Seven Grandfather Teachings unveiling

Presented by City of Marquette Office of Arts & Culture at Ellwood A. Mattson Lower Harbor Park, Marquette MI Seven Grandfather Teachings Sculpture Unveiling Event The City of Marquette announces the installation of the 'Seven Grandfather Teachings' sculpture by artist Jason Quigno to occur Friday, September 6th.  The sculpture has been commissioned by the City of Marquette Public Art Commission. Quigno, an Anishinaabe contemporary stone sculptor and tribal citizen of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, has carved seven locally quarried boulders to represent each of the Seven Grandfathers and the cultural wisdom they embody. The unveiling events are presented by the City of…

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2024 LSAA Annual Meeting and Potluck

Attention LSAA Members! The Lake Superior Art Association will hold our Annual All Members' meeting on Tuesday, September 17th 6-8pm at Peter White Library Community Room. The general membership will vote to accept approve the slate of new board members. This meeting is for LSAA members only, and those who wish to join that night. Current board members and committees they’re on: Lynn Buckland-Brown, President Sits on all committees except Nominating Committee installed 9/2023 Kim Danielson, Vice President - Nominating, Fresh Coast Plein Air, Communications, Membership 10/22 Board Secretary, 8/23 New term Mary Jane Lynch, Treasurer - Nominating Committee, Giving Committee installed 1/2024 John…

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At the Deo: ALCHEMIZE: ON BODIES & CLAY, Marissa Marquardson & Niikah Hatfield

On Exhibit in August and September As part of your visit, you are invited to take a small portion of clay and carry it with you as you walk through Alchemize: On Bodies and Clay. As you mold the material, feeling the textures and sensations in your hands, we invite you to ponder the transformational experiences that have shaped you into who you are today. Before you leave, place your transformed piece of clay on the shelves provided. We hope to build a community collection of small clay offerings to serve as artifacts to our collective humanness, in all its…

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Art on the Rocks 2024 Award Winners

Thank you to our artists, attendees, and volunteers for another wonderful Art on the Rocks! We appreciate the Marquette community and beyond for helping make this year's Show possible. We're excited to share the 2024 Award Winners! A special thank you to our award sponsors: Travel Marquette, the family of Bobbi Ameen, Beth Millner Jewelry, Art of Framing of Marquette, Donckers and The Delft Bistro, The Honorable Distillery, Jack & Cindy Deo, Michele Tuccini, and the Lake Superior Art Association. Also, a huge thank you to QuickTrophy for donating the artist medals! Anita Meyland Best of Show: Mark SudduthSponsored by…

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Marquette Art Week: Unveiling the Cover Art for Art Week 2024 Magazine

The community has chosen artwork created by local artist, Avery Jade Graham to be featured on the Art Week 2024 magazine cover. Avery Jade Graham Art Week 2024 magazine cover. Thank you to all the artists who have shared their artwork, and to everyone that voted. All the entries can still be viewed in the Virtual Exhibit. SAVE THE DATE for Art Week 2024! June 24-29 will be packed with free to attend art events of all kinds. We'll also be engaging you all with the big projects we're working on to GROW Marquette's Arts & Culture sector. Visit Art Week - MQTCompass.com for more information about…

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Dog Dayz of Winter Youth Art Show

The artwork boasts the honest simplicity of children’s art, guided by their teachers. A reception held for The annual Dog Dayz of Winter Art Show. The reception was open to the public, the artists and their families on Saturday, February 17. There are some fantastic new ideas this year, so please stop by to see their work! The show will be up through February, in the Art and Culture studio room, in the lower level of the Peter White Public Library. This exhibit is brought to you by the Lake Superior Art Association.

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Explorers and Artists: The Group of Seven

It was standing room only for Lynn Buckland-Brown's LSAA presentation this past Tuesday! It was standing room only for Lynn Buckland-Brown's LSAA presentation this past Tuesday. Her topic: Explorers and Artists: The Group of Seven drew community and LSAA members who were interested in learning more about a unique style of wilderness landscape painting developed by a group of Canadian artists in the early part of the last century. Lynn showed an inspiring  documentary that traced the route of these artists through some breathtaking scenery.  See "Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven" trailer below!

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Fresh Coast Plein Air Painting Festival Results and Photos

The 6th annual Fresh Coast Plein Air Festival was held on Friday and Saturday, June 23rd and 24th in Marquette, MI. The event attracted the most artists ever with 38 participants! The festival has been part of the “Grand Finale” of the City of Marquette Art Week, a week-long celebration of Marquette's creative community held during the last full week of June. This year's judging, reception, presentation of awards, and artwork display was held at Provisions MQT, one of Marquette’s newest coffeehouses on the shore of lake Superior. Artists decided for themselves if they were Level 1 Professionals, or Level…

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Annual Children’s Exhibition at the DeVos Art Museum

May 08 - 26 2023, Reception on Friday, May 12, from 5 – 7 pm. Each year the DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools. Join us for the reception on Friday, May 12, from 5 – 7 pm. Participating Schools Include: Aspen Ridge Elementary School Birchview Elementary School Cherry Creek Elementary School Father Marquette Catholic Academy Gilbert Elementary School Lakeview Elementary School North Star Montessori Academy Powell Township School Sandy Knoll Elementary School…

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May 16th LSAA Program, Ben Bohnsack Wood Block Prints

This LSAA May program will be on Tuesday, May 16th , 6:30-8:30 PM. In this program, Marquette Woodcut Printer Ben Bohnsack will discuss his craft. He'll also talk about artist residencies. Left: "Sandpiper", woodcut Top: "Rocks Along the Shore", woodcut For more on Ben Bohnsack's work, check out his website https://sandriverart.com/index.html Ben Bohnsack began his career as an artist in retirement, applying his life-long creative energies in new ways. After a weekend in 2012 with printmaker Nick Wroblewski, at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota, he launched out on his own, always learning more with each new…

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