Join artist from the exhibit Leading with the Heart: Nordic, Sami, and Ojibwe Designs from Nature for a gallery opening presentation!

Ojibwe, Sámi, and Nordic artisans have always decorated domestic objects and ceremonial clothing with sacred patterns. Traditional arctic designs, woodland and garden flowers, vines, leaves, and berries symbolize a spiritual relationship with nature. Today, artists featured in this exhibition are preserving, reinterpreting, and revitalizing cultural patterns. They are exploring and honoring their cultural roots and ancestral traditions through art.  

The exhibition, first shown at the Nordic Center in Duluth, Minnesota, is curated by Wendy Savage (Duluth, Minnesota) and Alison Aune (Duluth, Minnesota). Participating artists are Alison Aune, Chi Ma’iingan (Cloquet, Minnesota), Laurel Sanders (Duluth, Minnesota), Wendy Savage, Dr. Lisa Savage (Binghamton, New York), and Marlene Wisuri (Duluth, Minnesota).