Summer Growing Season: Gichi-Onigaming Bizhiki, Grand Portage Bison, watercolor and acrylic by Sam Zimmerman.
Greetings from the North Shore where summer light continues to make us happy. This is Grand Marais Arts Festival Weekend, and expect the downtown to be lined with white tents filled with great art and lots of people peering inside, looking for treasures.
I did the arts festival for a few years, and I will always remember that one year when it was about 95 degrees in our tent and pennies stuck to our fingers.
It won’t be that way this year. Instead, we will continue with our cool summer temps and light breezes over Lake Superior, making it an almost idyllic time to look at art and enjoy friends and family.
There are lots of other things to do this week and plenty of live music, too. (See the Live Music Schedule below.)
First up on Thursday, is Art Night at Joy and Company.
Art Night will be held at Joy & Co from 4-6 pm Thursdays.
Art Night offers participants an opportunity to make art with different materials and art supplies available at the shop. Projects vary each week. This week, everyone will be able to make and decorate bookmarks. There will be demonstrations too. The event runs from 4-6 pm on Thursdays and is free, with a suggested donation. Open to all.
Also on Thursday, the Grand Marais Farmer’s Market will be held in the parking lot of the Community Center from 4:30 pm to 6 pm.
The Grand Marais Farmer’s Market will be held at the Cook County Community Center from 4:30-6 p.m. Thursday. File photo.
The market features a wide range of locally grown vegetables, maple syrup, artisan breads, baked goods, and more. SNAP is accepted. All invited.
On Friday and Saturday, jewelers and rock hounds Billy and Barry Larsen will be at Joy and Company. They make jewelry and are entertaining, informative, and fun.
Jewelers and rock hounds, Billy and Barry Larsen, will be at Joy and Company on Friday.
Pick out and design your very own pendant or ring and meet some of the most solid guys around the Northland. They will be here July 7-8 during the annual Grand Marais Arts Festival (in part sponsored by Joy & Co.) and again Sept. 23-24 during the annual Art Along the Lake Fall Studio Tour.
This week, Saturday begins on the streets in downtown Grand Marais with the Grand Marais Arts Festival, which opens at 9 am. The festival is an annual juried art event that has taken place on the North Shore for more than 30 years.
The Grand Marais Arts Festival is July 8-9 in downtown Grand Marais.
As a microcosm of the dynamic art scene, this event features work by excellent artists working in a wide variety of mediums. Shop at 60 artist booths for ceramics, paintings, jewelry, photography, woodwork, sculpture, fiber art, prints, and more.
Here are just a few examples of what you’ll see:
Plate bowls by Hannah Palma Laky. She will be exhibiting at the Grand Marais Arts Festival.
Summer Moose, acrylic, by Echo Larson. She is one of the artists exhibiting at the arts festival this weekend.
Pendant by Jeannie Trelles of Vikse Designs will be showing her work.
Bowl by Benjamin Leatham of Cannon River Bowl and Spoon, is also exhibiting.
Cedars By The River, woodcut print by Betsy Bowen. She will also be part of the arts festival.
Cotton Grass at Dusk, wool and silk, by Elise Kyllo. She will be at the art festival.
The Arts Festival hours are 9 am to 5 pm Saturday and 10 am to 4 pm Sunday. To find out more about the festival and participating artists, click here.
Also on Saturday, the Cook County Market, featuring work by local artists and artisans, will be held in the parking lot of The Hub (Senior Center) from 10 am to 2 pm.
The Cook County Market runs from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday in the Senior Center parking lot. Pictured, above, is work by Jeff Lilienthal.
Look for paintings, cards, felted animals, handmade lotions and balms, Lake Superior stones, jewelry, stone lamps, and pottery to name a few. There is live music as well.
Tuesdays are one of the most popular days at Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center because it’s Kids’ Day.
Tuesdays are Kids’ Day at Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center.
Children 18 and under can visit the Chik-Wauk Campus free of charge. On that day, Chik-Wauk staff will offer a variety of hands-on activities all related to the unique history and nature of the Gunflint Trail. Activities include Journal making, craft projects, storytelling, and nature hikes.
