University of Minnesota Duluth

First in Several Artworks by Catherine Meier seen along the North Shore of Lake Superior As visitors make a trip up the North Shore for Fall Colors, they can seek out and enjoy recent art by Finland, Minnesota artist Catherine Meier at several stops up Highway 61. The University of Minnesota Duluth is the first stop, in the newly refreshed fourth floor of the Kathryn A. Martin Library. There, visitors and students alike can read, write, and reflect under Meier’s Navigating by Color series, three paintings entitled “East,” “South,” and “West, from where the Baptism River meets Lake Superior.” Meier’s work, funded by a University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment grant, is inspired by her life on the shores of Lake Superior and by Jonathan Raban’s book, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and its Meanings. Raban writes of Polynesian sailors who once sailed the ocean without the aid of...