Melissa Wray is program director at Lanesboro Arts and founding director of Mainspring, a Houston County-based cultural center in Caledonia. Melissa earned a master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Leadership from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a two-year Rural Regenerator Fellowship through Springboard for the Arts in 2022 and Emerging Artist grants from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council in 2024 and 2025.
Author's Archive
Art in the Park Festival Celebrates the Arts
Lanesboro’s Art in the Park festival is an annual celebration of art.
At Home In The Big Woods
Nancy Overcott and her husband Art moved to the Big Woods in the early 1970s. She documented her experiences in her book of essays: At Home in the Big Woods. Melissa Wray reads an essay from the book.
