Artists in residence
2008 Schedule
Presentations on Thursday evenings, 7:30, at the Glen Arbor Art Association
Victor Pytko (May 4-17) is a painter from Birmingham, MI. His paintings hang in private and corporate collections, and he has exhibited extensively during his forty years as a practicing artist. He will attempt to reconcile the differences between representation and abstraction in his work and aims to complete two or three large works and three or four smaller ones during his visit.
www.victorpytko.com
Presentation: Thursday, May 15, 7:30 pm
Matthew Ballou (May 18-31) is a painter and draftsman living in Evanston, IL. Having earned a BFA from the Chicago Art Institute and an MFA from Indiana University, he is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri. He plans to develop a series of drawings incorporating the unique qualities of light and land in this area and to explore how a sense of place affects portraiture.
www.eikonktizo.com
Presentation: Thursday, May 29, 7:30 pm
Wayne Pope (June 1-14) is a free-lance writer and nature photographer from Okemos, MI, and an adjunct faculty member at Lansing Community College.His intent is to photograph landscapes and to document the plant life of Glen Arbor and the Sleeping Bear Dunes. He then plans to publish his photos and his accompanying stories in the Jack Pine Warbler and the Lansing State Journal.
Presentation: Thursday, June 12, 7:30 pm
Darren Johnson (June 15-28) is a figurative painter about to receive an MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He looks forward to refining his work and enriching it through new experiences and new acquaintances. He considers himself a Midwesterner and strives to infuse his art with humor and the familiar cultural practices of the area.
http://darrenjohnsonart.googlepages.com
Presentation: Thursday, June 26, 7:30 pm
Jessica Loyd (June 29-July 12) is a ceramicist, educator, and arts administrator from South Bend, IN. She works at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art. She attended our Val Cushing workshop in 2007 and found it, along with the environment and the people she met, to be a magical and life enhancing experience. She will use her visit to solve problems and move toward a sense of completion in her work.
Presentation: Thursday, July 10, 7:30 pm
Douglas David (August 17-30) , from Indianapolis, is a highly accomplished oil painter with a BFA from the Herron School of Art and studied at New York's Art Student League. His exhibition venues include Betsie Bay Furniture in Frankfort, where he will exhibit this summer, and several years at the Petoskey and Charlevoix Art Fairs. He plans to immerse himself in the county, the dunes, the islands, and our sunrises and sunsets.
www.DouglasDavid.com
Presentation: Thursday, August 28, 7:30 pm
Sharon Rusch Shaver (August 31-September 13) is a painter from Gallatin, TN, who has been active in her art for over thirty years. She has exhibited extensively, with one person shows in Nashville, Chicago, and Brussels, Belgium, among several others. She would like to use her residency to create a collection of oil paintings representing her excitement and admiration of this area and its people.
www.sharonruschshaver.com
Presentation: Thursday, September 11, 7:30 pm
Dawn Johnson (September 14-27) is a painter from Livonia, MI. She attended the Ringling School of Art and Madonna University. She has worked as an art instructor and a designer and has exhibited in the Livonia area. She works in oil, watercolor, and acrylics, and prefers to paint outdoors. She wants to paint the natural, timeless beauty of our area and to explore the ways civilization interacts with the landscape.
www.Dawnjohnsonart.com
Presentation: Thursday, September 25, 7:30 pm
Steven Huyser-Honig (October 5-18) is a photographer from Grand Rapids. He is self-taught and has turned his passion into his profession, a process that began with him illustrating his wife's free-lance articles. They now collaborate as travel journalists, and his photos have been exhibited throughout Michigan. He hopes to share with us his sense of wonder and whimsy at the beauty of our world and our area.
www.greatlakeseditions.com or www.beautyworthpreserving.com
Presentation: Thursday, October 16, 7:30 pm
Franklin Speyers (October 19-November 1) is a painter from Grand Rapids and a faculty member at Calvin College. He was educated at Calvin, Pratt Institute, and Harvard. His goal is to create a series of landscape paintings on site at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. His broad involvement in Art History and Art Theory will provide the foundation for his explorations as a painter.
Presentation: Thursday, October 30, 7:30 pm