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)
Into the Brush - Art Education in the wilderness 