Art Gallery - Echoes and Shadows
Echoes & Shadows Art & Poetry Collaboration
Echoes & Shadows Poem Selection Begins June 3
In honor of our 50th Anniversary the theme for 2026 Echoes & Shadows is –
“A Season of Celebration”.
Email michelle.loken@fiftynorth.org with the poem you have chosen.
(Please understand that there is a chance that you may choose a poem that has already been chosen, but not removed from the website yet. You will be notified if that happens so you have the opportunity to choose another poem).
Poems will be removed from the website in the order of emailed request.
Artwork submission will be August 24 – 28. Drop off your artwork in Michelle’s office between 8am and 4pm.
Gallery Exhibition begins September 1 and ends October 30.
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Artwork must be inspired by the poem the artist chooses.
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Artwork must be framed and/or have a hook that works with our hanging system.
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Artwork submissions must include – first and last names, phone number, email, medium and sale price. Artist will receive 65% of a sale.
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Artist should provide an Artist Statement when submitting their artwork. Artist statement cannot exceed one page and must be 14 point font size and use Calibi font submitted in a Word document.
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Art can be created in any medium.
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There will not be an entry fee.
Contact Michelle at the email above or call 507-664-3707 if you have any questions.
Here are the 2026 Echoes & Shadows “A Season of Celebration” Poems
A Brief, Passing Love
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A Golden Poem
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Bound to Snow
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Celebrate the Earth
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CELEBRATION OF LIFE
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Celebration
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Cheers!
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Creeping Charlie
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Dakota and Me
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Don’t Tell Summer
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How Three Friends and Mary Oliver Saved a Life
Dorothy was having a bad day. It’s no good coming,
she told me on the phone. I’m locked up here. My father has come.
My mother has come. No, it’s no good speaking with the sitter.
She’d be 96 on Tuesday. O let the body give way before the mind.
I went anyway, carried in the birthday gift bag Maureen had sent
from half a continent away, found Dorothy upright, as usual,
in her red chair. Her fingers searched the tissue paper,
drew out a book: black, a white bird on front, one wing unfurled: Swan.
Turning pages with sure fingers, Dorothy began to read,
her voice no longer querulous, but clear and true,
once again the voice that had led thousands of students along a path
of words and art and spirit, into the world, into their lives.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story / and you are somewhere in it /
and it will never end until all ends.
No longer a prisoner in the house of her mind, for an hour
Dorothy wandered with Mary among the drowsy mountains,
in the fields, the woods.
Was I lost? No question. / Did I know where I was? Not at all. / Had I ever been happier in my life? Never.
It took three friends to save a life: one to find Mary’s book
and know it would be loved; one to deliver it and witness;
one to receive it, hungrily, and share the feast.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love / you very much.
For Dorothy Tredennick, 1914-2011. Italicized lines after third stanza: Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Boston: Beacon, 2010).
Jubilee Road
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Loving Light
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Ode to An Afternoon Interlude
for Judy
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Small Kitchen Magic
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Small-Town Grocery Parking Lot
A man In saggy jeans
walks briskly to his truck
holding a bunch of bananas
in one hand and a fistful of
generic flowers in the other
for a non-generic moment
in his kitchen where either
he puts the flowers in a Mason
jar with water peels a banana
cracks open a beer washes
down the banana while he
sits in front of a small black
and white tv or he comes into
the house walks up to his wife
at the kitchen sink from behind
tongues her earlobe and
whispers darling I bought
these for the heck of it
cuz I’m crazy totally
wildly in love with you
The Endless Celebration Season
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The Newest Green of Spring
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THIS MOMENT OF FOREVER
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Today I Ran Away
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Untitled
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Waking up in Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia
In the morning, first thing, is the magpie music.
The blue sock-octopus hangs on the clothesline.
Coffee from the red enamel French press
found in a Cambridge sidewalk box
comes in your Duluth Death Row coffee mug.
My paintings, of the Canadian island canoe landing,
of Newport harbor at dusk, are on your walls.
On the counter sit your Namibian baskets;
the bristlecone pine box rests
on a Rhode Island chest of drawers.
We range across a vast world to arrive
at the pleasure of another morning
like any morning in a new or faraway place,
waking up to a lengthening life
of partings and love.
What We Say
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When the World Feels Heavy
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Wind Shopping
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Perfect Until
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Artists, we are excited to showcase your art here at FiftyNorth, where hundreds of people visit each day!
Our exhibits run for approximately 5 weeks and can be an individual show or a group of artists working together. Contact us for more details.
Gallery space:
- 3 glass cases – 16in x 16in shelves (4-5 shelves per case)
- 4 wall spaces – 6 ft long x 4 ½ ft tall
- 1 long wall – 40 ft long x 4 ½ ft tall
