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2024 Watermark News

2024 Watermark Art Festival Setting up July 20. Woman hanging picture on wall of booth at Art Festival several other paintings already hung.
2024 LPTV covers Watermark Art Festival
Watermark Art Festival booth 2024. Four women in a booth checking out the merch.
KAXE covers 2024 Watermark Art Festival
Sonja Larsen showing her personal stamp for her prints.
KAXE Area Voices covers Sonja Larson with Nature Printing May 2024
Rachel Breen, A portrait of her looking straight ahead at the viewer. She has a pretty smile and glinting blue-grey eyes.
KAXE Area Voices with Rachel Breen March 2024
KAXE covers Watermark High School Show March 2023
Smart wars character dressed in white with large white feather headdress and white triangular hood including red and blue nose decoration. The bodice and shoulders are covered in white material resembling lether each having a red circle with a red cross in the center. Long feathers hang down the back. A wide white belt with small black buttons. White and gold feathers embelish the waist. The arms are covered in white armor-like plastic jointed at the elbow. The legs can't be seen.
2024 KAXE/KBXE interview Rory Wakemup
2024 inBemidji Fall Magazine cover with people weaving. text om ocver reads in Bemidji Weaving water. A landscape of creativity at Watermark Art Festival. This photo was taken on the south side lawn at the Watermark art Center. One weaver sits on a wooden benchwith a floor loom while another watches her work. Other artist tents can be seen in the background.
2024 inBemidji Fall Magazine

2023 Watermark News

Young woman wearing blue tee shirt, long brown hair telling story into mic at StorySLAM.
LPTV covers Winter Tales Story SLAM December 2023
2023 Halloween Spooky SLAM. Woman in red coat and hat standing in front of a mic stand. Two people at the bar.
LPTV covers Spooky Story SLAM October 2023
KAXE covers Ninanda Minwaajim: I Seek to Tell a Good Story September 2023
Pioneer 10-21 Maker Meet with Jill Neumann
Pioneer 10-21 Maker Meet with Jill Neumann
McKnight Newsletter Key to culture. 6 images with person presenting, large red art piece, person talking to child, woman with scarf, man talking about native art piece, and pencil drawing of man.
McKnight Foundation: Is Culture The Key To Vibrant and Equitable Arts Communities?
2023 Watermark Art Festival. A booth of carved leather goods and carved, painted and decorated gourds.
LPTV covers 2023 Watermark Art Festival
2024 High School Show. A Mom type woman with little girl standing by her side and pointing at a picture on the wall. A man is carrying a small girl and looking at the other wall art hanging in the area.
LPTV covers Annual High School Show April 2023
In Bemidji 2023 Spring Edition (Pioneer) highlights Watermark. Cover shows man adjusting painting on wall, in "behind the scenes" issue
In Bemidji 2023 Spring Edition (Pioneer) highlights Watermark
2023 LPTV covers "Wild Whimsy of the Northwoods Exhibit" depicting racoon in tree
2023 LPTV covers "Wild Whimsy of the Northwoods Exhibit"
Blair Treuer's "You Are The Medicine"
KAXE covers Blair Treuer's exhibit Becoming: The Transition from Childhood to Womanhood June 2023
Interview with Juror Karen Goulet at the NW Art Exhibit in Middle River April 2023
Interview with Juror Karen Goulet at the NW Art Exhibit in Middle River April 2023
PBS Common Ground's Season Launch Party "Aabijijiwan" on YouTube
PBS Common Ground's Season Launch Party "Aabijijiwan" on YouTube
KAXE covers screening of Shaawan Francis Keahn's A Place on the Edge of Breath march 2023
2023 Bemidji Pioneer: Watermark Art Center's inaugural StorySlam sparks local interest in storytelling
2023 Bemidji Pioneer: Watermark Art Center's inaugural StorySlam sparks local interest in storytelling- Bemidji Pioneer

