Quilt Exhibition - Wood City Quilters

Profiles In Creativity Photography Exhibit - Glenn Swanson

June Lind - a Quilted Tribute - OACC, Wood City Quilters, and the community who loves our regions ninety-three-year-old phenomenal quilter

Our Creative Ecosystem - OACC Glenn Swanson and Staff

Oldenburg House has been a venue on the Art Roundabout tour since its inception and also serves as the headquarters for OACC. We hope you will stop by to visit our exhibits and learn more about our organization - it really is about you!

The market opens its 2026 season with its annual Customer Appreciation Day. 20 plus artisan vendors.

Located in Moose Lake, next to the S Moose Horn River bridge, nestled along the river in Generations Park. Find us at the pavilion along with entertainment, education & demonstrations. Run by local family farms offering a large variety of high quality fresh fruits, vegetables & flowers along with jams, jellies, sauces, honey & baked goods & more. Meats Beef-Chicken-Pork. May-Oct: Sat 9am-1pm.

Personal Artist Studio/Workplace

I am a painter and muralist fascinated by the way science fiction suggests a future for humanity transformed by environmental changes and technological innovations. My invented landscapes ask viewers to consider unfamiliar places, such as the lines between true false, fiction and documentation, natural growth and urban development.

In the early 2000’s I worked in Antarctica for the National Science Foundation where I developed knowledge of climate related experiments. Currently, I’m a member of the Twin Ports Art Science Collaborative and my work has been influenced by researchers and activists from the Lake Superior watershed and the SPRUCE climate change project in the Chippewa National Forest.

Artist Studio

“Painting is a way to capture the moment. I enjoy connecting my life to the earth and water with paint. My images reflect nature’s impact on my life.”

Sue paints in oils, acrylics, and watercolor and frequently utilizes other media or found objects in combination with her paintings in her mixed media pieces. The subjects she chooses vary from abstracts to representational landscapes, lake scenes, florals and still lifes

Artist Studio/Workplace

I come from a family of artists, and I always admired what they did. As a child, I was drawn to creating things myself. I grew up in the country, and around the age of 8 or 9, I spent a lot of time alone. I was the youngest sibling, and my brothers and sisters were much older than me. My main companion was our German Shepherd, Tuffy. I’d be out in the woods with him, playing and exploring. The forest became my playground — it’s where I felt free and inspired. That’s when I started sketching. I was drawn to trees, animals, and nature — everything around me.

My art is a celebration of nature and the whimsical—where vibrant acrylic landscapes meet the playful colors and the animals that inhabit them. From rolling, hills to the quiet marshy wetlands, swamps and streams to a curious gaze of a fox and rabbit in the tall grass, my work is all about capturing the magic and personality found in nature.

Art Exhibition - Featured Artist Deb Manisto

The theater gallery will have 2D and 3D art on display from Kris Nelson and 20+ local artists. The featured artist is Deb Manisto, an emerging watercolorist. She was first introduced to watercolor painting in Carlton High School and has continued to grow in her art which brings so much joy to her life!

The Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery is located in Cloquet. The Arts Center includes a space for local artists to showcase their work and provides the community with a full season of plays, concerts and events.

Randy Samarzia, photographer exhibits stunning nature photographs. Randy states, "I've really enjoyed capturing images of the Northland, including the port city of Duluth and Lake Superior's North Shore. I capture my images using my Canon 5D and 5D II cameras."

Carlton County Historical Society collects and shares the histories of Carlton County, finding multiple voices and paths that connect our past, present, and future. We not only collect artifacts and remember important events, but we also gather the countless individual stories left behind by our ancestors and neighbors.

Artist Studio/Workplace

My art practice has been evolving for more than forty years. Initially inspired by the avant-garde movements of the 1960s, I was later drawn to conceptual art, which challenged traditional ideas of form and aesthetics and led me to question their relevance.

