Kerredge Gallery
Reconstructions
mixed media by
Ingrid Blixt
May 6-29
Reception
Thursday, May 6
6pm-8pm
Youth Gallery
Hancock High School
May 4-29
Houghton Spring Art and Music Festival
Saturday, June 12
noon-7pm
The Copper Country Community Arts Center and the City of Houghton invite you to the 9th annual Houghton Spring Art and Music Festival! This event will be held on Shelden Avenue in downtown Houghton and features artist booths, local music, family art activities, and extreme bake sale. Look for the music line up and more details in next month’s newsletter!
Houghton Spring Art and Music Festival Artist Applications
Applications for artists’ booths are now available at the Community Arts Center for the Houghton Spring Art and Music Festival happening Saturday, June 12 on Shelden Avenue, downtown Houghton. Application Deadline: Friday, May 28.
LIVE
Saturday, June 12
Erik Koskinen is coming home to play for the Houghton Spring Art and Music Festival! The full music line up will be in next month’s newsletter!
Extreme Bake Sale!
A call for BAKERS!
The CCCAC will have their huge annual bake sale during the Houghton Spring Art & Music Festival to raise money for programs! Help us generate some dough by donating cookies, bars, brownies, granola, tarts, etc. by 5:00pm on Friday, June 11. Please wrap individually or package groups of goodies. Call us if you’d like to bake!
Kerredge Gallery Exhibit: Reconstructions
The Copper Country Community Arts Center is pleased to present new work by Escanaba artist, Ingrid Blixt, in the Kerredge Gallery through the month of May.
Blixt, originally from Romania, brings to her work a life experience from a different cultural environment. She describes her work as Aesthetic Conceptualism and is inspired by the human condition. She says, “My art has a global dimension: human. I observe, interact with, and express the psychological and emotional dimensions of the human being. I focus on subtle generalities, common intimacies, and general valid truths, as: love, longing, death, hope-- which will never become over-used subjects being eternally embedded in human nature.”
Blixt uses a variety of techniques and materials to prepare her drawing surface. She applies plaster to wood panels, sands and primes the surface leaving trowel marks along the edges. This creates an interesting textural effect emulating the imperfections of architectural walls. Blixt explains, “My love for murals inspired the surface preparation and after I drew the first time on a wall there was no going back to paper.” Please join us for a reception on Thursday, May 6 from 6pm-8pm.
White Elephant Sale
The White Elephant Sale raised more than $600! Thank you to all who donated or supported this fundraiser. Thanks especially to our board member Meghan Pachmayer for organizing and to Mary Pachmayer, Joyce Koskenmaki, and Molly Belinski for helping out. Thanks also to Re-Treat design for sponsoring our fundraiser.
Clay Co-Op Demo
How to Slab Build
New Date! May 19th
7pm-9pm
Demonstrations are $10 per person, free to members of the CCCAC Clay Co-Op. Demonstrations are not classes. Please consider joining the CCCAC Clay Co-Op. For more information, contact Tammy Gajewski at 281-4896.
Congratulations Bonnie!
Bonnie Loukus, CCCAC Assistant Director, has earned her Bachelor of Arts degree Summa Cum Laude in Arts, Culture and the Environment, an interdisciplinary honors program at Finlandia University. Her final capstone project, Changing Landscapes: Invasive Species within the Great Lakes Region, is a series of oil paintings depicting the beauty of exotic species while exploring the negative impacts their introduction by humans has had on the environment. This body of work displays her successful incorporation of all three areas of study and is currently on exhibit at the Reflections Gallery located on the first floor of the Jutila Center at Finlandia University. Bonnie was also inducted into the Sampo Society for her exemplary work. We are proud of Bonnie and congratulate her on this significant achievement.
CCCAC
Board of Directors:
· Phyllis Fredendall
· Tammy Gajewski
· Fred Knoch
· Kiko de Melo e Silva
· Meghan Pachmayer
· Kris Raisanen Schourek
· Christa Walck
Staff:
· Cynthia Coté
· Bonnie Loukus
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