Artist blends photos, drawings, into single form
NEW ULM The photography of Dana Rose will be on display at The Grand Center for Art and Culture starting this Saturday.
Rose is an award-winning photographer from Alvord, Iowa. She received many art and photography awards at state and national levels. Her most recent honor was earning a spot on Team USA to represent the USA in the 2021 World Photographic Cup.
Rose has a degree in graphic design. She previously worked with other photographers but needed a creative outlet. She eventually opened a studio in her hometown and has been creating unique art ever since.
New Principal for Cold Lake Elementary School
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Northern Lights Public Schools says they are pleased to announce that Chris Vining has been appointed Principal of Cold Lake Elementary School for the 2021-2022 school year.
“Chris is an experienced administrator who has demonstrated a commitment to building strong relationships within the school community, and creating a school culture focused on engaging students in their learning,” said Superintendent Rick Cusson.
Vining has been Principal of Art Smith Aviation Academy since 2014-2015 and was Principal of Cold Lake Outreach and Bridges Outreach for eight years prior to that. He joined NLPS in 1998 as a teacher at the former Grand Centre High School. In 2010 he completed a Masters of Education degree in Leadership and School Improvement from the University of Alberta.
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Lisa Potts stands on the Hodiamont Tracks just behind her home in the West End neighborhood of St. Louis. She s working with Great Rivers Greenway to help transform the dilapidated alley into a greenway. We should have a say in how our future looks in this neighborhood, she said.
Over the past 17 years, Lisa Potts has often looked over her backyard fence at the Hodiamont Tracks, imagining what it could be if someone fixed it up.
What looks like an alley today full of overgrown trees, potholes and debris in many places was initially constructed as a streetcar route. It runs 3½ miles from east to west from Grand Center to the West End, near Potts’ home.
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The Johnson brothers, Matt (left) and Carter, unveiled their mixed media depiction of the 1862 U.S./Dakota War, Friday. The exhibit will be on display in the Smallest Museum in Minnesota for the next two months.
NEW ULM The Smallest Museum in Minnesota welcomed a new exhibit on the Battle of New Ulm, Friday.
The new exhibit, located outside The Grand Center for Art and Culture, features a mixed media representation of the U.S. Dakota conflict of 1862.
The exhibit was created by brothers Matt and Carter Johnson. The Johnson brothers grew up in the Judson area and are familiar with the history of the conflict. Matt said they have memories of the Dakota people walking past their home in Judson every Christmas as part of the commemoration of the execution that occurred Dec. 26, 1862 in the aftermath of the conflict.
That was no joke
Thumbs Down: So, a mosque in Moorhead was found vandalized on Sunday. Someone had spray painted the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Community Center with a swastika and phrases such as “Death to Islam.”
An alert Walmart employee checked records of spray paint sales, and in checking security camera footage, saw a young man buying paint who wore the same jacket that the vandal was seen wearing other security footage. This led to the arrest of Benjamin Enderle, 22, who told police it was just a joke, something to get a reaction from the community, and that he doesn’t “hate them.”