A parent or guardian must always accompany children at the Nature Center. Donations are appreciated to cover the costs of materials and supplies. Take your time driving up the Gunflint Trail National Scenic Byway. A moose or two might be seen.
On Wednesday, Poplar Haus Restaurant & Bar will hold a Pre-Party and Dance for the Gunflint Trail Canoe Races and the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department, from 8-11 pm. All invited.
Poplar Haus will hold a Pre-Party and Dance for the Gunflint Trail Canoe Races as a fundraiser for the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department.
Food will be available and music will be provided by Celebrity DJ andPoplar Haus’ very own, Bryan Gerrard. A $10 donation to the fire department is suggested. The popular Gunflint Trail Canoe Races will be held the following week, July 19, at Gunflint Lodge starting at 4 pm.
Also on Wednesday, a dance will be held at the Colvilll Town Hall from 7-9 pm.
Old-time dances will be held at the Colvill Town Hall on Wednesdays.
The dance is presented by the Covill Community Club. All invited. Tickets are $5.
The 2nd annual Lutsong Music Festival begins next Thursday and continues through the weekend at Caribou Highlands and the North Shore Winery.
The 2nd annual Lutsong Music Festival is July 13-16.
The Caribou Highlands great lawn will host artisans, musicians, and music lovers all weekend with two stages, a vendor village, food and drink.
Head down the hill to the North Shore Winery main stage each night for the headliner act. After those headliner shows you can take the shuttle back to Caribou Highlands for the Caribou Campfire Guitar Pull.
The line-up of musicians is impressive. See it here, and check out our Live Music Schedule.
Exhibits:
The exhibit, “Oil Paintings from Life,” a series of plein air paintings by Lee Englund has opened at the Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery.
An exhibit of plein air paintings by Lee Englund opened at the Johnson Heritage Post and continues through July 23.
Englund has spent his life dedicated to art and the process of sharing it, and his skill is on full display in these remarkable oil paintings that highlight the beauty of the North Shore. A portion of all exhibition sales will be donated to fund Alzheimer’s research.
The gallery is open from 10 am to 4 pm Wednesdays through Sundays. It is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Air – Openness, the summer exhibition of the Grand Marais Art Colony, is on view at Studio 21.
Air-Openness is on exhibit at Studio 21.
The exhibit features work by four regional artists, who were informed by the theme.
Upcoming:
Tashia Hart announced that four of her illustrations will be shown alongside work by Chenoa Williams and Sam Zimmerman in August/September at the AICHO Galleries in Duluth.
Love Poems for a Well-Fed Heart #1 by Tashia Hart.
Look for details in an upcoming issue.
Lavender Turkey Tails, acrylic, by Naomi Christenson. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Artist Naomi Christenson sits beside her most recent painting entitled “Lavender Turkey Tails” featuring a turkey tail mushroom she spotted while out on a walk. She turned the photograph she took into the painting which will be featured in her upcoming show with Jennifer Murphy, another lichen-loving artist, at Duluth Pottery in the Lincoln Park Craft District in Duluth.
To read the story about the two artists who are inspired by lichens, click here,
The Joseph Nease Gallery in Duluth will open a new exhibit on July 14 featuring the work of multi-media artist Sara Pajunen.
From “Mine Songs: Sounding an Altered Landscape” by Sara Pajunen Pictured, from left to right, Lowgrade, Milepost 7.
The exhibit is entitled “Listening through Context.” It will showcase two of Sara’s ongoing projects, “Mine Songs” and “The Places We Know.” She is developing new work within these projects specifically for this exhibition. The reception is Friday, July 28, from 5-7 pm.
Tettegouche State Park has organized a series of outdoor concerts this summer.
Tettegouche State Park’s Summer Concert series.
The Carpenter Ants are one of the headliners at the Radio Waves Music Festival this year.
The Carpenter Ants will play at the Radio Waves Music Festival this year. It will be Sept 8-10. To purchase tickets or see the lineup of musicians, click here:
The Radio Waves Music Festival is a celebration of local music and community on the North Shore of Lake Superior and is held in the Grand Marais Recreation Park. This annual festival is organized by WTIP Community Radio. The music festival will be held Sept. 8-10.
