Kudos- Praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved. (defined by Merriam-Webster.com)
Kudos to the following people and departments! If you know of co-workers who are going above and beyond, nominate them for kudos here! (more…)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
Alan Gudemoos Vigland, Benzonia, 74, cherished husband, father, friend and respected artist passed away on December 13, 2015. Alan taught ceramics part-time at Interlochen Center for the Arts and later at Northwestern Michigan College. Many of his colleagues at ICA and NMC became cherished life-long friends. Alan was a widely-respected potter among peers and customers with artwork in private collections nationwide. A celebration of Alan’s life will take place at the First Congregational Church of Benzonia on Saturday, January 9 at 11 AM. Lunch will be served following the celebration. Memorials may be made to the Northwestern Michigan College Foundation. Gifts will be directed to the NMC Art Department where Alan taught ceramics. To read the full obituary click here. (more…)
Thanks to your invaluable survey feedback, the NMC Green Team is happy to announce the arrival of single stream recycling on all of NMC’s campuses.
Single stream recycling is an all-in-one approach to recycling—it eliminates the need to sort plastics #1-7, glass, steel, aluminum, cardboard and paper.
As of December 7 the blue bins in all offices and classrooms, and the designated large bins throughout NMC’s campuses, can be used to recycle all of these materials. Instructional single stream recycling stickers will be in place on all recycling receptacles by the start of the 2016 Semester. (more…)
Here at Sodexo, we take pride in bringing you the culinary treats that fuel your NMC group at meetings, parties and more! To help ensure your experience with our catering team meets and exceeds your expectations, please remember to request our services with advanced notice. This way, we can work together to make your event perfect! For more info about our services click here!
Thank you! -Sodexo catering team (more…)
Inuit art lovers Dudley and Barb Smith know their collection intimately.
There’s the walrus sculpture in the foyer of their Suttons Bay home, the one they turn around when their youngest grandson visits, so his two-year-old fingers stay safe from the sharp tusks.
In their shared office, there’s the caribou that presides between the desks. On the bedroom wall there’s Barb Smith’s favorite print, of a mother bear and two cubs. On the mantle there’s the transformation sculpture that Dennos Museum Center executive director Gene Jenneman helped their kids choose as an anniversary gift. On the shelves surrounding the fireplace — which they had strengthened to support the weighty stone sculptures — are pieces collected on other travels, to Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Santa Fe, over the 30 years since the couple first fell in love with Inuit art at the Dennos Museum.
Now, the Smiths are affording the opportunity for more people to appreciate the art of the aboriginal Canadian Arctic people, with a $1 million gift that will more than double the gallery space for the Dennos’ signature collection of Inuit art.
“It is hard to beat what we have at the museum,” Barb Smith said. “It’ll be nice to see more of it.”
The addition will wrap around the existing Inuit gallery. It will also add space for the Dennos Museum Store and storage for the Inuit collection, which now includes nearly 1,500 works. Started by librarian Bernie Rink in 1960, the growth of the Inuit collection was a driving force behind the creation of the Dennos Museum Center 25 years ago.
“What a fitting way to celebrate our anniversary, by honoring the very artwork that built a reputation for the Dennos as an international leader,” Jenneman said. “This expansion will allow us to grow and refine our collection, securing the Dennos as one of the noted museums world wide for Inuit art.”
Per their estate plans, eventually the expanded gallery will house the walrus, the caribou, and the rest of the Smiths’ collection, which reflects both Barb Smith’s affinity for animal imagery and Dudley’s for the native people.
“I like the primitive nature of the art, the shaman images,” he said.
Construction for the Inuit gallery expansion as well as the addition of two new galleries at the Dennos is expected to begin in 2016.
Inuit art lovers Dudley and Barb Smith know their collection intimately.
There’s the walrus sculpture in the foyer of their Suttons Bay home, the one they turn around when their youngest grandson visits, so his two-year-old fingers stay safe from the sharp tusks.
In their shared office, there’s the caribou that presides between the desks. On the bedroom wall there’s Barb Smith’s favorite print, of a mother bear and two cubs. On the mantle there’s the transformation sculpture that Dennos Museum Center executive director Gene Jenneman helped their kids choose as an anniversary gift. On the shelves surrounding the fireplace — which they had strengthened to support the weighty stone sculptures — are pieces collected on other travels, to Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Santa Fe, over the 30 years since the couple first fell in love with Inuit art at the Dennos Museum.
Now, the Smiths are affording the opportunity for more people to appreciate the art of the aboriginal Canadian Arctic people, with a $1 million gift that will more than double the gallery space for the Dennos’ signature collection of Inuit art.
“It is hard to beat what we have at the museum,” Barb Smith said. “It’ll be nice to see more of it.”
The addition will wrap around the existing Inuit gallery. It will also add space for the Dennos Museum Store and storage for the Inuit collection, which now includes nearly 1,500 works. Started by librarian Bernie Rink in 1960, the growth of the Inuit collection was a driving force behind the creation of the Dennos Museum Center 25 years ago.
“What a fitting way to celebrate our anniversary, by honoring the very artwork that built a reputation for the Dennos as an international leader,” Jenneman said. “This expansion will allow us to grow and refine our collection, securing the Dennos as one of the noted museums world wide for Inuit art.”
Per their estate plans, eventually the expanded gallery will house the walrus, the caribou, and the rest of the Smiths’ collection, which reflects both Barb Smith’s affinity for animal imagery and Dudley’s for the native people.
“I like the primitive nature of the art, the shaman images,” he said.
Construction for the Inuit gallery expansion as well as the addition of two new galleries at the Dennos is expected to begin in 2016.
