For the 30th year, "The Print" exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center has showcased the diversity of printmaking techniques used by Michigan artists. As you can see in the show, prints come into being through many different artistic processes, some traditional and others more contemporary or experimental. The broad ...
After three decades as president and CEO of the Ann Arbor Art Center, Marsha Chamberlin is retiring. The nationwide search for a new leader has begun, and applications will be accepted for the next two months. Chamberlin is not sure when her very last day will be; however, she notified ...
Patrons look over the offerings at last year's 30 x 30 event. For the last couple of years, the Ann Arbor Art Center has asked 30 artists to create 30 artworks in 30 days. The small pieces sell for $40 each as a benefit for the center's Art for Kids ...
The Ann Arbor Art Center hosted its fourth annual Artini Martini Crawl on Friday, a fund-raiser in which participants sample a variety of fancy drinks at downtown establishments. The Black Pearl won the martini competition, with Rush Street placing as runner-up. Photographer Chris Asadian captured these images from the event.
When fabric artists Brooks Harris Stevens and Sarah Wagner became friends, they were amazed by how much they have in common. They are both fiber artists who usually utilize fabric to create sculptural artworks that parallel reality in a conceptual way. But the similarities between the women run deeper than ...
"Haitian Prayer II" by Judith Bemis Sixty years flies by when you're having fun. And this year's 60th anniversary of the Ann Arbor Women Artists finds this local group having an artful lot of fun. A local nonprofit arts organization of close to 350 women and men with connections to ...
“The Beekeeper” by Carolyn Reed Barritt This year’s Ann Arbor Art Center “Annual: All Media Exhibition” confirms what we’ve known for a long time: Milan’s Joan Painter Jones is an artist for all time. The juror of this year’s 89th exhibition is Rebecca Mazzei, deputy director at the Museum of ...
“Amarillo” by Dewey Blocksma Interestingly, “Everything and the Kitchen Sink: Michigan Outsider Art” at the Ann Arbor Art Center indeed features just about everything imaginable—except, maybe, a kitchen sink. No problem. This exhilarating mixed-media display—featuring the art of Dewey Blocksma, Len Cowgill and Tim Burke—has lots of other things on ...
"Adolescence" by Kathleen Laufman. Writes Randy Bolton, the juror for this year’s "The Print" exhibit at the Ann Arbor Art Center: “When Niki Hogan-Lefler (AAAC exhibitions manager) asked if I could write a few words about ‘The Print 2011,’ I said ‘Yes, sure, easily done—I’ll have a paragraph for you ...
The Ann Arbor Art Center held its annual Winefest benefit on Saturday night, this year held in a warehouse on Metty Drive with the theme "Paint the Town." Wine, food, auctions, "random acts of culture" and more were on the menu. Photographer Angela Cesere captured these images:
They came. They saw. They bought art. Hundreds of area residents snapped up the work of local artists at $40 each Saturday at the Ann Arbor Art Center's 30X30 project to fund art classes for low-income children.
By Jordan Griffin Paint is splattering, glass is shattering, and kilns are firing up — The Ann Arbor Art Center’s 2nd annual 30X30 project is under way. The 30X30 project challenges 30 artists to create 30 works of art in 30 days to be sold to benefit the Ann Arbor ...
Friday night marked The Ann Arbor Art Center’s third annual Artini Martini Crawl — the center’s most successful ethanol-fueled fundraiser to date. Eight Main Street area dispensaries vied for the title of “Most Artful Martini” as voted on by the 400 judges fortunate enough to gain tickets to the sold-out ...
“Connection/Disconnection” from “The Ground Beneath My Feet” by Lois Bryant Lois Bryant and John Cynar's exhibit "Moving Ground" at the Ann Arbor Art Center finds these two local artists moving along with their subject matter. Yet it’s only restless from execution to appearance. Illustrating movement was a 20th century aesthetic ...
Thursday saw the unveiling of Ann Arbor's newest public artwork, a mural on the back wall of the Grizzly Peak Brewing Co. on West Washington Street.
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