Opening / Reflections of SuperiorMay 10 -August 17, 2008
Time: From 2:00 p.m. To 4:00 p.m.
Topic: Visual Arts
May 10 - August 17, 2008
A rotating crew of artists sailed the Alwihta, a replica of an historic wooden sailboat, around the circumference of Lake Superior from ice-out in June until the storms of October. Sailing in short hops, they chose anchorages based on visual interest rather than convenience.
Their work reflects on the wilderness coastlines, history, and industrial aspects of the Lake.
Reflections of Superior is a contemporary mix of artwork that reflects post-modern sensibilities and spans the richness of traditional media as well as multimedia explorations of cutting-edge technology. The common denominator is the artists' fascination for this unforgiving, yet exquisitely beautiful environment.
Fritz Seegers - Ladislav Hanka - Cynthia Cote
Brent Spink - Scott Spint - Mark Spink - Mary Brodbeck
Coffee at Ten Talk with Reflections of Superior curator and artist Fritz SeegerMay 13, 2008
Time: From 10 a.m. To 11 a.m.
Where: The West Gallery at CTAC
Topic: Coffee at Ten
For over two decades Fritz Seegers has sailed Lake Michigan, Huron and Superior on his home built classical sailboat, "Alwihta" while documenting the extraordinary shores, bays and island archipelagoes of this region. A rotating crew of artists sailed with him around the circumference of Lake Superior in 2001 and 2003 from ice-out in June until the storms of October. The work created during this journey reflects the wilderness coastlines, history and industrial aspects of the lake and is on display in the West Gallery at CTAC through August 17, 2008.
Spring ConcertMay 18, 2008
Time: From 3:00 p.m. To 5:30 p.m.
Where: Boyne City PAC
Topic: Music
The annual Spring Orchestra Concert will include the Youth Orchestras and the students in the Strings Program. This is a showcase of all of the students participating in the Dorothy Gerber Programs for Children and Music.
Gallery Talk with Gail HosnerMay 29, 2008
Time: From 10 a.m. To 11 a.m.
Where: CTAC Galleries
Topic: Gallery Walk
Join Gail as she talks about Robert Kennedy: A Time it Was and the Reflections of Superior exhibitions. The talk is open to the public and is free of charge. No reservations necessary.
Summer Workshops!!May 30, 2008 -August 30, 2009
Where: Crooked Tree Arts Center
Topic: Workshops and classes
Summer 2008 Workshops and Classes!
Click on Class Registration for workshops in dance, pottery, painting, summer kids art camp, strings camp and more!
Gallery Walk!June 19, 2008
Time: From 6 pm To 9 pm
Where: Galleries of downtown Petoskey
Topic: Gallery Walk
The art galleries of historic downtown Petoskey are pleased to announce the Ninth Annual Gallery Walk, Thursday, June 19, 2008. Tour the galleries from 6 pm - 9 pm and enjoy gourmet treats and refreshments while strolling through the historic Gaslight District. The night ends at the AfterGlow at Stafford's Perry Hotel in the Rose Garden the prize drawing is around 9:30 pm. The entire evening is free of charge.
Each year the galleries donate outstanding pieces of artwork, including original oil paintings, watercolors, sculpture, stained glass and ceramics.
Stafford's Trolley will be touring the perimeter of the downtown throughout the night and rides are complimentary.
This is how you Gallery Walk: Begin the walk at any one of the ten galleries in downtown Petoskey and pick up a map. As you tour each gallery, have your map validated. At the end of the evening, bring your map to Stafford's Perry Hotel to receive a raffle ticket for each gallery you visited. The more galleries you visit the better you chances are for winning an piece of original artwork.
This event is sponsored in part by the Petoskey Area Chamber of Commerce Downtown Events Committee, Crooked Tree Arts Center and the galleries of downtown Petoskey. For more information, please call the Petoskey Area Chamber of Commerce, 231-347-4150. Visit www.petoskey.com or www.crookedtree.org for more information
Bill Eppridge Coffee at TenJune 27, 2008
Time: From 10:00 a.m. To 11:00 a.m.
Where: Crooked Tree Arts Center
Topic: Visual Arts
Bill Eppridge Photographer / Bobby Kennedy: A Time it Was
Friday, June 27 at 10 a.m. in the Edith Gilbert Gallery
It has been forty years since photojournalist Bill Eppridge was assigned the task of following Bobby Kennedy and capturing on film his 1968 presidential campaign. In the Edith Gilbert Gallery at the Crooked Tree Arts Center from April 18 through July 26, 2008 there will be forty two photographs taken by Bill Eppridge during the days just before and after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.