TRAVERSE CITY – Northwestern Michigan College announced today it has received a $1 million gift to expand the Dennos Museum Center’s signature Inuit art gallery.
The gift is from longtime NMC supporters and Inuit art collectors Barbara and Dudley Smith III, among the college’s most ardent and generous supporters. Over the past 27 years, the couple has given more than $2.4 million to support the Dennos and many other college programs.
The expansion will add about 2,650 square feet to wrap around the existing Inuit Gallery and will include additional storage space for the growing collection, which now stands at nearly 1,500 works.
“We just consider the college northern Michigan’s cultural centerpiece,” said Dudley Smith.
“We love our pieces and we love our museum and we love the college,” Barbara Smith said.
The Smiths have offered generous and broad support to NMC, most recently as a major sponsor of the NMC Scholarship Open for merit scholarships. They were named NMC Fellows, the college’s highest honor, in 1997, and in 2009 received a regional Benefactor award from the Council for Resource Development. Barbara Smith is a member of the NMC Foundation Board.
“Dudley and Barbara Smith are shining examples of the deep support this college has in the hearts of the people of northern Michigan. Their continued and unwavering generosity allow us to build upon our proud history while positioning us for continued success for years to come,” said NMC President Timothy J. Nelson.
NMC’s Inuit collection was started by librarian Bernie Rink in 1960. The growth of the collection was a driving force behind the creation of the Dennos Museum Center 25 years ago. The expansion will also allow more opportunities for NMC instructors to incorporate the collection into their curriculum.
“What a fitting way to celebrate our anniversary by honoring the very artwork that built a reputation for the Dennos as an international leader. This expansion will allow us to grow and refine our collection, securing the Dennos as one of the noted museums world wide for Inuit art,” said Dennos Executive Director Eugene Jenneman.
It was at the Dennos that the Smiths first saw and fell in love with Inuit art. The expanded gallery will one day house their personal collection of about a dozen prints and 40 sculptures, bequeathed to the Dennos in their estate plans.
“We just loved the primitive creativity and the fact that it was done with hand tools—how talented the people are!” said Dudley Smith.
“This is the part of the Dennos that we just absolutely love,” Barbara Smith said. “The artists can take a piece of rock and find the spirit in it.”
Construction will occur at the same time as two new galleries are added to the east side of the museum. That project, funded by a $2 million gift from Diana and Richard Milock, was announced in September.
Nelson hopes to bid the entire project in early 2016 and break ground later in the year.
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Northwestern Michigan College is a publicly funded community college that serves more than 50,000 learners annually throughout the Grand Traverse region and beyond. NMC offers associate degrees, professional certificates and bachelor’s degrees. The college is home to the Great Lakes Water Studies Institute, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, the Great Lakes Culinary Institute as well as nationally-recognized aviation and unmanned systems programs. For more information, visit nmc.edu.
The Michael and Barbara Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College is the region’s premier cultural center offering world class programming in the visual and performing arts. The museum offers a changing array of exhibitions in three galleries and a sculpture court; features a “hands on” Discovery Gallery; and a Gallery of Inuit art, the museum’s major permanent collection. The museum’s 367-seat Milliken Auditorium offers concerts in blues, jazz, chamber and world music and hosts the productions of numerous performing arts groups in the region. For more information, visit dennosmuseum.org.
Rebecca Teahen
Executive Director for Resource Development and Foundation
rteahen@nmc.edu
(231) 9951855
On behalf of my family, I wish to thank my NMC family for the plant that was sent as well as your thoughts and prayers at the passing of my father, Arvi Jukkala.
–Rita Kucera (more…)
The Global Literature Reading Group will meet on Friday, April 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the West Hall Conference Room. This semester’s book, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, by Anthony Shadid, tells the story of a Lebanese-American journalist who stumbles upon the ruins of his grandfather’s estate while covering the war in Lebanon. Copies of the book are available for the subsidized price of $5.00 from Tina Ulrich in the library (995-1063 or tulrich@nmc.edu.) (more…)
Help those in need of winter clothing! Hosted by Students for Education and Disability Awareness. Boxes for donations are located in the Hawk Owl Café (in West Hall), The Osterlin Library, Scholars Hall, and the Welcome Center Located in the Health & Science Building. Donations will be accepted till December 17. Items suggested for donation include: (more…)
A new large scale art banner featuring the internationally recognized portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) is scheduled to be installed by Britten Studios on December 14, 2015 at 10 AM on the north side of the Snowden Building on Park Street in downtown Traverse City.
Due to the heavy rain, the installation of the Hemingway Banner has been delayed until 10 AM Tuesday Dec 15, weather permitting.
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Fast Facts:
– For the third season in a row, MDOT again is seeking “Road Watchers” to report on winter highway conditions in the northern Lower Peninsula.
– Volunteers will be polled about highway conditions following winter storm events.
– Comments gathered will be used to more efficiently deploy winter maintenance forces and identify best practices. (more…)
You will be receiving Form 1095-C from NMC this year to file with your taxes. This is a requirement of the IRS under the Affordable Health Care Act. This form will allow you to report required information about the health insurance coverage offered to you by NMC.
The form will be provided to you by the end of January, so you can use it in the preparation of your 2015 taxes. You will have an option of electronic delivery or paper copy, just as you do for delivery of your W-2. (more…)
Kudos- Praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved. (defined by Merriam-Webster.com)
Kudos to the following people and departments! If you know of co-workers who are going above and beyond,nominate them for kudos here! (more…)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
Please join us in welcoming these new additions to our NMC staff! (more…)
You may have noticed that there are red barrels out and around campus. We are collecting food donations for the Father Fred Foundation this holiday season. Here is a list of the preferred items: (more…)