Lake Superior Art Association in the Permanent Collection at the DeVos Art Museum
This exhibit with be on display through December, 2026. There’s plenty of time for you to stroll through the history of local visual arts!
The lake Superior Art Association’s April meeting was a special showing of and reception for the exhibition Celebrating Legacy: Lake Superior Art Association in the Permanent Collection at the DeVos Art Museum on the NMU campus.
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of Lake Superior Art Association (LSAA), the longest-running arts organization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In celebration of this legacy, this exhibition brings together past and present LSAA members.
Museum Director, Emily Lanctot, and Collection Curator, Sammie Hardewig, prepared a spectacular exhibition of art by Lake Superior Art Association members that is stored in the museum’s permanent collection. Several legacy artists attended and were pleased to see their work included.
“We are so grateful to live in a community that values the arts!” stated Emily Lanctot. ” And we feel lucky that the seeds planted seventy-five years ago have grown into the creative legacy that is LSAA.”
Among those artists were John Hubbard, Diane Kordich, JoAnne Shelby, and Jack Deo. Works included paintings, ceramics, and metalwork.
Artists in the exhibition included: Bobbi Ameen, Claire Bennett, Barry Bernstein, Helen Bice, Ben Bohnsack, Sally Brebner, Jon Brookhouse, Thomas Cappuccio, Alice Carr, May Cebalo, Sallie Chisholm, Kathleen Conover, Cynthia Coté, Jack Deo, Verna Depro, Nita Engle, Linda Ferguson, Wayne Francis, Christine Garceau, Vivian Glass, Paul Grant, John Gustafson, Niel Haapala, Elizabeth Hadley, Bill Hamilton, Claire Harkin, Ken Hatfield, John Heath, Kaye Hiebel, Marc Himes, John Hubbard, Kathy Carlton Johnson, Celia Kelly, Diane Kordich, Maude Kronquist, Robert LaLonde, Stella Larkin, Vida Lautner, William Leete, Yvonne Lemire, Marj Lehwald, Maggie Linn, Carl Mayer, Mark Mitchell, Josephine Morris, Tyyne Ostlund, Carol Phillips, Vicki Phillips, Bernard Park, James Quirk, Ed Risak, Sue Robishaw, Ann Russ, Christine Saari, Steve Schmeck, JoAnn Deuel Shelby, Betty Shirtz, Patty Smith, Helen Steinhoff, Patrick St. Germain, Dorothy Tracy, Dale Wedig, Sally Wilson, and Marvin Zehnder