Joan Richmond featured artist at Gallery 50
NMC Painting Instructor Joan Gallagher Richmond is the featured artist for March and April at Gallery 50 in Traverse City.
Go Global Fair and Expo March 10
Community members of all ages, from students to retirees, interested in learning about global studies and international opportunities here in northwest Michigan are invited to attend the second annual Go Global Fair and Expo from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 10 at NMC’s Hagerty Conference Center.
Free for all attendees, the event features information about programs, services, and other opportunities for making global connections in northwest Michigan. Exhibitors will include study abroad and international youth exchange programs, area language clubs, service learning opportunities, travel clubs, international adoption services, and organizations with a cultural or ethnic appreciation focus such as the Traverse Area District Library and the Dennos Museum Center.
International dessert samples and coffee will be available as well.
The event is sponsored by NMC and Traverse City Area Public Schools.
Leslie McCurdy to perform at the Dennos Museum Center
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present, Leslie McCurdy in “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $10 plus ticket fees. Tickets may be purchased on line at www.dennosmuseum.org or by calling the box office at 231-995-1553. This production is part of the Embrace the Dream project supported by DTE Energy Foundation and with additional major support from the Michigan Humanities Council and NMC Student Life.
Ticket holders to this performance will have free admission to the museum’s galleries prior to the performance.
There are many plays about Harriet Tubman, but none share her entire life story like a visit with The Spirit of Harriet Tubman. Leslie McCurdy invokes the ‘spirit’ of Harriet Tubman as she portrays the life of the famous Underground Railroad conductor, recreating stories familiar and some rarely told, using words said to have been Harriet Tubman¹s own. Through it all we learn of the faith and conviction that drove Harriet Tubman to follow her dreams; the spirit of the past connecting with the present, inspiring her charges to have the courage to do the same in envisioning their future.
Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman not only ran away alone to escape slavery, she returned to the south nineteen times to lead over three hundred other slaves to freedom in the northern United States and Canada. Her work as a nurse and a spy during the civil war was instrumental in helping the North defeat the South, thus forcing the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Leslie McCurdy captivates her audience in “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” with only a trunk of costumes and a barren stage as her landscape. For a breathtaking hour, she embodies the “spirit” of Harriet Tubman and shares Harriet’s empowering story woven with words said to have been Harriet’s own. Leslie takes the audience through Ms. Tubman’s childhood, her harrowing solo flight from slavery, her dedicated involvement with the Underground Railroad, her victorious rescue mission during the civil war and her commitment to others in her later years. This inspiring solo performance, by an artist described as being “of exceptional skill and grace”, teaches of the faith and conviction that drove Harriet Tubman to follow her dreams; the spirit of the past connecting with the present, inspiring her charges to have the courage to do the same in envisioning their future. It has been called “brilliant!”, “a powerful, must see performance!!”, “something to be experienced by everyone!”
Named Outstanding Performing Artist of Windsor Ontario, Canada, Leslie McCurdy, has been performing for many years in Southwestern Ontario and the Mid-Western United States, a privilege her dual US/Canadian citizenship affords her. Also a teacher, with an honors B.F.A. in dance from the University of Michigan, Leslie was slated to go to New York to apprentice with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre when she literally tripped, fractured her hip, and fell into acting. While she has many theatre credits, Leslie is best known for the one-woman plays that she wrote and has toured with internationally for 15 years.
Leslie McCurdy will offer two performances for schools on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM in the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center. Call 231-995-1029 for information or to purchase tickets for the school performances.
The Dennos concert season is made possible with support from the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Begonia Foundation with media support from WNMC 90.7, CMU Public Broadcasting and TV 29&8. Housing for our performers is provided by the Cambria Suites and Days Inn.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday’s until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1701 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
Chestnut Lot closed this weekend
The Chestnut parking lot will be closed from Friday, March 1 at 5 p.m. until Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m. to clear out the excess snow.
This is being done over the weekend to impact the fewest amount of people possible.
Dervish to perform at the Dennos Museum Center March 2, 2013
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present Dervish from Ireland on Friday, March 2, 2013 at 8:00 PM in the Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $25 in advance, $28 at the door, $22 for Museum Members. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Museum Box office at 231-995-1553 or on line at www.dennosmuseum.org.
Dervish plays music from the West of Ireland with passionate vocals and dazzling instrumentals. The Sligo Borough Council’s decision to award Dervish the Freedom of the Borough of Sligo cemented the group’s position as preeminent band in Ireland’s wild west. It raised them into the exalted company of poet W.B. Yeats, who was the first person to be awarded the freedom of Sligo.
