Breathe by Lin Salisbury.
Greetings from Grand Marais, where the relaxation of the masking rules outside and the prospect that things are slowly turning sort of normal has everyone looking forward to the summer. Notice the caveats, however. We are all being careful and cautious, but hopeful.
And our online lives continue!
First up is the Grand Marais Art Colony, which is hosting artist, Carolyn Swiszcz, who is a printmake and painter located in West St. Paul, as their Instagram Takeover Artist for this week.
-Carolyn Swiszczs is the Grand Marais Art Colony‘s Instagram Takeover Artist on Thursday and Friday. View her postings here.
Her paintings of suburban buildings have a mix of pathos and humor, and their textures are created with techniques like monoprint, rubbing, and rubber stamping.
Swiszcz creates monwoprints with various media. This one is entitled Pizza South, St. Paul, and is a watercolor.
She will be teaching a Watercolor Monoprints class, July 20 – 23 at the Art Colony this summer. She will also be teaching a Watercolor Monoprints Family Class on July 19. For more information, click here. To see her Instagram posts, click here.
North House Folk School‘s Northern Landscapes Festival, the Online Edition continues this week with a free webinar by Kurt Mead, the award-winning author of “Dragonflies of the North Woods.”
Kurt Mead, author of Dragonflies of the North Woods, will give a webinar on dragonflies and damsel flies at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 13. Free. To register, click here.
One of the beautiful dragonflies in the Northwoods.
The webinar is free. To register, click here.
For a live event, learn how to felt a heart, a bee or a barn swallow that will be incorporated into three wool murals at North House Folk School. Felter Elise Kyllo is developing the project, which is entitled “Reflections of 2020: Healing, Dreaming, Building.”
Felter Elise Kyllo invites the community to come make a felted heart, bee or swallow that will be incorporated into for wool wall hangings for North House Folk School. The first workshop will be at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 16. Pictured, above, is small sample of what the finished mural will look like.
Participants will be meet outside at North House Folk School from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 16. Instruction begins at the top of the hour. The rain date is Monday May 17, in the Blue Building or outside. Felting sessions are also scheduled for June 24-25.
Exhibits:
Nan Onkka’s exhibit, Northern Horizons, continues at the Johnson Heritage Post.
Rocky Point, a woodblock print by Nan Onkka. It is one of her works currently on view at the Johnson Heritage Post.
The exhibit features a number of her prints as well as exhibits showing the process of printmaking.
The Heritage Post is open to the public, Covid Protocols in place. Hours are 1-4 p.m. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. Free.
New work has arrived at the Betsy Bowen Gallery & Studios, 301 1st Ave. W., in Grand Marais.
Island River, gouache, by Gary Olson, is one of the pieces at the Betsy Bowen Gallery.
Beginning on Friday, May 14, the gallery will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Covid Protocols in place.
“The Visual Voice of Autism,” an exhibit of photographs by Harrison Hawker Heinks, continues at the Duluth Art Institute.
One of the pieces in Harrison Halker Heinks exhibit, The Visual Voice of Autism, currently on view at the Duluth Art Institute.
The Virtual Reality experience is still available on the Art Institute’s website too. To see the gallery online, click here.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is temporarily closed, but the exhibits can be viewed virtually. One of the current exhibits is the Lakehead University Student Juried Exhibition, and it is still possible to vote for your favorite.
There is still time to vote for the People’s Choice Award for the Lakehead University Student Juried Exhibition. Click here to see the work and cast your vote.
It’s a great show. Check it out here and cast your vote.
Upcoming:
“But it Was Still There,” an exhibit by four artists who completed a residency at the Grand Marais Art Colony in 2019, will open in the Art Colony’s new building, Studio 21, with a reception from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, May 21. The artists, Moira Bateman, Annie Hejny, Moheb Soliman, and Nick Wroblewski returned home, inspired by their visit here, and completed a series of pieces which will be in the show.
The Grand Marais Art Colony will open its summer exhibit in Studio 21 on May 21 featuring work by Moira Bateman, Annie Hejny, Moheb Soliman, and Nick Wroblewski. The exhibit will continue through August. Studio 21 will be open to the public on Saturdays.
There will not be a panel discussion at the opening reception on Friday, May 21, but the artists will be present. The exhibit will remain up at Studio 21 through Aug. 31. Studio 21 will be open to the public on Saturdays during the summer. The Art Colony buildings will remain limited to only registered students and artists-in-residence Mondays through Fridays.
The Cross River Heritage Center opens for the season on May 21, featuring the Tweed Museum of Art’s collection of Royal Canadian “Mountie” paintings by Arnold Friberg and the Ojibwe Cultural Heritage Exhibit.
Trailblazers, by Arnold Friberg, is one of the paintings on exhibit at the Cross River Heritage Center this year. It opens for the season May 21.
An exhibit featuring local artists from the North Shore, including art and heritage pieces from community members, is at the Cross River Heritage Center this season. Pictured, above, is a photo of Betty Powell Skoog in her Tikanoggin at the age of two. Courtesy of Powell Skoog’s book A Life in Two Worlds.
