Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Little Free Library or Little Lending Art Cupboard

 










This little free library is filled with art supplies!  The Girl Scouts of Lanesboro, Minnesota care for and stock this exciting little free library.











We wandered and saw pumpkins, and looked in shop windows.























The Lanesboro Arts Center













Painting by Mary Solberg

Then we had some dinner at Pedal Pushers and saw a great play at the Commonweal Theatre.






Sunday, October 24, 2021

Art and Nature at Bluffside Park, Winona

 










Shift Happens at Bluffside Park in Winona, Minnesota.  Sarah Johnson and Marcie Ratliff shared art opportunities. This event was curated by Sharon Mansur.











Sharon Mansur and Sarah Johnson at the beginning of the experience.  We were invited to take a breath and notice the area around us and then follow the signs for the adventure--that we could participate in or pass.

Follow the arrows:



















 

 

 

 

Creating installations with colorful leaves and sticks was fun.


 

 

 







Sticks, leaves, pipe-cleaners, googly eyes and puff balls were fun to play with.














































Then write a message on the ground to share with friends?










Be U!










PEACE











Hi Beautiful










You Can Do It










Hello










I Love You  










ART










Jamie and Dawn created with me today.















 Sharon Mansur, Dancer, Creative

Marcie Ratliff, Torn Paper Poems, Engage Winona

Sarah Johnson, Creative Laurette

 

 

 

 

Saturday, October 2, 2021

Art/Mixed Media Making Class Coming Soon

 












 

A new and exciting class is coming! Explore, play, open your unique creativity!












 

Hand dyed fabrics, stitching, making prayer flags.












 

Bookmaking, painting, playing, fun!







 

 

Be inspired with nature.










 

Join us, Tuesday evenings, in October, 5 -26, 6:30 - 8:00pm,  at Winona Senior High School!

Learn more &

Register here: Art and Mixed Media Making

Look forward to creativity exploding!







Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Art in the Time of Covid

 A new show is on exhibit at the Winona Arts Center, 228 E. 5th St, Winona, Minnesota,

Art in the Time of COVID



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 







Hand quilted

Notice the tiny blanket stitch on the binding of this beautiful quilt.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These beautiful artworks grace the front wall by Janice Crabb, Julie Johnston, Rev. Jim Riley, Seho Parks, Carol Slade and Wade Britzius and books on pedestal by Margaret Kiihne.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a full photo of Janice Crabb's Bathroom Curtain of knitted cotton.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dick Brown, "The Struggle"

wood, nails, acorn caps 














Joan McNeil

Sherman Rescued and Adopted during COVID

pen, colored pencil

 Joan told me the story of how her daughter and husband had lost their dear dog at the beginning of COVID.  They searched and searched until they found Sherman.  A true love story.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Farrell got of picture of Jamie Washburn, Dawn Washburn and MaryLee looking at Margaret Kiihne's amazing books of her art journey during COVID. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margarita Baumann

Farbenfreude (Color Joy)

sock yarn remnants

66" x 43" (368 - 2.5" squares)  














Jean Lauer

Questioning Everything

acrylic painting














Ian Hanesworth

Water is Sacred

linocut

Kay Everson

Epilogue

poem

Steve Schild

Ekphrasis: From the News

poem

This is only a portion of the art in the thought provoking show. There are 74 works including 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional works and poems.  

Come take a look:

Gallery hours  Wednesdays 4-7pm, Saturdays and Sundays 1-4pm.

Masks are required.  The Winona Arts Center, WAC has updated its Covid-19 protocol. Masks will be required, as well as proof of vaccination or a negative test result within 72 hours for anyone attending films, concerts, exhibit openings, or special events. Please see the attached press release for further details and information.



 

 

 

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Bricolage Cirkus

 













Bricolage Cirkus explores circus through various forms of expression including aerial arts, dance, and acrobatics. Entertaining and inspiring, Bricolage Cirkus is run by Francia from Viroqua, Wisconsin.

They preformed at the Great River Folk Festival, Saturday, August 28, 2021 on the banks of the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin.


 


 

 




















 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credit: Bob Stuber

The strength, grace, pose and beauty of these athletes in motion was breath taking.

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Friend Close to Our Heart

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our dear friend, Karen Patricia Smaby died on August 24, 2020.  We celebrated her vibrant spirit with a trip to her evergreen trees on the anniversary of her passing into peacefulness. We gathered wildflowers in the area and decorated a tree.












Inge hanging flowers














Lyn searching for flowers














Mary Lee 














The tree, we filled with soft colored wildflowers.  Afterward we had a picnic also in Karen's honor.  I favorite activity that we shared together with her.











To learn more about Karen and her life read Celebration of Life published last September 2020 on Breeze on my Skin.  Karen Smaby and her husband, Dan Kupietz owned and managed Devils Track Cabins.  The new owner has some wonderful things to share about Karen.

If you didn't have the opportunity to meet Karen, her energy lives on in her friends on the North Shore, at the North House Folk School, the fiber guild, the Elementary and High Schools where she taught book binding and penny rug making to students.  Her energy and vibrancy lives on.  We are so grateful.








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