Bill Eppridge has covered many remarkable stories during a career that has spanned more than 40 years with National Geographic, the weekly LIFE magazine and Sports Illustrated. His story list reads like a history of current events in the last four decades of the 20th Century.
"Everything I saw and everything I heard, it's still there inside my head, like a slow-motion movie," photojournalist Bill Eppridge has said of that night—June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Senator Robert Kennedy had just won the California primary and was almost certainly going to be his party's nominee for President. He made a short victory speech, walked off the stage in the hotel's Embassy Ballroom and turned right…
The movie still plays in his mind. "I can see it all," Bill says, "and I think about how our history would have been different if Robert Kennedy had come off the stage that night and turned the other way. Every day I think about that."
Bill Eppridge Evening LectureJune 28, 2008
Time: From 6:30 p.m. To 8:00 p.m.
Where: Crooked Tree ARts Center
Topic: Visual Arts
Bill Eppridge will walk the exhibition A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties giving personal insights on his experience as a photojournalist assigned to the Bobby Kennedy presidential campaign.
D'Art for Art July 17, 2008
Time: From 6:00 p.m. To 11:00 p.m.
Where: Nubs Nob Harbor Springs
Topic: Fundraiser
10th Annual D'Art for Art!
Watch for more details, new twists!
Gary Puckett in ConcertJuly 21, 2008
Time: AT 8:00 PM
Where: Ross Stoakes Theater
Topic: Concert
GARY PUCKETT and the UNION GAP was one of the most successful musical groups of the sixties. Gary's unmistakable signature voice garnered six consecutive gold records and top ten Billboard hits with the following titles:
"YOUNG GIRL"
"WOMAN WOMAN"
"LADY WILLPOWER"
"OVER YOU"
"THIS GIRL IS A WOMAN NOW"
"KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED"
"DON'T GIVE IN TO HIM"
"HOME"
GARY PUCKETT has performed on more than thirty network television shows and prime time specials during his career, even adding a command performance for the President and Prince Charles at the White House. The Union Gap disbanded in the seventies. In 1974, "Young Girl" was reissued in England where it received a silver record award for attaining a top five position on the pop charts, several years after its initial release.
Gary continues to tour nationally & internationally, has a new album out now, "GARY PUCKETT - LIVE", and has recently released his first ever Chrismas CD, entitled "At Christmas".
Tickets on sale now. Call us, or click the Ticket link to order online.
2008 Paint OutAugust 2, 2008
Time: From 8 a.m. To 7 p.m.
Where: Crooked Tree Arts Center
Topic: Visual Arts
Crooked Tree Arts Center’s
Paint-Out
August 2, 2008
There will be artists painting all around Petoskey on August 2, 2008 for Crooked Tree Arts Center’s third annual Paint-Out! If you are not familiar with what a “paint-out” is please read on. Beginning at 8 a.m. artists will gather to have canvases or paper stamped to verify that the material they will be painting on was blank in the morning of the paint-out. They will then venture anywhere in the area to begin a day of plein air painting. As the sun moves across the sky, artists will be painting and capturing a day in the life of northern Michigan on canvas. The completed artwork must be returned framed and ready to hang between 4-6 p.m. that same day.
At 6 p.m. there will be a wine and cheese reception celebrating all of the work created that day. All work will be for sale and work will be on display until August 30th. This paint-out hopes to be a great way to join artists with the community and celebrate the beauty and talent of this region. The paint-out is open to all artists over the age of 18 and at all levels of artistic ability.
Jim Miller: A Biography OpeningAugust 9, 2008
Time: From 2:00 p.m. To 4:00 p.m.
Where: Edith Gilbert Gallery
Topic: Visual Arts
Jim Miller was born in Minneapolis in January in 1929, attended Wayne State University, The University of Michigan, and studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His initiation to what would become his life's work began at the age of six or seven in his father's wood pattern shop, The Miller Pattern Co. The “wood shop,” as the Jim’s referred to it, was “right next to our house in Southfield, Michigan, and over the years my brothers and I learned to work with all the tools and materials of the trade.”
