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Arts Center leads outreach to incarcerated BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR

The White Bear Center for the Arts (WBCA) and the Lino Lakes Correctional Facility are teaming up with a Minneapolis-based author to provide programming to a population that traditionally has limited access to the arts. It’s all a part of a grant the WBCA secured from Arts Midwest GIG Fund. WBCA Outreach Coordinator Karen Parkman said when they were looking for the “perfect project” to apply for the grant, she knew author Marcie Rendon would be it. “She just seemed like such a perfect fit, both her amazing work as writer to the work she has done for underserved communities,” Parkman explained. “It was really a way to build off of Marcie’s incredible experience working with these communities, and also a way to engage people who have limited access to the arts and do so in a way that speaks to the themes that she writes about in her books.” Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet and freelance writer. As a community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists, writers and creators to pursue their art, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership and writing. She is an award-winning author of a new murder mystery series, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works. The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon has also curated community-created performances. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft

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Heavy metal social gathering Attendees gather during a previous Vehicle Fair in a parking lot near the Mahtomedi Community Education Center. A variety of large trucks and vehicles with special functions are available for viewing and exploration during the popular event, hosted by Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE). The family friendly event is returning this Thursday, May 18 from 6-7:30 p.m. No registration is required. The Mahtomedi Community Education Center is located at 1520 Mahtomedi Ave. A Touch-a-Truck event is happening in White Bear Lake the same day. See page 7 for details.

Records for peace benefits war-torn Ukraine BY DEBRA NEUTKENS STAFF WRITER

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Ukrainian artist Diana Smyk, 20, is living with her White Bear Lake sponsor Caroline Cardozo. She plans to finish her graphic arts studies by attending the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

When Chris Valenty spotted colorful notecards made by a Ukrainian artist at the White Bear Center for the Arts, it touched something deep. The White Bear Record Store coowner is sympathetic to the plight of Ukrainians in their war with Russia and knew he wanted and needed to do something to help. So Valenty contacted the artist, Diana Smyk, who was living in the Lviv region of Ukraine at the time, and asked if she’d provide the artwork for a flyer promoting the store’s upcoming fundraiser. Smyk agreed and suggested he contact her sponsor, Caroline

Cardozo, who happens to live in White Bear Lake. Cardozo, a well-traveled humanitarian and artist herself, was the one who made the cards featuring Smyk’s art. She learned of the young artist last September while on a personal mission to bring clothing, food and medicine to Ukrainian refugees living with very little just across the border with Poland. “One of our guides asked me to sell Diana’s art,” Cardozo recalled. “I said ‘no,’ but took photos of them and made cards. Chris saw them at the arts center for sale when he went to the George Floyd exhibit. The cards really spoke to

Author, playwright, poet and freelance writer Marcie Rendon will host two events at the White Bear Center for the Arts as well as two events at the Lino Lakes Correctional Facility.

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