Volunteer Cellar Press Manager Anne Makepeace works on one of several presses located in The Grand Cellar Press. This mini-printing press is mobile, recently installed on a former popcorn cart.
The Grand Center for Arts and Culture is a busy the next month with several programs and community activities.
The Grand is well known for hosting monthly art exhibits. Currently it has three exhibition showing the art of area students. The 4 Pillars Gallery features art work from MSU, Mankato students. The Education room includes art created by Martin Luther College (MLC) students. Another wall features the current Artists of the Month. Each month of the school year The Grand exhibits artwork created by middle and high school students in New Ulm.
The gallery exhibits are regular features of the Grand. New exhibits and new artists will be featured next month. This month The Grand is expanding its out reach into the community.
Downtown Poetry Path
Visitors to downtown Minnesota Street are likely to see greater poetic license in decorating windows. The Grand in cooperation with The Brown County Historical Society (BCHS) and New Ulm Library who has started a Downtown Poetry path.
The Grand displays some of the unique card for sale as part of the Cards for a Cause program. Profits from sales of the car will go to NUMAS Haus to help purchase art supplies for the emergency shelter.
April is poetry month and to celebrate hundreds who have posted original poems in the windows of downtown businesses.
New Ulm Technology Services Librarian LeRoy Harris said the call for poems went out at the end of February. They were hoping for 50 submissions, but received 300.
The New Ulm school system saw high participation rates, with several poems submitted by students who got behind the Poetry Path. There was no limit on how many poems an individual could submit. The most submitted by a single person was three.
A few poems were written in Spanish, meaning the event became a bi-lingual…