Built upon two sturdy pillars — the hauntingly charismatic vocals of Cathy Jordan and the dazzling virtuosity of award-winning instrumentalists like Tom Morrow on fiddle, Liam Kelly on flute, and Shane Mitchell on accordion, Dervish is a solid structure of a band, its foundation in legendary pub sessions, its shape the result of years of international touring. In the most recent of many honors, Dervish was recently chosen to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2005, just after the group toured China in the company of the Prime Minister, Ireland’s premier music magazine Hot Press voted the band Best Traditional / Folk Group.
The solid rhythm playing of Brian McDonagh and Michael Holmes drives the band, whose concert performances are a myriad of tones and moods ranging from high energy tunes, played with fluidity and intuitiveness, to beautifully measured songs, from charming lyrics of life and love, to inspiring melodies that lift audiences from their seats. All the elements are drawn together by Cathy Jordan’s masterful stage presence. Her stories to the songs and her interaction with the audience draws people into the music in a way very few performers can achieve
Now, more than twenty years since first coming together and with four of the original members still at the helm, Dervish are more in demand than ever. Their colorful career has taken them to every corner of the globe and has seen them share center stage with such names as James Brown, The Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, Beck and many more. Dervish is a band that both celebrates Irish music and has been instrumental in bringing it to a worldwide audience.
With the purchase of a ticket to this performance, concert goers are invited to visit the museum’s galleries one hour before the concert and attend a post-concert reception with the performers.
The Dennos concert season is made possible with support from the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Begonia Foundation with media support from WNMC 90.7, CMU Public Broadcasting and TV 29&8. Housing for our performers is provided by the Cambria Suites and Days Inn.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursdays until 8 PM, and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1701 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
Rufus Snoddy: The Wings of Icarus and Larry Cressman: Line Work – New exhibitions coming to the Dennos Museum Center
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will open two new exhibitions on March10 that will be shown through June 2, 2013; Rufus Snoddy: The Wings of Icarus and Larry Cressman: Line Work.
Rufus Snoddy: The Wings of Icarus will showcase new works by this important nationally recognized artist who resides and works in the Traverse City area and continues to exhibit throughout the United States and other countries.
“Rufus Snoddy is a well-recognized artist is the region and his work has been shown often in many locations, when inviting Rufus to exhibit at the Dennos we encouraged him to present something that would be a dramatically different installation from what people have seen before,” says Gene Jenneman, Director of the Dennos, “Wings of Icarus is that exhibition.
Rufus writes of the exhibition, “The Wings of Icarus is an installation of suspended construction paintings inspired by the mythological story of Icarus. I utilize traditional media and materials from my immediate environment to create visual metaphors. So too did Daedalus use the feathers, wood, wax and string found in the Labyrinth to make the wings he and his son Icarus used to escape the Prison of Minos. They both had successful attempts at flight, but in his haste, ignorance and arrogance, Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell to his demise. The story is an archetypal lesson of hubris, myopia and the intoxication of power.”
Larry Cressman: Line Work will showcase works by this nationally recognized artist who is a professor at the School of Art & Design and Residential College of the University of Michigan.
Line is the focus and driving force of Larry Cressman’s work. This exhibition will explore line on and off the wall with “installation drawings” that incorporate cane, twigs paper, graphite, wire, and other materials – much of it floating off the gallery wall or as 3-D constructions that hang from the ceiling and float within the gallery space.
Cressman writes, “I began to experiment by constructing drawings as collections of lines gathered into transparent envelopes. I wove lines through holes punctured in paper. Finally, I began to pin lines in gestural compositions directly on gallery walls – creating large line “drawings” that responded to the architectural space in which they were placed. Because these drawings were three-dimensional, light and shadow became a natural part of the work.”
Exhibition programming at the Dennos Museum Center is made possible with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Hughes Memorial Endowment Fund. Housing support comes from Cambria Suites and media support from TV 7&4 and WCMU Public Broadcasting.
The Rufus Snoddy exhibition is additionally supported with underwriting from Richard and Diana Milock.
The Dennos Museum Center is open Monday to Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1410 College Drive, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
Welcome Anne Varga to NMC
Anne Varga joined NMC in the position of Public Relations and Marketing Assistant on February 25, 2013. She can be reached at 995-1020 or avarga@nmc.edu.
Anne is a native of Alanson, MI and attended Petoskey (MI) High School. After high school she continued her education at Central Michigan University and received a BAA in Integrated Public Relations and a minor in Advertising in 2011. Most recently, Anne worked as a Customer Service and Membership Manager at Passageways Association and Event Management. Prior to her time there, she spent six months as the Social Media and Marketing intern with the National Cherry Festival. In her free time Anne enjoys the outdoors, running, thrift store shopping and playing with her cat Stella.
Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art – New exhibition coming to the Dennos Museum Center
The Dennos Museum Center at NMC will present the exhibition Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art from February 22 – June 2, 2013.
