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'Chair Affair' bidding about to begin

May 31, 2018

The Lake City Area Arts (LCAA) Chair Affair will be auctioning a three-piece set of Adirondack furniture beginning this week, with more on the way in September at the Lake City Junk Crush. “Step #1,” said Kate Halverson, spearheading the six-month event, “has been encouraging LCAA chair donations...

Lake City Arts Festival 2018

May 3, 2018

Art for sale, live music and more on Franklin Street between Lyon Avenue and Chestnut Street. More information at http://lakecityareaarts.org/event/lake-city-arts-festival/.

Summer art exhibit features duck stamps

May 3, 2018

This summer, the National Eagle Center’s Watershed Gallery in Wabasha will showcase the art of duck stamps. The exhibition titled “The Art of Conservation: A Focus on Stamps” will highlight selected works of art used by the Federal Duck Stamp program. Each year hunters are required to purchase...

Wild Wings acquired by California company

Apr 26, 2018

Lake City-based wildlife art publisher Wild Wings is now part of Art Brand Studios of Morgan Hill, Calif. Wild Wings President Randy Eggenberger and Mark Mickelson, managing partner of the investment group that owns Art Brand Studios, announced the acquisition at a staff meeting April 24 at Wild...

Sixth graders honor national symbol with art contest

Apr 18, 2018

The Lake City VFW Auxiliary 8729 sponsored a patriotic art explorers art contest for sixth grade students at Bluff View Elementary School. Students created artwork depicting a bald eagle, which has been a symbol of this nation since 1782. Truman Stolz won first prize ($15). Second place was Riley...

It was a bright and starry day at Bluff View Elementary School

Mar 14, 2018

Painters, singers, dancers, comedians, Lego brick artists, flutists, pianists and others put their talents on display for their fellow Bluff View Elementary School students at the school’s annual Catch a Star talent show and art exhibition on March 9. Thirty-nine acts performed and art was on...

Watercolor class openings still available

Feb 28, 2018

Registration is under way for spring watercolor classes at the Lake City Area Arts (LCAA) center, 220 East Chestnut Street. Classes will be held on consecutive Tuesdays: March 6, 13, 27, and April 3 and 10. The evening session is full, but openings are available in the afternoon session from 2...

Carving workshop offered at public library Feb. 24

Feb 21, 2018

Jeffrey Tibbetts will offer a Native Skywatchers Carving Workshop at the Lake City Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. This three-hour activity will introduce participants to aspects of the Ojibwe world view represented in art form from the natural elements and the cosmos....

Gallerist speaks to Rotary Club

Feb 14, 2018

Tamara Ender (right), owner of Gallery on the Lake, was the guest speaker at the Lake City Rotary Club’s Feb. 12 meeting. Pictured with Ender is Rotary Club member Vicki Krage. Gallery on the Lake is located on the second floor of the Lake Pepin Pearl Button Company, 226 S. Washington St., Lake...

Play explores fear, hope in WWII ghetto

Feb 7, 2018

Lincoln High School students performed this year’s one-act play on Jan. 30. “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” by Celeste Raspanti, is the true story of Terezin, a Jewish Ghetto established during WWII through which more than 15,000 children passed on their way to Auschwitz. “It displays the fear...

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