September 2016 - Sault Area Arts Council

September 2016
Alberta House Arts Center
217 Ferris Street
Sault Ste. Marie, Mi
49783
906-635-1312
Inside this issue:
EVENTS
1 to 3
EXHIBITS
3 to 6
AUCTION
6 to 11
EUP
11 & 12
ALGOMA
12
WORKSHOPS
& CLASSES
12 & 13
OUTSTATE
13
HONORS &
ACCOLADES
13
SAULT SUMMER 13 to 15
ARTS FESTIVAL
ARTISTIC
OPPORTUNITIES
16
NEWS & NOTES
16 to 20
SUBSCRIPTION 22
INFORMATION
Website: http://www.saultarts.org
e-mail: saac@saultarts.org
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Thursday 1—MY WAY. A musical tribute to Frank Sinatra, with Mike Dempsey at the
piano and a stellar cast. See p. 16, for details. Soo Theatre. 7:30 p.m. One night
only! Adult advance tickets are $15; at the door $ 18. Seniors Students $10. 12 &
under $5.
VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS meet at the Bayliss Library at 6 p.m. Dr. Aaron Sheppard will discuss “Non-24 Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder”.
Friday 2 — MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION for Hancock artist Cynthia Cote (see
pp.), Alberta House, 5 to 7 p.m. See pp. 5 & 6.
FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION AT THE 1668 WINERY For Yoshiko Van
Voorhies begins at 5:30 p.m. Free appetizers. See p. 3, for more. Time for a Gallery Walk!
Saturday 3—LSSU ARTS CENTER MOVIE: WARCRAFT. LSSU Arts Center Theater, 7 p.m. $7.
Tuesday 6—Masterpiece Film Series “UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS” resumes. Bayliss Library, 2 p.m.
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL MEETS in the Bayliss Library at 6:30
a.m.
Wednesday 7—LE SAULT ARTISTS GUILD MEETS in Alberta House at noon. For
more information call Mary Stroba at 635-2980.
Thursday 8—CHESS CLUB MEETS in the Bayliss Library Children’s Room at 4:30
p.m
SUPERIOR POETRY CAFÉ. Alex Chornyj of Sault, Ontario is the featured poet
followed by Open Mic. Bayliss Library, 7 p.m.
ADULT COLORING EVENT in the main reading room of the Bayliss Library, 7
p.m.
Friday 9 — LSSU ARTS CENTER MOVIE:
Theater, 7 p.m. $7.
FINDING DORY. LSSU Arts Center
“Owls and pumpkins” is the auction theme this year and you’ll find plenty of
both when you come. The two on the SEPTEMBER EVENTS heading are doodle
prints by Sue Johnson. On the left is a linoleum print—black ink on rice paper—of an eastern screech owl by Laura Davidson (www.lauradavidson.com),
donated by Pauline Davidson. On the back page is a barn owl—a watercolor by
Karla Sunn.
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EVENTS—CONTINUED
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Saturday
10—ANNUAL SAAC DINNER AND
AUCTION!!! LSSU Cisler Center Ballroom.
Everyone welcome! Dinner comes with more
perks than the lavish spread: more time to
get together with friends enjoying wine and
appetizers (available from 5 p.m.), early access to the Buy It Now Table, comfortable table seating throughout the auction and door
prizes—all included for $25. Dinner is served
at 6 p.m. The auction begins at 7 p.m. and is
free of charge and open to all. Call Pat Claxton at 906-635-0424, Jean Jones at 437-5463 or
e-mail: saac@saultarts.org for dinner reservations. No reservations necessary for the
auction alone. See pp. 7 to 10, to see some of
the early donations. This year’s theme is
owls and pumpkins.
Tom Lehman is the auctioneer. All proceeds
are used to support Sault Area Arts Council
Services, which include Alberta House Arts
Center.
ANTIQUES ON ASHMUN. Food, music and antique vendors. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CREATIVE ENDEAVORS, support group for
writers and artists, meets at the Bayliss Library at
10 a.m.
FAMILY MOVIE at the Bayliss Library. Free
movie. Popcorn by donation. Call 632-9331 for
title. 1 p.m.
4 p.m. See Sept. 10
Monday 12—PAINTED LAND—in Search of the Group
of Seven. Visually beautiful documentary file centered
on the Algoma Region. See p. 17. LSSU ARTS Center,
7 p.m. $10. Documentary benefits the Lake Superior
Watershed Conservancy.
Door prizes and reception
follow.
Tuesday 13—HOMESCHOOL LEGO CLUB meets in the
Bayliss Library Children’s room at 1 p.m.
UPSTAIR DOWNSTAIRS film. See Sept. 6.
Wednesday 14—STORY TIME. Bayliss Library, 10 a.m.
Thursday 15—STORY TIME. Bayliss Library, 1 p.m.
Friday 16—SOO FILM FESTIVAL OPENS AT THE
SOO THEATRE, showing the work of independent and emerging filmmakers from the
Great Lakes of North America and bringing
movies back to downtown Sault Ste. Marie
and the historic Soo Theatre. See p. 17., SooFilmFestival.org and SooFilmFestival on Facebook. For more information call 906-2485947.
Saturday 17—BROWN BAG BOOK CLUB meets in the
Bayliss Library at noon.
SOO FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday 18—SOO FILM FESTIVAL
Tuesday 20—CREATIVE ENDEAVORS, support group
for writers and artists meets in the Bayliss Library at
noon.
LEGO CLUB MEETS in the Bayliss Library Children’s Room at 1 p.m.
UPSTAIR DOWNSTAIRS film. See Sept. 6.
GRAND OLD OPRY OF THE NORTH SERIES.
Ty Herndon & Anita Cochran. DreamMakers Theater, 8 p.m. $12.50.
www.kewadin.com/entertainment
CHIPPEWA COUNTRY GENEALOGOCAL Society
meets in the Bayliss Library for individual research
with Q & A. 7 p.m.
LSSU ARTS CENTER MOVIE: Finding Dory.
See Sept. 9.
Sunday 11—AFTERNOON TEA in the Cisler Center Crow’s Nest. A family-friendly kickoff event
co-sponsored by the Bayliss Library and the LSSU
Library for the NEA Big Read Celebrating Edgar
Allen Poe and his works. 1 to 4 p.m. Free parking,
refreshments, games, prizes and literary events.
For more information, please contact Lisa Waskin,
Director, Superior District Library at (906) 6329331 or lisaw@uproc.lib.mi.us
GRAND OLD OPRY OF THE NORTH SERIES.
SAAC BOARD MEETS in Alberta House at 4 p.m.
Wednesday 21—STORY TIME. Bayliss Library, 10 a.m.
RECEPTION for Ben Bryer’s “Lonely Planet” Art
Exhibition. LSSU Arts Center gallery, 4 p.m. See
poster on p. 4, and more information on p. 18.
Thursday 22—STORY TIME. Bayliss Library, 1 p.m.
LSSU THEATER PRESENTS: Lonely Planet by
Steven Dietz. LSSU ARTS Center, 7 p.m. Adults
$10/Seniors $7/Students $5. See p. 18.
Friday 23—ALGOMA CONSERVATORY Concert—
Andreas Klein, German concert pianist. The Machine
shop at Algoma Music Conservatory, Mill Square in
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EVENTS—CONTINUED & EXHIBITS
THE LONELY PLANET. 2 p.m. See Sept. 22.
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Sault, Ont. 7:30 p.m. $35/10. See p. 20 for concert
schedule.
THE LONELY PLANET. See Sept. 22.
