{"id":14849,"date":"2015-09-12T11:38:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:49:58","slug":"fond-farewells-karen-burmeister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=14849","title":{"rendered":"Fond Farewells &#8211; Karen Burmeister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drew some small attention to an art show &#8220;retrospective&#8221; for Loren Martell&#8217;s late wife Karen Burmeister in my blog about ten days ago. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/full_1000\/public\/field\/image\/02Collage.jpg?itok=OMcKu1wk\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was blown away by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/ae\/arts\/3835577-burmeister-created-rich-collages-touches-humor\">generous story<\/a> about the show when I checked yesterday&#8217;s paper. I was also blown away by Karen&#8217;s collages several of which are on the Trib&#8217;s website and in the paper itself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve grown fond of Loren. He is a thoughtful and multi-dimensional man. He and Karen thought deeply about education along with their good friends in the Montessori school world. This is her first art showing and its a shame that it has to be posthumous. My Mother was an artist too and she did get to have a showing or two of her work before she put away her brushes. Every artist deserves a chance to share their work.<\/p>\n<p>I have in mind publishing a coffee table book of Mom&#8217;s work with anecdotes of her life. I&#8217;d make about ten of them for family and friends at a cost of about a thousand a book for such a limited printing. <\/p>\n<p>Long before my Mother died I did publish fuzzy, thumbnail-sized images of a portion of her work before the Internet&#8217;s bandwidth could do them justice.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/MomsArtPage\/Mom%27sArt.htm\">My Mom hated them<\/a> and I&#8217;ve never found the time to repopulate the page with newer and more detailed images. Fortunately, this is not a problem in the Trib&#8217;s story on Burmeister&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Karen&#8217;s work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthartinstitute.org\/exhibitions\/current-exhibitions\">Duluth Art Institute<\/a>, (The Depot) 506 W. Michigan St. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew some small attention to an art show &#8220;retrospective&#8221; for Loren Martell&#8217;s late wife Karen Burmeister in my blog about ten days ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14849"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14859,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions\/14859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}