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During a typical workday, artist Sarah Hedlund might be sketching pink and orange dolphins surrounded by hearts and stars. Or a disco-dancing, white suit-wearing dinosaur.…

Quick. Think of an artist. Rembrandt, Picasso, Van Gogh might come to mind. If it’s music, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart certainly qualify. Maybe you think of…

The Northeast Iowa Artists’ Studio Tour is open one weekend every fall – and we are here for it! The artists’ studios, nestled among the…

Inspire(d) Summer 2022 cover artist, Lauren Bonney, created this coloring page for you to make your own! Click the image below to download a pdf…

Introduction by Aryn Henning Nichols Interview by Inspire(d) Intern Martha Hall All art by Lauren Bonney As we’re heading out of summer and into fall (we…

If you blink, you might find that Lanesboro Community Theater dynamo, Bebe Keith, has disappeared. When the Community Theater’s Silent Movies in the Park After…

By Benji Nichols • Photos courtesy Carl HomstadOriginally published in the October/November 2009 Inspire(d) Many people in the upper Midwest can recognize the unique wood…

By Susie Clark • Photos courtesy Elisabeth MaurlandOriginally published in the Summer 2011 Inspire(d) Some things are better left unsaid; others speak for themselves. “It…

Driftless Art Tours and Festivals are coming up! By Sara Friedl-Putnam • Originally published in the Fall 2013 issue of Inspire(d) Ahh…fall! For some it means once…

By Aryn Henning Nichols Decorah artist John Kjome is a patient man, that’s for sure. He thinks, plans, and meticulously strategizes his next move –…