Saturday 24—OCTOBERFEST, Portage Avenue. Featuring the Sault International Festival of Races’ finish line on the corner of Ashmun & Portage, arts, crafts & food vendors, music, dancing,
tug-o-war and other games along Portage Avenue .
FLEETWOOD MAC MANIA. DreamMakers Theater, 8 p.m. $12.50.
www.kewadin.com/entertainment
The Sault Blues Society Presents DIANA
BRAITHWAITE & CHRIS WHITELEY, Maple
Blues and Jean Award winners, with Lindsay Pugh
on bass and Mark Gough on drums. Rock Star Bar,
864 Queen Street East in Sault, Ont. Doors open at
8:30, show at 9:30 p.m. $20 at the door. $15 advance
at
multiple
venues.
See:
http://www.saultblues.com/
Sunday 25—STAR TREK: BEYOND. LSSU Arts Center theater movie, 2 p.m. $7.
FLEETWOOD MAC MANIA. DreamMakers Theater, 4 p.m. $12.50.
Tuesday 27—UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS film.
Sept. 6.
See
YARNWORKERS GUILD meets at the Bayliss Library at 6 p.m.
Wednesday
a.m.
28—STORY TIME, Bayliss Library, 10
FALL RENDEZVOUS, SPIRIT WALK & Culture
Days at the Ermatinger Old Stone House in Sault,
Ont. to Oct. 1.
Thursday 29—STORY TIME. Bayliss Library, 1 p.m.
BAYLISS BOOK CLUB MEETS at 7 p.m.
Friday 30—SPEAKEASY with the ERRANT
LATE Night Gardeners. Soo Theatre, 7
p.m..
SAULT, MICHIGAN EXHIBITS
100 W. Portage Avenue
906-259-5035
https//www.facebook.com/
Lockside
Paintings by Yoshiko Van Voorhies
First Friday Reception September 2, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Meer the artist and
enjoy free appetizers. Exhibit in place September 1 — 30, 2016.
BAYLISS
LIBRARY, 541 Library Dr., (906) 6329331.
Open Tuesday and
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.;
Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Bayliss Library
Artist of the
Month:
Randy Krause
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SAULT, MICHIGAN EXHIBITS
Lithographs by
emil weddige (19072001)
Hours at the Arts Center
Gallery are Tuesday Thursday and Friday, noon to 4
p.m. and Wednesday, noon
to 6. For questions or tour
information, contact Sharon Dorrity at 906-635-2665
or sdorrity@lssu.edu.
See pp. 18 & 19 for more on
both Arts Center Gallery
Exhibits
LSSU
LIBRARY
GALLERY
Retro Exhibit from an
Alumnus
drawings and watercolor paintings by
Ken Hatfield
Next Month in Alberta House— October 1 to 30:
OLIVE CRAIG GALLERY: Ben Bohnsack, wood block prints, and Pat
Black, Ceramics (“Earth Creations”)—Featured artist award winners at
Northern Exposure XXII
MINI GALLERY: Paintings by Lloyd Eddy
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217 Ferris Street, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783—906/635-1312. Email: saac@saultarts.org. Website: www.saultarts.org. Open
Tuesday through Saturday from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
September 1 to 30, 2016
Meet the Artist Reception
Friday, September 2, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Words and Pictures
Cynthia Cote is the Executive Director of the Copper Country Community Arts Center in Hancock, and has been since its founding in 1992.
She is, as well, the curator for its exhibits in the Kerredge Gallery.
She is, and has been, active as an artist and adjudicator and her resume is roughly a mile and a half long. Almost any item on it would,
under normal conditions, be worth a mention, but in this resume the
many exhibits, honors and instances of curating and judging major
shows is so overwhelming that all are lost in the crowd. Cote’s own
work is in the Permanent Collections of both the Devos Museum at
NMU and Isle Royale National Park. She is in great demand as a juror and as a curator for art institutions throughout northern Michigan
and Wisconsin and her work and her art has taken her to France, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Iceland, and the Netherlands. She is also an experienced
and successful grant writer.
What appears below is a small selection of the exhibits, shows curated and honors won that will strike a chord with an EUP reader.
Cote is no stranger to Alberta House. In July of 1996 and again in
June of 2002 she was the curator for “Selections from the Copper
Country” Exhibition. In March of 2006 she was the Judge for the
Olive Craig Gallery’s Annual Juried Show: It Is Not What It
Seems. In August of 1998 her own show, “Dom and Lost Relatives” was in the Olive Craig Gallery. In October of 2004 the Olive
Craig Gallery hosted a two person exhibit by Cynthia Cote and
Phyllis Fredendall called “Remembering Isle Royale”. We were
going to list her other exhibitions, but between 1994 and the present there were sixty-eight, and we gave it up. To be successful
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and active in so many capacities and geographic areas an artist has to be a superb and
disciplined organizer and Cote is. Ignore the tales of bohemian, impulse driven artists in
garrets—today’s successful artists’ assets include discipline and organizational skills in
addition to education and ability.
About her current exhibit Cote writes:
Words and Pictures
Here are my books and my drawings. They are together because they are worked from old photographs and discarded
books, materials that feel similar to me. I regard both as
precious ephemera fallen by the wayside.
The books that are suspended from the ceiling are made
from retired textbooks and dictionaries. The pages are folded and glued using collected paper including maps, correspondence, and hand made and marbled paper. The new pages are embellished with
carefully selected found words. They are then composed and edited and tied together. The repetition in each step is soothing and is important to the process. Each book
tells a brief story. They were books before, withdrawn or discarded. Reinvented,
they are given another chance.
I make art to interpret and communicate the circumstances of my life. The text on
the pages of the books is like internal chatter or background noise that we tolerate.
When combined with the drawings of people it also represents the thoughts and
stories we don’t know... copied in French or written backwards in cursive, even
made up language in the pretty Russian alphabet.
I have been using old photographs as inspiration and subjects for my art for a long time. I started out using them
as collage materials - but then more recently, taking an interest in drawing, I have give them over to my hand for
interpretation. This seems richer to me. I compose. I add a dog, subtract elements, and rework the surroundings.
Like the photographer, I am documenting, in my own language, that single moment when the shutter clicked forever capturing something dear.
Cynthia Cote
September 2016
Mini Gallery to September 10: Auction Preview
September 10 to 30: Items from the Permanent Collection
This year’s Sault Summer Arts Festival and Annual Arts Auction are only a bit over a
month apart and letters to artists don’t go out until after the festival, so at this writing
(August 25) items are still coming in. The theme this year is “Owls and Pumpkins”.
You’ll see artist embellished pumpkins on all the tables but the owls you’ll see come as
a total surprise because several of the artists have taken the theme to heart. You’ll see,
on the front page EVENTS banner, two doodle owl prints by Sue Johnson, both of which
are destined for the auction block. On the lower left of the front page you’ll find a linoleum print of an eastern screech owl, black ink on rice paper, #7/20, by Laura Davidson
(www.lauradavidson.com ). On the last (subscription) page you’ll find Karla
Sunn’s watercolor of a barn owl. Other owls include two prints by Yoshiko Van
Voorhies and a pastel by Judy Colein. Other work now in Alberta House includes:
AUCTION DONATION LIST as of August 25, 2016
1.
Moonyeen Albrecht:
Stained glass sunflower,
11 x 11”
2.
Aerial photographs of
the Sault, 11 x 14”—a:
Sault Locks
3.
b: looking north
from a distance—
cityscape
4.
c: looking west over
locks
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5.
d: looking west over city
6.