His other seminal experience in sculpture was independent study in England and France in 1951 and 52. In Paris he attended the "Ecole de la Grande Chaumiere" in Montparnasse, where he studied for awhile with Ossip Zadkine the noted cubist sculptor. During the summer of 1952, he was granted the use of the sculpture studio as a place to live and work. In the late fifties Jim was hired by the University of Michigan to teach sculpture and design.
In 1961 Jim founded Form, Inc. and set up shop in a barn on his family's farm in South Lyon, Mi. Over the years he designed what became known as Play Sculptures, and site amenities, and engineered the complex and unique mold systems for their production in pre-cast concrete. In 1981 Jim sold the business. Many of the products are still being manufactured.
Since 1984, although occasionally involved in design projects, Jim now “makes sculpture for its own sake.” What's in a name? Jim’s grandfather, Klaus Melberg emigrated from Sweden to the U.S. and settled in Minnesota. The immigration service changed his name to Miller. In honor of our original family name, since 1984, I have been signing my work "Jim Melberg."
Contact:Gail Hosner
Fresh Paint!August 10, 2008
Time: From 6 pm To 9 pm
Where: Birchwood Farms Golf and Country Club
Topic: Fundraiser
Spend an evening exploring the newly renovated Birchwood Farms Golf and Country Club in support of the art education programs at the Crooked Tree Arts Center.
Details announced in April
Jim Miller Coffee at TenAugust 12, 2008
Time: From 10:00 a.m. To 11:30 a.m.
Where: Edith Gilbert Gallery
Topic: Lecture
Jim Miller will discuss his work that is represented in the Edith Gilbert Gallery. His talk will cover his journey through his career in commercial and fine art Sculpture.
Baroque Society Members DinnerAugust 12, 2008
Time: From 6 pm To 10 pm
Topic: Event
Location to be announced.
W.O.W.--Works on WhateverAugust 30 -November 19, 2008
Time: From 2:00 p.m. To 4:00 p.m.
Where: Crooked Tree Arts Center
Topic: Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
This years Juried Fine Art Exhibition will be entitled: W. O. W. Artists are encouraged to think outside (or inside) the box and create FINE ART pieces on whatever surface they choose, be it an old suitcase, a door, a panel of glass, or a sink, whatever. Drop off for the works will be August 18-22 and the opening will be held August 30 from 2-4 p.m. the Juried Fine Arts Exhibition will run until November 19, 2008.
8th Annual eddi Awards CelebrationSeptember 12, 2008
Time: From 7:00 p.m. To 10:00 p.m.
Where: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey MI
Topic: AWARDS
Crooked Tree Arts Center will host the 8th Annual eddi Awards on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Make your NOMINATIONS NOW Deadline is July 11, 2008 Click The eddi Awards 2008 on our homepage, then click the nomination file, and complete the form.
Contact Mary for more information, 231-347-5731, mary@crookedtree.org
Contact:Mary
Web Site:www.crookedtree.org
Art in Public PlacesNovember 1, 2008
Topic: Exhibition
Since May 2005, the Crooked Tree Arts Center has been celebrating the work of seven Michigan sculptors by placing these works in seven sites in northern Michigan, including the Pellston Airport; the Jean Jardine Park in Harbor Springs; at the entrance to Crooked Tree Arts Center as well as at the entrance to Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey; at the Charlevoix Public Library; in downtown Boyne City; and at the site of the Jordan River Arts Council in East Jordan. The project began in May 2005 and will continue for 42 months.
There are seven Michigan sculptors who are participating in the project: Glen McCune of East Jordan; Tom Moran of Onaway; William Allen of Maple City; the late Walter Midener, long-time director of the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit; Paul Varga of Alanson; Jim Miller-Melberg of Birmingham; and David Petrakovitz of Cadillac.
To learn more about the project, artists and Crooked Tree Arts Center, please call Mary Wiklanski at Crooked Tree, 231-347-5731 or email mary@crookedtree.org
Contact:Mary
Web Site:www.crookedtree.org
Fourth Annual Holiday MarketNovember 28 -December 21, 2008
Where: Crooked Tree Arts Center
Topic: Event
To finish off the year’s exhibition schedule, CTAC will host its Fourth Annual Holiday Market from November 28 through December 21. This has become a very popular way to do holiday shopping and to support Michigan artists at the same time. Last year we had over fifty artist exhibits!