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Visiting lecturer Brendan Baylor in his studio

Artist takes fresh look at historical clearcut

By Katherine Sorenson ’16 Brendan Baylor, a visiting art instructor at Northland College, has created a visceral woodcut print depicting the history of clearcutting in northern Wisconsin. The opening reception for his exhibition, Tracing Power: The Ecology and Economy of Place, will be held Friday, October 16 from 5-7 p.m….

Ethiopian girl stretches before running (Girls Gotta Run Foundation)

If You Give a Girl a Pair of Sneakers . . . .

Dr. Patricia E. Ortman '71 Creates Girls Gotta Run Foundation

…an innovative approach to creating safe spaces, ending child marriage, and expanding access to secondary school for vulnerable girls. Ortman was inspired to start GGRF after she read a 2006 article in the Washington Post describing the lives of teenage girls in Ethiopia who enter into early marriage, multiple pregnancies,…

Native American dancers

Northland Celebrates Indigenous Cultures Awareness Month

…of Lacrosse 6-8 p.m. Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute March 17 Indigenous Resistance: Art Exhibit & Lecture 6-8:30 p.m. Dexter Library 6 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit of linocut and silkscreen prints of indigenous struggles in Mexico from artist collectives. 7 p.m. Aurora Conley of Bad River Ojibwe Presents: From Bad…

Design board of Northland College graphic design student Victoria Schell

Summer of Coffee Love

…a wholesale network reaching across the upper Midwest. They supply roasts to other small town coffee shops, provide regular deliveries to local food pantries, and created a special blend for Northland College, named Fenenga Fuel, for the College’s first president. M.J. Fenenga. Schell worked directly with Kelley Linehan, who is…

Robert Rue Parsonage and Ruth Lull with sons at Northland College 1980s

Embracing the North

A cross country move, thirty-three years in the making.

Northland College alum Terry Daulton's painting of Crystal Bog

On Merging Art and Science

How One Class Changed My Life

…became immersed in bringing art and science together. In 2006, I had an opportunity to test the communication power of art. With twenty-six artists and scientists, we created Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the Northwoods an exhibit seen by over 100,000 people. The success inspired longer-term collaborations with the University…

Scuba divers on boat

WPR: Wisconsin Sea Grant Awards $2.8M For Great Lakes Research, Outreach Projects

…photography,” said Karl. “It really is a combination of science education, art education and opportunity for the kids to have a therapeutic experience in the water.” That’s the most fun part of the project for Toben Lafrancois, assistant adjunct professor of natural resources and philosophy at Northland College in Ashland….