Current Artist

Paul Lajeuness

May 2026-

Opening date: May 9th, 5:30PM

Paul LaJeunesse received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Bowling Green State University in 2006. He is an Elizabeth Greenshields grant recipient, and a 2007 Fulbright fellow  where he created a body of landscape paintings in Iceland. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota and Iceland and group exhibitions in Saitama and Tokyo Japan, and numerous states in the United States. Paul is a public artist with 7 murals and multiple community murals. He has taught at Western Oregon University, Georgia State University, The College of St. Scholastica, Anderson Ranch Studio and The Grand Marais Art Colony, and currently at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.  His artwork investigates the relationship among individual memories of time, space, and place as a way in which we assign meaning to experiences and construct our sense of identity.

Tracy Murphy

Featured: November 2025-April 2026

Opening date: November 15, 2025

Through vibrant color and fearless emotion, Tracy Murphy turns her own story of survival into art that heals and connects. Murphy is a contemporary oil painter and cancer survivor from Western Wisconsin, and an alumni of the University of Minnesota Fine Art Program and the Milan Art Institute. Her emotionally charged works invite collectors to see themselves reflected in her paintings, and to experience art as a journey of healing and transformation. With bold contrast and expressive compositions, her paintings become a visual story of the beauty of transformation. Each painting reflects her belief that art has the power to heal, both the maker and the beholder.

Past Artists

John Davis

Featured: January 2025-October 2025

Opening date: February 15, 2025

John is an avid hobby photographer. He was born and raised in Arizona and is thriving in Minnesota. He is a self proclaimed artist by nature and education, and an IT enthusiast by profession.

Primarily, John enjoys the chase. Whether it is auroras, lightning or the exploration and capture of nature in all its forms. He’s always seeking to sustain the brief moment in time, and challenges himself to make the ordinary seem extraordinary through the timeless artistry of photography.

John has given a keynote talk about the capturing of lightning and auroras, and he actively seeks out the difficult, minute and short lived moments of life, including weddings, portraiture and nature’s wonders.