

Personnel picture by Fritz Busch
Nancy Ginkel of New Ulm, remaining, receives some ideas from Kay Burnett Martin at her barn quilt class at The Grand Middle for Arts & Culture Sunday. Learners created a quilt style and utilised shades of their preference. Burnett stated she strategies to make a Barn Quilts Path Map for south central Minnesota.

NEW ULM — A dozen females participated in a course on how to produce colourful barn quilts at the Grant Centre for Arts & Lifestyle Saturday and Sunday.
After teaching art at Staples Elementary Faculty for virtually 3 a long time, New Ulm indigenous Kay Burnett Martin moved back again to New Ulm this spring and strike the floor functioning with her enthusiasm for art and bouquets.
Burnett Martin guided a dozen ladies in the 10-hour, weekend course, serving to them decide on a quilt sample to paint the colours of their option, and how to enlarge their picked sample to in shape their two ft by two toes boards.
“It’s a terrific mental health crack for everybody,” mentioned Dr. Ann Vogel, M.D. of New Ulm.
In Staples, Burnett Martin was component of a Central Minnesota Barn Quilt team that created a path map that led to extra than 100 barn quilts on screen.
Considering the fact that 2015, the trail map led contributors through Morrison, Todd, Wadena and Cass Counties.
The trail proceeds to mature and extend as extra people today be part of.
“I want to build a barn quilt trail map about here,” Burnett Martin mentioned.
She is a lady of a lot of passions, so say the least. She has degrees in k-12 art education and learning, elementary schooling, park and recreation, and pictures.
A number of her flower images and barn quilt class photos can be uncovered on the web.
Burnett Martin is also a New Ulm Space Community Education and learning teacher, alongside with Rhonda Johnson, Ed Fornberg, and Neil Neidt.
She urged these with art desire to stay tuned for long term lessons by viewing www.thegrandnewulm.com.
For far more facts, stop by barnquiltsmn.org.
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