Fall colors have arrived early this year by Judi Barsness.
The North Shore color show is at its peak this weekend, a suitable Hooray! for the opening of the Art Along the Lake Fall Studio Tour.
The tour, which features open studios in 22 home studios and galleries along Hwy 61 and the Gunflint Trail, runs from Friday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 6. All studios will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and will feature new work, guest artists, demonstrations, refreshments and a chance to meet with and talk to the artists.
The Art Along the Lake Fall Studio Tour starts on Friday and runs through Sunday, Oct. 6. Look for this sign along Hwy 61 for the artists’ studios.
The studio stops include: Jason Trebs, Schroeder, potter, Mary Jane Huggins, Tall Tale Shop; Tofte, fiber, Greg Mueller, Lutsen, sculpture; Steve Hahn, JNS Gallery, Lutsen; Maggie Anderson, Clay Phoenix Ceramics, Lutsen; Kathy Weinberg, KFox Studio, Lutsen; Sharon and Steve Frykman, Art of the Elements gallery, rural Grand Marais,
In Grand Marais, visit North House Folk School; Grand Marais Art Colony; Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery; Yellow Bird Fine Art; Betsy Bowen Studio; The Big Lake; Upstate MN; Joy & Co. and Sivertson Gallery.
Nancy Hemstad Seaton, glass. studio at Hungry Jack Outfitters on the Gunflint Trail.
In Hovland, Jo Wood, beadpainting; Neil Sherman, plein air painter; Dan & Lee Ross, ceramics, monoprints, glass and Lou Pignolet, turned wooden bowls.
It’s impossible to show images of what everyone is making, but here’s a short selection. Look for more next week.
Jason Trebs, whose studio is in rural Schroeder, posted this photo of a kiln-load of pottery that will be featured on the tour.
Glass artist Sharon Frykman, is working on a series of glass pieces for the North Shore Hospital. This piece will be on display. Her gallery, Art of the Elements gallery, is in rural Grand Marais.
Betsy Bowen has been digging into her archives and is exhibiting the cream of the crop during the Fall Studio Tour. She is calling it “Rare Works from the Archives” or “Rare Treasures” and it features a variety pack of woodcuts, drawings and more. The opening reception for the exhibit is from 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26 at the studio, 301 1st Ave. W. in Grand Marais All invited. Refreshments will be served. The show will continue through October.
A woodcut from the book, Once A Barn A Time” by Betsy Bowen.
A few other highlights of the Fall Studio Tour:
Kwee-moo-0o-oo, The Great Diver by Anna Marie Pavlik is one of the paintings at Yellow Bird Fine Arts in Grand Marais, one of the stops in the Fall Studio Tour.
Sivertson Gallery, one of the stops on the Fall Studio Tour, is featuring fall colors on the sidewalk and a painting by Howard Sivertson, “Larch Creek,” in the front window.
Plein Air Painter Neil Sherman has his studio in Hovland and he exhibits his work on the outside walls of the cabin.
Woodturner Lou Pignolet makes beautiful hand turned bowls in his Hovland Studio, with demonstrations every day.
There’s a lot more information about all the studios and events during the 10-day tour on the VisitCookCounty web site. Click here to see maps, daily demonstration schedules and more. And stay tuned for more photos next week.
Also this weekend, Voyageur Brewing Co. is holding Oktoberfest, featuring two bands, Polkarioty and the Singing Slovenes as well as games, contests, a special Oktoberfest beer and more. The event honors fall but also is a fundraiser fo the Cook County Community Fund, which supports local non-profits. To find out more and see the schedule of events, click here.
Saturday kicks off at the Cook County Market, featuring a variety of local artists and artisans in booths in the Senior Center parking lot.
The Cook County Market is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the Senior Center parking lot, including woodwork by Papa’s Hands.
Work includes weaving, woodwork, Lake Superior rocks, pottery, fiber art and more.
Also on Saturday, Lunafest, the traveling film festival, first brought to Cook County by the Violence Prevention Center in 2011, featuring short films made by women, for all who care about the universal issues. These short dramas, comedies, and documentaries will tug at your heartstrings, make you smile, make you think and at the same time support the services and programs of the Violence Prevention Center.
Lunafest, a series of short films about and for women, will be at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. Saturday. The event is a fundraiser for the Violence Prevention Center.
The films will be screened at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28.When: Saturday, Sept. 28. Tickets at the door: $20 adults, $10 students. For more information, call the Violence Prevention Center at 387-1262.
The Grand Marais Public Library will hold two public events next week. On Monday, Sept. 30,, author Allen Eskens will give a prevention entitled “I’m not supposed to be here: my implausible journey to becoming a writer” at 1 p.m. On Wednesday, the 321 Art Studio will present a free workshop on Autumn Landscape Painting at 10:30 a.m. Open to adults and older children. For more info, call the library at 387-1140.
