Glen Arbor Art Association’s Talk About Art begins fifth season
From staff reports
Traverse City resident Kimberly K. Bazemore never thought her career path would lead to art making; but it did. This self-taught jeweler and owner of Cog’s Creek Gallery + Studios will talk about her professional travels (which began as a sales clerk at an Atlanta gallery) at “Talk About Art” on Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Art Association.
Bazemore builds contemporary jewelry by hand, with basic tools and common materials such as beach stones and recycled hardware. The same interest in repurposing worn out things underscores her gallery. In 2010, Bazemore purchased the Coddington’s Dry Cleaners building — a Traverse City landmark for more than 100 years located in the historic Little Bohemia district. She spent a year renovating the industrial structure into a gallery of contemporary art and craft, studios and small businesses. It’s Bazemore’s most recent renovation project. She began buying and renovating properties in 2001, and has completed seven commercial and residential rehabs in Traverse City’s neighborhoods. Bazemore occupies a particular niche: she is one of a very few women in Traverse City to head a renovation business and to physically participate in the deconstruction and reconstruction of each of the structures she’s rehabilitated.
“Talk About Art,” now entering its fifth season, is a series in which local and regional artists talk about their art making and thinking. Interviews for 2013 include:
Feb. 7: Metalsmith Will Case talks about his weathervanes and mobiles.
March 7: Writer Aaron Stander talks about the writing life and his six-book crime series set in a county fashioned after Leelanau.
April 18: Donna Popke talks about her sculptural, kinetic ottomans; and her attempts to become a contestant on the reality show “Project Runway.”
The Glen Arbor Art Association is located at 6031 S. Lake St., across from Cherry Republic. “Talk About Art” is open to the public at no charge. For more information visit the Art Association’s website.
