Arts

Recently, I wrote about my interest in documenting the historic boats of the Land of 10,000 Lakes. I recently received a grant from the State...

Niimi (She Dances) is a figure who has her own journey home to Gitchi Onigaming (Grand Portage) captured in a number of my paintings. Her shawl incorporates the different...

Mike Smieja’s journey in becoming a North Shore potter has been anything but straightforward. It has been a journey full of twists and turns, highs...

It’s a long, tangled fiber that binds my desire to felt a mural to the ancient method of felting rugs. Before wool, paint was my...

A couple months ago, a gaagaagi (raven) came and sat on my deck railing watching me while I had my morning Makade-mashkikiwaaboo (coffee). The sun caught its feathers and...

Growing up in Duluth’s Lincoln Park, Melissa Boman was often somewhere on the banks of Miller Creek. “I spent a lot of time outside,” she...

Ask someone where they got their chairs and my bet is that seldom, if ever, will anyone respond that they came from such and such...

My Nimishoomis (Grandfather) was a wonderful storyteller. I spent a summer with him before high school and he would tell me different stories about growing up in Gitchi...