St. Paul artist commissioned for Northfield
mural makes history
Posted By: voxpopuli, 5/12/2022 7:46:32 AM
A St. Paul artist is making her mark and making history in Northfield. Artist Lori Greene created a mural for the Northfield City Council Chambers. The piece is called “The River Connects Us.” The mural shows different elements of Northfield, its river, trees, and people who aren’t always represented. (snip) Greene hopes when people see her mural in the council chambers, they see themselves. “I hope they are inspired,” Greene said. “I hope it’s interesting to them. If they look at it deeply, there’s a lot of layers. You can see multiple layers because we are all much deeper than we appear to be.”
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A St. Paul artist is making her mark and making history in Northfield.
Artist Lori Greene created a mural for the Northfield City Council Chambers.
The piece is called “The River Connects Us.” The mural shows different elements of Northfield, its river, trees, and people who aren’t always represented. (snip) Greene hopes when people see her mural in the council chambers, they see themselves.
“I hope they are inspired,” Greene said. “I hope it’s interesting to them. If they look at it deeply, there’s a lot of layers. You can see multiple layers because we are all much deeper than we appear to be.”
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Minnesota 5th District Congresswoman Ilhan Omar took a lot of criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for her vote against a Russian oil ban last month.
It passed overwhelmingly in the House by a vote of 414 to 17, with just Rep. Omar, one other Democrat, and 15 Republicans voting against it.
“I don’t think it’s actually that controversial,” Omar said.. (snip) Omar is also authoring a bill in Congress to restrict the use of “no-knock” warrants.
A young man is charged with riding a motorcycle through a deployed school bus stop arm and hitting a student as he crossed the road the road in Edina.
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good reason NOT to hire third grade "artists" like her.. looks like street trash "art" in uptown mogadapolis