Join Lanesboro Arts artist resident Annie Hejny for an Artist Demonstration and Farewell Discussion about her river painting project in the Lanesboro Arts Gallery on Saturday, September 2 from 1pm – 4pm. Provide feedback or hear first hand about the themes explored and the stories revealed during four weeks of community engagement that had Lanesboro area participants telling stories about water and collaborating to create unique paintings utilizing water and sediment from the Root River.
Annie Hejny is a Minnesota-born emerging visual artist, intentionally exploring Minnesota’s waters to create abstract paintings with collected river water. She studied at the University of St. Thomas and St. Catherine University, earning a double-major B.A. in Elementary Education and Studio Art with Summa Cum Laude honors (2012).
Painting with collected river water and sediment is how Annie lives out her responsibility to the earth. Fully saturated with elements of the river itself, her paintings reflect the changing current and the luminosity of the water’s surface, as well as the foreboding shift in our relationship to these waters. The process has taught her that spending time with our waters and building a sense of ownership creates a deep care for the human impact on the wild ecology.