There’s lots happening over the Memorial Day Weekend, May 28-30, including special exhibits in galleries throughout the county and the Spring Sound Garden at Harbor Park in Grand Marais. Check out this list of participating galleries in the Art Along the Lake gallery tour.
The Spring Sound Garden, which is open from noon to 5 p.m. May 29-30 in Harbor Park, celebrates the 15-year anniversary of Harbor Park with a multi-layered, immersive “sound garden” experience developed by composer JG Everest. it is a self-guided, site-specific sound + performance installation on the shore of Lake Superior, featuring roving live music, dance, painting, poetry, history, storytelling, and more. Sound Gardens celebrate community-sourced, site-specific content, and include educational and community outreach programs to bring community members, or students, into the creation and performance process. It should be a fun experience. Here is a video from last year’s Sound Garden.
Artists at Work:
First up, young authors:
Local authors Leah, Tip and Ari brought copies of their new book, “Safe and Happy: A Children’s Field Guild to Thriving in Pandemic Days” to Drury Lane Books recently The kids are part of a local program called Story Scouts, run by Anne Brataas of @minnchildrenspress . Children ages 5-15 wrote, illustrated, designed, and published this great little book. Copies can be found at the bookstore. Click here for more.
Painter Adam Swanson is exhibiting paintings of tardigrades, tiny water creatures, at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe Atrium.
The Sower by Susan Marie Gecas. oil and Swarovskyi crystal. Started in 1995, finished 2021.
Maang-nimaamaa, Loon My Mother by Sam Zimmerman.
I am excited about trees this season by Betsy Bowen.
Super Wave-Make, oil, by Kathy Weinberg.
The latest video by Bryan Hansel:
A Potpourri of Interesting Stuff:
The Grand Marais Playhouse will hold summer camp theater workshops for children and youth this summer. The summer camp participants will learn all areas of theater production. They will begin with the story, and work through the design process, create set, props, costumes, and sound. Learn roles both on stage and backstage to create a performance on the last day of camp.
The Grand Marais Playhouse is offering a number of theater workshops for youth this summer.
The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is starting and is online-friendly. In-person events are also scheduled. To see the offerings, click here.
Nature resurges to overtake abandoned architecture in a new book of photos by Jonk (Jonathan Jimenez).
The Manoir, Taiwan by Jonathan Jimenez (Jonk), one of his photographs on his book, how nature takes over abandoned architecture.
To see the photographs and read about the project, click here.
Space Noise. You’ve probably read that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captured sounds of interstellar space. In case you haven’t listened to them yet:
About the letterpress and those who love creating with them:
Field Notes – United States of Letterpress from Coudal Partners on Vimeo.
A Little Virtual Music:
Live music:
Thursday, April 29:
- 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.
Photographs:
We are lucky to have enthusiastic photographers documenting our world. Here is what we found this week. First, wildlife:
A recent visitor to the yard. Hovland. by Curt O’Quinn.
Early morning loon by David Johnson.
A swamp supper by Thomas Spence.
White-throated Sparrow by Meadow Adams.
First Date. Sage grouse. Rock Springs, Wyo.
Here’s an interesting series of photos of a moth unfolding its wings:
The start, by Bekim Delbrami.
The unfolding continues. Photo by Bekim Delbrami.
Ready tp fly. Photo by Bekim Delbrami.
A little snack before bringing it to the nest. Photograph by Bonnie Affolter.
Landing with precious by Bonnie Affolter.
The humming birds have landed by Deb Bennett.
Family. Photographer unknown.
A careful perch by Skip Gunderson.
Spring Snowshore Hare. Its feet are still white by Michael Furtman.
Not-So-Wild:
The koi are outside now by Kristofer Bowman.
Farm Fresh eggs on Maple Hill by Layne Kennedy.
Landscapes, Skyscapes, Waterscapes & Flowerscapes:
Early sunset on “our” lake by Michael Furtman.
The beauty and clarity of Lake Superior’s North Shore by Roxanne Distad.
Trout opener by Jen Delfs.
By Grand Marais, May 12 by David Johnson.
Remember the Silver Creek Cliff Road? The old Hwy 61 route around Silver Cliff. Historic photograph by Kenneth M Knight.
“Sprites” above a thunderstorm in China. Photographer unknown.
Spring showers by Paul Sundberg.
I could spend all day admiring this scene by Sally Nankivell.
Good night. By Michael Furtman.
Baby steps towards spring by Solveig Vick.
High Falls, Tettegouche State Park by Sally Nankivell.
Agua Aurora: Light in the water from an underwater cave below Palisade Head by Christian Dalbec.
Another view of Artist’s Point by Bryan Hansel.
Loon Lake by Jennifer Schulz.
Milky Way over Lake Superio, a composite, by Teresa Marrone.
And two wildlife shots to end:
I caught this guy standing in the golden-hour sunlight last night by Katie Mumm.
Spring by Layne Kennedy.
Have a good weekend everyone. And stay safe!
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