Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Juried Photography 2010 Based on Watershed Awareness

CTAC is working in cooperation with the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council based in Petoskey, the Leelanau Conservancy, and the Watershed Center of Grand Traverse Bay to create an exhibition with images taken solely on these      Juror’s for the 2010 Juried Photography exhibition are Todd and Brad Reed, the father and son outdoor photography team based in Ludington, Michigan. Todd Reed has been recording Michigan scenes for over 35 years, 23 of those years as a photojournalist for the Ludington Daily News where he has won dozens of awards. His son Brad’s journey as a photographer started as a young boy and has followed in his father’s footsteps achieving his own recognition as an artist.

     Sponsors for the 2010 Juried Photography exhibition are First Place: Northwestern Mutual, Stephen B. Selden, CLU, ChFC, Petoskey and Traverse City.   Second Place:  Ollar Consulting and Third Place:  Mitchell Graphics. To obtain more information on the three watershed councils and the view maps that highlight the regions in the exhibition you can go online to: the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council www.watershedcouncil.org, the Leelanau Conservancy www.theconservancy.com, or the Watershed Center www.gtbay.org

 Digital Photograph by Bruce Murray

Opening: Saturday, January 16, 5-6pm

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Crooked Tree Arts Center has invited 16 artists to select one line each from this poem and create a piece to illustrate in fine art what it means to them. In the gallery there will be on the wall a line from the  poem (whose woods these are I think I know...) and then the artwork (His house is in the village though...) and then the artwork. Artists have been asked to absorb the rhythm and the mood, the silence and the sound of his words. Artists working in different media from glass to painting to textiles to photography have joined together in this experience.

Whose woods these are I think I know. – Rick Ford

His house is in the village though; Joyce Koskenmaki

He will not see me stopping here- David Pickett

To watch his woods fill up with snow. – Penny Kristo

My little horse must think it queer – Elizabeth Pollie

To stop without a farmhouse near – Alan Maciag

Between the woods and frozen lake – Marcia K. Hales

The darkest evening of the year. – Bill Schwab

He gives his harness bells a shake - Kelli Snively

To ask if there is some mistake. – Doug Melvin

The only other sound's the sweep – Kate Marshall

Of easy wind and downy flake. – Diana Gilmore

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. – Kim Aikens

But I have promises to keep, - Cynthia Rutherford

And miles to go before I sleep, Peg Keeney

And miles to go before I sleep. - Betty Beeby