Paul Baker: Dichromatic glass
set in silvery hoops to create a
stunning bracelet
7.
8.
9.
Jan Barnes: Genuine leather,
go-with-everything handbag by
the winner of two back to back
SSAF Best of Crafts awards
William H. Beard: Dancing
bear duo, framed—12 1/2/x/15
1/2 print, donated by Marian
MacLeod
William H. Beard: Bear round
dance. Framed print, 27 x 37”,
donated by Marian MacLeod
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earrings hanging from a lilac
Swarovski crystal, by an Athabaskan jeweler who won and
Honorable Mention award in
her first SSAF showing
17. Judy Colein: “Convention of
Snow Ghosts Descending Alberta House Fire Escape”,
photograph on canvas
18. Judy Colein: “Thomas Viaduct”, w/c painting
19. Judy Colein: Hoot owl.
framed pastel
20. Olive Craig: Small blue
rimmed bowl
10. Mary Jane Bernier: Fall on
the Farm, framed w/c. 13 x 16”
21. Olive Craig: Small brown
rimmed bowl
11. Dee Besteman: Basket of maple products, complete with gold
bow—maple syrup, maple mustard, maple sugar, maple rub
and Golden root beer
22. Olive Craig: Blue green,
urn shaped vase
12. Mark Besteman: Michigan
welcome board showing proper
respect for the UP
13. Boatmat: Purple blown glass
vase, 8”, donated by Ginny
Johnson
14. Janet Bonnell: “Surrounded
by the Night Sky”—coiled
sweetgrass basket around an
epoxy clay base, sewn with
waxed thread and embellished
with seed beads. “Surrounded
by the Night Sky”—coiled
sweetgrass basket around an
epoxy clay base, sewn with
waxed thread and embellished
with seed beads. Another example of fine craftsmanship and
design by another frequent
SSAF Best of Crafts winner & a
Best of Show winner.
15. David Brown: “Best Seat in
the House”, Brown’s signature
critters in a tangled 14” tall pyramid supporting a seat with a
view
16. Kyanna Bullard: Sealskin
green pitcher
33. Gordon Goehring: Beige bowl
34.
Joan Goredare: Small, signed
vase, donated by Agatha Colbert
35. Shirley Harrer: Pair of decorated boots planters
36. Shirley Harrer: Three felt
Christmas stockings
37. Shirley Harrer: Floor mat—
tiny checks & daisy, 27 x 30”
38. Shirley Harrer: Red print tote,
20 x 12”
39. Sharon Hebl: Riverside scene,
11 1/2 x 14 1/2” framed oil
40. Rene Hillock: Green Mountain,
framed print (15/50). 16 x 20”
23. Olive Craig: Brown/beige
urn shaped vase
41. Hiron: Two apples, framed pastel by a Canadian artist, 12 1/2 x
15 1/2”, donated by Kyung Hatfield
24. Bonnie and John Dienes:
Two rugged genuine leather
billfolds
42. Elizabeth Johnson: Framed
photograph of cut fruit, 16 x 20”,
donated by Marian MacLeod
25. Sharon Drury: Four soothing piano music CDs
43. Ginny Johnson: Porcelain birdbath with 24” pedestal
26. Larry Farnquist: “Path to
the Pictographs.” Framed
photograph, donated by Marian MacLeod
44. Sharon Klevay: intricately woven button bracelet in shades of
aqua
27. Larry Farnquist: Rail fence
photo, framed 24 x 24”, donated by Marian MacLeod
28. Larry Farnquist: Double
Waiski River sunset photo,
framed, 18 x 22”, donated by
Marian MacLeod
29. Robert Fry: “Twilight
Road”, framed photograph, 13
1/2 x 16 1/2, donated by Karen Sutton-Boger
30. Gordon Goehring: Blue
earthenware lidded crock,
donated by Kyung Hatfield
31. Gordon Goehring: Warm
beige lidded pot
32. Gordon Goehring: Light
45. Diane Kramer: Two bead
draped Christmas ornaments
46. Annie La Point: Framed w/c
flower still life, donated by Yoshiko Van Voorhies
47. Margaret La Ponsie: U.S.
Coast Guard Icebreaker
“Mackinaw”. Lithograph # 3/100.
13 x 23”
48. Dot Linle: Lakeside cabin,
framed print, 21 x 24”, donated by
Karen Sutton-Boger
49. Ginny Lockhart: Great Pumpkin rug hooking, 9 1/2 x 19”
50. Eric Marken: Foil origami
crane mobile
51. Terry Markwardt:
“WiseHooker Clean n’ flip”. Mul-
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ti-function barbeque tool
52. Tom Marshall: Cedar Waxwing
and Crabapples. Framed pastel
painting
53. Paul Mason: at 4’, the biggest
columbine you ever saw. Won’t
self-seed.
River photograph on metal
plate
71. Kim Royal: Silk screen image of a sunflower, donated by
Ginny Johnson
72. Schmidt-Marken Pottery:
Stoneware veggie/dip tray
54. Judy Merrill-Smith: “Dark
Angel”. Photograph on photoboard
73. Norris Seward: Framed
night time photograph of the
International Bridge
55. Mosquito Creek Designs:
Horseshoe coatrack
74. Rick Shapero: blue, blown
glass vase, 9.5”
56. Maureen Mousley: Abstract
rug hooking, 18 x 42”
75. John Speed’s 1610 map of
Scotland, framed. Donated
by Marian MacLeod
57. Maureen Mousley:
“Birches”—matted print, 13 x 21”
(62/200)
58. Maureen Mousley: “Cattail
Dreams. Oil on wood, 12 x 34”
59. Deb Nolan: Embellished pink
zippered hoodie, size XL
60. Pat Norton: Sketch of the
Ryerson. Pen and ink with w/c
wash, donated by Marian MacLeod
61. Betty Reece: Painted jewelry
box, 10 1/2 x 8 x 4”
62. Betty Reece: Hooked rug—
tulips
63. Betty Reece: Framed w/c of an
iris, 18 x 22”
64. Betty Reece: Lilacs and apple
blossom oil painting
65. Betty Reece: Tulips and pussy
willows oil painting
66. Karen Reece: Purple lampwork
bead bracelet
67. Claire Rettenmund: Miniature
painting of a bird on porcelain
drop, set in sterling
68. Jean Rich: Iris—framed w/c
69. Riverview Gallery (Greg
Steele): Rotary Park—
photograph on tiles
70. Riverview Gallery: St. Marys
76. Anthony Strublic: Print
(6/10) of a pencil drawing of
the Carl D. Bradley (shrink
wrapped)
77. Karen Sutton-Boger:
“Style”—Rug hooking on
cheese box
78. Karla Sunn: “Intentions”,
w/c painting of a barn owl
79. Karla Sunn: “Reading Rachel”, matted conte pencil portrait, donated by Kyung Hatfield
80. Mark Taylor: Ring—green
topaz cubic zirconia set in
sterling, size 7
81. Gail Van Sledright: five
fused glass suncatchers—
dandelion puff, cone flowers,
cattails and two poppies
82. Gail Van Sledright: Rope
framed, fused glass fish
83. Gail Van Sledright: Stained
glass angel nightlight
84. Zoey Wood-Salomon:
“Honesty”, the butterfly, w/c
painting, triple matted and
encased in plastic by Rose
Sundaram (Rose’s Art Gallery
in Sault, Ont.)
