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On this episode of Native Lights, we’re excited to talk with Penny Kagigebi. Penny is a direct descendant of the White Earth Nation. She is a Two Spirit queer community collaborator, artist, curator and teacher. She focuses on birch bark basketry and quill boxes and recently curated Queering Indigeneity for the Minnesota Museum of American Art, on exhibit from September 18, 2025 to August 16, 2026. [Read Transcript...]
Inspired by the collaborative art colonies he experienced in Boston, Duluth native Birney Quick returned to Minnesota, where a single summer cohort with his students in Grand Marais sparked the founding of the state’s first art colony. [Read Transcript...]
Winona has the oldest municipal band west of the Mississippi River. Its story began July 31, 1915, with a performance at Winona's Levee Park. [Read Transcript...]
The Danebod Folk School opened in 1888 to provide an education in arts, culture and politics to the Danish population that had recently arrived in Lincoln County. [Read Transcript...]
