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“This Team of Indigenous Women Sculpts Stories in Snow: Team Kwe honors their Anishinaabe roots in the art and sport of snow sculpting.” Roxanne Hoorne, Atlas Obscura, February 1st, 2024
Scholastic Math Magazine, Team Kwe Snow Sculpting Feature, Feb 2024.
“Local Artists Look to Create a West 7th Arts District” Damian Goebel, Community Reporter, June 2nd, 2023.
“Main attractions announced for 2023 Austin Artworks Festival” Mike Bunge, KIMT3 News, May 14th 2023.“
“Bison that Ripped off Tourist’s Pants Memorialized in Stunning Snow Sculpture” Cat Ellis, Advnture, March 7, 2023
“Dumb Tourist Who Was De-Pantsed During Bison Attack Celebrated In Snow Sculpture: The de-pantsing of a tourist by a bison in Custer State Park two years ago has become an iconic image. A snow sculpture celebrating the triumphant bison and idiotic tourist won many awards at last year's Minnesota Snow Sculpting competition.” Wendy Corr, Cowboy State Daily, March 5th, 2023.
“Snow sisters: Team Kwe, the only all-women Indigenous snow sculpture team in the U.S.: A look at the tight-knit community behind snow sculpting, the 'crazy little art sport’” Alex V. Cipolle, NPR News, Feb 1st, 2023
“Local Artist Featured in Disney’s Best In Snow” Community Reporter, Dec 12, 2022
“Snowed In” Heather Friedli for Minnesota Women’s Press, Nov 29th, 2022
“Best In Snow” Disney+, Nov 2022
“We Are Still Here Indigenous Art Showcase: 11 Artists Illustrate What it’s Like to be Indigenous in the 21st Century” Tiffany Lukk, The Dispatch, Nov 2022
“Heather Friedli: Revealing Nature’s Allure” Northern Lights Interview with Minnesota Native News, 2022
“Downtown Mankato sculpture completed for Indigenous Art Festival” Sophia Martinez, KEYC News Now, Feb 9th, 2022.
“Old Town Indigenous Art Festival continues Saturday” Tim Krohn, Feb 4th 2022.
“New St. Paul art gallery opens Oct. 1: Friedli Gallery opens its doors Oct. 1 with a community arts exhibition and a few stories up its sleeve.” Nina Raemont, Pioneer Press, Sep. 26th, 2021.
“Trail as Muse” Appalachian Trailways Journeys, Summer 2021
“Celebrity Death Plans Podcast: Episode 1 Heather Friedli” John Maycroft & Lindsay Bonnema, Apple Podcasts June 9th, 2021
“Artist spotlight: Get to know local artists: Here’s nine local artists to keep on your radar.” Nina Raemont, The Minnesota Daily, April 30th 2021.
Minnesota Bound, Facebook, March 24th, 2021
”PHOTOS: Snow sculptors create giant snowflake at MSU”, Photos by Pat Christman | Feb 3, 2021
”Snow sculptors at Minnesota State University, Mankato shape school spirit, Native American culture”, Gage Cureton| February 3, 2021, KEYC News
Minnesota Historical Society, Facebook, February 3rd, 2021; https://www.facebook.com/minnesotahistoricalsociety/posts/10159174722225600
“Planned sculpture celebrates school spirit, Native American heritage”, Gage Cureton| February 1, 2021, KEYC News
KFAI Twin Cities Fresh Air Community Radio, April 22, 2020
Interview with Jazz88 FM Twin Cities, “ST. PAUL ARTIST HEATHER FRIEDLI”, April 6th 2020
Art of Heather Friedli Minnesota Floral Tees premier in Northern Gardener Magazine, “The Garden Next Door”, March/April 2020
“21 Snow Sculptures That Look Way Too Real!”, 50 Campfires
“We Are Still Here”, City Pages “A List”, October 11th, 2019
“One in the Land”, Interview with Vaz-Harwood Real Estate Team, Novemver 15th, 2019
“Meet the Thru-Hiking Artists Inspired by the Appalachian Trail”, Clay Bonnyman Evans, The Trek, July 7th, 2019
"Minnesota Cloudscapes, Exhibition by West End Artist Heather Friedli" Community Reporter, May 1, 2019.
“Twin Cities Voices: Heather Friedli's Landscape Inspired Snow Sculptures & Paintings”, The CW Twin Cities, Produced by Sophia Reed and Steve Borman, Feb 13, 2019
“Underdog team from Minnesota wins U.S. snow-sculpting title after Trump controversy”. Pioneer Press, Deanna Weniger, February 5, 2019
“Beyond the Simple Snowman: Five Tips from Saint Paul Winter Carnival Snow Sculpting Champs for Creating a Wintery Work of Art” Lianna Matt McLernon, Mpls StPaul Mag, Jan 27th, 2017
“Ice Carvers Face Mild Conditions at St. Paul Winter Carnival” WCCO News, Jan 31st, 2016
“Spiritual and Natural Art Coming in February” Richard Crawford, SWNewsMedia, Jan 18, 2016
"Cannon Falls Snow Sculptors Shine at Winter Carnival" Betsey Frazier, Cannon Falls Beacon, February 13th, 2014
“Snow, Meet Vulcans” John Brewer, Pioneer Press, January 27th, 2014
“Range Woman Hikes 2000 Mile Appalachian Trail: Five Million Footsteps in Six Months” Hometown Focus, March 11th, 2011
"Art Beat” Live Interview on KDNK Radio, Carbondale, CO