(ABC 6 News) – The History Center of Olmsted County and the Rochester Art Center are coming together for a creative collaboration. As the history center prepares to celebrate 100 years of preserving Minnesota history next year, it’s teaming up with the art center to breathe new life into precious artifacts. About 60 different items have been picked and selected artists will transform these pieces of the past into stunning works of modern art. 

Rochester Art Center and the History Center of Olmsted County hope the collaboration will create new understandings of the artifacts, and celebrate a century of history.

The exhibition will be open to the public starting October 26th at the Rochester Art Center.

In 2022, the City of Bowling Green created the Historic Preservation Commission dedicated to preserve and promote local historic buildings. Each month, a new historic building would be featured by the Commission and in local press. 

In the Fall of 2024, I worked on a team of graduate students at BGSU to research the Painted Lady, a local landmark dating to 1878. Our write-up of its history was featured by the Commission in January of 2025.