Now on exhibit, through February 29, watercolor and acrylic paintings and ink wash drawings by Anishinaabe artist Carl Gawboy. An observant illustrator of everyday Ojibwe life for decades, Mr. Gawboy’s work can be found in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Historical Society, the Tweed Art Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and the Madeline Island Museum. Mr. Gawboy is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and the former professor of Art and Native Studies at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth. A special screening of the documentary film “Carl Gawboy Portrait: The Art of the Everyday” will be shown at Washburn’s Harbor View Event Center on Tuesday, February 11 at 7:00 pm followed by an artist reception and Q&A with Mr. Gawboy and the film producer Lorraine Norrgard.
