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Anne Dugan is a public radio host and also writes for the Pine Knot News.
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council announced that Anne Dugan of Wrenshall is one of three winners of the annual Arrowhead Arts Award. Recipients are nominated for their remarkable contributions to the arts in the region.
Dugan won the Maddie Simons Arts Advocate Award, which recognizes an arts administrator, arts educator, volunteer for a nonprofit arts organization, or artist whose involvement in a project or program has substantially contributed to the arts in the region.
The award comes with $1,000 for the recipient.
Dugan is an independent curator and educator living on the organic Food Farm in Wrenshall. She teaches art history at the College of St. Scholastica and the University of Wisconsin Superior.
Dugan is co-director of the popular Free Range Film Festival, which she co-founded in 2004.
For the past five years Dugan has also used her rural spaces for artistic interventions including a root cellar concert, a popup art tent, and a walking tour of the earth's water system.