85. Artist unknown: Framed
print of a mountain mill, do-
nated by Karen Sutton-Boger
86. A.U.: Japanese tea set—
teapot, creamer, sugar bowl
and eight cups, donated by
Agatha Colbert
87. A.U.: Asian pot with floral
design, donated by Agatha Colbert
88. A.U.: Brown and cream basket
89. A.U.: Cheery yellow padded
chair, donated by Mary Barry
90. A.U.: Sail boat, framed photograph, donated by Ed Johnson
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EUP
BRIMLEY
The WHEELS OF HISTORY
Train Museum
on M-221 in downtown
Brimley.
Hours to June 20
are 10 to 4, Sat.
and Sun., 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Labor
Day to October 15,
Sat. & Sun., 10 to
4.
Mon., Sept 12: Spaghetti Dinner at Jack’s Grub &
Pub, 4 to 7 p.m. Eat in or take out. $10 adults,
$5, ages 5 to 12 & under 5, free. 50/50 raffle.
Raffle tickets for twin kayaks are $10—on sale at the
museum. Winner takes both 10’ kayaks. Drawing is
10 a.m. Oct. 9, at the museum. Winner need not be
present.
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IROQUOIS POINT
LIGHTHOUSE
Located seven miles west of Brimley
on Lakeshore Drive, the lighthouse
museum and gift shop are open from,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily from May 15
through October 15, but hours may
vary, so call (906) 437-5272 for a current schedule. The 65-foot tower is
also open to the public during those
times.
CURTIS
Erickson Center for
the Arts, P.O. Box 255,
49820. 906-586-9974
www.ericksoncenter.org
. info@ericksoncenter.org.
Sat., Sept. 3: Art on the
Lake. Art and music festival. Includes food vendors, music, handcrafted
art, a silent auction, a children's parade and a children's art project. Vote for
the People's Choice Award
in the 8th Annual Photo
Contest. Musical performances from The Flying
Latini Brothers from 10:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. and The
Flutter and Wow from 2 to
5 p.m.
Admission $1.
Please no pets.
Sat. 17—Blue Champagne.
Musical group with everything from swing to rock
and roll. $10. 7 p.m.
LES CHENEAUX
ST. IGNACE
Fri., Sept. 2: Great Lakes Boat Building School Beer Fest and Silent
Auction, 5 to 8 p.m. GLBBS building.
Sat. & Sun., Sept. 3 & 4: Arts &
Crafts Dockside. 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. Sat. & 9 to 5 on Sun.,
St. Ignace Marina.
Sat., Sept. 3: Art in the Park. 11 a.m.,
downtown Cedarville
ALGOMA
ART GALLERY OF ALGOMA, 10 East
Street, 705/949-9067.
Public Hours: Tues., Thurs., Fri. & Sat., 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Wed. 9 to 9. Sun. noon to 5.
Closed Mon. Admission: $5.00. Free admission for student, children under 12 and
AGA members.
e-mail: galleryinfo@artgalleryofalgoma.com
www.artgalleryofalgoma.com
to Sept. 11: Living Spirit Indigenous Art from AGA
Permanent Collection
(Jackson Beardy, John
Laford, Rosalie Favell,
Norval Morrisseau, Carl
Beam and Rita Letendre
and by local First Nation
Artists: Audrey Bateson,
Russell Raven, Shirley
Horn, Dayna Rainville
and Isabell Souliere.
EDUCATION GALLERY
to Oct. 22: York Wilson
and Contemporaries
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OUTSTATE EXHIBITS
CHEBOYGAN OPERA HOUSE,
231/627-5841 & 1-800/357-9408.
www.theoperahouse.org/
Sat., Sept. 10: The Mack sisters.
Duo pianists. $15/10
Sat., Sept. 24: The Four Freshmen.
$30/10
See p. 16, for concert season ticket
info.
ESCANABA: Wm. Bonifas Fine
Arts Center. 786/3833. 700 First
Avenue S. 49829.
www.bonifasarts.org.
Sept. 26 to Dec. 9: Elizabeth
Doxtater—Art of Peace.
The
Mohawk artist
explores the
ancient art
form
of
cornhusk
dolls to preserve traditional culture and histories
while inviting viewers to
consider their role in creating peace in the world. Art of
Peace features over 100 cornhusk dolls in two displays.
PETOSKEY: CROOKED TREE
ARTS CENTER. 231/347-4337.
Open Mon. thru Sat., 10 to 5.
www.crookedtree.org .
to
MARQUETTE/NMU ART MUSEUM. Hours: Mon. thru Fri. between 10 & 5 (Thurs. to 8 p.m.).
Sat. and Sun. between 1 & 4.
906/227-1481.
to Nov. 6: Correlation Matrix—
Vida Saic + David Wolske.
Saic and Wolske base their practice in the process of letterpress
printing, often exploring the visual aspects of letter shapes as formal compositions. The results
are dynamic and often abstract,
from prints to collages to animation.
Sept. 16 to Dec. 9: American Quilt
Study Group—Study of Civil
War Quilts. Quilts that embody
the themes and techniques of
those of the Civil War era. A
Traveling Exhibition.
Sept. 2:
Kevin Barton—
Halfway Retrospective. Barton is one of northern Michigan’s most collected artists.
Glen McCune:
Friends
Feathered
Sept. 17 to Nov. 19: 2016 Juried
Fine Arts Exhibition
SOLILOQUY. An exhibition of
recent work by the Detroit Society of Women Painters and
Sculptors.
TRAVERSE CITY
CROOKED TREE
ARTS CENTER, 322 Sixth St.
to Oct. 29: A Walk through Michigan Seasons—Al Maciag, Margie Guyot and Lori Feldpausch, plein air painters
DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER
Northwestern Michigan College,
1701 E. Front Street. 48686, 231995-1055. dennosmuseum.org
Mon. thru Sat., 10 to 5; Thurs. to
8 p.m.; Sun. 1 to 5
to Sept. 4: Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light. Installation
Exhibited and Acquired: 25
Years of Exhibitions
Ilhwa Kim:
verse 天下圖':
'Seed
Uni-
Sept. 18 to Dec. 31: Grandmother
Power: A Global Phenomenon
An exhibition inspired by Paola
Gianturco's critically acclaimed
book profiling 120 activist grandmothers in 15 countries on 5 continents.
Jean Larson - Permanence and
Impermanence: Iceland - A
Land of Temporal Landscapes. Larson draws upon Iceland for her artistic expression,
and explorations of time.
WORKSHOPS
& CLASSES
TAP DANCING FOR ADULTS
A class in tap dancing for adults, led
by Marian MacLeod begins in the
Soo Theatre on September 27. The
45 minute class continues once a
week for ten weeks and will be repeated in the spring if desired. Fee
is $90. Ballet bars and chairs will
be available for support for those
with physical disabilities.
Tap shoes are best (Marian got hers
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ble. For more information contact
the Soo Theatre 906-632-1930) or em a i l
M a r i a n
(mmacleod60@gmail.com).
LSSU LIBRARY WORKSHOPS
BOOK FOLDING WORKSHOP,
Tues, Nov. 1, from 6 to 8 p.m.
See p. 16, for Altered Book Art
Competition information.
WREATH WORKSHOP, Tues.,
Nov. 8, 6 to 8 p.m.
ORNAMENT WORKSHOP, Tues.,
Nov. 17, 6 to 8 p.m.
Call 635-2815 or e-mail:
www.lssu.edu/library for more
information.
PICKFORD HAY DAY
ESSAY WINNERS
Topic: “What’s Your Spirit”
Winners: High School Division—1st
place, Laini Russell. 2nd place,
Grace Snyder
Middle School: Aimee Spring
Elementary: Savannah Quinlan
HONORS & ACCOLADES
DOWNTOWN MURALS
Murals are being painted on
the walls of buildings in the
downtown area.