BTW: WTIP’s Summer Membership Drive continues through Tuesday at noon. It includes lots of shenanigans on-air, great interviews, and live concerts on-site. To find out more, click here or just visit the station on top of the hill off Hwy 61. To stream, click here or turn your radio dial to 90.7 FM.
On-Going:
Daily Interpretive Programs are held at Grand Portage National Monument. This is also an opportunity to learn about traditional canoe building, cooking, fur trade era trades, and Anishinaabe crafts and games.
Grand Portage National Monument features interpretative programs daily. Free and open to the public. The photograph is a view from Mt. Rose.
There are free programs held each day at 11 am and 2 pm. No registration is required. Stop in at the Heritage Center to learn about the topics of the day and view the exhibits there as well.
Artists At Work:
A Conversation with Fire and Water by Mary Beams.
Fox Print by Aimee Bouchard.
Isle Royal National Park, oil, by Matt Kania.
“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photograph by Layne Kennedy.
Photographs of the night sky by Travis Novitsky will be featured in the book “Spirits Dancing.” It comes out in November. To pre-order, click here.
Mural by Jonathan Thunder at the Zenith Bookstore in Duluth.
Mesial, print, by Noah Prinsen.
New work by Max Linehan.
Online findings:
The Owl Man, Bill Lane, is biking the Great Divide
Bill Lane is biking the Great Divide. Read about his adventures here.
The good ship Hjordis is sailing into the future. It is now equipped with an electric motor.
Capt. Bill Hansen shows the new electric motor on the Hjordis. Photo courtesy of North House.
Listen to an interview with Hansen about the Hjordis here.
The Hjørdis is sailing daily out of North House Folk School. For reservations, click here
Downtown Grand Marais, ca. 1952
Downtown Grand Marais c 1952. Photo courtesy of Dan Helmerson.
The potholes in the sea wall and gravel on the street were caused by storm waves. By the end of the 1950s, boulders were dropped on the lake side of the sea wall to reinforce it and help to help protect the stonework from the storms.
Online Music:
Live Music:
Thursday, July 6:
- Jim McGowan, Cascade Restaurant and Pub, 6-8 pm
- Gordon Thorne, North Shore Winery, 7-9 pm
Friday, July 7:
- Michele Miller, Harbor Park, 4-7 pm
- Zulu Link, Birch Terrace, 5-8 pm
- Briand Morrison, Bluefin Grille, 8-10 pm
- Rich Lewis Band, Up Yonder, 8:30-11:59 pm
Saturday, July 8:
- Zahir Orest, Senior Center Parking Lot, 10 am
- Michele Miller, Harbor Park, 3-7 pm
- Boyd “Bump” Blomberg, Birch Terrace, 5-8 pm
- Fish Heads, Cascade Restaurant and Pub, 6-8 pm
- Joe Paulik, Pat Flack, and Friends, Gunflint Tavern, 6-9 pm
- Duluth Transit Authority, Grand Portage Lodge and Casino, 7 – 11 pm
- Rich Lewis Band, Up Yonder, 8:30-11:59 pm
Sunday, July 9:
- Briand Morrison, Mogul’s Grille & Tap Room, 10-12 pm
- Joe Paulik, Raven’s Nest at Gunflint Tavern, 1-4 pm
- Zahir Orest, Harbor Park, 3-4:30 pm
- Rich Lewis Band, North Shore Winery, 3:30-5:30 pm
- Timmy Haus, Mogul’s Grille & Tap Room, 4-6 pm
- The Five (of the The Evening Stars), Skyport Lodge, 4-7 pm
- Open Mic Hosted by Pete K, Up Yonder, 5-8 pm
Monday, July 10:
- Fred Anderson, Harbor Park, 1:30-3 pm
- Maija Lindaas, Harbor Park, 3-4:30 pm
- Joe Paulik, Bluefin Grille, 8-10 pm
Tuesday, July 11:
- Eric Frost, North Shore Winery, 5:30-7:30 pm
Wednesday, July 12:
- Billy Johnson, Mogul’s Grille & Tap Room, 4-6 pm
- Bump Blomberg, Bluefin Grille, 8-10 pm
Thursday, July 13
- Al Oikari with Caitlin Nicol-Thomas, Cascade Restaurant and Pub, 6-8 pm
- Lutsong Music Festival, Various Venues in Lutsen
- The Scarlet Goodbye Duo, North Shore Winery, 6-6:45 pm
- Dusty Heart, North Shore Winery, 7-8 pm
Friday, July 14:
- Lutsong Music Festival, Various Venues in Lutsen
