This beautiful mosaic piece by Bonnie Gay Hedstrom maps the mystery of the black-sailed ship in the Grand Marais harbor. It is one of the wonderful pieces that will be at the Johnson Heritage Post March 28 – April 13.
Johnson Heritage Post will host Mapping Mystery beginning March 28 through April 13.
Mapping Mystery—some have been mystified by the topic of this exhibit and have asked for ways to think about it. Here’s one option: think about a time when an outdoor adventure met with the unexpected.
So many of our best stories about trips into the woods (or the world) recount surprises, challenges, even calamities. Stories from folks in the BWCAW on July 4, 1999 are collected into a book; stories of people who were there a week earlier are not!
Reflecting on the topic, what problem did you have to solve? What did you learn about the world and yourself from that experience? How might you express that artistically?
Or, relate Mapping Mystery to your artistic endeavors. Think of a time when you’ve been creating—in words, paint or clay—and you’ve run out of materials and been forced to try something new.
Mapping Mystery could also be taken more symbolically. We want our life journeys to be smooth, but most of us have hit bumps: a frightening diagnosis, a relationship break-up, or a loss. We don’t choose these disruptions; we wish they would go away. Yet when we look back later, we see that those experiences have been formative. What have you experienced that has re-shaped or strengthened you? How might you express this artistically?
This show encourages artists to consider the intersection of creativity and spirituality.
All artists are invited to express this in clay, paint, film, words, music, glass, fabric, etc. All work must be original and made for this show. For more information, visit www.spiritofthewilderness.org and RSVP your participation by March 14 to spiritwilderness@boreal.org.
For more information contact Mary Ellen Ashcroft at (218) 387-1536.
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