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News & Notes, Honors & Accolades
Last updated: March 1, 2008
Free 2-Hour Painting Workshop for Kids
Jeanne Tubman is offering a free two hour workshop for kids from 7 to 12 years old who want to find out if they would be interested in further instruction. See Workshops & Classes for details.
Sault International Arts Festival Adopts Logo
If all goes as planned, you’ll be seeing this logo a lot this summer, as arts events in both Saults are organized, coordinated, and publicized as one, ongoing Sault International Arts Festival.
Not only is the Sault area an ideal place to be in the summer, there will be a lot to do—exhibitions to see, concerts and plays to attend, festivals to enjoy. We should have a program for you with all events listed so you may plan, pick and choose, and maximize your pleasure.
If your organization has an event planned in June, July, or August, let the festival committee know, because they want to list your event. You may contact Jean Jones at 437-5463 (saac@saultarts.org)—Sault Area Arts Council, Linda Hoath at 632-3366 (linda@saultstemarie.com)—Sault Convention and Visitors Bureau, or Sandra Houston at 705-945-9756 (arts@ssmarts.org)—Arts Council of Sault and District.
Questions? Call Jean Jones at 437-5463.
Volunteers
The only reason Alberta House is open is because volunteers go in there and staff. Without them, we wouldn’t have an art center and you wouldn’t be enjoying monthly exhibits or frequenting the Alberta House shop.
Volunteers who staffed during February were Donna Jarvis, Anny Hubbard, Joan Gerrie, Joan Muckelbauer, Judy Colein, Moe Mousley, Rita Dale, Tyler Theel, Sandy Spiewak, and Mary Barry. Both Donna Jarvis and Anny Hubbard demonstrated while they staffed.
Joan Gerrie, in addition to staffing herself, is responsible for seeing that the facility is staffed.
Joan Muckelbauer is the Assistant Director of the gallery. With Kyung Hatfield in the sunny south, Joan is responsible for seeing that the exhibits are in place.
Maureen Mousley is in charge of the display in the shop. And if you’re wondering how we staffed twenty days with only ten people, it’s because many of them were there more than once.
We don’t want to forget Wally Ingold. The reason you get the newsletter every month is because she puts it together, puts the labels on (all 610 of them) and gets it to the post office.
All the arts council services are provided by volunteers. We’re very grateful to every one of them!
Help Needed for Up North with the Hemingways
The Up North with the Hemingways traveling show will be on display at the Chippewa County Historical Society Building, 115 Ashmun Street in the Sault, from noon to 5 p.m. daily from April 4 to 22.
The historical society needs volunteers to assist with the installation, guarding, and dismantling of the exhibit, which is part of the Great Michigan Read. Local events celebrating Ernest Hemingway and The Nick Adams Stories are jointly sponsored by the Bayliss Public Library and the Chippewa County Historical Society. See Exhibits - Bayliss for related events.
To sign up as a volunteer, call 906-635-7082 or e-mail cchs@sault.com.
Quonta Drama Festival
The Quonta Drama Festival is March 11 to 16, in North Bay, Ontario. Call Harry or Sandra Houston at 705-946-4081 for details and contact numbers.
Alberta House Shop
This is the time of year that sunshine floods the shop, and the colors are wonderful. Check out the latest shop news!
Featured Artists
If you want to re-read information about artists that have been in previous “Featured Artists” columns or see photos of their work in color and up close, you can now see them on the web. Webmaster Liz Brugman has archived them in a special section. It’s the third heading on the left side menu bar on the home page.
Special Online Exhibit: “Endangered Species” by Jean Burke
You all heard our howl of anguish when Jean Burke’s outstanding textile art was banned by customs officials and we lost our October Mini Gallery Exhibit. Jean was good enough to send us photos, and we’ve mounted a mini-exhibit on our website (Webmaster's note: we featured Jean Burke's work in the December 2007 News and Notes section).
It’s not as good as the real thing, but the web photos will allow you to better appreciate the colors, textures, and stitchery that makes the images stand out. They all combine to illustrate Jean’s whimsical, fanciful musings in three dimensions.
We’re going to leave them up for at least another month, so if you don’t have a computer and internet access, you can get to the library or use a friend’s computer to enjoy the show.
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Honors and Accolades
Awards for Ellen Hadath and Lotte Steube
Algoma watercolor artists Ellen Hadath and Lotte Steube were among nine finalists who received award certificates from Alberta-based Canadian Brushstroke Magazine. Their work is featured in the February issue of the online publication. We’ll try to get photographs of their paintings in time for the April issue of Alberta House News.
Lois Beardslee Receives Writer of the Year Award
from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
For Not Far Away: The Real Life Adventures of Ima Pipiig, and for all her contributions to ensuring that “the voices of Native Writers and Storytellers, past, present and future, will be heard,” Lois Beardslee has been named the recipient of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Writer of the Year Award, Autobiography/Fiction Mixed Genre 2006-2007. The award will be presented this month at the Returning the Gift Conference at Michigan State University.
Beardslee’s latest book, The Women’s Warrior Society has just been released by the University of Arizona Press and is available online at Barnes and Noble for $23.96 (hardcover) or $15.25 (paperback). Her earlier books, Rachel’s Children, Lies to Live By, and Not Far Away, are also available online. Her Leelanau Earth Tales tapes and birch bark cutouts are available in the Alberta House shop.
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