So this event is actually happening this Friday through Sunday at the Barbara Barker Center, which is connected to the University of Minnesota campus.

My name is Joshua Cunningham.

I'm from St. Paul, and I am a landscape painter, primarily with Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis.

I am here to share about the Red Wing plein air event.

This is their 20th annual event.

They have had between 50 and 100 paintings done every year.

So you can imagine the body of work that has been created over the last 20 years.

Good evening everyone.

It's a joy and privilege to be here this evening, to be with you this past week.

And I want to speak to us tonight, and for a few moments, about hope in a hopeless world.

That there's hope, and for the hopeless.

You know, a brief survey of the news in any given day, we all know, will reveal that this world is in an awful mess.

There's chaos, there's confusion on every side.