April 5 – Rochester, Minn.  Art4Trails is pleased to announce the selection of four artists for the fifth year of Art4Trails public art installations along the bike trails near downtown Rochester, MN.   

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Artists selected for installations for the 2022 - 2023 period all live in Minnesota. Bobby Marines is a Rochester resident and familiar on the local art scene. He has been a part of several exhibits in Rochester and other galleries in southern Minnesota. His interactive piece, The Alchemist, is located in Mayo Park on the east side of the river.  Selected artist for the second year Sunghee Min, now of Roseville, was born in South Korea and emigrated to the United States in 1995. Her Greeting Tower is in place at the river landing site until the end of May and her Spark of Magic is installed at the corner of 7th St and Silver Lake Dr NE. Besides showings at Art4Trails, she has had public art installations in Bemidji, MN, Chicago IL, and Clive IA. Victor Yepez, born in Ecuador and now living in Minneapolis,  has installed his sculpture Cyclist at the river landing site below 3rd St SE and across the river from the Government Center. An art teacher and frequent artist in residence, Victor was an artist in residence at John Marshall HS in 2020; his Golden Spirit metal horse sculpture was sited at Slatterly Park in 2020.  Also engaged in a career as an EMT, Jerry Carlson is bringing his whimsical Scandinavian Huldufolk (elf) House structure to Slatterly Park. It was most recently seen at the Art Shanties Festival on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis.  

 

The artists each received a $3,750 stipend for these temporary installations, all of which will be available to purchase from the artists after a year of placement on the Art4Trails sites.