This post is coming a leeeeettle bit late, but is still a worthy news item. Here’s my piece ‘Stories’ and I at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts exhibition! To have made it into the Fair again and to connect with so many people through my art means so much to me. Thanks to all art enthusiasts going to the fair!

My pieces ’Mama’ , ’Lumpi’ and ’Where I am coming from’ have been selected to be part of ‘Chroma – a spectrum of beauty’ at the MSP airport, terminal 1, C Concourse gallery.
The show features 81 works of art by 65 artists based in Northeast Minneapolis and will be up until December. I am very happy about my work being included!

Thank you so much to the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District and Arts at MSP for putting together this wonderful show.

Clown birds, Dude birds, Garden heads, Emo busts. I have it all. Come see these pretties this coming weekend during the Northeast Minneapolis ArtAWhirl! I’ll be a guest artist at the Grain Belt Bottling House again. Hours are Friday, 5 to 10 pm, Saturday noon to 8 pm, and Sunday noon to 5 pm.
All of these items will also be available in my online shop.

The recent assault on Ukraine has affected me deeply, and I will donate 15% of my net sales to Ukraine and refugee help organizations.

World Central Kitchen
USA for UNHCR
Unicef
International Rescue Committee

My pieces ‘Mama’, ‘Where I am coming from’, and ‘My Mama’s stories’, have been selected for exhibition at MSP airport! I poured so much of my heart, soul and history into these pieces, so this is immensely gratifying, and I feel so honored that my stories are deemed significant enough for this show. The show will be up in the Concourse C Gallery in Terminal 1 from June – December 2022, together with the works of other NE Minneapolis artists. A huge thank you to the jurors @g_raye_art , @hellokeishairene and @sile.ann.d , the NE Minneapolis Arts District, and the universe.

I have been very busy throughout these last three crazy and sad months, creating small and affordable pieces for the upcoming Northeast Minneapolis Art-A-Whirl. I have discovered the subject of birds, and am amazed at how much I am able to express through them. They have become my vessel to spontaneously express my thoughts and feelings of the day I am making them. The thoughts I have engraved on them have changed from hopeful/inspirational to protesting the Ukraine war and prayers for peace, and back to escapist/silly/ self comforting themes. Then an idea struck me and I made three small busts advocating the de-stigmatization of mental health struggles.
All these pieces will be Raku fired – a process that I am infatuated with because of the uniqueness and drama it adds to each piece.

The 2022 Northeast Minneapolis Art-A-Whirl will take place on the weekend of May 20 to May 22 throughout the NE Minneapolis Arts District, and will be in person again! I will be back at the Grain Belt Bottling House as a guest artist, and am so looking forward to it.
I will donate 15% of my net sales to Ukraine and refugee help organizations World Central Kitchen, USA for UNHCR, UNICEF and International Rescue Committee.
The assault on Ukraine has shaken me deeply, and has opened my eyes to the plight of refugees everywhere.
So lets meet up foe Art-A-Whirl, raise some money for refugees, and remind each other of the good that‘s also out there!

I am thinking about making a sculpture series about the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale ‘The Snowqueen’. I found the fairy tale collection that we had growing up, with the amazing and magical illustrations by Jiri Trnka on eBay today! I don’t think any other book has ever woven such a spell around me when I was a child as that one. Can’t wait for it to arrive, and get more inspiration!

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brenée Brown

Here are some impressions from the opening of my first solo show at Lanesboro Arts in Lanesboro, Minnesota. I had started sketching, delving into memories of my childhood and youth in Germany, and making pieces for this show about 2 1/2 years ago. To see it all come together in a beautifully set up show, and have so many people come and listen to my stories, either through my sculptures or through direct conversation with me, was absolutely wonderful. What was equally wonderful was to hear visitors share their own stories with me, and how they feel that our stories are connected. That experience is one of the reasons I make sculptures.
Pictures in this post show a few scenes from our beautiful Friday afternoon in Lanesboro, opening night, and a wondrous discovery I made at our Bed&Breakfast – beautiful objects of the Jewish culture displayed in the dining room of the old mansion. Their presence felt like a ray of reconciliation and possible forgiveness to me.
The show will run through December 10. It is a pleasant and scenic two hour drive down to Lanesboro and maybe one of these days you’ll feel like making it!

My very first at home Raku firing, and it was a success! This is such an addictive process. To see the colors and the crackle effect emerge while the pieces are cooling, and then scrub off the soot to see the full effect – it’s such unadulterated fun. I’m very grateful that nothing cracked and nothing baked to a kiln brick. Let’s hope this is a trend 😊😀❤️ Thanks so much to Mark J Lusardi for setting me up with this perfect for me sized Raku kiln and equipment!!!

I received the most beautiful professional photographs today, taken @eaganarthouse where two of my pieces are installed and on view outside surrounded by a beautiful wildflower meadow on the grounds of the art center. Thank you to @rickgravesphotography for sharing these shots that captivate the magic of this art in nature situation so well. The bust is titled ‘Rebirth ‘ and the standing figure’Letting go of Blue’, and the plants surrounding really amplify these messages for me. This truly is the most beautiful way these pieces have ever been displayed. Thanks also to @eaganarthouse for including me in this beautiful show titled ‘Momentary Certainties’.