Join Annie Hejny for an Artist Talk and Q & A at the Lanesboro Arts Gallery! At 4 pm on Thursday, February 13th, Annie will share the new salt-inspired artwork she created for her recent solo exhibition, Salt of a Lost Winter. This artist talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

This work was created following her February 2024 visit to Lanesboro, during which she encouraged folks to embrace the winter season through creative engagements including forest bathing, a book-based artist talk, and a gouache painting workshop.

Annie Irene Hejny is a voice for the earth. She has exhibited nationally including at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, and Phipps Center for the Arts. Her artwork is held in private collections in 30 states and internationally, including Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Vikings Art Collection, Target Corporation, and University of Minnesota Physicians Clinic.

Artist residencies include: Lanesboro Arts and the Jerome Foundation, Science Museum of Minnesota Artist at Pine Needles, Grand Marais Art Colony, and Anderson Center at Tower View. She has been awarded the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant (2020), Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space Grant (2023), and Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individual Grant (2024). As a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and a Minnesota Water Steward, she explores themes around our human connection with nature and freshwater protection.

Hejny is represented by salonlb. (Chicago) and Veronique Wantz (Minneapolis).

Annie Hejny is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the votes of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.