Fosston Woman receives the Northwest Arts Advocate of the Year Award

Bonnie Stewart of Fosston will be awarded the Northwest Arts Advocate of the Year Award. Stewart has been a champion of the arts in Fosston for several decades. Stewart serves on the boards of the East Polk Heritage Center, the Pine to Prairie Folk School, the Fosston Community Library and Arts Center and the Firefly Center for Art and Wellbeing. Through these board positions and volunteering in city-related and other projects, Stewart has led and initiated programming and education efforts, secured art work for exhibition at the Sorenson Gallery in Fosston and performing artists at the Fosston Community Library and Arts Center Theatre. Other awards will be presented to Debbie Dahl Aune of Gatzke with the Northwest Artist of the Year for Visual Arts and Cathy Erickson of Middle River with the Northwest Star Award. The awards will be presented on Sunday, April 30th in Middle River at the Middle River Legacy Center. The Northwest Art Exhibit will be open that day for viewing artwork starting at 1:00 pm with the awards program beginning at 4:00 pm.