Arts & Culture

Where's Art? with Annie Dugan: reclaiming "blubby"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published July 1, 2019 at 11:57 AM CDT

You have until midnight to submit your work to the Prøve Gallery's You Don't Know Me exhibition. The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, July 19.

Meanwhile Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota are sponsoring the third Duluth Youth Creative Challenge at their downtown retail center. The exhibit will be up this week, featuring the work of artists aged 5-16.

Then Saturday, Prøve Gallery plays host to a two-day pop-up event by artist Heidi Blunt called Blubby Clubhouse, an experimental installation featuring Heidi’s paintings of rounded fat bodies (called “blubbies”) and her “more is more” mentality.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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