Still Water, Living Lake

Join us on July 25 to celebrate the recovery of Long Lake, a shallow water lake that has moved from an F grade to a B+ over the past decade. Long Lake, historically turbid and impaired by excess nutrients, is healing—quietly, steadily, through resilience and stewardship. We hope you will spend some time with us surrounding its waters, exploring the ecology of water, plant, biome, and our relationship therein. Together with the communities around the Lake, the city of Stillwater, and our Brown’s Creek Watershed biologists and leaders, three artists will activate the space around Long Lake and invite you in to see your watershed with new eyes—perhaps understanding what is already happening beneath the surface of the waters and within ourselves.

As watershed biologist Jimmy Marty said, speaking from a personal place, “It is my belief that each individual can have alternative stable states. We can be sturdy for so long but trauma can break us. But we can be brought back. Just like Long Lake, just like my mom.”

July 25, 2026 from 10am-2pm,
Long Lake, Stillwater, MN

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