Maheshwari will present Rangoli Sand Art at the Grand Marais Public Library at noon on Friday, March 16.
Rangoli designs are a temporary floor art that people create and redo on a daily basis in India in order to bring good luck and happiness to the home. In the presentation, participants will learn about Indian culture, history, and celebrations through art as well as explore the use of art made from chalk, sand, or rice flour by creating stylized Rangoli designs with flour or colored sand. All invited. Free.
Also on Friday, the skip of the U.S. Olympic Curling Team, John Shuster, will be interviewed on WTIP’s The Roadhouse, and talk about his experiences. The Roadhouse airs from 5-7 p.m. on Fridays.
Also on Friday, the Dulutsen: North of North Music Festival begins at Papa Charlie’s, featuring a wide variety of popular musicians and their bands from Duluth.
On Friday, the music starts at 8:30 p.m. with Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank with Ryan Young and Erik Berry of Trampled by Turtles, Superior Sire and Irish American (Teague Alexy & Erik Berry)
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank perform at Papa Charlie’s on Friday.
On Saturday evening, Alamode, Haley Bonar and The Social Animals will play, with music starting at 8:30 p.m.
Haley Bonar will be one of the performers at Dulutsen on Saturday night.
Sunday is Family Day for the festival with Two Many Banjos performing from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Monday brings Charlie Parr, a favorite in Duluth and Papa Charlie’s, for a free Singer/Songwriter concert at 8 p.m.
Singer/songwriter Charlie Parr will play at Papa Charlie’s on Monday.
The Grand Marais Art Colony will feature two presentations by its Juried Artists-in-Residence on Saturday. Both are free and open to the public.
At 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, printmaker Gabriella Boros will give an Artist Talk and Demo in the Print Studio.
Printmaker Gabriella Boros will give an artist talk and demo at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Marais Art Colony.
Gabriella’s woodblock prints touch on a variety of topics, including modern political upheaval and ecological destruction as filtered through the Hebrew book of Isaiah, female empowerment, and botanic healing. Gabriella will present and demonstrate her methodology, from from the ideation through the printing process and also share from her portfolio of work. Free. All invited.
At 2 p.m. on Saturday, Artist-in-Residence David Andree will open his exhibition, “Speculations in Time: Contemporary Approaches to Working from the Landscape” in the Founders Hall and give an Artist Talk about his work.
Artwork by David Andree.
Andree’s residency focuses on furthering four related bodies of work that explore flux in the landscape: Land Harps, Collaboration Drawings, Color Studies, and Current Castings. Expanding on the traditions of perceptually-based location painting and drawing, David explores intersections with sculpture and digital practices such as sound and video. He will share about his artistic investigations which are thematically focused on the unique sense of time within landscapes and the temporary and fragile nature of existence. The presentation is free. All invited.
In Finland, this weekend is St. Urho’s Day, and they community celebrates with a two-day festival featuring music, food and the ever-popular St. Urho’s Parade. Everyone is invited, especially if they wear purple and green, St. Urho’s colors.
One of the contestants for the Miss Helmi Contest strutting her stuff at the St. Urho’s Parade last year. Photo courtesy of the Lake County News-Chronicle.
This is always a fun time in the Finland community. There’s the Miss Helmi contest on Friday and a Tug of War over the Baptism River on Saturday, as well as the parade, which will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday. To see the complete schedule of activities, click here.
Exhibits:
The Masterpiece Art exhibit at Tettegouche State Park continues this month, with works by students at the William Kelley Elementary School. The students, lead by local artists, learned about masterpiece artworks and then did their versions of them.
“Picador and Matador,” after Picasso, Magic Marker, crafted by 6th grade students, is one of the pieces in the Masterpiece show.
The exhibit in the Great Hall continues through March.
The Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth has a number of exhibits on display, including “Treasures From Home: An Anthology of Gifts from Collectors” and “Fine. Re/Fine. De/Fine,” the 2018 Biennial Faculty Exhibition for the University of Minnesota Duluth Department of Art & Design.
Photo by Olivia Bee. “Schiaparelli-Couture-Harpers Bazaar 2014, digital print mounted on aluminum, is one of the pieces in the “Collectors” exhibit at the Tweed.
“Little Rate Always on my Back,” ceramics by Robin Murphy is in the faculty show at the Tweed.
And, at the Joseph Nease Gallery in Duluth …
Models wear pieces that reflect Kirsten Aune’s “Converging Abundance” painting. which is at the Joseph Nease Gallery in Duluth, part of the gallery’s “Sweep” exhibition.
At the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe in Duluth …
Adam Swanson’s show at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe in Duluth continues. This painting, “Aware of the Danger” is in the exhibit.
At the Thunder Bay Art Museum in Thunder Bay …
Multi-Media piece by Marielle Orr, one of the pieces in the Lakehead University’s Visual Arts Department Major Studio Exhibition. It opens March 16 and runs through April 15.
