Year Created: 2024 Medium: Printmaking - Relief print
Arbitrary Auerlandsfjord
Jennifer Williams
$525.00
Year Created: 2023 Medium: Pastel Optional Brief Statement: The Driftless area of Wisconsin/Southeast Minnesota where I live and find inspiration: the region’s bluffs, rivers and roads and roads inform my work. When I travel, I find parallels with these landscape forms, as Norwegian fjords echo Mississippi River bluffs. Painting and drawing serve as vehicles for connecting more deeply with the self and with nature, through its process and physicality. Like nature itself, I view the process of painting as transformative (both physically and philosophically) as light shifts and colors blend, creating new perceptions and experiences. Conceptually I am interested in the way we as individuals and as a society identify with and define notions of landscape through travel, place-specificity, and ecological imperatives.
Crawdad Snack
Tim Zenk
$350.00
Year Created: 2024 Medium: Wood and Copper Optional Brief Statement: Fishing lures as fine art.
When Peter Cut His Foot
Ann Berget
$350.00
Third Prize
Year Created: 2023 Medium: Digital photograph, inkjet print
Vision of the Two Spirit Ancestor
Sam St. John
$200.00
Year Created: 2024 Medium: Mixed Media Optional Brief Statement: Vision of the Two Spirit Ancestor is the story of how I received my name as an indigenous woman. My name was given to me when I was 13 by a Two Spirit person named Billy Two Feathers. I grew up disconnected to my culture so Billy Two Feathers explained to me that they will have a vision of my name. My name Mukwa ogitchidaa-ikwe which means Bear Warrior Woman. Growing up in Hastings, Minnesota, I am deeply influenced by the water and nature in my town. Mother nature, the Mississippi River, and the spirit of the bear are themes in my work. I wanted to make a piece of the origin of my name that has greatly influenced my work as an artist.
