Glen Arbor Arts Center invites artists to show their work
From staff reports
Submission deadlines for two artist opportunities at the Glen Arbor Arts Center are near.
Swimming, an exhibition about a familiar activity, takes a metaphoric look at what it means to move through water—both literally and symbolically. The deadline for online submissions is Feb. 1. This juried exhibition runs March 31-June 1.
A second creative, artist opportunity is the GAAC’s Artist-in-Residence program, a juried competition. Since the 1990s, the GAAC has offered visual, performing, and literary artists two-week residencies—a chance to live in Glen Arbor and focus on new work, ideas, and more. An artist’s residency provide practitioners with the space and time to work independently without the distractions of daily life. GAAC artist-residents are provided with a studio space, lodging, and full, permitted access to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The deadline for online submissions is Feb. 2. Residencies takes place from late April through October.
To read more about both these opportunities and to apply, visit GlenArborArt.org/Artists, and click on the Call For Entry tab in the drop-down menu.
Current exhibits
The Glen Arbor Arts Center launched 2023 with a pair of exhibitions focused on the power of stories.
A Feral Housewife, a series of collages created from vintage ephemera by Leelanau County artist Mary Beth Acosta, are featured in the GAAC’s Lobby Gallery until April 21. Working under the creative nom de guerre “The Feral Housewife,” Acosta uses simple, familiar tools and a range of recycled, vintage papers to create collages about mid-century housewives, big-finned cars, and “labor-saving” appliances that were promoted as drudgery-busting machines that would revolutionize the modern home.
Telling Stories, a juried exhibition, opened January 13 in the GAAC’s Main Gallery. Human beings have told stories with images since the beginning of time. Some visual stories are personal. Others are communal. Visual stories record history, respond to and interpret events, comment on the state of humanity and the world. The GAAC’s exhibitors tell their own stories in the media of photography, fiber, clay, paint, wood, collage, and more. This show runs through March 23.
Both exhibits may be viewed in the gallery. An online version of each exhibit includes a virtual slide show, and recorded interviews with artists and storytellers. View these exhibits and programs online at GlenArborArt. org/EXHIBITS. The GAAC is located at 6031 S. Lake St. Winter hours are Monday-Friday 9 am-3 pm, and Saturdays noon-4 pm. Call 231-334-6112 for more information.
