Each year the Frykmans choose a few area artists whose work will be displayed and offered for sale in addition to their own creations.
Sharon and Steve will have these four talented artists returning for the 2026 Art Along the Lake Fall Studio Tour September 25th – October 4th, 10:00am -5:00pm. Below is a brief bio about each of them.
Brittany Foster
Jeweler
Sterling Silver, Brass, Gold, Stone
Based in Ely, MN
Brittany has been a returning guest artist since our first tour in 2017. Her work is a balanced juxtaposition of bold geometric shapes and intricate organic forms. It reflects her own history of living in Minneapolis before settling in Ely.
Drawing on her 8 years as a custom jeweler in Minneapolis, she developed a technique to carve red hot silver into tiny pieces of the North Shore’s forest floor, including mushrooms, mosses, and lichens. These are paired with hand forged sterling silver, brass, or gold. Her work also features a variety of hand cut local stones.
The result is sophisticated and unique. Each piece is completely hand made.
JD Jorgenson
Ceramic Artist
Based in Kimball, MN
JD deeply believes that working with native or wild clays cultivates conversations and relationships between the material and the person. he strives in his process to understand the material for what it is through its strengths and limitations.
There are stones and other minerals in the clays that make themselves known through the making and firing process, which add beauty. His voice and work is often a reflection of the source material. The true beauty is the clay itself, unglazed and raw interacting with fire, charcoal, and the atmosphere in a wood burning kiln.
Steve first met Jorgensons at the Grand Marais Arts Festival. He had already fallen in love with JD’s work and purchased a piece at the Grand Marais Art Colony where JD was teaching workshops. Over the past 8 to 10 years we have collected several more pieces.
Megan Jorgenson
Ceramic Artist
Based in Kimball, MN
Megan creates functional and sculptural ceramics, with an emphasis on the relationship between surface and form. Her practice is fed by a curiosity about forming and firing methods, as well as the application of two dimensional processes on clay
Through her studio practice, she examines human relationship with place, and contemplates intrinsic, contradictory yearnings for belonging and freedom. Her work frames distant and local landscapes, with a goal of providing space for the examination of inner and outer worlds.
The Jorgensons run Maine Prairie Studio, a community ceramics studio and gallery in Kimball, MN.
Maxene Linehan
Mixed Media Artist
Paintings, Collages, Woven Paper
Based in Hovland MN
Maxene Linehan is a veteran educator and seasoned artist. She specialized in the connections between the arts and sciences to complete her M.A.Ed. at Hamline University.
Maxene believes that living with nature and wildlife in the North Shore forest influences her art, directly and subconsciously. Her current art features mostly abstract organic forms, often with environmental themes, bold colors, layers and sometimes playful details.
She has learned how art can guide us and enrich our lives, help us with home and garden design and other aesthetic choices. The connection of art, science and other realms of life leads to insight and understanding of the ways all things in nature and our lives are related and woven together.
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