Jeanne
Tubman is painting two of
them. One is on the 1668
Winery walls on Portage and
Ashmun (at right). The other is across the street on the
wall of Islands Books &
Crafts. That mural will feature the Fitzgerald.
Lloyd Eddy has finished his
mural on the wall of Pingatore Cleaners. See below
right. (Eddy’s paintings will
be in the Alberta House Mini
Gallery next month,)
The five building murals are
funded through a public Kick
Starter campaign and with
grants from the Michigan
Economic Development Corporation and the Michigan
State Housing Authority,
under the auspices of the
Sault Downtown Development Authority.
2016 SAULT SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL
We’ve had forty-four years of Sault Summer Arts Festivals and you’d think by now everything would be absolutely routine—a lot of time and work, but familiar, predictable work. We’d been on the Federal Building grounds since 2000.
Gary Deuman, who has been site manager since the early eighties knows the layout and most of the exhibitors. A real
bonus this year was a concert by the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America’s “Starlifter” pop combo. We’ve twice had the
privilege of hosting the Midwest Winds, another segment of the band, in Alberta House—in 2007 and 2014—and both
occasions have been a complete, unmitigated pleasure, so we were really looking to this visit.
We received the first city contract on March 14. It contained new insurance requirements applying to unspecified third
parties, which could be applied to our exhibitors, that we felt were not only unreasonable, but impossible for the average
vendor, so we didn’t sign it. We were then assured that those requirements did not apply to our vendors but to others
not part of our festival. It didn’t address the question of why provisions that did not apply to us or our vendors was on
our contract or why we were responsible for them. A second contract on May 19, included our vendors under our insurance policy but still applied to “third parties” and made us responsible for them. Both contracts required affidavits of
Workers Compensation insurance, which we don’t have since we have no paid employees. We protested this one as well.
The third contract on May 29, proposed to solve this dilemma by giving us “exclusive” rights to the grounds, making the
unidentified third party a trespasser, but also noted that “If required, the Council will obtain services from and remit
payment for services to the City of Sault Sainte Marie for security as provided by the Sault Auxiliary Police and/or uni-
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formed officer(s) of the Sault Police
Department” which we construed to
mean that if was necessary to obtain
help to throw an unidentified “third
party” out we would have to pay the
police to do it. This was also a sore
point but as it was now the end of
May and the festival only a month
away, we figured the odds and, reluctantly signed.
All was well until July 12, when we
were notified that the city had a new
insurance carrier and now wanted
affidavits of liability insurance from
the Air Force for their vehicles and
affidavits of Workman’s Compensation insurance for their personnel. It
was now two weeks before the festival, the third contract we had reluctantly signed had been yanked, the
Workman’s Compensation Insurance
requirement for us was back and now
applied to Air Force personnel on official business, and we were to require
affidavits from them of liability insurance for their vehicles as well. Not
only was it too much—it was a
demonstration that a signed contract
was one-way and could be yanked by
the city at will. The presence of the
Air Force combo was not a surprise; it
had been advertised extensively for
months. With only two weeks to go,
we pulled the plug, asked LSSU, already the rain site for the Starlifters,
if we could possibly set up around the
Arts Center, and received an immediate yes.
What could have been a disaster
turned into a bonanza. Under the
direction of Dr. Donna Fiebelkorn, the
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the university provided logistical support, beautiful facilities, and
skilled personnel, making our task of
notifying all exhibitors, redoing press
releases and advertising and ordering
and distributing new signs and posters much more manageable. It also
provided big lots for parking, extra
signs, and easy site access for exhibitors. We set up just north of the
Cisler Center, where we caught a nice
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breeze. The Cisler Center was open
to both exhibitors and vendors,
providing air conditioning on a hot
day and indoor bathrooms. Best of
all was the inspired help of Arts
Center Director Spencer Christensen and Arts Center Technical Director Ray Pritchard who were geniuses at anticipating what we needed
and providing help and support we
would not have asked for but which
was not only a huge benefit when
we were understaffed and under
pressure, but an enormous psychological boost. Add to this the stage
just off the Cisler—perfect for the
“Starlifters”—and the fact that Ray
Pritchard took care of all the combo’s technical needs and that the
university set up chairs in the patio
area facing the stage, and all the
tasks we would have had to scramble and find scarce volunteers to
accomplish were magically accomplished.
In addition to all the material support Spencer Christensen and crew
were responsible for the lighthearted, joyous feel of it all—first by taking care of all the logistical requirements, but also by ingenious additions of their own. In the middle of
the afternoon, when exhibitors and
presenters were beginning to realize
that they had been up and working
a very long time and still had a long
time to go and that it was very hot
out, we all became conscious of a
rhythmic tapping, morphing into
drumming, somewhere in back of
the Engineering building, and that
the cadence was gradually becoming
louder. As heads turned toward the
source, Seamore the Sea Duck appeared leading a long, snaking column of marching teens, instruments
in hand, swinging to the rhythm.
As the column wound down the
walk the band began to play.
Reaching the festival the column
marched down one aisle and up the
next until reaching the end, and
then wound its way back up the
walk, disappearing at last behind
the Engineering Building and leaving
a surprised smile on every face. Not
much later, the Air Force Combo appeared, also marching quickly while
rolling their heavy equipment, on
casters, down the same route, in a
perfect prelude to their performance,
which began at 6 p.m. on the Cisler’s
outdoor stage.
The Starlifters’ selections drew from
a variety of musical genres, but all
had an energetic, danceable beat that
had the many teens in the audience
moving and dancing, the older listeners swaying and a two year old on the
walk doing his best (and succeeding)
to dance without falling down. The
injection of fun and whimsy together
with a beautiful, accessible site, excellent facilities and the fortuitous
presence of a number of Marching
Band Camps on campus, put the
“festive” back in “festival” and made
this the best Sault Summer Arts Festival in very many years, possibly the
best ever, courtesy of LSSU. The last
minute change of site for this annual
event that could well have resulted in
a disaster was anything but.
SAULT SUMMER ARTS
FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS
Still Life
by Jennifer Leighton
First, the winners:
Best of Show: Jennifer Leighton.
Jenny, a Sault artist in her first
festival appearance, was displaying acrylic paintings. The three
hundred dollar Olive Craig Best
of Show Award is given by the
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Olive Craig Gallery.
Painting Award: Jeanne Tubman.
Jeanne is a frequent award winner who walked off with last
year’s Best of Show. A Sault photo-realistic oil painter, she has
been in the news a good deal, the
latest press a Sault News article
relating her part in the downtown
mural project (See p. 13). The
Painting Award is donated by the
Le Sault Artists Guild.
Both
Painting and Best of Crafts
Award are one hundred fifty dollar awards.
Best of Crafts: Festival veteran Jan
Barnes of Battle Creek, who
makes fine leather purses, won
Best of Crafts for the second year
in a row.
The Best of Crafts
Award is given by the Eastern
Upper Peninsula Craftsmen and
National Office Products and
Printing.
Judge’s Choice Award: Sault artist
David Bigelow won the seventyfive dollar Judge’s Choice Award
given by the Art Store. David
first entered the festival in 2004,
when he won the Painting award
and has won an award every year
since, including Best of Show in
2014. He displays watercolor and
pastel paintings, pen and ink
drawings and note cards.
The following awards are all fifty dollar awards.
