The Art Bench Trail is made possible with support from the Kresge Foundation. Photography by Steven Johnson artbenchtrail.org Visit these unique works of art, each created by local youth and community partners with a local artist. Enjoy exploring the natural and historic sites, local businesses and restaurants, and parks on the Art Bench Trail. Share it at facebook.com/artbenchtrail. Take pictures at all seven benches, upload to artbenchtrail.org, and be entered to win two tickets to a play at The Phipps! Take turns finishing this thought: “ A bench is…” Take a Photo! do something creative! Why do you think the people who designed the benches chose to put them where they did? ? Bring colored pencils or crayons and paper. Use them to reveal the textures you find on each bench. Sit quietly on the bench. What do you hear and see? Write a short poem or haiku about how this makes you feel. (A haiku has three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.) Write a Poem! Make a Rubbing! Don’t just sit there… TRY THESE FUN ACTIVITIES WHILE VISITING THE ART BENCHES: What do the words, pictures, shapes, or other details on each bench tell you about the St. Croix River? ? ABT_BrochureInside_F.indd 1 4/12/14 8:12 PM
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The Art Bench Trail is made possible with support from the Kresge Foundation.
Photography by Steven Johnson
artbenchtrail.org
Visit these unique works of art, each created by local youth and community partners with a local artist. Enjoy exploring the natural and historic sites, local businesses and restaurants, and parks on the Art Bench Trail.
Share it at facebook.com/artbenchtrail. Take pictures at all seven benches, upload to artbenchtrail.org, and be entered to win two tickets to a play at The Phipps!
Take turns finishing this thought: “A bench is…”
Take a Photo!
do something creative!
Why do you think the people who designed the benches chose to put them where they did? ?
Bring colored pencils or crayons and paper. Use them to reveal the textures you find on each bench.
Sit quietly on the bench. What do you hear and see? Write a short poem or haiku about how this makes you feel. (A haiku has three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.)
Write a Poem!
Make a Rubbing!
Don’t just sit there…TRY THESE FUN ACTIVITIES WHILE VISITING THE ART BENCHES:
What do the words, pictures, shapes, or other details on each bench tell you about the St. Croix River??
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Settlers’ Rest Marine on St. Croix, MN
Junior Girl Scout Nature BenchCarpenter Nature Center, MN
The Butterfly Bench Prescott, WI
The River BenchHudson, WI
Rock & River St. Croix Falls, WI
Two-River RestSomerset, WI
Kindness is KeyBayport, MN
More Benches Coming Soon
Designed and constructed by 4th and 5th graders from Marine Elementary School, their families and other community members, with artist Karron Nottingham.
Six Junior Girl Scouts participated in nature programs and volunteered at Carpenter Nature Center, and worked with artist Estela de Paola de Lerma to incorporate their experiences into this bench.
Sixty community members, including volunteers from Friends of Freedom Park, youth from the Helping Hands 4-H, and teens from Prescott High School’s Ecology Club, created this bench with artist John Turula.
Sixty children from Hudson’s Destination Imagination program and their parents contributed more than 1,000 hours to this project, working with artist Lynn Jermal.
Nine summer school students ages 9 to 12 designed this bench with local artist James Shoop, Franconia Sculpture Park staff, teacher Amy Klein, and National Park Service Ranger Dale Cox.
Thirty-eight special-education students from Somerset Elementary and High School worked with local craftsman Bruce Martell to design and create this stone and tile bench.
This bench is the result of several intergenerational storytelling gatherings involving local Girl Scout troops, residents of Croixdale, a senior living center, and artist Judy Sell.
During the summer of 2014, students from Osceola will work with community partners and artist David Markson to design and build a bench for a public park in their town.
Visit artbenchtrail.org for updates on this and other new benches as they are added to the Art Bench Trail.
Located in Minnesota Historical Society’s Marine Mill Site Park.
Directions from Stillwater: Hwy 95 north 12 miles, turn east onto Maple Street, south on Judd Street. Go one block to Marine Mill Site Park. Bench is just south of the Park entrance.
Located in Larry Forrest Memorial Park.
Directions from North: Hwy 35 south to Hwy 64. Turn west to first
light at Cty Rd I / Sunrise Drive Turn south to Forrest Drive. Turn east.
Bench is near fountain and southern most ball field.
Located in Freedom Park.
Directions from downtown Prescott: Hwy 35 / Broad St. / Jefferson St. 1 mile south; look for Great River Road Visitor Center / Freedom Park signs. Turn south onto Monroe Street. Bench is in the butterfly garden.
Located in Lakefront Park.
Directions from I-94: Take WI Exit 1 north, turn west at first light on Buckeye Street. Go one block to First Street,
turn south. Bench is at Picnic Point, between playground
and boat launch.
Located in Gaylord Nelson Riverwalk.
Directions from South: Hwy 35 north into downtown
St. Croix Falls. Turn north on Washington Street / Hwy 87. Turn west on Massachusetts
Street. Bench is on path south of the St. Croix National Scenic
Riverway Visitor Center.
Located in Carpenter Nature Center.
Directions from Afton: County Road 21 / St Croix Trail south 10 miles. Turn east into Carpenter Nature Center. Bench is across from the Visitor Center.
Located at Croixdale, 750 MN Highway 95.
Directions from Stillwater: Hwy 95 south 3 miles to Croixdale, on west side of the road, across from Andersen Windows plant. Bench is at the main entrance.
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