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Selective Focus: Fireworks

Jul 05, 2019 No Comments

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Select Instagram images of Fourth of July fireworks.

Photos Instagram, Selective Focus

Selective Focus: Free Range Film Festival

Jun 28, 2019 No Comments

This weekend, you have the chance to celebrate two Sweet 16 parties. There is of course Perfect Duluth Day’s 16th Anniversary on Saturday at Ursa Minor. But the Free Range Film Festival is also celebrating 16 years, and this year, has a theme: Competition.

Film festival programmer Annie Dugan explains, “I realized as I was screening films for this year’s festival that we had a lot of movies about interesting people participating in very particular pursuits. I don’t know what it is in the cultural zeitgeist right now, but people want to compete!”

Art, Videos Free Range Film Festival, Selective Focus

Selective Focus: Leif Erikson Park

Jun 21, 2019 No Comments

Select Instagram images of Leif Erikson Park.

Outdoors, Photos Instagram, Leif Erikson Park, Selective Focus

Selective Focus: Sadkin, “Carrera” video and single

Jun 14, 2019 No Comments

Just released today, the first video, “Carrera”, from Sadkin, an art/pop music pursuit in Duluth.

Directed by Daniel Benoit, choreography by Andrea Miller and Erin Tope, featuring the members of the music group Sadkin – Max Mileski, Cory Coffman, Nicholas Hanson, Anton Jimenez-Kloeckl & Daniel Vopal. Lights by Jason Nordberg. Filmed at Spark Works in Duluth.

Art, Music, Videos Daniel Benoit, Erin Tope, Max Mileski, Sadkin, Selective Focus

Selective Focus: Found on Flickr

Jun 07, 2019 No Comments

Hey, remember Flickr? Here are some of the nifty things you might find when searching “Duluth.”

Art Flickr, Selective Focus

Selective Focus: Shawn Stigsell

May 24, 2019 No Comments

This week we feature work that you’ve probably seen around town recently, but may not know who was behind it. Designer Shawn Stigsell has been busy with some fun projects, and he tells us a little about his story, and the stories behind these designs.

SS: I have been working with digital print since 2002 when I attended UMD. A few years ago I lost my job as an editorial designer due to budget cuts. Needless to say it was the best thing that has ever happened to my career. I have grown as a designer since then. Being a freelance designer is challenging because you have to be able to take on the valleys of the grind and time between each project. The biggest reward is seeing that the handwork is paying off by the satisfaction of clients.

Art Graphic Design, Selective Focus, Shawn Stigsell

Selective Focus: Jeffrey T. Larson

May 17, 2019 1 Comment

Jeffrey T. Larson is a painter and founder of the Great Lakes Academy of Art, located in the former St. Peter’s Church, 810 W. Third St. Larson has been working and teaching a classical style of painting in that location since 2015. There will be a student-instructor exhibit at the school May 24-26. Larson talks about his classical training and how working and teaching fit together for him.

JTL: I was fortunate to have found and be accepted into one of the last ateliers (studios) left in the world taking on apprentices and training them in the manner of the old masters. It was a sort of visual Julliard. I work pretty exclusively in oil paints. The tradition that I studied in is really more about retraining your eye to see nature honestly and truthfully as it is about learning how to paint. My style is really my reaction to what I see as beautiful filtered through my personal aesthetics. More simply put, I would call myself a classical impressionist.

Art Great Lakes Academy of Art, Jeffrey T. Larson, Painting, Selective Focus