Arts & Culture

MN Reads: "A to Zåäö" by Tara Sweeney and Nate Christopherson

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published December 12, 2019 at 9:08 AM CST

Curiosity, collaboration, the language we all speak - artist and author Tara Sweeney talks about it all.

She and her son, Nate Christopherson have just released a book called A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute, published by the University of Minnesota Press.

The American Swedish Institute will be holding a playful new exhibition of artifacts paired with the book's artwork at the end of February and there's more information about it here.

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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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