Get Ready for the 2024 Fresh Coast Plein Air Festival!

This year, we have also added an “Afterglow” Event on Sunday, June 30. The seventh annual Fresh Coast Plein Air Painting Festival and Competition will be held throughout Marquette, Michigan on Friday & Saturday, June 28 and 29. The festival, presented by Lake Superior Art Association, is part of the “Grand Finale” of the City of Marquette’s Art Week. Art Week is a week-long celebration of Marquette's creative community held during the last full week of June, featuring a wide range of community art projects, installations, performances, and more. Learn more about Art Week at https://www.mqtcompass.com/artweek/ This year’s judging, reception, presentation of…

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Summer 2024 Kiosk

Greetings LSAA Members and Friends! Below you'll find the PDF version of the Summer 2024 Kiosk. Enjoy the Kiosk and enjoy your summer! Kiosk-May-June-2024Download

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At the Deo: John Hubbard “Color and Light: North Country Images”

/ Reception on April 11th, from 6-8 pm Marquette Arts & Culture Center 217 North Front St., Marquette, MI Free and open to the public Artist's Statement I may be riding in a car or tramping through the woods on snowshoes, constantly scanning my surroundings for images that might produce an exciting painting.  Usually I go hiking for periods of thirty minutes to three hours and shoot from 30-200 images, which I later review as to which hold painting potential.  I crop and adjust the image on my computer and then work from a monitor to create the final painting. …

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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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Sold Out! Workshop featuring Japanese Watercolor Woodblock print artist Mary Brodbeck

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;…

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Anita Meyland, First Lady of the Arts Event

On March 5th, the Lake Superior Art Association presented a celebration of the History of Arts and Culture in Marquette. Jack Deo and Ann Hilton Fisher shared a lot of fun and interesting stories about Anita Meyland, who came to Marquette as a young bride 100 years ago and began organizing many events and founded Art On the Rocks. Photo by Christine Saari Anita Meyland was a prominent advocate of the arts during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In 1950 she organized Marquette’s first Art on the Rocks event. She was a contributing member of local art and music organizations…

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Kiosk, Spring 2024

Hello, LSAA members- Please enjoy the issue of The Kiosk below, with best wishes for an early and warm spring! LSAA-Kiosk-Mar-Apr-2024Download

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February 20th: Judy Parlato: Fiber Arts “Lady in Gold”

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 "…

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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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