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Flaten Art Museum
Center for Art and Dance
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, Minnesota 55057

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Th: 10 – 8 p.m.

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    Stay Awhile: Conversations for Loving the Planet

    September 26, 2026, 1-3 p.m.
    Center for Art and Dance Lawn

    About the Event

    Settle into a pair of colorful lawn chairs and slow down for a few minutes with a friend or someone new. Stay Awhile is a playful conversation experience inspired by Alyssa Baguss’s public art project Face to Face: 20 Questions That Lead to Loving the Planet, along with the themes of observation, relationship, and connection found in Flaten Art Museum’s current exhibition Michon Weeks: Mystic Topographies.

    Using a custom-designed paper “chatterbox” featuring original artwork by Michon Weeks, pairs will move through eight questions that spark curiosity, storytelling, reflection, and a deeper connection to the natural world. Part conversation, part nostalgia, part invitation to pay attention — Stay Awhile offers a space to slow down, connect, and spend a little extra time outdoors together.

    Acomódate en un par de coloridas sillas de jardín y tómate unos minutos para relajarte con un amigo o con alguien nuevo. «Quédate un Rato» es una experiencia de conversación lúdica inspirada en el proyecto de arte público de Alyssa Baguss «Face to Face: 20 Questions That Lead to Loving the Planet», junto con los temas de la observación, las relaciones y la conexión que se encuentran en la exposición actual del Museo de Arte Flaten, «Michon Weeks: Mystic Topographies».

    Mediante una «caja de conversación» de papel diseñada a medida, decorada con ilustraciones originales de Michon Weeks, las parejas irán respondiendo a ocho preguntas que despiertan la curiosidad, invitan a contar historias, fomentan la reflexión y profundizan la conexión con el mundo natural. En parte conversación, en parte nostalgia y en parte invitación a prestar atención, «Quédate un Rato» ofrece un espacio para tomarse un respiro, conectar y pasar un rato más juntos al aire libre.


    Alyssa Baguss

    About the Artist

    Alyssa Baguss is a Minneapolis based artist and creative director who spends her days producing public art experiences that you didn’t even know you wanted. Her work includes drawings, large scale installation, and interactive public happenings that exist in galleries, parks, on bodies of water, and even flying through the skies over Minneapolis. She is a joy seeker who loves spending time in her studio, leading creative teams, and connecting the public to nature, each other, and themselves. She is also the first artist to serve as a park director within the Three Rivers Park District at Silverwood Park, a regional center for the arts and environment in Saint Anthony, Minnesota, which welcomes over 500,000 guests annually through a sculpture garden, indoor gallery, event center, and year-round art and environmental programming.

    Alyssa is a 2024–25 McKnight Community Engaged Artist Fellow, a multi-year recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative and Creative Support Grants, and a Jerome Foundation Fellow for Emerging Artists. She has also participated in the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and has been supported through a Forecast Public Art Mid-career Artist Professional Development Grant.

    Alyssa Baguss es una artista y directora creativa afincada en Minneapolis que dedica sus días a crear experiencias de arte público que ni siquiera sabías que querías. Su obra incluye dibujos, instalaciones a gran escala y eventos públicos interactivos que tienen lugar en galerías, parques, en la superficie del agua e incluso surcando los cielos de Minneapolis. Es una persona en busca de la alegría a la que le encanta pasar tiempo en su estudio, dirigir equipos creativos y conectar al público con la naturaleza, con los demás y consigo mismo. Además, es la primera artista en ocupar el cargo de directora de parque en el Three Rivers Park District, concretamente en Silverwood Park, un centro regional dedicado a las artes y el medio ambiente situado en Saint Anthony (Minnesota), que recibe a más de 500 000 visitantes al año gracias a su jardín de esculturas, su galería cubierta, su centro de eventos y su programación artística y medioambiental durante todo el año.

    Alyssa es becaria del programa McKnight Community Engaged Artist para el periodo 2024-25, ha recibido durante varios años las subvenciones de la Iniciativa para Artistas y de Apoyo a la Creatividad de la Junta de las Artes del Estado de Minnesota, y es becaria de la Fundación Jerome para Artistas Emergentes. También ha participado en el Programa de Exposiciones de Artistas de Minnesota del Instituto de Arte de Minneapolis. Su obra se ha expuesto en el Centro de Arte de Rochester, el Centro de Artes del Libro de Minnesota, el Museo de Arte Americano de Minnesota y el Instituto de Arte de Minneapolis, y ha recibido el apoyo de una beca de desarrollo profesional para artistas en mitad de su carrera de Forecast Public Art.

    Produced by Alyssa Baguss for the Flaten Art Museum

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