“Talk About Art” features Doug Stanton
From staff reports
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) “Talk About Art” series opens its 2015 season with Traverse City author Doug Stanton on Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Stanton is a teacher, lecturer and author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers, and the co-founder of the National Writers Series, a year-round book festival held at the Opera House in downtown Traverse City. His writing has been widely published in Esquire, the New York Times, Time and the Washington Post. Stanton’s other notable contribution to the region’s cultural landscape is as a founding member of the Traverse City Film Festival. On Jan. 29, Stanton will talk about his writing life and a new book in process — a profile of several young men who found themselves thrown together by the Vietnam War.
“Talk About Art” continues the conversational interviews with these artists:
March 26: Clay sculptor Julie Kradel is a latecomer to the world of studio art but has made up for it in record time. She began a career selling on the art fair circuit in 2010 at the age of 52. Her work — joyful interpretations of the animals who live at the Cedar farmstead she calls home — has garnered dozens of awards. Kradel will talk about her work and the rigors of doing business inside a 10-foot-square art fair tent.
April 8: Pianist/composer Jeff Haas, a Traverse City resident, has spent his adult life making music work. He’s a classically trained pianist who has become the voice of jazz and blues in this region thanks to his long-running public radio program “The New Jazz Archive,” a weekly series that explores jazz’s place in the American story. His discography is long, and rich with collaborative partnerships, among them Marcus Belgrave and Laurie Sears. Haas will talk about a music making and the ways in which he is using music in schools to bridge the gaps that lead to bullying and bias.
April 30: Contemporary painter E.J. Fitzpatrick marries the intuitive and the planned into a working model for her abstract work. The Northport artist has developed a vocabulary of abstract imagery with which she can talk about a range of intellectual and emotional matters in her paintings. She has exhibited widely around the Midwest, and as an experienced teacher is able to decipher abstraction for a wide range of listeners.
For more information, please call the GAAA at 231-334-6112.
