Stones Of Uplifting Light was given some coverage today by Hometown Focus a regional paper read by many on the Iron Range! We thank them for it!
Stones of Uplifting Light continue to be a work in progress
SOUL stone painted by Joe Baltich. Photo submitted.ELY – In late April of 2017, Joe Baltich, CEO and head artist of Into The Brush, announced the formation of a new program within his educational non-profit, Into The Brush. This new program is a play on the kindness of strangers.
After hearing of a terminally ill mom who enjoyed a wilderness canoe trip near Ely, veteran wilderness artist Baltich, guided by empathy, decided that this complete stranger needed a pick-meup.
He sent her a finished work of art painted on a Lake Superior stone depicting a canoe in the Boundary Waters. It was both unannounced and free.
Later, he heard of little boy fighting leukemia and sent off another rock painting of (read more here)