Aarre Lahti Design Award: Zoey
Wood-Salomon. Zoey, who lives
in Sault, Ontario, is a painter in
the Woodland Indian tradition.
She first entered the Sault Summer Arts Festival in 2006, and
won Best of Show. She continues
to win awards, often in graphics
and design, for both paintings and
note cards. The Aarre Lahti Design Award is given by the Sault
Area Arts Council in honor of Professor of Art and Design Aarre
Lahti who suggested the award
and funded it until his death.
Alberta House News
Jewelry Award: Jim and Cindy
Pierson. The Ann Arbor jewelers first entered the festival in
2014 and won the Judge’s Choice
Award, following it up with the
Jewelry Award in 2015. The
Jewelry Award is given by Mark
Dobias, Attorney.
Fiber Award:
Renee Hillock.
This is the Dafter multi-media
artist’s third year in the festival.
In addition to quilting, knitting,
weaving and other fiber arts,
Renee is a painter. The Fiber
Award is given by Leanne and
Gary Deuman.
Graphics:
Nancy and Joseph
Grimsley. The Grimsleys, from
Canadian Lakes, work in clay
and were in the festival once
before, a number of years ago.
The award, given by Cooper,
Dental, was for their 3-D clay
art.
Photography Award:
Doug
Markusic. Doug, a Sault Summer Arts Festival newcomer
from Leroy, specializes in Michigan Images. The Photography
Award is given by Thomas J.
Veum, Leanne Barnes Deuman
and Michael T. Veum, Attorneys.
Pottery Award: Schmidt-Marken
Designs. Karen Marken, who
grew up in the Sault, and Doug
Schmidt are festival regulars
and frequent award winners who
specialize in stoneware.
The
Pottery Award is given by Soo
Co-op Credit Union.
Wood Award: Mark Besteman.
Mark, a Rudyard native in his
third festival appearance, makes
rustic furniture.
The Wood
Award is given by Michael Bryce
Winnick, Attorney.
Yvonne Peer Glass Award: Karen Reece. Karen grew up in
Sault, Ontario and now lives in
Colorado Springs. She makes
lampwork bead jewelry, marketed under the name “BeadKrap”.
Karen has won Sault Summer
Arts Festival awards in Jewelry
and Best Display. She won the
Jewelry Award in the Waterfront
Art Fair in Escanaba this year
for the third year in a row.
Best Display Award: Paul Mason. This is not the first time
the Kimball welder has won the
festival award for Best Display.
His double space assortment of
imaginative, often wacky yard
art, welded from recycled metal
products, makes everyone smile.
In addition to his Display
awards, Mason has won both
Judge’s Choice and Metal
Awards.
Festival Judge Lloyd Eddy, LSSU
Assistant Professor of Art
and Humanities, gave three
Honorable Mention Awards.
Athabaskan artist Kyaana
Bullard, now living in Big Rapids, won for her sealskin and
beadwork earrings.
We now
have her work in the Alberta
House shop Danielle Lynch,
Sarasota, Florida, won for her
jewelry made from preserved
flowers and seeds.
Anthony
Strublic, of Marinette, Wisconsin, won for his pencil drawings
of ships and lighthouses.
Quite a few of these artists have
made already made donations for our
September 10, Arts Auction. Look
for a leather purse by Jan Barnes, a
watercolor painting by Zoey WoodSalomon, a print of a painting by
Renee Hillock, a veggie/dip tray by
Schmidt-Marken, a lampwork bead
bracelet by Karen Reece, a welcome
sign by Mark Besteman, a big, metal
columbine by Paul Mason, a print of
the Carl D. Bradley by Tony Strublic,
and a pair of sealskin earrings by
Kyanna Bullard.
Winner of the William Palmer carved
trillium, the SAAC Raffle item, was
Audrey Gillett.
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ARTISTIC OPPORTUNITIES
NORHERN EXPOSURE XXIII
The call is out for entries for the Bonifas Arts Center’s annual Northern
Exposure Juried Exhibition. Exhibit
dates are November 10 to December
21, 2016. The exhibition is open to all
residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who are 18 and older. The jury
fee is $30 for up to three entries. Jury deadline is noon on October 8.
Entry may be made by mail with a
Windows compatible CD or by downloading and filling out the online submission and e-mailing it, with digital
images to: submissions@bonifas.org.
More information may be obtained by
e-mailing: kate@bonifas.org.
UPCOMING CRAFT FAIRS
Sunday September 4: Fairtastic
Craft and Vendor Show—Kinross
Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: 4-H Building basement,
Chippewa County Fairgrounds
Booth Fee: $25 for a 10' x 10' space
Contact:
Lindsey Kronemeyer;
kronemeyerl@hotmail.com
Notes: a limited number of inside
spaces are available. Outdoor vendors
provide their own shelter. Prior arrangements needed if you need power.
Saturday October 1: Bahweting
Fall Craft and Vendor Fair, 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. at JKL Bahweting
School
Booth Fee: $35 (New gymnasium,
12' x 10') or $30 (hallway, 10' x 6')
Contact(s): call Lori Jodoin at 635-5055 ext. 121 ; or email
ljodoin@jklschool.org or
vclement@jklschool.org
Chairs provided, bring your own tables or rent tables for $5
ALTERED BOOK WORKSHOP
AND COMPETITION
The LSSU Library and the Bayliss
Library are again sponsoring an Al-
tered Book Art Competition. Entries will be accepted through Monday, November 28, at 4 p.m. and
judged November 9. Winners will
be announced at a reception from 4
to 6 p.m. on the 29th. The libraries
have made it easy for you. Books
and covers can be picked up at the
LSSU Library now, and a Book
Folding workshop will be held at
the college library from 6 to 8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 1.
JESSE BESSER MUSEUM
JURIED ART EXHIBITION
The Jesse Besser Museum’s Juried
Art Exhibition is open to the original work of all Michigan artists 18
years of age or older. The entry fee
of $25 covers three items. Work
must be brought to the museum
during open hours October 1
through 8. Public preview is October 8 to10. Exhibit dates are October 22, through December 31.
Awards include First Place of $300
plus a 2017 solo exhibit; Second
Place of $200 and Third Place of
$100, plus Honorable Mention
awards. Call 989-356-2202 or log on
www.bessermuseum.org for more
information.
CALL TO NEW AND
EMERGING ARTISTS
The Olive Craig Gallery’s 3rd Annual New and Emerging Artists
Exhibition, curated by Shena Sloboda, will fill both Alberta House
galleries November 1 to 30.
Up to 3 entries are accepted in this
non-juried show open to artists of
all mediums and skill levels seeking more invlovement in our local
scene. Artists are invited to actively participate in set-up and
dismantle and the public is encouraged to vote for awards recipients
and attend the reception during
which awards winners will be announced.
Artists- (join the exhibition)
Bring original work ready for display
(framed if 2 dimensional) and installation tools, as well as entry fee of
$10 (cash, or check/money order
made payable to Olive M. Craig Gallery) to 219 Ferris St., Alberta House
Arts Center, during the installation
times TBA (late October/early November). The show is non-juried
entry, but exhibiting artists are requested to participate in installation
of their own work for the exhibition
(encouraging a sense of creative community), as well as assist in dismantle during scheduled days of take
down at the end of the month.
Public- (attend the reception/join
the jury)
The public is welcome to vote for
their favorite pieces which will determine recipients of all awards
(including the 1st place Joan Mucklebauer memorial award of $150) starting gallery hours on the day of exhibition open and continuing until midreception event later in the month.
