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Lake Superior 20/20 Studio Art Tour

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Lake Superior 20/20 Studio Art Tour

We are a group of studio artists living north of Duluth, MN on the outskirts of Two Harbors near Lake Superior, the greatest lake in the world.

Lake Superior 20/20 Studio Art Tour is a local artist studio tour that was started in September 2012. There is an approximate 20 mile route with 10 host studios, 3 host farms and over 40 artists showcasing their work. It is located between Duluth and Two Harbors with stops inland approximately 8 miles in from the shore of Lake Superior and other stops along the North Shore. The Tour takes place th

e last weekend of September, Friday 9/24 - Sunday 9/26, 2021. Please visit our website for artist information and a map of this year's route. Thank you for stopping by!

09/05/2026

Today our featured artist is Jon Hinkel.

I am a letterpress printer and hand bookbinder specializing in multi-color block-print illustrations.

09/04/2026

Our next featured artist is

Porcelain crafted with Lake Superior’s clays, sands, iron ore, agate, and yooperlite, finished with wood-ash glazes. Functional pottery that captures the look, feel, and story of the Lake Superior region. Enjoy a piece of the place you love and bring it home to enjoy every day. Inspired by training at Saint John’s Pottery (MN), Japan and Korea, I focus on local materials, their relationship to a sense of place, the story they tell and how they add meaning to our lives.

09/02/2026

Our featured artist today is Melanie Lieb of . She will be a guest artist at studio GR/PZ.

I make wearable fine art. Using a combination of fine metals, enamel and gemstones I create one of a kind bespoke and sculptural pieces of jewelry.

09/01/2026

Happy September! Our next feature is host artist Todd White, aka Sign of the Two Ravens Press.

The philosopher Anaxagoras said it is by having hands that humans are the smartest of all animals. I know this to be true, because my mind is fully alive when I work with my hands. Inspired by medieval manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th century, I work with my hands, a letter at a time, setting historic types and creating printing blocks to pay homage to a fifteen hundred year old tradition of book arts. I use my own writings & my encounters with the denizens of the greenwood at the edges of Duluth to give other old book arts traditions, drollery & fable, a modern touch.

I create limited edition modern broadsheets (single-sided prints that include words & images) and limited edition hand-bound books. I work on a Chandler & Price Old Style Letterpress, 1200 lbs. of iron cast in 1906, and powered by a foot treadle. I hand-set 15th-century inspired metal type. Images are photo-engravings from my pen & ink sketches or hand-carved linocuts. Due the size limitations of my press (roughly an 8”x10’ printing area), I have started to explore larger linocuts. I write most of the text for my prints, but do on occasion foray into traditional border ballads, fables, and faerie tales.

08/30/2026

Our featured artist today is Craig Blacklock

This year, I celebrate 50 years of photographing Lake Superior with my new book, SUPERIOR: A 50-Year Photographic Journey. Over decades of projects, the lake has been a constant companion—sometimes quiet, sometimes wild—but always inspiring. This book gathers my finest landscapes from past work alongside new images created especially for this collection, capturing the lake and its remote islands in ways both familiar and unexpected.

For 35 years, I worked with a tripod-mounted 4×5-inch view camera, savoring the slow, deliberate process of making each image. Digital photography opened new possibilities—especially from a kayak—and more recently, drone cameras have expanded my view to heights and angles I never imagined. Advances in editing and printing now let me revisit older photographs, restoring their original vibrance, like lifting a dull varnish from an old painting. Lake Superior touches each of us differently. Its moods, its light, its vastness—they stir feelings that words often fail to capture. I hope my photographs become “toys for the imagination.” Like a poem, each image offers a literal scene that may spark memory or adventure, but also a metaphorical suggestion that each viewer interprets in their own way.

Whatever draws you to the lake—the calm, the storm, the silence, the rhythms—I hope these images carry a piece of that experience. Please enjoy a selection of prints from the book and pick up a signed copy. With the holidays approaching, I’m happy to personalize books as gifts for friends and family, sharing a touch of the lake with those you love. If you can’t make it in person, please view the new work at Blacklockgallery.com

08/29/2026

Our next featured artist is Charis Blacklock.

I am a ceramic artist who primarily uses mid-fire stoneware to create comfortable and beautiful pottery for everyday use. Clay is a medium that I keep returning to because I love that the pieces get to live full lives after they leave my hands. I add in little functional details where I can and develop my own glazes to make the experience extra special. I also enjoy experimenting with bold designs and subtle textures on top of clean and light forms.

08/28/2026

Our next feature is host farm

We are dedicated to helping home and business owners transform outdoor spaces into landscapes that support aesthetic, ecological, economic, and social goals. We specialize in installing gardens that feature local and regional native plant species, including flowers, grasses, sedges, shrubs, and trees. These gardens directly support declining populations of pollinators, by providing habitat for monarch butterflies, native bees, honeybees, and a host of other pollinator species that are exhibiting major population decline. We’ve been creating pollinator habitat, one yard at a time, since 2015 and look forward to working with you to do the same.

08/26/2026

We're exited to have Dan Neff join the tour!

My inspiration is two-fold. The first is technique based. Glass is a very technical medium. From the physical skill-set to the chemistry of working colors, this aspect of the medium fulfills my desire to learn, practice and master. The second is my passion to express myself through glass.

Address

Various Artist Studios In And Around
Two Harbors, MN
55616

Opening Hours

Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://www.lakesuperior2020.com/

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