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1. "The Hottest Coon in Dixie" theater program, Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Bijou Opera House
Date Created:
4/15/1900
Description:
Theater program for a performance at the Bijou Opera House. Program includes advertisements for dozens of local businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

2. "The Wave" sculpture on the shore of Lake Pepin, Lake City, Minnesota

Creator:
Orth, Arthur H.
Date Created:
2022-01-12
Description:
"The Wave" sculpture sits on the shores of Lake Pepin in Lake City. It was created to commemorate the birth of water skiing in Lake City. The sculpture was created by Jack Becker (1943-2010) in 1976. The photograph was taken by Arthur H. Orth in 2022.
Contributing Institution:
Lake City Historical Society;
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

3. 2017 Saint Paul Almanac

Date Created:
2017
Description:
The Saint Paul Almanac is an annual calendar and guide to take the curious urban adventurer through the year of 2017 in Minnesota's capital city. The Saint Paul Almanac brings the diverse Saint Paul community together via city-wide events and fostering individual artistic expression via the stories and poems featured in each issue.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Almanac
Type:
Text
Format:
Almanacs

4. 2016 Saint Paul Almanac: A Ten Year Retrospective

Date Created:
2016
Description:
The Saint Paul Almanac is an annual calendar and guide to take the curious urban adventurer through the year of 2016 in Minnesota's capital city. The Saint Paul Almanac brings the diverse Saint Paul community together via city-wide events and fostering individual artistic expression via the stories and poems featured in each issue.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Almanac
Type:
Text
Format:
Almanacs

5. The Hen and the Badger

Creator:
Powder, Saw
Date Created:
2015
Description:
Mother Hen and her chicks outwit the sneaky Badger in this book for young readers, written in both Karen and English.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

6. 2015 Saint Paul Almanac

Date Created:
2015
Description:
The Saint Paul Almanac is an annual calendar and guide to take the curious urban adventurer through the year of 2015 in Minnesota's capital city. The Saint Paul Almanac brings the diverse Saint Paul community together via city-wide events and fostering individual artistic expression via the stories and poems featured in each issue.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Almanac
Type:
Text
Format:
Almanacs

7. Elephant Huggy

Creator:
World, Win
Date Created:
2015
Description:
The adventures of Elephant Huggy are documented in both Karen and English in a book for young readers. He rides his bike, drives his red car, rides the train and goes on hot air balloon rides.
Contributing Institution:
Saint Paul Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

8. Abnet Pottery Studio sign, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-09-29
Description:
Richard Abnet is a founding potter and host of the Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. He established his studio on a farm near Stillwater, Minnesota in 1961. Abnet died on March 1, 2011.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

9. Art critic Janet Koplos in her home in St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-08-26
Description:
Janet Koplos is an art lecturer and critic. She is contributing editor at Art in America and has served as guest editor of American Craft magazine.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

10. Interview with Warren MacKenzie, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
MacKenzie, Warren, 1924-
Date Created:
2014-07-18
Description:
In this interview, Warren MacKenzie (1924-) discusses his childhood and early experience with art; being drafted in 1943; his early ceramic education and studies at the Chicago Art Institute; his first wife, the late Alix MacKenzie, who was also a ceramist; studying in England under renowned potter Bernard Leach; Korean and Japanese influences; setting up his studio near Stillwater, Minnesota; teaching at the University of Minnesota; meeting his second wife, the late fiber artist Nancy MacKenzie; and his involvement with the Minnesota Craft Council and the St. Croix Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

11. Potter Warren MacKenzie in his studio near Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-07-08
Description:
Warren MacKenzie is a founding potter and host of the annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. He operates his studio outside of Stillwater, Minnesota. The 22nd annual tour was held May 9, 10, and 11, 2014.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

12. Interview with Will Swanson and Janel Jacobson, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Swanson, Will, 1947-; Jacobson, Janel, 1950-
Date Created:
2014-06-30
Description:
Will Swanson (1947-) grew up in Minnesota and studied ceramics, art and design at the University of Minnesota. After working at Fairview Hospital for fifteen years, Swanson married Janel Jacobson and began making pottery full-time at their home studio in Sunrise Township, Minnesota. He also helped co-found the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. Janel Jacobson (1950-) grew up in various parts of Minnesota and studied ceramics at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa before establishing her own studio in the St. Croix Valley. After graduating, she studied studio pottery techniques with renowned Bauhaus artist Marguerite Wildenhain, but soon adopted her own style of carving small sculptures in clay. In 1995, Janel stopped carving in stoneware and porcelain and began using wood. In this interview, Swanson and Jacobson discuss their respective childhoods; ceramics education; connections to the local and national pottery communities; and thoughts on the past, present and future of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

13. Interview with Edie Abnet, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Abnet, Edie, 1947-
Date Created:
2014-06-23
Description:
Edie Abnet (1947-) is a painter who was married to the late Richard Abnet (1934-2011) , a potter and founding host of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. In this interview, Abnet discusses her husband's childhood in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and subsequent studies in ceramics at the University of Minnesota under Warren MacKenzie, and at the School for American Crafts in Rochester, New York, under Frans Wildenhain. Abnet also talks about the home and studio she and her husband shared in the St. Croix River Valley and his involvement in the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

14. Edie Abnet at Abnet Farm Studio, Stillwater Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-06-23
Description:
Edie Abnet is a watercolor artist and wife of potter Richard Abnet. Richard Abnet is a founding potter and host of the Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. He established his studio on a farm near Stillwater, Minnesota in 1961. Abnet died on March 1, 2011.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

