Art
Sean Hill: “A Photograph Taken in Duluth”
Ten years ago this month, poet Sean Hill was featured in Missouri Review‘s “Poem of the Week” series with a piece about the Duluth lynchings. Click the graphic above to read to the poem.
Creating Apart: Sarah Brokke
Sarah Brokke is one of the artists featured in the Tweed Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition, “Creating Apart: Local Artists Respond to a Global Pandemic.” She’s a painter and an associate professor at the College of St. Scholastica. In this video by documentary filmmaker Mike Scholtz, Sarah talks about her work and how the pandemic is like an expanding bubble that’s pushing longstanding issues to the surface in our society. (more…)
Creating Apart: Ivy Vainio
Ivy Vainio is one of the artists featured in the Tweed Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition, “Creating Apart: Local Artists Respond to a Global Pandemic.” She’s a digital photographer who works at the American Indian Community Housing Organization. In this video by documentary filmmaker Mike Scholtz, Ivy talks about her artistic struggles during the pandemic. (more…)
Duluth You & Me: Enger Tower
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Duluth You & Me: Enger Tower
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The Slice: Sticker Artist Carli Bruckmueller
Artist Carli Bruckmueller of Inver Grove Heights translates her northern experiences into sticker art.
In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.
Heely Tricks with JamesG: August 2020
Another monthly installment of wheeled-sneaker stunts from former Duluthian James Geisler, also known as the hip-hop artist JamesG.
Duluth You & Me: Hawk Ridge
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Duluth You & Me: Hawk Ridge
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Duluth You & Me: Weather
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Duluth You & Me: Weather
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Selective Focus: Creating Apart
The Tweed Museum of Art will be hosting an exhibition, “Creating Apart: Local Artists Respond to a Global Pandemic” with work by Ivy Vainio, Moira Villiard, Sarah Brokke Erickson, Karen Savage-Blue, Joe Klander and Brian Barber. Annie Dugan curated the exhibition and worked with local documentary filmmaker Mike Scholtz to create a series of short films about each of the artists involved.
The exhibition was originally scheduled to open on Aug. 31 in the Court Gallery of the Tweed. Shifting plans for colleges and gatherings have already affected the actual schedule. In the meantime, the Tweed has released the brief teaser above featuring the artists who were interviewed. Profiles of each artist will be released on a regular schedule in the coming days and weeks, and we will be posting them here on Perfect Duluth Day as they are available. (more…)
Duluth You & Me: Fourth of July Fireworks
Duluth’s 2020 fireworks were canceled … twice … so here’s the best we can do. (more…)
Selective Focus: Signs
This week, Portia Johnson and Cheryl Reitan provide thoughts and images regarding the often homemade signs around town supporting Black Lives Matter.
PJ CR: In Duluth, many of the signs arrived soon after George Floyd was murdered but new ones crop up from time to time. They appear on residential streets and throughfares. Most of them say, “Black Lives Matter,” but there are other words too, “No peace, no justice,” the chilling, “I Can’t Breathe,” and others.
The message appears, often hand painted and imperfect but always betraying a fierce determination. The signs make people look. They say, “this is important, Black lives matter.”
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Duluth You & Me: Lake Superior Zoo
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Duluth You & Me: Lake Superior Zoo
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Duluth Eye Candy: An Aerial Voyage
Why we live here.
Discover all-new views of our home in this series of my favorite drone footage shot in 2020.
Duluth You & Me: Skyline Drive
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Duluth You & Me: Skyline Drive
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Duluth You & Me: Native American Pow-wow
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Duluth You & Me: Native American Pow-wow
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The Slice: Celebrating Essential Workers through Art
Duluth artist Carolyn Olson has been inspired by essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.
Crystal Gibbins in North American Review
Local poet Crystal Gibbins has published in North American Review. It’s fantastic.
Duluth You & Me: Duluth Folk Festival
The Duluth International Folk Festival was an annual event held at Leif Erikson Park on the first weekend of August. It was first held in the 1940s. It was held at Bayfront Festival Park from 1990 to 1996 during construction of the I-35 freeway tunnels and Lakewalk trail. The festival returned to Leif Erikson Park in 1996, but in 2005 it was moved back to Bayfront and renamed the Duluth Festival of Cultures. The new name was intended to emphasize it was a cultural event and not a festival of folk music. For whatever reason, the whole thing fizzled out shortly after the change, with the final event held in 2007. During its peak, the festival drew crowds exceeding 10,000 people.
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Duluth You & Me: Duluth Folk Festival
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Selective Focus: Indigenous First Art and Gift Shop
Located in the AICHO building at 202 W. 2nd St. in downtown Duluth, Indiginous First opened in 2017, and has been promoting and investing in Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs through their physical space, and now through their online store. This week, Jazmin Wong, coordinator for Indiginous First, discusses the mission guiding the shop, challenges and adaptations due to COVID-19, and a new CSA partnership to bring farm fresh foods to Duluth and Superior.
JW: We sell quality gifts and goods with a mission of advancing, promoting, and investing in Indigenous and diverse artists, authors, agriculturalist and entrepreneurs! Indigenous First is a continuously expanding social enterprise run by the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) in Duluth, MN. Our doors opened in July 2017!
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Duluth You & Me: Downtown Lakewalk
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Duluth You & Me: Downtown Lakewalk
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Ken Bloom on his photography
Ken Bloom recently lectured about his photography for Coldsnap Photography. Check out the presentation on Zoom.
Duluth You & Me: Wade Stadium
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Duluth You & Me: Wade Stadium
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Duluth You & Me: Willard Munger State Trail
This edition of Duluth You & Me needs an historical footnote. The Willard Munger State Trail is referred to in this 1993 illustration as a 14-mile trail. It now spans 70 miles to Hinckley.
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Duluth You & Me: Willard Munger State Trail
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Selective Focus: Sarah Brokke Erickson – Illustrating “A Common Thirst”
Artist and teacher Sarah Brokke Erickson goes in depth into her process for planning and illustrating a children’s book, “A Common Thirst.” The book was written by fellow Duluthian Gary Boelhower. (more…)
Duluth You & Me: Brighton Beach Picnic
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Duluth You & Me: Brighton Beach Picnic
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