I spent a long time exploring nested spheres—just studying their structure, really looking at the form of the sphere itself. That’s where the work began. From there, I started incorporating landscape elements. Most of the imagery comes from the same general regions—places like Sisi in Italy, Rome, and Toledo in New Mexico. And then there are pieces based on Jay Cooke. They all feed into the work in different ways. In terms of technique, I’m working with multiple images. I take fragments from each and fit them into the curvature of the sphere, using a curved grid to guide the composition.

Storefront and Workplace

We are a team of 8, hand-pouring your candles and home fragrance in a dedicated studio by the thousands. We only use 100% soy wax, farmed in the US. Our fragrances are phthalate-free and we don't add anything fancy or frilly. What we do add is an element of sound. All of our candles are made with wooden wicks that crackle softly as they burn, like tiny little bonfires.

Woodfire Candle Company is an artisan, woman-owned and operated, candle studio located in the heart of Esko, Minnesota. We began in 2012, pouring one candle at a time, in a kitchen at our home in Duluth, Minnesota. We gifted friends and family with our one-of-a-kind creations which turned into selling to local boutiques and shops around our area. We quickly outgrew the kitchen. Then the basement. Then the garage.

Artist Studio/Workplace - Hosting Other Creatives

Pottery has become a big part of my life, and teaching it is what I love most—not as much the production side, but I still do it to support myself. I also want to create a space where people can come and talk about pottery, similar to the experience at Canal Park, where you can see a glassblower in action.

These pots are a traditional form of Korean pottery, quite old and typically made in two pieces that are joined together. I’ve been trying to make them in one piece, though I’m not sure exactly what inspired me to do that. There’s just something about them that really catches your eye—the sheer volume and their simplicity. They're not overly intricate, though some of mine are a little quirky, which I love. There’s also this almost coral-like texture in the modern interpretation, where the surface is designed to reflect the moon.

Workplace - Bread in the Meadow

Artisan breads and pastries, from scratch with a focus on local and seasonal ingredients.

After college, Elizabeth worked a few jobs – substitute teaching, marketing, and full-time teaching – but something about good bread was enticing (maybe it’s the delicious smell). In 2017, we started Bread in the Meadow out of our home kitchen under Minnesota's Cottage Food Exemption with the mission to provide good bread for our neighbors.

Our Creative Ecosystem - a core initiative of OACC

Meet staff and board members of the Art Roundabout's hosting organization. They are here to provide roundabout materials and suggestions as well as information about its programs. They will assist in on-boarding you to the OACC web platform and listen to you - our community.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement, it is the mission of oacc to generate meaningful impact within our region so the place we know as home is a place where creatives thrive.

Committing ourselves to the sustainability of our community by purchasing goods and services from our neighbors and discovering the great joy of knowing our local food producers, service providers, artists, artisans and craftsmen.

Artist Studio/Workplace

At Dragon Fire Ceramics, our vision is to bring clay arts back to the area. Owner and artist Kitty Sabelman is committed to inspiring the community to express themselves through clay arts and pottery, and she is focused on providing many different experiences for guests at the studio.

Dragon Fire Ceramics is located in beautiful Wrenshall, Minnesota, just a short distance from Duluth. This whole area has a rich history of clay mining and clay brick construction tracing back decades. Using this nature-made clay, we offer a well-supplied studio that’s perfect for anyone who would like to get dirty and try their hand at pottery making.

10:00 AM - Kid's Korner - Deborah Winchell, children's book - Rocky's Lighthouse Adventure: A Lake Superior Tale

11:00 AM - Janis Fairbanks - Sugar Bush Babies - Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother

NOON - Kid's Korner - Katherine Johnson, The Mukluk Ball

1:00 PM - Patrick Stevens - Natural Wonders (2025 Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards)

2:00 PM - Jana Peterson - Editor Pine Knot News (Award Winning Newspaper of our Region)

Owner Ryan Schmidt had this to say about NP Junction Books, “I thought that our community needed something just a little bit different downtown for people to come and hang out at and that's kind of the idea is for it to be a community space, not just the store.”