“When art is everywhere, it changes the feeling of the downtown area.” -ERIK PEARSON, ARTIST
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OF LANESBORO’S NEW THEATER DISTRICT MURAL! Big cities have big theater districts. In New York, it’s Broadway. Chicago has one, too. Minneapolis? The Hennepin Theater District. All are venues for great shows and fun entertainment. People love them and they help give those places a distinct personality. Lanesboro has a theater district, too. Smaller, for sure, but one that offers wonderful theatre and live performances in two popular and historic downtown theaters: the Commonweal and the St. Mane. As we emerge from the pandemic, we look forward to Lanesboro’s theater district once again attracting audiences from Lanesboro, Bluff Country, and across the Midwest.
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A beautifully-crafted, community-painted mural is scheduled to be installed later in 2021 on the north end of Parkway Avenue to celebrate our town’s cultural vitality. Created by St. Paul artist Erik Pearson, the mural is the result of a partnership between the Commonweal Theatre and Lanesboro Arts. Pearson worked with local students as Lanesboro Arts' first artist-in-residence in 2001. Four years later he transformed the large plywood panels guarding the Commonweal’s “construction zone” into colorful murals depicting unique aspects of local life. Those murals later graced the interior of the Intermission Restaurant. Pearson designed the new Lanesboro mural on parachute-like material. It is a work that tells a story,
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