Pequot Lakes Art Crawl Recap

 
Pequot Lakes is a small classic town in central Minnesota, north of Brainerd. It's in the heart of Paul Bunyan Land and features a unique bobber-shaped water tower marking the community as a popular lake's area destination. They're a community that plans events all year long bringing people together for a variety of experiences. Bean Hole Days in July is one of their most popular events. You'll find the bobber theme throughout the town. 

This past weekend was their First Annual Bobber Art Crawl.  

A variety of authors and artists were available during the day to share and discuss their work with visitors. The following are a sampling from the art crawl.

I enjoyed catching up with two local authors from the recent Northwoods Art and Book Festival in Hackensack. They were selling and signing their books. 

ME Fuller artist and author of  cozy mysteries "Saving the Ghost" and "Blood on the Bridal Wreath."  

Julie Jo Larson, author of travel book "100 Things to Do in Minnesota Northwoods Before You Die."

Mystery/Thriller/Romane writer T. J. Jones had a booth but I overlooked getting his photo on that day.  

He  writes the Slater mysteries; "My Sister's Detective" "My Sister's Fear" "Slater's  Tempest" "Slater's Vendetta" and "Slater's Game." Jones's newest novel is "The Gypsy."

Artist Kathi Mann was set up in front of Timeless Appeal store, a consignment shop that sells home decor and furnishings by local craftsmen and artists. Many of the items found inside are what I call creative repurposed art.

Mann was demonstrating her artistry, repurposing an old ironing board into a welcome sign-perfect for an up north front porch. 

Inside Timeless Appeal, you can find some other pieces of Mann's art on repurposed pieces of wood.  

 

In 2019 Shannon and James Watkins, from Faith Boost, a custom and sign shop in Pequot Lakes, utilized the creative talents of 9 local art students, to implement a new community attraction, photo cutout boards. Local art students painted boards that depicted local area businesses. The boards feature cut-out faces for visitors and tourists to enjoy a photo op moment. The project was developed to promote artistic kids in town, promote businesses and give kids something productive to do. These photo boards are in front of local businesses scattered around the town. Since 2019 more of these photo boards are popping up all over town. Such a fun idea.   

I look forward to next year's art crawl. Pequot Lakes has created another winning community event that brings people together for a fun artistic and literary experience.