Modern Twist explores the innovative shape that bamboo art has taken since the mid-twentieth century, highlighting the creativity of 17 contemporary artists through a stunning collection of 38 works. These artists have challenged previous aesthetic conventions of bamboo art by experimenting with nonfunctional, sculptural forms, and have pushed their medium to new levels of concept and technique.
The pieces in the exhibition range from the mid-1960s to 2010, with most made during the last ten years. All but one of the artists still actively design and create new artworks, and many of the pieces have never been seen before in the United States.
Bamboo art is a unique Japanese phenomenon. As early as the eighth and ninth centuries, bamboo objects were used in Buddhist rituals, tea ceremonies, and ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), and became important features of these traditions. Bamboo art has been less widely recognized than other Japanese decorative arts such as ceramics and lacquer, but it is actually a highly demanding medium that requires years of study under the tutelage of a bamboo master. Modern Twist brings the creativity, innovation, and expertise of these artists to the forefront of the international art world.
Modern Twist will have a preview opening for members and guests on Friday, February 22 at 7 PM followed by a performance by Kuniko Yamamoto at 8 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Kuniko Yamamoto enchants audiences of every age with dramatic storytelling using myths and fables from ancient and modern Japan, spiced with social revelations to educate and amuse. Kuniko uses traditional Japanese music, handcrafted masks, stylized movement and a touch of magic to create an artistic balance of illusion and reality.
A native of Japan, Kuniko Yamamoto received her Bachelor of Psychology from Otani University of Kyoto, Japan in 1983. Started performing professionally in her hometown of Osaka where she grew up studying traditional dance, music and theater. She has received national exposure performing Japanese Storytelling at the Silk Road International Exposition and on Kansai National TV in 1985.
After which she came to the United States bringing ancient Japanese tales to life with shadows and magic performing constantly in theaters, schools, colleges, and festivals across the country including such venues as The Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Disney Epcot Japanese Pavilion, the International Children’s Festival in Canada among other noted venues.
Tickets for the 8 PM show are $22 members, $25 in advance and $28 at the door (plus fees) and may be purchased on line at www.dennosmuseum.org or by calling the box office at 231-995-1553. Performance ticket holders are invited to attend the 7 PM exhibition opening reception as well.
Kuniko Yamamoto will offer two performances for schools on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM in the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center. Teachers may call Jason Dake at 231-995-1029 or e-mail jdake@nmc.edu for information or to reserve tickets for the school performances.
Modern Twist was curated by Dr. Andreas Marks, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. The exhibition was generously supported by the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Nomura Foundation, Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, and the Snider Family Fund and is funded at the Dennos by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, The Komesu Memorial Fund, the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Hughes Memorial Endowment Fund, TV 7&4 and WCMU Public Broadcasting and Cambria Suites.
One Billion Rising: Success!
One in three billion women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
One billion women violated is an atrocity.
One billion women dancing is a REVOLUTION.
On Thursday, February 14th community members in Traverse City rose up and joined the revolution for One Billion Rising.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED.
For more information:
One Billion Rising Traverse City on Facebook
Benefits Corner
2012 FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS (FSA) AND 2012 HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (HSA)
Since March is almost upon us, this is just a reminder on using last year’s flexible spending and health savings accounts if you have an FSA or HSA along with NMC’s medical plans.
2012 Unreimbursed Medical Flexible Spending Accounts
The period of time for using up your 2012 Unreimbursed Medical FSA is drawing to a close. You may use these funds for services during the calendar year 2012, and if you did not use them up, you can use them for services during the 75 days following 12/31. For your 2012 account, the final date for allowable services is March 15, 2013.
However, you may submit these expenses for 45 days following the end of the “Expense Period” by April 29, 2013, otherwise any remaining balance in the account will be forfeited. If you need to submit expenses not billed through Priority, such as dental or vision, you can find the claim form at https://intranet.nmc.edu/forms/human-resources/benefits/PriorityHealthFlexibleSpendingAccount.pdf.
2012 Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
You may use these funds only for services during the calendar year 2012, otherwise any remaining balance in the account will be forfeited. If you submitted a receipt that was higher than the amount in your account at any time during the year, Priority will reimburse the remainder of the amount submitted when you have more money deducted. You can find the Priority Health FSA form which must be used for all Dependent Care reimbursement requests at https://intranet.nmc.edu/forms/human-resources/benefits/PriorityHealthFlexibleSpendingAccount.pdf.
You may submit your Dependent Care claims up to 120 days following 12/31/12 for services during 2012, which is April 29, 2013.
