This event has sold out! The Lake Superior Art Association is sponsoring a four-day workshop featuring Japanese Watercolor Woodblock print artist and teacher Mary Brodbeck If you wish to be put on our cancellation list, please email lsaainfo4u@gmail.com The workshop will take place Monday, June 24 through Thursday, June 27 at the Marquette Arts and Culture Center, Peter White Public Library, Marquette, MI, from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm daily.  Students will learn the traditional Japanese technique of Mokuhanga (wood print) and create your very own woodblock print. The workshop begins with a hands-on printing demonstration from prepared blocks using;…

On February 20th, there was a beautiful presentation by Judy Parlato, a fiber artist from Gwinn, MI. Judy demonstrated the process she uses in creating art quilts. "I was delighted" Judy told me, "to be asked to present my 'Lady' and explain my artistic process starting with inspiration and culminating with binding the quilted art quilt." Judy accepts every design challenge presented her usually stretching the boundaries of traditional quilt design. Striving for improvement as an artist, Judy takes painting and quilting related classes locally and online. The audience enjoyed Judy's journey as she recreated the painting by Gustav Klimt "…

The Lake Superior Art Association will be continuing its monthly programming in 2024 with a series of art talks and workshops. First up is an Art Talk on Japanese block print techniques with Mary Brodbeck. Her Website is here: marybrodbeck.com Her video is here: https://vimeo.com/101153644 The public is welcome to this January 9th event that begins at 6:30, in the Shiras Room at the Peter White Public Library. Mary Brodbeck is a Michigan artist who, since 1988, has studied, implemented, and taught the traditional methods of a Japanese woodblock printmaking process called Mokuhanga. The Zen-like qualities of her stylized Great…