Visit the Sacred Water Shared Future Shanty! Art Shanty Projects intentionally creates an impermanent art village on Minnesota lake ice amid changing climate and environment. With a spirit of embracing challenges through creativity, we support an ecosystem that inspires everyone to create and participate in art, thrive in winter, and build community.
Minnesota is home to 51 native species of freshwater mussels that mostly live in rivers. This ecologically important group of filter feeding bottom dwellers experienced major declines in abundance and distribution in the last 100 years, resulting in nearly half of Minnesota’s species to be listed as threatened or endangered at state or federal levels. Join us for a presentation by Jordan Holcomb — Malacologist with the Minnesota DNR.
Visit the Sacred Water Shared Future Shanty! Art Shanty Projects intentionally creates an impermanent art village on Minnesota lake ice amid changing climate and environment. With a spirit of embracing challenges through creativity, we support an ecosystem that inspires everyone to create and participate in art, thrive in winter, and build community.
Visit the Sacred Water Shared Future Shanty! Art Shanty Projects intentionally creates an impermanent art village on Minnesota lake ice amid changing climate and environment. With a spirit of embracing challenges through creativity, we support an ecosystem that inspires everyone to create and participate in art, thrive in winter, and build community.
Where There Is Water showcases paintings, prints, and drawings developed through repeated travel to Duluth, Red Wing, and Banning State Park near Sandstone. These locations — each shaped by different moments in Minnesota’s industrial history — are connected by rivers and lakes whose presence enabled movement, industry, and settlement while leaving lasting marks on the surrounding landscape.
Where There Is Water showcases paintings, prints, and drawings developed through repeated travel to Duluth, Red Wing, and Banning State Park near Sandstone. These locations — each shaped by different moments in Minnesota’s industrial history — are connected by rivers and lakes whose presence enabled movement, industry, and settlement while leaving lasting marks on the surrounding landscape.
Step onto the ice. Join a movement of repair across Silverwood’s frozen lake. This Valentine’s Day, interdisciplinary artist and choreographer Victoria Bradford Styrbicki will perform a semaphore-inspired dance in an in response to the distress of our waterways — sending signals that ask: How do we move through this? Come witness and receive these messages, and signal back with hope and care.
Where There Is Water showcases paintings, prints, and drawings developed through repeated travel to Duluth, Red Wing, and Banning State Park near Sandstone. These locations — each shaped by different moments in Minnesota’s industrial history — are connected by rivers and lakes whose presence enabled movement, industry, and settlement while leaving lasting marks on the surrounding landscape.
Where There Is Water showcases paintings, prints, and drawings developed through repeated travel to Duluth, Red Wing, and Banning State Park near Sandstone. These locations — each shaped by different moments in Minnesota’s industrial history — are connected by rivers and lakes whose presence enabled movement, industry, and settlement while leaving lasting marks on the surrounding landscape.
City of Brainerd and Great River Greening are partnering to host a Biochar Demonstration at Rotary Riverside Park. Live demonstration: converting buckthorn wood waste into biochar using on-site kilns.
Where There Is Water showcases paintings, prints, and drawings developed through repeated travel to Duluth, Red Wing, and Banning State Park near Sandstone. These locations — each shaped by different moments in Minnesota’s industrial history — are connected by rivers and lakes whose presence enabled movement, industry, and settlement while leaving lasting marks on the surrounding landscape.
It’s Family Day out on the ice! Treat yourself to this local winter tradition and learn all about ice fishing from expert instructors. We will cover the equipment used, fishing techniques and ice safety out on Wirth Lake. Learn about water ecology and lake life under the ice from MPRB Environmental staff. There will be limited heated shelters for participants to share. There will be limited heated shelters for participants to share. And if you’re lucky you will catch (and release) your very own fish. All family groups are welcome to enjoy this day on the ice! Please register for this event.
The Sacred Water Shared Future campaign is powered by you! The heart of this centennial celebration is the incredible variety of events planned and hosted by our partners — community groups, nonprofits, businesses, schools, and individuals who feel a connection to the Mississippi River.
We do not host events ourselves; instead, we serve as a central hub for river-focused activities happening across the Twin Cities throughout 2026.