NEWS & NOTES
CHEBOYGAN OPERA HOUSE
2016 FIVE CONCERT SERIES
Tickets are now available for the
Cheboygan Opera House 2016 concert
series. Concerts are: duo pianists
The Mack Sisters on September 10;
The Four Freshmen September 24;
Motown, Sounds of Touch October 22;
Storm November 19 and Measure for
Measure Christmas Concert December 3. All concerts are on Saturday at
7:30 p.m. Series tickets are $80/30.
See:
http://theoperahouse.org/
events.php.
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NEWS & NOTES
SOO FILM FESTIVAL
Ed. Note: The Soo Film Festival, intent on bringing movies
back to downtown Sault Ste. Marie launches its third series of
films by independent and emerging filmmakers from the Great
Lakes area. All films will be shown in the Soo Theatre in downtown Sault Ste. Marie.
Soo Film Festival 2016 is only
about two weeks away. Plan to attend the best festival yet in the historic Soo Theatre from Friday, September 16 through Sunday, September
18. Tickets will be available from the
Soo Theatre after Labor Day.
This is the third year of the Festival
and Festival President Taylor Brugman states, “We are excited to once
again showcase filmmaking from the
Great Lakes region, along with quality filmmaking from around the
world.”
Films chosen for this year’s festival
are: Narrative Features: Bear
with Us, Robot Heart, Scratch and
The Pinevillde Heist
Documentary Features: Graveyard
of thed Great Lakes—A Shipwreck
Hunter’s Quest to Discover the
Past, INAATE/SE [it shines a
certain way.to a certain place/it
flies/falls]
Up a River
Narrative Shorts: #HELP, Bad
Dog, Balloon, Breaking Circles,
Call, Candy Skin, CI:A TEDD
Talkumentary, Cryptid; Default,
Dystopia, His & Hers, In Search
of, My Friend, Nestor Talbot,
Normie, Nowhere Man, Onslaught
of the Plant People, Other, Pow,
Rent a Car, Self Interest, Stop,
The Handbag, The Unconventional Gourmet, Twlwth Teg & the
Vial, Whale Valley, Zero
Animations: A Single Life, A Space
in Time, Café Sultan Muhammed,
Cuerdas, Hollow, Light Sight,
Lila, Mr. Violet, My Mother Had
Only One Eye, One Day in July,
Shades of Gray, The D in David,
Touche
Music Videos: I Will Steal Your Heart
(Lila Cheney), Little Party Queen
(Next is Best), Sight of the Sound,
Singing though the Storm, The
Band Breakfast (El Desayuno de la
los Gauchos), The Life We Had
The Festival begins Friday evening and
continues through Sunday evening.
Snacks, drinks and festival teen shirts
will be available for purchase.
Responsible for the Festival is the work
of its organizing committee of Taylor
and Liz Brugman, Allison Youngs,
Mark Dobias, Pat Egan, Susan James,
and Jason Markstrom, and of its advisory board, which is charged with helping the festival grow. The Soo Film Festival Advisory Board includes Helen
Cho Anthos, Nick Childs, Steve Hamilton, Jason Markstrom, John Regan,
Rich Brauer, and Steven Wiig. Members of the Advisory Board were chosen
because of their connections to film,
story, music, and The Great Lakes. For
more information about the board
members, see the festival websit.
Soo Film Festival, Inc. is a nonprofit
organization whose mission is to promote and host film and allied arts festivals in the City of Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan. Soo Film Festival, Inc. seeks
to showcase the work of independent
and emerging filmmakers, especially
from the Great Lakes of North America, while bringing movies back to downtown Sault Ste. Marie and the historic
Soo Theatre: Great Lakes, Great Movies!
Soo Film Festival, P.O. Box 1596, Sault
Ste. Marie, MI 49783
SAULT SYMPHONY 2016-17
SEASON PACKAGES
Season tickets are now available for
the 44th season of Sault Symphony
concerts which opens Saturday, October 1, in the LSSU Arts Center
with guest conductor Min Liu and
featured artists Edward and Anne
Louise Turgeon on pianos. The second concert, Saturday, November
12, in the Central United Church in
Sault, Ontario, features Ian Sadler
at the organ and music from
“Phantom of the Opera”.
Two performances of the symphony’s
Holiday Spectacular with the Studio
Dance Arts and special guests will
take place in the Kiwanis Community Theatre Center in Sault, Ontario
Saturday and Sunday, December 17
and 18, with the Sunday performance a matinee.
Soprano Sarah Gartshore is the featured artist Saturday, February 25,
in the Kiwanis Community Theater
Center, followed by Orchestra Kaleidoscope on April 22. The season
ends Saturday, June 11, with the
traditional Musicfest—Bratwurst,
Beer and Beethoven—now in its
twenty-fourth year under the Roberta Bondar Tent Pavilion in Sault,
Ontario.
The Symphony offers several season
ticket packages—package of three
concerts ($75 adults/$68 seniors/$32
students & $185 family); four concerts ($95/83/40 & 235) and five concerts ($125/110/56 & 260). tickets
fo r i ndi vi dua l co ncert s a re
$32/25/12.
Canadian prices are
higher, reflecting the exchange rate.
Call 705-0945-5337 for more information. Note that the symphony
office has moved. New address is
616 Queen Street East, Sault Ste.
Marie, On P6A 2A4.
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AT LAKE STATE
THE LONELY PLANET
Lake State Theater is off and
running, with its first play opening Thursday, September 22.
The synopsis: Jody is in his forties and runs a map store. Not
one for the outside world, he
stays in his store all the time. His
friend, Carl is in his late thirties
and has been bringing chairs of
dead friends into Jody's store
and leaving them there. When
Jody needs to take an AIDS test, Carl tries to convince him
it is not only okay to leave the store but also that he must
take responsibility for his life. If he doesn't, he will join the
set of chairs that Carl has taken great pains to place in the
right spots around the store. Through their interaction, the
two realize how grateful they are to have such a strong
lasting friendship. Jody finally leaves the map store to take
his HIV test and returns to find Carl sitting in a chair of
his own. With this gesture, we know that Carl has joined
the many of their friends who have died, but now Jody
must take Carl's place as the caretaker.
The play, director by Spencer Christensen, is in the LSSU
Arts Center September 22, 23, and 24, with a 7 p.m. curtain. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for
students. Tickets are available at the Norris Center Ticket Center on line, and at the door.
A second play, boom, by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, is scheduled for November 3 through 5.
LONELY PLANET II
On the center walls of the Arts Center Gallery is an exhibition by LSSU student Benjamin Bryer—his senior project—also titled The Lonely Planet (see poster, p. 4), which
will be in place until December 9. The two dimensional
exhibit will also include a slide show and some of Ben’s
notes. The exhibit reception is at 4 p.m. on Wednesday,
September 21, the day before the Steven Dietz play opens
in the Arts Center Theater. Ben’s artist’s statement
reads:
I’ve been drawing since I was little and
never stopped drawing. I have a Christian
background, so, in more serious pieces I
try to portray an aspect of good and love
overcoming the darkness. I also like to
create silly things/characters/objects be-
cause the fun of it all brings joy to those
who see it. Bringing joy to others means a
lot to me, so I always try to keep a positive side in my works and make pieces
that don’t just mean a lot to me, but to
others as well.
My media consist of sketching, cartooning, digital art, and painting. I find people very interesting and like to capture
the different nuances from facial expressions. What makes up a person’s life and
story is interesting to me. Every single
person you encounter in life has something that makes them unique. They
have a backstory that made them who
they are. This inspires me to draw. Even
if I’ve created the character I’m drawing
from my own imagination, creating what
made them who they are in several images is something I strive for as an artist.
