Encouraging young people in the arts via Paradise exhibit, Part I
Eye-catching student art lines a second floor hallway at the Paradise Center for the Arts in Faribault. The eye art is by Wyatt Suckow, Lincoln Elementary School first grader. (Minnesota Prairie Roots...
View ArticleInside the student art show at the Paradise, Part II
Love the student art spanning walls in a current exhibit at the Paradise Center for the Arts in Faribault. Aubrey Schafer, Roosevelt Elementary fourth grader, created the Love art on the left....
View ArticleSouthern Minnesota slides toward Christmas with snow, holiday sales & more
Volunteers vend trees and more at the Christ Lutheran Christmas Market last weekend in Faribault. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted photo November 2022) IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK, and feel, a lot like...
View ArticleIn Faribault: A creatively moving production of “A Christmas Carol”
A scene from “A Christmas Carol,” now on stage in Faribault. (Photo courtesy of director Sam Temple) ON THE MORNING OF OUR GRANDSON’S preschool holiday party, Randy took time off work to watch a group...
View ArticleInside the Paradise galleries, an array of art
A side view of Amanda Webster’s “Just The Three of Us, A Triptych of Three” acrylic on canvas. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted photo March 2023) FROM WILD ANIMALS to wildly vivid abstracts, the...
View ArticleTime to upgrade with new chairs at the Paradise
Inside the Paradise Center for the Arts theater in 2009, two years after it opened. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted file photo August 2009) THEY’VE HAD A 16-YEAR RUN, “they” being the recycled...
View ArticleFocusing on nature-inspired student art in Paradise exhibit
Colorful fish art by Dallas, 3rd grader, Roosevelt Elementary School. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted file photo March 2023) I APPRECIATE ART. All of it. From performing to literary to visual,...
View ArticleThe art of the portrait by southern Minnesota students
“Bisa Butler-Inspired Collage Portrait” by Ilwad, Lincoln Elementary School fourth grader. Bisa Butler is an award-winning African American textile artist. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted photo...
View ArticleImmersing myself in student art at the Paradise
Art created by Briana, Faribault Middle School sixth grader. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted photo March 2023) “THAT LOOKS LIKE an illustration in a children’s picture book” I think while viewing...
View ArticleHighlighting creatives at upcoming events
Books on Central is housed in the former Dandelet Jewelry, 227 Central Avenue North in downtown Faribault. This photo was taken before the bookshop opened in early October. (Minnesota Prairie Roots...
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