Locally Curated. Community Owned.

Have you heard of the Birkenstein Arts Movement? Don't worry; you will.

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

Jean Birkenstein/Duluth Art Institute

Tonight's reception at the Duluth Art Institutecelebrates the opening of three stunning art exhibits.

One of the artists has inspired a year-long project with middle school students ... and for more on her extraordinary story ... we turned to her son, Robin Washington.

You can read more about Jean Birkenstein here.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
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.