2012 Health Savings Accounts
If you were enrolled in the High Deductible Health Plan for 2012, you manage your own expenses through your HSA. As you are working on your taxes for last year, If you would like to check that you correctly used this account for IRS qualified expenses, following is a link to a page that Priority Health has on their website about HSA accounts. This includes a list of qualified expenses and also has a link to the IRS document if you want to delve deeper. http://www.priorityhealth.com/member/plans/group-plans/hsa-accounts
If you have any questions on these accounts or other benefits, feel free to contact Carol Kasper at 995-1362.
Kudos
Kudos to Roy Bartle and Patrick Tesner for consistently doing a GREAT job for the NMC Foundation Board breakfast meetings. If plans or conditions ever change, they adapt without a blink of an eye. They often have time and money saving ideas to streamline an event, which are always appreciated. I know we can count on them to provide a pleasant experience for our Foundation Board volunteers.
Both men make my job easier and are very much appreciated! Thank you, Roy and Patrick!
Employee anniversaries
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary. Please join us in congratulating them!
Jerry Beatty Technical Instructor 11 years
Sixth Annual Career and Employment Fair at the Hagerty Center
Please encourage your students to attend NMC’s sixth annual Career and Employment Fair, March 7 from 3pm-5pm at the Hagerty Center on NMC’s Great Lakes Campus. Employers from professional and occupational fields will be recruiting for career-track positions, seasonal and entry-level opportunities, as well as internships, service learning and networking opportunities.
Participants should bring multiple copies of their resume and dress in business attire. For more tips on job fair preparation, review the job-seeking tools at www.nmc.edu/careers.
Position vacancies
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at https://jobs.nmc.edu. Information on internal postings has been emailed.
Steve Quick has a new role at NMC
Steve Quick has joined NMC in the position of Audio Technology Coordinator on January 1, 2013. He can be reached at 231-995-1325 or quicks@nmc.edu
Steve moved to TC when he married his childhood sweetheart Heather 10 years ago, only 35 years after they first met. They grew up in Madison Heights, MI. Heather looks after their two-year-old granddaughter Cailin. Prior to coming to NMC, Steve had his own music production and mastering business, and has also worked with control systems for sheet metal fabrication as well as child care/vocational training for delinquent teenage boys. Steve loves cooking, movies, and singing.
John Biolchini has a new role at NMC
John Biolchini has joined NMC in the position of Manager of GLMA Continuing Education on February 4, 2013. He can be reached at 231-995-1202 or biolchj@nmc.edu
Being a 1982 graduate of NMC, John and his Wife Bonnie moved back to Traverse City following his early retirement from the Great Lakes shipping trades. John has been teaching the continuing education and adjunct courses since 2007. It was a natural fit the he continue his work at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy. John and Bonnie enjoy time with their grandchildren and support the many activities that this region offers. “Being from northern Michigan I find Traverse city is the best of both worlds, small town living with cosmopolitan activities.”
The SOLUTIONS Scoop – Assignments in the spotlight
In this week’s scoop we have a spotlight on your tips and information for assignments. Check out what your colleagues are up to on NMC teachingSolutions, our new website full of teaching and technology resources.
Meet Megan Ward, WRC Coordinator
Did you know that the NMC Writing and Reading Center is here to help instructors and students?
Active Learning in CIT
Jeff Straw shares how to get “students to spend an hour finding out that it isn’t a five minute problem.” Get the scoop>>
A Story About an Assignment
John Pahl shares the EXAMPLE #1 from the last Friday Forum, The Slackline and Tightrope. Get the scoop>>
Do you have a scoop? Tell us! Look for the scoop again on March 4th.
Do you have a scoop? Tell us!
New items at the bookstore
We’ve added some new items at the bookstore:
Hydroflask is a BPA free 21 oz. standard mouth stainless steel water bottle with double wall vacuum insulation. Ideal for water, coffee,tea, mixing sport drinks. Fits in most bicycle cages and car cup holders. Laser engraved logo won’t scratch off. Keeps cold for 24 hrs and hot for 12 hours.5% of net profits are donated to a charity you choose. Simply go to www.FivePercentBack.org, input the serial number from your bottle and select a charity! They are a little pricey at $ 27.95 but the quality makes it worth it.
Tired of everything with the traditional school logo? This mug keeps to school colors but adds a little excitement to your morning coffee with the stripes. Retail price $7.25.
We carry this break a way lanyard in 3 green colors: lime, emerald and forest green. Retail $ $4.95
Office University 365. This is available for staff, faculty and for enrolled for credit students.It can be loaded on to 2 PC’s on Windows or MAC. You must have windows 7 or 8. It’s a 4 year subscription.Others available in stores are 1 year subscriptions for the same price.Windows download includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher.One Note and Access not included in the MAC download.Retail $79.99.
Don’t forget your employee discount on clothing or gift items. This discount does not apply on software, food, books, calculators or sale items.