2022 Watermark News

Paul and Babe in Bemidji
Smithsonian names Bemidji 2022 top 15 towns. Highlights Watermark.
Dispossed by Paula Swenson
LPTV Covers 2022 Bi-annual Members Show featuring a variety of artistic mediums from Watermark Art Center members.
Pointe aux Chenes Lost Treasure Map - Monique Verdin
LPTV In Focus 2022: Watermark Art Center Showcasing Exhibit From Both Ends of the Mississippi River
Multicolored collage of a black boy swimming in a back and green pool with two giraffes and a zebra.
LPTV In Focus (YouTube): Watermark Art Center Explores “Rights of the Child”
A quilt with multi colored squares with flowers embroidered in the middle. In the center square there are words embroidered with the date.
LPTV Watermark Art Center’s New Exhibit Gives “A Quilter’s Perspective”
2022 LPTV covers Watermark's 5th Anniversary depicting woman viewing works in the lakeview gallery
2022 LPTV covers Watermark's 5th Anniversary

2021 Watermark News

Art in the Park Banner
2021 Bemidji Pioneer: Art in the Park returning to Bemidji in July for 53rd year
LPTV-Mashkawiziiwag
2021 February Karen Goulet with LPTV discuss Photographer Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene and her exhibit "Mashkawiziiwag"

2020 Watermark News

2020 Holiday Art Market with Betsy Melin, In Focus (LPTV December 18)
2020 Holiday Art Market with Betsy Melin from In Focus (LPTV December 18)
It's Only Clay Exhibit
2020 December KAXE Northern Community Radio: Lori Forshee-Donnay, Executive Director with Katie Carter
Joachim Berthold Sculptures
2020 November Common Ground: Joachim Berthold's bronze sculpture at Watermark (YouTube)
2020 Online Art Auction Fundraiser
2020 Online Art Auction Fundraiser TV spot (Facebook Link)
July 2020 Lori Forshee-Donnay interview with Valley News Live at Noon
July 2020 Lori Forshee-Donnay interview with Valley News Live at Noon
5 Plain Questions
Joe Williams interviews Karen Goulet regarding her journey through the art world as a Native American
WAC peeper
In Focus: Watermark Art Center Set to Reopen July 1st (June 26, 2020)
Erik the Travel Guy PBS
June 2020 Erik the Travel Guy (PBS, filmed in 2019) visits Bemidji (Watermark at 6:08)
Create at Home Craft Kits
Watermark Art Center Offering “Stay Home” Craft Kits (LPTV May 12, 2020)
Thomas Stillday Bead work
Watermark Art Center Extending Exhibit Through July (LPTV May 27, 2020)
Jill Neumann
Jill Neumann, Art Education Program Director
Bank Forward Donates to Watermark
Bank Forward Donates to Watermark (Bemidji Pioneer Jan 25, 2020
Mn Explore Colorful Bears
Explore Minnesota interview with Education Director, Jill Oakes (January 2020)

2019 Watermark News

Blair Treuer
Blair Treuer’s textile exhibit “Portraits” opens at Watermark (KAXE Jan 9, 2020)
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Akinomaage Artist Interview: Vern Northrup, visual storyteller (KAXE Dec 30, 2019)
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Area Voices: Gillian Bedford, Painter ( KAXE Dec 5, 2019)
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island
Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island is Watermark (KAXE Oct 30, 2019)
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The Watermark Art Center in Bemidji hosts 15th annual It’s Only Clay curated exhibit and competition (KAXE Oct 8, 2019)
Mark Makers Art Camp
Watermark holds Mark Makers Art Camp (Bemidji Pioneer Sep 29, 2019)
Monique Verdin, Photo by Sabree Hill
Monique Verdin, Photo by Sabree Hill
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Nibikaang, the Ojibwe word meaning “from the water” is a new, collaborative, multi-media exhibit. (KAXE July 19, 2019)
Peterson wins award at Watermark BMS exhibit
Peterson wins award at Watermark Bemidji Middle School exhibit (Bemidji Pioneer July 2019)
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Watermark Art Center presented several awards during the 2019 opening of the spring high school exhibit. (Bemidji Pioneer April 21, 2019)
Watermark Showcasing Pieces by Indigenous Artists
Watermark Showcasing Pieces by Indigenous Artists (LPTV March 8, 2019)
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Creative Spirit Fiber Festival (KAXE February 22, 2019)
Berthold Exhibit
Work of well-known German sculptor on exhibit at Watermark (Bemidji Pioneer January 2019)
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“Picking Sweetgrass with Ma.” Kent Estey in this segment of Area Voices (KAXE Jan 11, 2019)
Berthold Exhibit
In Focus: Watermark Art Center Presents “A Work In Process” (LPTV Jan. 5 2019)

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