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After a career in teaching, Rachel Gray returned to her family's ranch, where she now breeds designer cattle in an effort to best serve her buyers and her heifers.

Taste of the Arts offers two days of self-guided adventure around rural Beltrami County where locations offer mixed disciplines of music, arts demonstrations and food.

Strictly Mushrooms in Pine River is a Northern Minnesota business focused on mushrooms and mushroom products.

Guitar tuning pegs, a gas tank cover, a carburetor, wooden bowls, parts of tables, portions of dolls and toys, a fireplace mantle and even a tossed aside barrel are part of a new story apart from their past lives.

Despite possessing about 1 million images, the collection isn't complete. The organization is seeking documentation of Indigenous weddings as well as interracial and same-sex marriages in the region.

Marva Harms spent a lifetime as both teacher and student. Her current exhibit at the MacRostie Art Center celebrates light, color, impressionism and lake life.

Muriel Gilman of Bemidji earned the Minnesota Nordic Ski Association 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bemidji couple's passion for dance and dancing to live music, shapes their lives and how they give back to community.

The Watermark Art Center's Miikanan Gallery hosts Ojibwe artists Joan Kauppi and Shaawan Francis Keahna's Aanikoosijigaade: It Is Linked, a multimedia exhibit calling attention to contemporary society. An artists' reception will be 2-4 p.m. Saturday, March 18.

Margo Gray is a Side Lake, Minnesota, based artist who designed a text-message adventure through McCarthy Beach State Park called the "Secret Tree Society" and will unveil an immersive app for Mesabi Trail this summer.

Madi Stone, 21, owns the Coffee District in Bemidji. She's self-taught, self-made and said she's committed to her company and community.

A prolific writer, Schlichting’s White House Dollhouse mystery series highlights first ladies of the United States. She also writes children’s books and poetry. And recently, as a last letter to her longtime friend and pen pal, she wrote her first play, Corresponding Lives.

Watermark Art Center in Bemidji hosts textile artist Blair Treuer’s collection "Becoming: The Transition from Childhood to Womanhood," an exhibit the artist hopes will open minds in terms of how people approach menstruation and coming of age.

Manidoo Ogitigaan shares Indigenous teachings in support of the Native community, aiming at a future when Ojibwe language flourishes and the Ojibwe worldview shapes action.

MacRostie Art Center Executive Director Katie Marshall stopped by the KAXE/KBXE Morning Show to discuss the June First Friday Arts events around Grand Rapids, happening 4-7 p.m. Friday, June 2.

From local theater to breakfast or elected officials, KAXE's programming each morning brings you a fresh perspective Monday-Friday with hosts and producers Heidi Holtan, Jennifer Barr, Andrew Dziengel, John Latimer, Kari Hedlund, John Bauer and Charlie Mitchell.

Mary Casanova is an award-winning author of over 40 books, many set where she lives, on the border of Minnesota and Canada. From her Dog Watch chapter books, to young adult novels like Ice Out and picture books like Utterly Otter Day, she’s been charming readers of all ages for decades.

Long celebrated in the Black community, Juneteeth commemorates the day on which the last remaining slaves in the United States learned they were free in 1865. It was recognized as a federal holiday in 2021 and Minnesota passed a bill in 2023.

"Unbound" by Bizhiki is KAXE's Album of the Week for July 22-28, 2024.

New book recommendations from children’s librarian Tracy Kampa include stories by Lisa Fipps, John Schu, Gennifer Choldenko, and more.