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Where's Art? with Annie Dugan: bring back the smoke break (as an art break)

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published July 27, 2020 at 6:30 PM CDT

There are several ways to get an art break in your day this week.

One is a real, live, in-person (albeit masked and physically-distanced) art opening, as Adam Swanson's new exhibit at the Great Lakes Aquarium takes a look at animals on the federal threatened and endangered species lists.The Mirrors by Adam Swanson art reception opens tomorrow (Tuesday, July 28) at 6:00pm.

Another way to take a break is to follow the suggestions of ceramist Yuko Nishikawa:What Happened to My Mood When I Started Painting Once a Day

And if you really want to annoy/unnerve your kid, there's always this little exercise from New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake:How to Draw a Child

Photo Caption: "My Real Name"

Rusty Patched Bumblebee
https://www.adamswanson.com/2020/my-real-name

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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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