Arts & Culture

A group of Edina High School students had the rare opportunity to attend the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Neb., in June, bringing back valuable experience and praise from peers.

Successful problem-solving skills are based on having an intuitive sense of the problem.  That is, being able to recognize its different “parts” and how they relate to the “whole.”  In math, underdanding this relationship between numbers is called “Number Sense.”  Like most skills, Number Sense c

Belinda Jensen traces her interest in meteorology back to an idyllic childhood spent near the St. Croix River in Prescott, Wisconsin. A self-proclaimed tomboy and one of five children, Jensen says Prescott was a great place to grow up. She’s always loved the outdoors and excelled in science.

After Julie Greene read Lee Wolfe Blum’s book, Table in the Darkness: A Healing Journey Through an Eating Disorder, she says it resonated with her. “I wasn’t expecting it to be as moving and honest and real,” she says.

After being named one of the “100 Best Communities for Young People in America” by America’s Promise Alliance, the Edina Community Foundation went to work making su

After tutoring students one-on-one for 14 years, Edina resident Megan Stone understood that students “didn’t know how to be a student,” she says.

From glass to jewelry to sculpture to photography, there will be a wide variety of media on view this month at Centennial Lakes Park during the 10th annual Fall into the Arts festival.

In Namibia, I was captivated by the style of the semi-nomadic, pastoral Himbas. The women have a particularly distinguishing appearance. Each morning, they go through a beauty ritual that includes smearing themselves with a fragrant mixture of butter or animal fat, red ochre and local herbs.

Each September, the Edina Art Center hosts a juried art show: its largest exhibition of the year.

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