Regional Arts

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Bob Bovee’s career as a musician in old-time music stretches back 53 years and counting. (Photo submitted by Bob Bovee)</span>

Profile: Have Guitar, Will Travel | Bob Bovee’s Musical Journey

Steve Harris visits with Houston County old-time music and barn dance legend, Bob Bovee.

Grand Champion honey at the Fillmore County Fair. (All photos by Renee Bergstrom)

A Grand Champion Day at the Fair

Photographer Renée Bergstrom captures “a day at the fair”, a photo essay from the 2024 Fillmore County Fair.

A field of Queen Anne's Lace. (Photo by Delia Bell)

Poetry: Biennial Beauty, Black Holes & Insomnia

  Biennial Beauty Tuesday, August 1, 2023 As I walk I daydream of lying in a field. Little white umbrellas float above two sun kissed bodies   drifting with the clouds overhead. Soon, when raindrops begin to fall,   these lacy umbrellas cannot hold back the water that soaks through their clothes but tickles only…

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">A rolling coral reef ready to go on stage. (Photo by Laurie Byrne)</span>

Behind the Scenes and Under the Sea

We go backstage with Laurie Byrne at a Wits’ End Theatre production in Chatfield.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Karin Ferden of rural St. Charles plays the flute in a Chatfield Brass Band performance of “Stars and Stripes Forever”. (Photo by John Weiss)</span>

This is Our Little Happiness

John Weiss takes in the Chatfield Brass Band’s annual patriotic ‘concert in the park’.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">A crocheted version of a Turkey tail mushroom which makes shelves or brackets to produce spores above the ground and are known for their medicinal properties. (Photo by Laurie Byrne)</span>

Art Grows on the Trail

Laurie Byrne goes in search of an innovative art installation on the Lost Creek Trail near Chatfield.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Freshly cut hay on a perfect summer day. (Photo by Greg Schieber)</span>

Essay: Making Hay…as Well as Memories

Greg Schieber on carrying on the tradition of cutting hay with his own kids.

NICOL PHOTO

Poetry: Yggdrasil…Turning green…the voice

Poetry by John B. Nicol.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Karl Unnasch prepares a stained glass panel in his Pilot Mound studio. “Stained glass is a sneaky medium,” says artist Karl Unnasch, “a series of frozen brush strokes.” (Photo submitted by Karl Unnasch)</span>

Profile: In Conversation with Stained Glass Artist Karl Unnasch

Steve Harris visits with Karl Unnasch, nationally recognized stained glass and sculpture artist from Pilot Mound, Minnesota.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Artist Mary Denzer is pictured working on Lino prints for her late husband’s book of poetry. (Photo by Delia Bell)</span>

Chiaroscuro | The Making of a Book

Delia Bell chronicles the creation of a book of poetry by the late Peter Denzer.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">A foggy morning at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Root River, captured by photographer Renee Bergstrom.</span>

Root River Song

Harmony couple create a musical elegy to the Root River.

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Clay Fulton, Ann Lowe, Luke Hendrickson, and Sarah Peterson kicked off the 2024 songwriters series at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro. (Submitted photo)</span>

Songwriters in the Round

Steve Harris reports on a songwriting workshop and performance series in Lanesboro.

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