- Dandy L. Freling, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 4-4:45 pm
- Humbird, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 5-5:45 pm
- Kiss The Tiger, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 6-7 pm
- Jeffrey Foucault, North Shore Winery, 7:30-8:45 pm
- Caribou Campfire Guitar Pull, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 9-11 pm
- Jim Miller, Harbor Park, 5-7 pm
- Southpaws, with special guest Caitlin Nicol-Thomas, Birch Terrace, 4-8 pm
- Briand Morrison, Grand Marais Art Colony‘s Studio 21, 6-8 pm
- Pete Kavanaugh, Bluefin Grille, 8-10 pm
Saturday, July 15:
- Frozen Britches, Senior Center Parking Lot, 10 am
- Lutsong Music Festival, Various Venues in Lutsen
- Morning Hike and Concert with Sarah Morris, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 9:30-11 am
- Caitlin Nicol-Thomas, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 12-12:45 pm
- Vlad Messing, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 12:45-1:15 pm
- Ellis Delaney, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 1:15-2 pm
- Lanue, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 2-2:30 pm
- raintribe, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 2:30-3:15 pm
- Becky Kapell, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 3:15-3:45 pm
- Pit Stop, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 3:45-4:30 pm
- Christopher David Hanson, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 4:30-5 pm
- Wild Horses, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 5-5:45 pm
- Kelley Smith, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 5:45-6 pm
- Tina Schlieske (Tina and the B-Sides), Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 6-7 pm
- Storyhill, North Shore Winery, 7:30-8:45 pm
- Metal/ Foundry Demo with Greg Mueller, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 9 pm
- Caribou Campfire Guitar Pull, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 9-11 pm
- Boyd “Bump” Blomberg, Birch Terrace, 5-8 pm
- Jim Miller, Cascade Restaurant and Pub, 6-8 pm
- Zulu Link, Up Yonder, 8:30-11:59 pm
Sunday, July 16
- Lutsong Music Festival, Caribou Highlands
- Billy Johnson Soul Brunch, Caribou Highlands Tent Stage, 10-12 pm
- Lutsong Music Festival Leftovers, North Shore Winery, 3:30-5:30 pm
- Timmy Haus, Mogul’s Grille & Tap Room, 4-6 pm
- Zulu Link, Skyport Lodge, 4-7 pm
- Open Mic Hosted by Pete K, Up Yonder, 5-8 pm
Photographs:
We were lucky again this week and found some great photographs. Enjoy!
Wildlife::
Gotta keep up! Fawn and doe by Joe Friedrichs. Trail cam shot.
Deer-callng rattle cup by Joan Farnam .Photo by Tom Peissig, taken in Bloomington on Sunday.
Bloomington resident Tom Peissig has trained the local deer population that if he shakes a rattle cup and the deer come to investigate, they’ll get a treat. Deer-calling rattle cups can be found locally at the Betsy Bowen Studio Gallery and The Blue Moose.
In other wildlife photos:
When It’s Only Wednesday by Katie Mumm.
Fox kits taking care of each other by Thomas Spence.
Peek-a-boo by Birdsonearth.
Basking in the sun by David Grinstead.
Moonscapes:
Moon over Lake Superior by Lin Salisbury.
Big Hole River at midnight by Tom Healy.
The full Buck Moon by David Johnson.
Skyscapes, Waterscapes & Flowerscapes:
Well, I’m happy to see you, too, by Bryan Hansel.
Purple Rain by Maryl Skinner.
Is this heaven? No, it is Pequaywan Township by Frank Lehto.
Oh, those damn invasives by David Grinstead.
Dusk at Tettegouche State Park, Illgen City by David Grinstead.
Adieu to June by Kristofer Bowman.
I wonder what these guys are really up to by Gordon Salisbury.
The most beautiful place by Staci Drouillard.
Level of Morning by Christian Dalbec.
The Milky Way and Ellingsen Island by Hayes Scriven.
Sunset on Hungry Jack Lake by Dennis Chick,
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