855 Stanley Rd., Two Harbors, MN
Jennifer Murphy, Host Artist
With my artwork I aim to impart the same tranquility I enjoy while exploring the north woods and the shores of Lake Superior, as well as the quietude I feel while sculpting. The malleable, soothing, and tactile nature of the clay are what attracted me to ceramics. I use hand building techniques to sculpt original organic forms, which are inspired by the biodiversity of the forest floor.
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Sam Zimmerman, Guest Artist
Sam Zimmerman / Zhaawanoogiizhik – After twenty years working in public education, Sam returned home to northern Minnesota. With his relocation from the East Coast returning to Minnesota, he rededicated himself to his painting with a ferocity that had been absent since his earlier studio days. His work explores his Ojibwe heritage, his learnings and experiences in nature upon his return to the Grand Portage reservation while preserving shared oral histories, sharing his experiences with our the animals, bird, fish and plant relatives while incorporating the natural landscape of Lake Superior’s North Shore. Sam focuses on continuing the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling embedding the themes of environmental stewardship and conservation of the North Shore through his studio and public art commissions. He has completed public art pieces for the Grand Portage Tribal Nation, Chik Wauk Museum and Nature Center, Voyageur National Park, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Minnesota Twins, and the Duluth and Grand Marais communities as a means to celebrate and share Ojibwe culture and language
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Sarah Foote, Guest Artist
Sarah Riley creates art with an innate narrative, filled with imagery of legends and lore from ages past, as well as timeless and contemporary dreams. Riley is inspired and influenced by the human form and nature; she finds solace in the forest and strives to portray this feeling in her work. Sarah uses traditional and contemporary methods of oil painting, using color in expressive and meaningful ways to render portraits and nature imagery, but also to illicit feelings of calmness and serenity, or warmth and sentimentality.
Wade Jeske Pharr, Guest Artist
I create functional and non-functional works of color to enhance people’s lives, anything from mugs to dragons.
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