Selective Focus Posts

Selective Focus: Diane Keinanen’s Glass Art

Jun 11, 2021 No Comments

Diane Keinanen started creating glass window hangings 20 years ago after attending a community education class on stained glass. The medium then became a “lasting love” for her. In addition to glass art, Keinanen explores woodworking and has worked as a registered nurse for 28 years. Over the course of the pandemic, Keinanen has created live streams while creating her stained glass art. These live streams have included stories about her life and her experience as a transgender woman. More pictures of her work can be found on her Facebook page and YouTube channel.

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Selective Focus: Shaun Chosa’s Wheat-paste Project at AICHO

Jun 06, 2021 No Comments
Shaun Chosa's art on the wall

Shaun Chosa created a group of images to be wheat pasted on the wall at AICHO — seen here with some of the folks who helped make it happen.

The American Indian Community Housing Organization, which has become a force for enabling Native voices in Duluth and bringing radiance to the city, worked with In Progress, a multi-media arts organization in St. Paul, to create this installation of Shaun Chosa’s strong images on the walls of AICHO’s headquarters, 202 W. Second St.

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Selective Focus: Deep Cuts Hair Salon

May 22, 2021 No Comments

Deep Cuts hair salon opened in August 2020. Bee Golding started the salon after five years of working with hair because they “love meeting and connecting with new people.” They work together with their partner Jes Golding, who helped Bee with the mission and aesthetic of the shop. “In fact, I almost quit cutting hair, but Jes encouraged me to create our own environment instead. Barbershops are traditionally very stereotypically masculine places that don’t always feel the most welcoming to LGBTQIA2S+ folks and I wanted to change that.”

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Selective Focus: Carl Gawboy’s Life Well-Painted

May 20, 2021 No Comments

A Life Well Painted

This text, taken from the curriculum written by Wendy Savage, serves to introduce Carl Gawboy — a foundational artist in this region.

At Tweed Museum of Art this winter of 2021, Carl Gawboy’s stellar paintings were featured in the exhibition “A Life Well Painted: The Art of Carl Gawboy.” It featured 36 narrative paintings. Carl Gawboy is a highly respected Ojibwe and Finnish artist; he paints the beauty of everyday life of his Ojibwe people. He is an Elder and enrolled member of the Bois Fort Band of Chippewa in Northern Minnesota. Carl has been creating art since he was a child at his Finnish mother’s kitchen table. Carl’s father was a trapper, and his mother was a teacher and farmer. Carl went on to college and studied art and history, and researched the fur trade era.

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Selective Focus: Help Wanted

Apr 23, 2021 1 Comment

Perfect Duluth Day is looking for a new curator for its ongoing Selective Focus feature. Applications are being accepted through May 9.

Curator sounds artsier than coordinator, right? And it’s not really a writing thing, is it? Well, maybe it’s a bit of all three.

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Selective Focus: Look at the Birdy

Apr 08, 2021 No Comments

Recent photos of local birds via Instagram.

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Selective Focus: March Aurora

Mar 22, 2021 No Comments

This past weekend’s aurora did not disappoint. Gathered here are some of the best shots, culled from Instagram.

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Selective Focus: Nature’s Winter Artistry

Mar 11, 2021 1 Comment

Select Instagram photos showing a few of nature’s icy art projects.

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Selective Focus: The Old West End

Feb 25, 2021 No Comments

Photographer Nik Nerburn (previously on PDD) has just published a book of photos and stories following the last few years of transformation in Duluth’s West End, more recently and commonly known as Lincoln Park. We get a sneek peek at a few of the images in the book.

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Selective Focus: Icy Blue Gitche Gu

Feb 19, 2021 No Comments

Via Instagram, select images of Lake Superior in wintry blue.

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Selective Focus: Full Wolf Moon

Jan 29, 2021 No Comments

The January full moon is referred to as the Wolf Moon. Here are some local views of last night’s show.

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Selective Focus: Put a Bernie on it

Jan 21, 2021 4 Comments

Bernie at Miller Hill Mall

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Selective Focus: Moose

Jan 15, 2021 No Comments

So funny looking but still majestic. This week, photos of friends from Frostbite Falls.

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Selective Focus: Hoar Frost / Rime Ice

Jan 08, 2021 1 Comment

The ice crystals have us surrounded. Surrender to the frost.

Collected here are select Instagram photos celebrating the wonder of water vapor condensation freezing to cold surfaces (hoar frost) and/or cooled water in the fog turning to ice (rime ice). Probably more the latter than the former.

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Selective Focus: A Very COVID Christmas

Dec 25, 2020 No Comments

Select photos from Instagram of people from the Duluth area doing their best to keep spirits high and the COVID-19 infection rate low.

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