by Lailah Dainin Shima | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Listen. Even now, as ice cracks,a chickadee sings its spring song. Speak only true names. Redwing blackbird.Orb-weaver eggs. Dragon cladonia. When you want to clarify what you meantto say, say thank you. Squelch your feet in mud. Let its scent of shaleovertake you, as...
by Janice Wilberg | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Hers is the last vehicle in the funeral home parking lot. Carol makes sure of that before she straps the brass urn with her husband’s ashes into the passenger seat of their pickup truck and sets off for their summer house on Lake Superior. She wants no conversation...
by Jody Clowes, Glenn Williams, Siara Berry, Heidi Parkes, Sylvie Rosenthal | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
There is so much in the wider world that needs repair right now. It can feel impossible to respond in a meaningful way or identify the tools and skills that might make a difference. We tend to place our hopes in big, outside solutions, like a new administration, a...
by Hannah Wagie | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
My attraction to nature has gotten stronger as I have gotten older. Trained in the lab as a chemist, I have slowly emerged from that carefully controlled environment, drawn to wilder places with more variables, like the well-worn paths in Kohler-Andrae State Park,...
by Lisa Ludwigsen | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
High on a rise outside of Washburn, with Lake Superior sparkling in the distance, sits the workshop where Wisconsin native Josh Swan builds and restores wooden boats. The bright and spacious building he constructed, along with his nearby house, sits on the 50-acre...
by Alexandria Delcourt | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Though historically it has been difficult for contemporary Native American artists to find acceptance and inclusion within the often exclusionary world of the fine arts, Wisconsin artists are playing a prominent role in changing that. Emily Arthur, Tom Jones, John...