Exhibits:
The spectacular Grand Marais Plein Air 2019 continues at the Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery through Oct. 6. In all, 75 juried painters painted Lake Superior and Cook County over a week’s period, and their work is highlighted in this great exhibit.
One of the award-winning paintings currently on view at the Johnson Heritage Post.
The Heritage Post is closed on Tuesdays. It is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Free.
In Duluth, the Tweed Museum of Art has just opened a new exhibit entitled “Art in Conflict,” an exhibition from the Russian Museum of Art featuring works by artists during the Soviet era.
This print by Alexander Shnurov features prints of Lenin combined as in children’s art, a powerful comment on Soviet-era politics.
Upcoming:
Here’s a fall event everyone looks forward to: Sivertson Gallery‘s “Do You Raku? We Do …” featuring Duluth raku artists Richard Gruchalla and Carrin Rosetti. The duo offers the public a chance to glaze a tea bowl and then watch it being fired in a raku kiln set up behind the gallery. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5.
Registrations are still being taken for the Grand Marais Art Colony‘s North Shore Readers and Writer’s Festival, Nov. 7-10. For more info about the classes, events and workshops, click here.
Music:
Here’s the music schedule for this weekend:
Thursday, Sept. 26:
- Polkarioty, Voyageur Brewing, 5 p.m.
- Joe Paulik, Lutsen Resort, music by the campfire, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 27:
- Polkarioty, Voyageur Brewing, 5 p.m.
- Portage Band, Grandma Ray’s. 6 p.m.
- Michael Monroe, Log Cabin Concert, rural Grand Marais, 7 p.m., www.michaelmonroemusic.com
- Colleen Myhre, Gun Flint Tavern, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 28:
- The Singing Slovenes, Voyageur Brewing Co., 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.
- Michael Monroe, Log Cabin Concert., rural Grand Marais, 7 p.m.
- www.michaelmonroemusic.com
- Tim Fast, Lutsen Resort, Lutsen Resort, 7 p.m.
- Christopher David Hanson Band, Grandma Ray’s. 8 p.m.
- Colleen Myhre, Gun Flint Tavern, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 29:
- Briand Morrison, Mogul’s Grille, 10 a.m.
- The Singing Slovenes, Voyageur Brewing, 1 p.m.
- Open Stage with Joe Paulik & Pat Flack, 6 p.m. Wunderbar
- Bug Dope, Gun Flint Tavern, 8 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 30:
- Matthew Griswold, Voyageur Brewing, 5 p.m.
Photographs:
Need it be said that we found lots of fall color photographs this week? But we also found beautiful mushroom photographs. It’s been very wet this fall, and the mushrooms are definitely taking advantage of the moisture. Take a look:
Honey Mushrooms by Sparky Stensaas.
Amanita mushrooms at Split Rock campground by Vasanth Rajkumar.
Such a perfect looking mushroom by Jeffrey Doty.
A mushroom breakfast?
You don’t see this very often. This mushroom looks like a fried egg by Nancy Carlson.
Tommy Gee saw the “fried egg mushroom,” above and posted this:
This one looks like a pancake. We just need a mushroom that looks like bacon to have breakfast. Photo by Tommy Gee.
Duluth photographer Bruce Ojard was stunned to see pheasants trotting around his yard in Duluth. There were three: a male and two females. Here’s one of the images he captured.
A local pheasant seems fascinated by Our Lady of the Lake fountain in Duluth by Bruce Ojard.
The rut has started in the Northwoods, and moose can be seen.
Cook County roadblock by Thomas Spence.
Photographers Paul Sundberg and Travis Novitsky went out together to call in bulls and take photos on a foggy morning recently. They had good luck and both write about the encounters on their blogs as well as exhibit the photos they took that day. See Paul Sundberg’s here, and Travis Novitsky’s here.
Paul Sundberg calling in a bull moose. Photo by Paul Sundberg.
Success! A moose appears. Photo by Travis Novitsky.
A moose close-up by Travis Novitsky.
We found a variety of fall color photographs this week:
A time for hiking by Kjersti Vick.
Rain’s song by Ravenswood Imagery.
Taking the long way home at Honeymoon Trail by Danielle Fortin,
All in a row: Fall Colors by Jan Swart.
Grounded amidst the flow by Dawn LaPoint and Gary Fielder.
And here are some wonderful landscapes.
The guardians by Tommy Gee.
Just lightning by Jamie Rabold.
Good morning from the harbor on a foggy morning by Gwen Danfelt.
And finally, this beauty:
Today’s view in Duluth by Dustin Lavigne.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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