This Thursday there is a concert and closing event for the summer exhibit at the Duluth Art Institute In & Out of Context, the photographs of Tim White. White’s exhibit pairs his black and white images with poems, stories and songs and contributor and local musician Gaelynn Lea is performing. This is final of 4 events connected to this community oriented exhibit which drew together many local talents for the original and inspiring book to the exhibit at the DAI. The event is Thursday, August

This week one of the most visited festival of the summer happens, Tall Ships Duluth . But this timethe festival has a partner; the Annual Art in Bayfront Park bringing the work of 180 jury selected artists from Minnesota and beyond.

Abstract painter AJ Atwater splits her creative time between life on Lake Superior's North Shore and the "canyons of Manhattan" she says. The result is a vibrant and sustained inspiration in her inviting abstract paintings.

Duluth composer and media artist Kathy McTavish has partnered with the Duluth Art Institute to offer an "eight-week experience" free and open to the public called Duluth Quantum Computing Project: Storytelling in a Digital Age.

This Friday and Saturday, folks will be gathering in a barn in Wrenshall for the Annual Free Range Film Festival, happening every year since 2004. Over 35 films, long and short, local and from far away will be shown in a delightfully funky barn over two days. The films are not all shorts but there are a lot in the mix. The festival opens Friday at 7pm with a short called Free Associates by John Akre, "a n animated treatise on the right of free association, the best right of all." according to