The Minnesota Book Awards is pleased to announce Jana Pullman as the winner of the 2013 Minnesota Book Artist Award sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group. Pullman’s primary artistic work in the book arts is in the area of design bindings. She creates unique bindings for specific books using materials such as leather, wood, handmade paper,…
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North Country: The Making of Minnesota The untold history of how the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State of Minnesota North Country: The Making of Minnesota unlocks the complex origins of the state—origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural…
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Romanian guests to visit Saint Paul as part of the Biblionet Romania program. Five staff members from Romanian public libraries and five members of newly organized library Friends groups in Romania, along with two program specialists from the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) will be the guests of The Friends of the Saint Paul…
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“Our work blends the contemporary and traditional and reflects an understanding of a centuries-old craft within the context of an artist’s book.” Working together at Cave Paper, O’Malley and Degener have been book artists for over 17 years. There are only a few contemporary artists in the world who have been making creative papers…
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Less than a quarter of the charities evaluated receive this highest rating, indicating that The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library outperforms the majority of nonprofits in America with respect to financial health, accountability and transparency.
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With finalists in bold, the preliminary round of team and individual scores are below, in descending order of score (with time remaining being the tie-breaker). The Individual puzzles had more clues, therefore the possible points were higher. If your score is not as high as you think it should have been, consider that you lost…
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