MYKKANEN ON ART IN THE PARK VANDALISM

——FROM THE OFFICE OF MILES MYKKANEN—— During the late hours of August 20, the Emberlight Festival’s 2023 edition of Art in the Park was vandalized. Art in the Park is Emberlight’s annual large-installation outdoor show that highlights gifted artists from across the Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota. The delinquents used spray paint to deface … Read more

FINAL EMBERLIGHT SHOW TO FEATURE POET LAUREATE, MUSICIANS

Pamela Jansson Emberlight Festival IRONWOOD — When Helen Fashbaugh recalls her late husband, she can’t help waxing rhapsodic. “I was always in awe of how his brain worked and how he saw the world with such specificity and abstraction, if that makes sense,” she said. “He could find complexity in just about everything. He could … Read more

MILES MYKKANEN TO STAR IN ‘BUYER & CELLAR’ AT THEATRE NORTH

By Pamela Jansson Emberlight Festival IRONWOOD — The third annual Emberlight Festival will offer for the first time a full theatrical production in the form of Buyer and Cellar, a one-man comedic play starring Bessemer native Miles Mykkanen. Manhattan-based director Colton Pometta is directing the performances, which will begin on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at … Read more