Take Another Step

Take Another  Step

October 3 — 30, 2009

Opening Reception, October 3, 5-9 p.m.
Still Walking: The Poetry of Tenacity, October 15, 7-9 p.m.
Closing & Community Potluck, October 30, 6-9 p.m.

Local artist Mark Edwin Carlson is primarily a painter, but he always seeks to convey a sense of the greater narrative; a socially conscious mission that provides the foundation for each new body of work. In TAKE ANOTHER STEP, Carlson’s most recent installment, he chronicles his own experience of walking the Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3 Day in honor of his mother who is a proud breast cancer survivor. On his 72 hour journey, Carlson says that he witnessed, “people who were stunningly positive, and acts of gratitude from people I’d never met.” Each work in TAKE ANOTHER STEP also tells the story of the women that he trained and walked with. That is to say, it begins to tell their stories, as each is ripe with history, struggle, and eventual triumph.

Please join us in viewing these technically amazing and life-affirming works. Also, don’t miss a free and very special reading by local poets, hosted by Lisa Calame-Berg, entitled, Still Walking: The Poetry of Tenacity (date and time listed above).