Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Community makes journals for shelter

By CHARITY SMITH

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IRONWOOD - Sexual assault awareness was the focus of a presentation by Downtown Art Place artists Katie Rose and Tracy Truesdell as part of Ironwood's First Friday at the Incredible Bank Friday evening. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The people who came helped create journals to be given to the local Domestic Violence Escape shelter. Some inscribed them with messages of hope.

Rose and Truesdell guided others in decorating the journal covers with gelli prints using an assortment of faux leaves.

To make the gelatin prints participants placed p...