Nature photographer Aubrieta Hope from DeKalb, Ill., will be the final artist in the Glen Arbor Art Association’s 2012 group of artists-in-residence. She particularly wanted a winter residency in order to photograph the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in all its winter glory and weather patterns. Hope intends to photograph the landscape in panoramic, wide-angle and macro images.
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.
The Glen Arbor Art Association’s Readers’ Theater will hold auditions on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. for its next performance, “Notorious”, a Lux Radio Theater playscript based on the 1946 award-winning Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name.
After a successful inaugural year, the Glen Arbor Art Association will begin its second season of Readers Theater with “The 39 Steps”, a fast-paced thriller about spies, secrets, murder and mayhem directed by Teddy House and featuring an all local cast. The adaption of the Alfred Hitchcock story is slated for Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. with a Sunday matinee, Dec. 2 at 3 p.m.
The Michigan Writers, started in 2001 by a group of area scribes (including Norm Wheeler, Joe VanderMeulen, Bronwyn Jones, and others), initially focused on collaborating to help each other improve their work and get published. But the roots of what would become a thriving regional writing network can be found in a small yet vibrant publication, founded around 1996 by Empire poet, essayist, playwright and teacher Anne-Marie Oomen.
Detroit-based photographer, Susan Tusa, will be the upcoming Artist-in-Residence at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA). She has been documenting “everything imaginable in and around Detroit” for 30 years. Tusa was a staff photographer for the Detroit Free Press for 22 years. Her wide array of subjects include, fashion in Italy, food, prostitutes, Cuban car culture, wedding celebrations, Detroit cityscapes, snowscapes, flowers and more. Tusa looks forward to “turning her camera to the natural world and more personal art photography” while she is in Glen Arbor.
Most painters stick with the tried and true: the pigments that are affordable and familiar. But to break into new expressive territory an artist needs to experiment with the unfamiliar. By providing the colors most of us do not even think to use, the workshop allows painters to explore colors in a playful two-day workshop focused on exploring the possibilities in the unfamiliar. Four unique palettes will be provided, allowing you to explore interesting possibilities inherent in pigments such as quinacradone rose, indanthrene blue, bismuth vanadate yellow, and ultramarine violet, as well as others. In addition to color theory, we will play with brushwork and composition in order to let the hues sing. The class is ideal for experienced painters who want to push into new territory. Bring brushes, palette, and water bucket. Fee includes paint. Registrations must be received by Oct. 5.
Elizabeth Buzzelli, author of five novels, will have a two week residency at the Glen Arbor Art Association, culminating in a presentation to the public on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. While in Glen Arbor Buzzelli intends to work on a new novel, The Gathering, which will be a departure from her five published works, among them Dead Dogs and Englishmen, which was chosen as one of the best novels published in 2011 by Kirkus Review; one of the best mysteries of the year by the Christian Science Monitor; and available now at the Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor.
The Glen Arbor Art Association is accepting artwork submissions until Oct. 1 for the 2013 Manitou Music Festival poster. The limited edition posters are hugely popular and sold through the art association at selected shops and art galleries in Leelanau County. Past posters and guidelines for submission can be viewed at Glenarborart.org. Click on “Manitou Music Festival” or “Artists” tab, then on the right side of the screen click on “Call for Entries”.
Dorothy Brooks of East Lansing plans to use her Glen Arbor Art Association two-week residency to “write a series of poems (10-15) with Lake Michigan as theme: seen from my own unique perspective.” Brooks has spent many summers in northern Michigan on its lakes, rivers and woods and now wants to “breathe the lake” and absorb and record what she finds.