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Capturing Nature's Beauty: Two Artists Inspired by the Arboretum celebrates the Arboretum's flora & landscape. With color & texture, oils & watercolors, Carol McIntyre & Karen Knutson illustrate how differently two artists see the same world.

A music producer is offering a new service for songwriters to have their songs professionally critiqued.

Ultima Thule, the ice-inspired creation by Tapio Wirkkala, celebrates its fortieth birthday.

The Kivi Candleholder has become an Iittala classic due to its clean lines and understated beauty. It has now been a part of the Iittala line for 20 years.

The Kartio glassware line by Kaj Franck has been in production for 50 years at Iittala company. Franck's innovative line has had lasting success due to its innovative design that looks as modern today as when it was first created.

Culinary Arts students attending The International Culinary School at The Art Institutes International Minnesota have decided to come together and plan a fundraiser dinner that will directly benefit the American Red Cross Twin Cities Area.

Once thought to be a Northwood product and even known as "Northwood Block," this vase pattern has been attributed to Jefferson in recent years after being found in old Jefferson advertisements.

I find it interesting how as humans we can sense things about each other even though we only converse through our finger tips touching a keyboard.

Rabkin, co-founder and Director of Great Ideas, Wowza, brings strategic and creative experience to the board of directors

Minnesota Anglers are sharing mixed feelings regarding the proposed Dedicated Funding Amendment due on the ballot on November 4.

Connections Academy students come together to kick-off Black History Month

High School Seniors Vie for Scholarship and Opportunity to Promote Slogan "Life Is Better With Art In It"

During the American Conservation Film Festival held in Shepherdstown, WV from November 1 - 4, 2007, a musical PSA developed by a team of animation students received the Best In Show Award for their project - “Migration at Minnesota Valley.”

A small artisan group, Sojourner Leatherwork, brings a dying leather tooling method from deep Argentina to the U.S.

Local Photographer with gallery located at the Mall of America wins Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2007 Competition, and has his piece "Worldly Wonders" headed to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Grand Rapids entrepreneur Patricia Reszetylo, and Drew Fitzpatrick, of the Minnesota Hooved Animal Rescue Foundation, Zimmerman, MN, joined forces to bring the premier cultural event of 2008 to Minnesota: “Independence: The Spirit of the Horse”.

Minnesota artist Patricia Buzo announces the launch of her new art related web log.

A new sci-fi novel by Eric J. Obmann, which will be available shortly at most online booksellers.

Through a mix of creative nonfiction and poetry, PIVOT POINT challenges both Christian tradition and the popular movement it may have produced: the Jesus-only, "Jesus is our God" religion.

Multi-disciplinary Arts Festivity Brings Community Together at the Capri Theater