Postcards

Take a dip into the water at Lake Carlos Marina with famous wakesurfer, Frankie Jost, step back in time at the Sperry House in Willmar and visit the winter wonderland created by artist Bruce Munro at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

Check out the new permanent light sculpture in Montevideo created by Karl Unnasch, learn about fashion photography with rising talent, Ella Kneprath and finish the evening with a tour of the At Home with Monsters exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Listen to the folk music of musician, Brady Perl, taste the European history at Bukovina Old World Bakery and reminisce about nostalgic candy at How Sweet It Is Candy Shoppe.

Andes Tower Hills started as a community-run ski hill in 1980 and is now an area ski destination. La Ferme is a restaurant featuring fresh, seasonal, locally-sourced products, supporting local farmers. “Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art” is an exhibit exploring the impact that mental illness has on society and how the arts can encourage positive self- expression.

Twenty-year-old Ethan Clerc has a passion for filmmaking. He has produced three feature length films and more than 150 short videos. With each project, his reputation and skill level has grown. Postcards interviews Clerc as he traces his career from the early YouTube days to his most recent project, Cottonwood, filmed in the summer of 2017.

A story about Walter “Super” LaBatte Jr’s journey to fulfillment through traditional Dakota tactile art and a story about Georgina Drapeau, Mat Pendleton, Hope TwoHearts and David Louis' quill work revival percolating up through a new generation of the Dakota people of Cansa'yapi (where the trees are painted red). Funding provided in part by Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.

Ashley Hanson is a theater artist and musician whose work explores stories of and connection to place. She is the co-founder of PlaceBase Productions and instigator of Public Transformation — a cross-country documentary art project highlighting the work of rural-based artists and arts organizations which are making their communities a more vibrant, healthy and connected place to live.

Stories about a classic music store in Morris, a youth-led art studio in Minneapolis and special bracelet making class in Milan.

Gene Tokheim and Jon Roisen are award-winning knifemakers who are dedicated to passing what they know on to subsequent generations through classes at the Milan Village Arts School. Painter Olga Nichols uses her journey from Uganda to Bird Island to influences her painting. Lietzau Taxidermy is a destination for black powder, rendezvous reenactors and Native American art and culture supplies.

Springboard for the Arts is an economic and community development organization for artists that opened an office in Fergus Falls in 2011. The organization helps creative people with the “business side” of being an artist. A film by Nik Nerburn, Prairie Dreamers, tells the story of the many ways this organization’s investment in the Fergus Falls office has paid dividends through an art engagement.

The first Donnelly Threshing Bee was held in 1965 at the Oscar and Ruth Aanerud farm near Donnelly. It has been held at this same site ever since. Tractor pulls, a horse pulling contest, an antique car show, parades music, games, a queen coronation and an open-air worship service are all part of the three-day festival that draws crowds from all over western Minnesota.

Explore the history of county fairs in rural Minnesota, while focusing specifically on the happenings at the Lac qui Parle County Fair from the 1870s to the 1930s. Then, Walter “Super” LaBatte Jr. of Granite Falls narrates a family story about the origins of how Pelican Hill on Lake Traverse got its name.