15. Interview with Linda Christianson, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Christianson, Linda, 1952-
Date Created:
2014-06-17
Description:
Linda Christianson (1952-) grew up in Barron, Wisconsin, and studied ceramics at Hamline University (St Paul, Minnesota), and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Banff, Alberta, Canada), before returning to Minnesota to start her own ceramics studio and co-found the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. In this interview, Christianson discusses her childhood; ceramics education; her connections to the local and national pottery communities; and her thoughts on the past, present and future of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

16. Potter Jeff Oestreich at his home studio, Taylors Falls, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-06-09
Description:
Jeff Oestreich is a founding potter and host of the Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. He was photographed and interviewed as part of the 22nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour held May 9, 10, and 11, 2014. Oestreich's distinctive home and studio are near Taylors Falls, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

17. Interview with Richard Vincent, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Vincent, Richard, 1955-
Date Created:
2014-06-09
Description:
Richard Vincent (1955-) grew up in White Bear Lake and studied pottery in high school and at Lakewood Community College in Minnesota. In this interview, Vincent discusses his childhood; ceramics education; teaching experience; the establishment of his studio in North Branch; faith and religious experiences; and his thoughts on the past, present and future of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

18. Interview with Jeff Oestreich, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Oestreich, Jeff, 1947-
Date Created:
2014-06-09
Description:
In this interview, Jeff Oestreich (1947-) discusses growing up in White Bear Lake; early experiences with music and art; undergraduate education at Bemidji State University; graduate studies with Warren MacKenzie at the University of Minnesota; apprenticeship at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, England; local and national teaching and exhibition experiences; establishing his studio in Taylors Falls, Minnesota; and his involvement with the founding and legacy of the St. Croix Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

19. Potter Guillermo Cuellar outside his home near Shafer, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-06-04
Description:
Guillermo Cuellar from Maracaibo, Venezuela was a guest potter at the studion of Minnesota potter Linda Christianson during the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tours from 2006-2008. In 2009 Cuellar was invited to participate as a host of the Pottery Tour. He operates his studio near Shafer, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

20. Interview with Janet Koplos, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Koplos, Janet
Date Created:
2014-06-02
Description:
Janet Koplos is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications and earned a masters degree in art history from Illinois State University. She has been writing regularly on all art mediums for 25 years, in newspapers, magazines, catalogs and books. In this interview, Koplos discusses her early interactions with potters from Minnesota while at the University of Minnesota; perceptions of the local and national ceramics field; her life as a journalist and art critic; and experience as a visitor to the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

21. Interview with Guillermo Cuellar, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Cuellar, Guillermo, 1951-; MacGregor, Laurie
Date Created:
2014-06-02
Description:
Guillermo Cuellar (1951 - ) was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, grew up in Caracas, and came to the United States to attend high school. He subsequently studied ceramics at Cornell College in Iowa. After graduation he returned to Venezuela and started making studio ceramics in 1980. In 1981 he worked as assistant to Warren MacKenzie, who was teaching in Caracas and with whom he regularly shared workshop experience from 1984 to 2006. In 2005 Cuellar moved to the upper St. Croix river valley near Shafer, Minnesota, where he established a home and studio. He joined the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour as a host potter in 2009. In this interview, Cuellar discusses his ceramics education in the United States and subsequent practice in Venezuela; his introduction to the pottery community in Minnesota; and his thoughts on the past, present and future of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

22. Interview with Connee Mayeron-Cowles, A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley, Minnesota

Creator:
Mayeron-Cowles, Connee, 1949-
Date Created:
2014-06-02
Description:
Connee Mayeron-Cowles (1949 - ) grew up in Saint Louis Park, studied pottery at the University of Minnesota under Curt Hoard and Warren MacKenzie, and was a co-founder of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. In this interview, Mayeron-Cowles discusses her childhood; ceramics education; her introduction to the pottery community in Minnesota; and her thoughts on the past, present and future of the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. This interview was conducted by local oral historian and PhD Candidate from the University of Minnesota Anduin Wilhide. ""A Measure of the Earth: An Oral History of the Potters of the St. Croix River Valley"" explores the anomalous community of potters in Eastern Minnesota who host an annual cooperative tour for participating ceramic artists from around the world. This annual three-day event attracts art enthusiasts from across the country. Together the project's ten oral history interviews, representing diverse perspectives from within the local pottery community, tell the story of how, from the 1950s to today, Minnesota�s St. Croix River Valley has developed into a major center for pottery, and a destination for thousands nationally.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

23. Visitors to the studio of Linda Christianson in Lindstrom, Minnesota, look at pottery by Michael Hunt

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-05-09
Description:
Michael Hunt of Bakersville, North Carolina, was a guest potter at the studio of Minnesota potter Linda Christianson during the 22nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, held May 9, 10, and 11, 2014. Hunt was one of 44 potters selling work at seven host studios throughout the St. Croix River Valley.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

24. Pottery on display at the studio of potter Robert Briscoe, Harris, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-05-09
Description:
Image of pottery on display and on a hold shelf on the patio of potter Robert Briscoe's home in Harris, Minnesota. Briscoe is a founding potter and host of the annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. The 22nd annual tour was held May 9, 10, and 11, 2014.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

25. Pottery on display and guests looking at pots on the land surrounding Robert Briscoe's studio, Harris, Minnesota

Creator:
American Craft Council
Date Created:
2014-05-09
Description:
Image of pottery on display and guests shopping at potter Robert Briscoe's home in Harris, Minnesota. Briscoe is a founding potter and host of the annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. The 22nd annual tour was held May 9, 10, and 11, 2014.
Contributing Institution:
American Craft Council
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs
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