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“Earth, Sky, Water” is a new art installation that will soon be going up on Ho-Chunk Nation land along the Great Sauk State Trail. The trail located on the southern border of Devil’s Lake State Park in an area we call the Sauk Prairie Recreation area, or to locals, just “Badger”.
Video Story
As part of a Great Sauk State Trail video series we’re producing for Sauk County, we spent some time visiting with Melanie Tallmadge Sainz who is the Founding Director of the Little Eagle Arts Foundation in Wisconsin Dells, and some of the team working on the mural project which will be dedicated on October 4th, 2020. You can watch the video below.
The dedication will be held during this year’s Fermentation Fest, Art DTour. You can learn more over at the Little Eagle Arts Foundation – LEAF FB page.
More Great Sauk State Trail Video Experiences
If you’ve not checked out our video series about the Great Sauk State Trail we invite you to head over to our Youtube Channel and scroll down to the Great Sauk Trail playlist. As we move along, the series will work around 4 topics:
- Moments
SlowTV style immersive and relaxing videos taken along the trail. (We recommend putting these 4k videos on your big screen and just chilling out to the experience. - Stories
Learning more about people, places, and history of the trail and the land surrounding it. - Wild
Checking out the birds, animals, and insects who live along (and sometimes on) the Great Sauk Trail - Explore
Checking out the sights where the trail will be heading in the future!
We’ve also put together a complete virtual ride of the Great Sauk State Trail as well. Here’s those: Part 1 – Sauk City & Prairie du Sac. Part 2 & Sauk Prairie Recreation Area
New videos will be released on “Trail Tuesday” every other week over the next few months. To follow along, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow along on Facebook as well.
Next Up? SNAKES ON A TRAIL!
For nearly 2 decades the Skillet Creek blog has focused on 3 main goals; To inspire you to visit and explore the Devil’s Lake region, to help you get the most your visit by sharing tips, events, and other helpful information. Lastly to advocate for our environment & wildlife and talk about how we can keep our natural areas amazing now and into the future! That last goal can sometimes cause controversy, but it’s the only way we can accomplish the first two. – Derrick Mayoleth, Owner.