I am pleased with the Prairie Dances metal art created to complete the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) and arts and cultural heritage funding grant. This is just the beginning of this metal art series.  As I discussed with numerous people during the Capstone Artist Reception, I love the process of creating sculptures in cast…

The October 30th capstone event at Chatfield Center for the Arts marked a milestone for the Prairie Dances project. Twenty people, including six Prairie Enthusiasts members, attended Stephen Winter’s presentation, Prioritizing and Preserving Prairies. Forty-nine art patrons from the Twin Cities, Red Wing, Rochester, and Southeastern Minnesota joined me in the gallery to view and…

Every day, I look for monarch caterpillars in the rose milkweed by my studio door. On a typical day, I find three or four large and one small caterpillar happily munching the milkweed leaves.  For weeks, I have been watching for a chrysalis to appear. I was surprised and delighted to find the one centered…