Leah Lemm

In the season finale of Northern Voices, Leah travels to the Grand Rapids Farmers market to chat with Colleen from Cherry Corner Produce and Farm. Colleen and her sister are using items that too-often end up in the trash to craft every-day items and toys. Northern Voices can be heard on KAXE/KBXE and on KAXE.org.

If you missed the on-air broadcast of Northern Voices, or if you'd like to listen again to Leah and Heidi chatting about Story Art & Museum, click the player at the top of the page to hear more. Here is Leah's introduction to this week's episode:

Dudley Edmondson, filmmaker, public speaker, and nature photographer speaks with Northern Voices host, Leah Lemm. Each week on KAXE/KBXE, Northern Voices brings you the stories of the people and places that make up the fabric of northern Minnesota.

On Episode 40 of Northern Voices, Leah Lemm chats with artist, multicultural educator, and storyteller Wendy Savage. Wendy Savage is an enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Reservation, The Lake Superior Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and has been showing her art since 1978. Northern Voices can be heard on KAXE/KBXE and at KAXE.org

Leah Lemm brings us episode 39 of Northern Voices. For her conversation this week, Leah visits with Sam Zimmerman, an artist and author of the recent book Following My Spirit Home, published by Black Bears and Blueberries publishing. In their conversation, Sam tells the story that inspired one of his paintings, where as a child, his father tried to trick his grandmother to get out of berry picking. Click the player above to hear the whole story and learn more about Sam's art, what he learned from the pandemic, and what drew him home to the place of his family.

Click the player above to join host Leah Lemm exploring the northland in Northern Voices. In each episode, Leah sets out to learn about northern Minnesota and tell its stories through conversations with interesting people doing interesting things. With curiosity and generosity, Leah brings the listener along on her journey of discovery that is both surprising and warmly familiar. Listen for another story from Northern Voices.

In this episode of Northern Voices, Leah Lemm Talks with Artist Carl Gawboy, who has an exhibition currently on display at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center in Duluth titled "Carl Gawboy: New Paintings, Old Stories" now through May 27th.