Upcoming:
EATS or Enriching Academics Through Sustenance, the annual fundraiser for the Education Foundation at ISD 166 will be held on Thursday, March 22, from 6-7:30 p.m.
Local restaurants, along with the ISD 166 culinary arts students, provide restaurant favorites or their food specialties. Ticket holders will sample food, as well as take in the festive spirit of the evening while listening to music provided by Jim Lundorff (Sawtooth Elementary teacher) and the high school choir and band students. Ticket holders also have the opportunity to bid on great silent auction items, which are provided by individuals and members of our Cook County business community. The Education Foundation awards grants for projects and activities that enhance the curriculum at ISD 166. Nearly $119,000 in grants have been provided by this foundation.
Tickets are available for $25 and can be purchased at the PK-12 office, Java Moose or the Blue Water Cafe. Only 150 tickets will be sold, so get yours now.
Community Share:
To celebrate Harbor Park and springtime Grand Marais, the Cook County Historical Society is collecting stories, memories, and anecdotes about the Grand Marais Harbor (Bear Tree Park/Harbor Park) as part of the Harbor Park Sound Garden project, presented by Wavelets Creative.
Do you have a story about Harbor Park? The Cook County Historical Society is collecting stories for the Harbor Park Sound Garden, which will be presented May 27.
The SPRING Sound Garden in Harbor Park is a free outdoor sound + performance installation on Sunday, May 27 from noon – 5 p.m. The Sound Garden will combine music, poetry, history, dance, storytelling, sculpture, and visual art into an immersive sensory experience, and will include archival photos and history tours of Harbor Park and the surrounding area. Submit your memories and stories by April 1 to be included in the collection. To submit stories please email: jhp@boreal.org
Here’s the music for the week:
Thursday, March 15:
- Joe Paulik, Mogul’s Grille, 4 p.m.
- Briand Morrison, North Shore Wintery, 6 p.m.
- Eric Frost, Poplar River Pub, 6 p.m.
- Thorne, Gillis, Stamps & Roth, Gun Flint Tavern, 7 p.m.
- Beavstar, Papa Charlie’s, 9:30 p.m.
Friday, March 16:
- Pete K, Mogul’s Grille, 4 p.m.
- Jim McGowan, Voyageur Brewing, 4 p.m.
- Eric Frost, Cascade Lodge Pub, 6 p.m.
- Alamode, Wunderbar, 8 p.m.
- Jim & Michele Miller, Bluefin Grille, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 16:
- Jim & Michele Miller, Bluefin Grille, 8 p.m.
- Space Monkey Mafia, Gun Flint Tavern, 8 p.m.
- Dulutsen, Papa Charlie’s, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 17:
- Frozen Britches, Cascade Lodge Pub, 3-6 p.m.
- Jim McGowan, Cascade Lodge Pub, 6-8 p.m.
- Chris Gillis, Lutsen Resort, 7 p.m.
- Blurry Band, Grandma Ray’s, 8 p.m.
- Velvets, Wunderbar, 8 p.m.
- Space Monkey Mafia, Gun Flint Tavern, 8 p.m.
- Dulutsen, Papa Charlie’s, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 18:
- Briand Morrison, Mogul’s Grille, 10 a.m.
- Aurora Baer, Wunderbar, 11 a.m.
- Two Many Banjos, Papa Charlie’s, 3 p.m.
- Jim & Michele Miller, Gun Flint Tavern, 7 p.m.
Monday, March 19:
- Charlie Parr, Monday Songwriter Series, Papa Charlie’s, 8 p.m.
- Gordon Thorne, Bluefin Grille, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 20:
- Briand Morrison, Bluefin Grille, 6 p.m.
- Open Mic, Papa Charlie’s, 7 p.m.
We found some great photos this week, too. Here’s a sampling:
First, some wildlife shots …
Plieated woodpecker by Matthew Pastick.
A great capture by Janet Frederick-Nelson Jarzhinski. This Cooper’s Hawk almost got this squirrel.
Mallards in a “secret” pond near the Lester River by Paul Sundberg.
Proof that spring is here:
“Yep” by Jean Fitts Cochrane.
Here’s a fascinating urban shot:
Can’t Get There from Here by Gregory Isreaelson.
And, of course, we found some great landscapes/skyscapes/ice-scapes.
Melting Ice by Paul Sundberg.
Lovely Day in the North by Ilena Hansel.
Photo by Paul Berish.
Our resident iceberg by Roxann Berglund.
Landscape through Ice by Don Davison.
Lake Superior wipe-out by Christian Dalbec. Erik Wilkie is pictured in this one.
She’s Napping by Ann Bowman.
The sight of the stars makes me dream by Travis Novitsky.
And finally, Here is an awesome northern lights shot by Thomas Spence. It was featured on the front page of www.spaceweather.com recently.
Northern Lights along the Sawbill Trail by Thomas Spence.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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