Cascade River Falls by Paul Sundberg.
Greetings from the North Shore, where Spring has sprung, and waterfalls throughout the county are roaring and gorgeous. We’ve had gentle, soaking rains, too, breaking our drought and watering the land as they offer more water to our flowing rivers.
Spring on the North Shore also brings its challenges, of course.
Photograph by Kristofer Bowman.
Like that snow-dusted daffodil (above), we can’t quite, yet, celebrate the end of the pandemic here. We do have new cases, and everyone is urged to be extra careful and follow Covid protocols. For the latest information for Cook County, click here.
Meanwhile, our online lives continue.
This week, the Grand Marais Art Colony features ceramic artist Guillermo Guardia as its Instagram Takeover Artist. Guardia creates figurative sculptures and pottery inspired by his upbringing in Peru and his transition to living in St. Paul.
Clay sculpture by Guillermo Guardia.
Guillermo Guardia with two of his sculptures. He will be the Art Colony’s Instagram Takeover Artist on Thursday and Friday.
He will be teaching a class at the Art Colony in June entitled “People in Clay.” To find out more about the class, click here. He will be presenting on the Art Colony’s instagram page on Thursday and Friday. To see, click here.
And, since great cooking is an art, there’s this: two weeks down the road, on April 30, North House Folk School will feature celebrated chef, Judi Barsness, teaching an online course, Cooking with the Seasons: Brunch. The menu includes Pecan Sticky Buns, Crab Cake Eggs Benedict, Meyer Lemon Pot de Creme, Raspberry Sauce, Brulee Meringue and Blended Peach Cocktail.
Chef Judi Barsness will teach an online course, Cooking with the Seasons: Brunch on April 30. To register, click here.
There are still some spots left in this online class. To register, click here.
Another online opportunity of interest: The Thunder Bay Art Gallery, which is currently closed to the public, will hold a Zoom Opening Reception & Award Ceremony for the Lakehead University Student Juried Exhibition on Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m., EDT.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery will hold a Zoom reception for the Lakehead University Student Juried exhibition on Friday. To register, click here.
Since the border between the U.S. and Canada is currently closed, this is a great opportunity to see this show, which is always fascinating, To register, click here.
Live and in color — lots of color — visit the Johnson Heritage Post to view its newest exhibit, Voices of Spring. This multimedia show features work by six North Shore artists: Kathy Fox Weinberg (painting), Lee Ross (monoprints, collage), Mary Mathews (contemporary quilts), Maxene Linehan (Paper weaving, multimedia), Maggie Anderson (ceramics) and Marti Mullen (painting.).
Mary Matthew’s contemporary quilts are one of the exhibits in the Johnson Heritage Post show, Voices of Spring. This is her lollipops series.
Voices of Spring continues through April 25. The Heritage Post is open Thursday, 1-4 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Covid Protocols in place.
Photographer Meadow Adams is currently exhibiting her work at the Coho Cafe in Tofte. Her photographs will be exhibited through May.
Poppy field by Meadow Adams.
Online Exhibits:
Street Art Museum Tours is offering an online Vincent van Gogh Art Tour via Zoom.
Les Alpilles by Vincent Van Gogh is one of the paintings that will be featured on the online Zoom tour. Click here to register.
Tickets for the tour are $20. To register, click here.
And here’s an interesting audio from the New York Times entitled “The Woman Who Made van Gogh. A fun and informative listen. Lots of detail about Vincent and his art dealer brother.
Jo Van Gogh-Bonger, the sister-in-law to Vincent Van Gogh opened the world’s eye to this genius. Listen to the New York Time’ story here.
David Gilsvik and Dan Riemer, two artists featured at Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais were recently featured on MPR’s Art Hounds.
Big Lake Sunset by David Gilsvik.
To listen to the program, click here.
Artists at Work:
Dave Seaton:
Dave Seaton recently completed crafting this beautiful banjo.
Dave Seaton’s banjo is a custom 5-string banjo with nylon strings and a short scale length. The resonator (back shell) is Birdseye Poplar with Birch Burl Binding and trim. The neck is Birdseye Maple (2 different kinds) with flying bird inlays of abalone. The headstock overlay is also Birch Burl. It goes to the new owner next week.
Kathy Weinberg:
A quick study by Kathy Weinberg.
Thinking of Spring, one of the birdhouses Layne has been building.
Betsy Bowen:
Elephant Butte, New Mexico, watercolor, by Betsy Bowen.
Online Potpourri
A new film has just been released featuring renowned Will Steger. In a dramatic attempt to bring attention to climate change, he led an international expedition on the first-ever coast-to-coast expedition across Antarctica in 1989. Six men and their sled dogs braved howling storms, sub-zero temperatures, snow crevasses, and other perils as they traversed the icy terrain. Tasha Van Zandt’s enthralling feature debut catches up with Steger 30 years later as he revisits the frigid continent, deftly weaving his contemporary journey with rare, dynamic footage of his original, treacherous seven-month odyssey.
After Antarctica, a film about Will Steger, is available for streaming.
The film will be available for streaming through Sunday, April 18. To view the film, click here.
Here’s a link to trailers for the 10 best Netflix movies You Haven’t Seen. Below is the trailer for “Burning,” which won the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
Read about the other films and see the trailers here.
Scientists translate spider webs into music:
To read about spider web music and see more clips, click here
Upcoming:
Over Memorial Day Weekend, Minneapolis-based award-winning composer /director James Everest returns to Grand Marais to develop and present a site-specific “Sound Garden” performance installation at Harbor Park. It’s a multi-media event. Here’s a video about his Sound Garden project in 2018.
SPRING Sound Garden (Intro) from Wavelets Creative on Vimeo.
Live Music:
Thursday, April 15:
- Gordon Thorne, Date Night at the Winery, North Shore Winery, 6-8 p.m. Reservations at https://www.exploretock.com/northshorewinery or call 218) 481-9280
Online Music:
Photographs:
Here are a few of the photographs we found this week.
First, wildlife:
Chaser, looking for the chase by Paul Sundberg.
Trumper Swans setting up for the nesting season by David Johnson.
Red Pandas. When they feel threatened, they put their paws up so they look bigger. Photograph unknown,
A few plantscapes:
Baby petunia seedling by Jim Boyd.
Grateful by Joan Farnam.
Spring Labrador Tea by Travis Novitsky.
The root of all evil trail by Gary Schmies.
And here are skyscapes, landscapes and waterfall scapes:
Rainbow over the Capital on Sunday, April 11. Photograph by Carissa Bunge. Published in The Washington Post.
Gooseberry Falls by Christian Dalbec.
The Milky Way over Lake Superior by Bryan Hansel.
Amnicon Falls, Wis., by Gary Schmies.
A rainy and foggy day in Minnesota by Dustin Lavigne.
The of the aurora one, the Spirit Tree, Grand Portage by John Keefover.
Gooseberry by Dan Jandl.
A rainy day by Jamie Rabold.
Cascade after a late spring snow. Courtesy of the Lake Superior Trading Post.
This morning in Duluth by Jesse Nord.
Stoney Point by Christian Dalbec.
And last, but not least, a photo from another world — Mars…The Blue Dunes.
Blue Dunes, Red Planet. Taken by Odyssey, courtesy of NASA. To read about this photo and the blue dunes on Mars, click here.
Have a great weekend everyone. And stay safe!
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