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Marianne Combs

Swede Hollow show features 60 artists

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This Saturday marks the seventh annual "Art in the Hollow," a community visual and performing arts festival in east St. Paul.

Organizer Romi Slowiak said the event features the work of 60 artists and is meant to draw attention to the well-hidden Swede Hollow Park.

"This is a park that is 125 feet below street level," she said. "It's essentially a ravine that is between East 7th and Payne Avenue, and a lot of people who live on those streets don't know that it is below there."

Slowiak said the hollow used to be a popular home for new settlers to Minnesota.

"Swedes lived down there, Italians lived down there, Mexican immigrants," she said. "It was really a wonderful, sheltered home for people on the creek. And then after that it was turned into a park. It's the wildest, most beautiful park in St. Paul, we think."

Art in the Hollow features live performances throughout the day.

There are also several sculptural pieces throughout the park, including a mocked-up time machine like the police box in "Dr. Who."