Acting is a major influence in my artistic
process. Each time I act I have to prepare
and think as if I were the character and
what I’m trying to accomplish as that
character. Just like how I make this connection when I’m creating art. The piece
has characters or environments that need
to be portrayed with history and desire
behind them. If I imagine what that is,
and best portray what the character or
atmosphere of the piece is, it makes for a
more believable experience for the viewer. Theatre and visual art are connected
for me. I get in the mind of those who I
am trying to create. Each type of art
feeds the other one for me. If I’m acting, I
get inspired to draw the character I play
and their world, and vice versa.
LITHOGRAPHS BY EMIL WEDDIGE
The LSSU Arts Gallery has an ongoing project. The personnel are framing a collection of lithographs by Emil
Weddige. This gives you the opportunity to watch the
collection grow.
Emil Weddige was born in Sandwich, Ontario, of American parents, in 1907, confusing biographers who sometimes refer to him as Canadian and sometimes as American. He received his BA at Eastern Michigan Universi-
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ty, and studied at the Art Students
League in New York and in Woodstock,
where he settled on lithographs as his
medium. He joined the University of
Michigan art faculty in 1937 and taught
there until 1974. In 1949 he established a
studio along the Montparnasse in Paris,
where he was to work, off and on, all his
life.
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GALLERY WALK
Thirty years ago, when we were renovating Alberta House, our first
priority was a gallery because local artist had absolutely no place to
show or sell. How things have changed! People may now enjoy regular exhibits in the LSSU Arts Center and Library Galleries, and now
at the 1668 Winery, buy local work at Islands Book and Crafts, Sault
Realism and the Art Store and get instruction at the Soo Theatre,
Jeanne Tubman’s Art Studio and elsewhere.
In September we have Meet the Artist opening receptions in two venues at the same time providing an
opportunity for a Gallery Walk. Hancock multi-media
artist Cynthia Cote’s exhibit reception is Friday, September 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Alberta House and just a
couple blocks away Yoshiko Van Voorhies’s First Friday reception at the 1668 Winery begins at 5:30 p.m.
Painted Land: In Search of the Group
of Seven
Mon 7:00 PM in EDT · Sault Ste. Marie,
MI
This documentary follows authors and
wilderness photographers Joanie and
Gary McGuffin, and art historian Michael
Burtch as they search for the locations
visited by Canada's most celebrated landscape painters who, in the 1920s, captured
the spirit of the land, water, and skies of
northern Ontario. Filmed on location in
the Algoma region and along the north
shore of Lake Superior, the film combines
original photography, archival materials,
paintings and re-creations. A Painters
Country is the next film in a series of
award-winning art documentaries produced by White Pine.
Owl, by Yoshiko Van Voorhies—in the September 10 Arts Auction
The Soo Theatre is closing out the year with
what has been a very
popular
fundraiser—a
blockbuster musical production with an all star
cast led by Mike Dempsey at the piano. This
year’s production is “My
Way, A Musical Tribute
to Frank Sinatra”. The musicians are vocalists Karen Hughes Beacom, Lola Kennedy, Aaron Jenkins, John Young, accompanied by
Mike Dempsey, piano, Eric Gadzinski, drums and Paul Ignatowski,
bass. It’s one night only—Thursday, September 1, beginning at 7:30
p.m.
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NEWS & NOTES
ALGOMA CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON
Fri., Sept. 23: Andreas Klein, piano. Solo recital
Sun., Oct. 23: Sinfona Toronto. Anne Louise-Turgeon, Piano. (Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2)
Sat., Nov. 5: Worbey & Farrell—”Last Night of the Proms”.
Comedy and piano playing
Sat., Dec. 17: Ensemble Caprice—”Christmas Around the
World”
Sat., Jan. 21: Mary Elizabeth Brown, violin
Sun., March 5: Sinfonia Toronto—Stephane Tetreault, cello
Sat., Ap. 1: An Evening of Song—Classical Spectacular, with
Jonathan Beyer, Glenn Seven Allen, Amanda Crider and Sarah Gartshore
All concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in the Machine Shop
Season tickets are now available. All seven concerts: $175/70
Six concerts: $160/60
Five concerts: $145/50
If you are a new subscriber, deduct $50 from your total
William James Palmer
As we were finishing the last page of this newsletter we received word that master carver William Palmer had died. We always looked forward to every new batch of his carvings brought
to the Alberta House shop. Years ago his work
was in Olive Craig’s Woodland Workshop, and
that’s where we saw it first. When Olive died
and the workshop closed we lost track of him.
We heard from him again in 2012. He had been
in Oklahoma for some time and was just beginning to carve again and hadn’t yet built up
much of an inventory, so we put him in the arts
festival as an invitational, which we often do
when an artist doesn’t have much to sell (it’s an
exhibit as much as it is a sales opportunity) and
he won the Judge’s Choice Award. We’ve had
his work in the shop ever since and it filled an
important niche—there just aren’t a lot of carvings available for sale. We’re going to miss his
carvings, but more importantly, we’re going to
miss him!
Single concert tickets are $35/10.
Order form at: http://www.algomaconservatory.com/webcontent/files/subscription_form2016.pdf
We need help!
There aren’t enough of us working for the arts
council, so everyone is overworked. To make the problem greater, three
volunteers who were carrying a big part of the workload have moved in
the past year.
Many people believe that arts council work, requires artists or is “arty”,
but most of it isn’t— and it isn’t work that shows. It’s running errands,
delivering posters, organizing and staffing, none of it technical—It just
takes precious time.
Wally and Johann Ingold have been labeling, folding, stamping and
mailing the print copies of the newsletter for so long we don’t even remember when they started. It’s not a high profile job and we never
asked them to do it, but they are experienced in working with both volunteer and professional organizations, understood the importance of all the jobs that don’t show and volunteered
to do it. Most of our members access the newsletter online, but not everyone is comfortable with that method
and opt to pay mailing and printing costs to receive a hard copy. They are no longer able to continue and the
rest of us are already carrying a full load, so we need help—someone who will pick up the newsletters at National, fold them in half, label and stamp them, tape them shut and get them to the post office. We furnish the mailing labels and pay for the stamps. We print 150—the leftovers are divided between the Bayliss Library and Alberta House and left there for free pick up. It’s a once a month job, and when it’s over, that’s it until the next
month. At this writing there are 116 on the mailing list—too few for non-profit mailing, so they don’t have to be
sorted—just stamped. However, some are Canadian and take a different stamp. If you can help, call Jean Jones
at 906-437-5463 or e-mail: saac@saultarts.org. We’d appreciate it!!
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Alberta House News is published monthly as a public service by the Sault
Area Arts Council. Printed copies may be picked up free of charge at Alberta
House Arts Center or the Bayliss Library. Printable copies can be downloaded
from our web site (www.saultarts.org). Items for Alberta
House News are best transferred in written form, either
dropped off at Alberta House or mailed there c/o Jean
Jones. You may also call 906/437-5463 afternoons or
evenings or e-mail saac@saultarts.org. Alberta House
News publishes art news of general interest to its readers.
There is no charge for inclusion. Please include the
sponsor of an event with the information.
If you would like to become a member of SAAC and help
support arts council services, fill in the form alongside and
mail with your check for $25.00 in U.S. funds to the Sault
Area Arts Council, Alberta House Arts Center, 217 Ferris
Street, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783. Members are mailed a
monthly copy of “Alberta House News” as a benefit of
membership or can download a copy.