Mar 29, 2012 | Intercom
Saturday, May 5 — Reservations required.
Local art appraiser Don Butkovich will be at the Museum on Saturday, May 5, 2012, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. to verbally appraise your hidden treasures.
Each person with a reservation may bring a maximum of two items. The proceeds from the $8 fee (per object) will generously be donated to the Dennos Museum Center’s museum programming fund. Refunds are not available for canceled appointments.
Make a reservation online or call (231) 995-1573
Mar 29, 2012 | Intercom
Thursday, April 5, 7:00 pm – Free admission.
U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his devoted wife, to fight pain, addiction, and the terrifying normalcy of life at home.
This film will be shown captioned and there will be a sign language interpreter for the panel discussion.
Community Cinema is a community outreach project of CMU Public Television and the Dennos Museum Center. These screening events are part of the ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema program.
Mar 29, 2012 | Intercom
NMC alumni volunteers are needed on Barbecue Day, May 20, to help in the Alumni Quilt Tent.
Can you spare a couple hours? Your efforts to help sell quilt raffle tickets will support the George Comden Alumni Scholarship.
It’s a great way to meet & greet other NMC alumni on BBQ day!
Please contact Sonia Clem: sclem@nmc.edu ext. 51030
Mar 27, 2012 | Intercom
On behalf of the Board, President, Faculty & Staff at NMC, the President’s Office sent a floral tribute to the funeral of Jay Hooper’s mother. We received this note to share with you.
Tim, Board, Faculty and Staff,
On behalf of the entire family, I would like to thank you for the wonderful flower arrrangement at mom’s visitation and funeral. Having so many friends like you has made it easier to handle mom’s loss.
Thanks,
Marie and Jay
Mar 26, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
The It Gets Better Project is a response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school, the project’s creators wanted to create a personal way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT youth that, yes, it does indeed get better.
NMC Student Life and NMC Pride is inviting students, faculty and staff to participate in an It Gets Better video. The video will take place in the Student Life Office, lower level of West Hall, and Emily Magner will be project editor. Anyone interested can contact Stephen Krygier at skrygier@nmc.edu or call 231-709-0971 to set a taping appointment.
ItGetsBetter.org, the official web site where the video will be posted, and on select NMC web pages, is a place where young people who are lesbian, gay, bi, or trans can see how love and happiness can be a reality in their future. It’s a place where straight allies can visit and support their friends and family members. It’s a place where people can share their stories, take the It Gets Better Project pledge and watch videos of love and support.
Student Life and NMC Pride is looking for anyone in support of the LGBT community and who is willing to share their own personal stories.
Please call Emily Magner for more information, 995-1118.
Mar 23, 2012 | Intercom
The NMC Foundation office is looking for alumni to greet family and students from 12 – 2 on commencement day, May 5.
Also, alumni volunteers are needed for the alumni quilt raffle tent at the NMC BBQ on May 20.
For more information, contact Sonia Clem (
sclem@nmc.edu or 231-995-1030).
Mar 23, 2012 | Intercom
Hello NMC Faculty and Staff,
I would like to invite you to help us create an exhibition from the museum’s art collections and in doing so make some museum history! The exhibition title is Museum Collections: Community Curators.
For over 20 years, the college and the museum have worked to develop an art collection that can be used as a community resource for exhibition and teaching. This collection contains about 2000 works, half of which is Inuit art, and the balance a diverse collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, works on paper and other media by artists of state, national and international reputation.
For years we have shown this growing collection by selecting the works to be shown and presenting them in the galleries. This time we would like you to select the works to be shown and write a short paragraph (your interpretation) about the work from your perspective.
During the 2006 Community Curators exhibition, we invited about 50 people, representing a diverse cross section of the Grand Traverse community, to participate. This time around, we are inviting the entire community to participate, not only for the gallery exhibition, but also as a new, online exhibition.
From March 22, 2012 through the end of the exhibition, June 17, 2012, viewers can go online to our website, view the works, and offer their own interpretations of the works.
Selections need to made and interpretations entered by April 3 in order to be included in the physical gallery.
To learn more and to participate, go to this webpage: http://www.dennosmuseum.org/exhibitions/current/community-curators.html
This is also a great opportunity for your students and family, so feel free to pass on the information.
A special thank you to Steve Kellman for helping to setup the online gallery in SmugMug.
Have fun curating!
Diana Bolander
Curator of Education and Interpretation
Dennos Museum Center
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Jim Coughlin Science/Math Instructor 25 years
Tim Nelson President 12 years
Submit kudos at: www.nmc.edu/departments/human-resources/kudos.html
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
Following are positions currently open at NMC. For detailed information on externally posted positions, please visit NMC’s web page at www.nmc.edu/jobs Information on internal postings has been emailed.
OPEN POSTINGS
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Instructor – Clinical Nursing (38-443)
Professional Staff (Full time)
Annual Giving Specialist (67-443)
Coordinator of Major Gifts (68-443)
Student Employee
Financial Aid-Office Assistant-Student Employee (62-443)
Resident Assistant (R.A.)-Student Employee (69-443)
White Pine Press Copy Editor-Student Employee (65-443)
White Pine Press Photographer-Student Employee (64-443)
White Pine Press Writer-Student Employee (66-443)
Supplemental Staff
Banquet Server-Hagerty Center (41-443)
Busser-Hagerty Center (72-443)
Bartender-Hagerty Center (73-443)
CLOSED PENDING OUTCOME
Support Staff – Full time
President’s Office Assistant (45-443)
Support Staff – Part time
Administrative Assistant – Center for Instructional Excellence (40-443)
Technical/Paraprofessional Staff – Full time
Academic Office Manager – Technical Division (56-443)
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
To Linda Rea for helping a fellow employee make copies at the last minute. I appreciate all she does to go the “extra mile!” Thank you, Linda.
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
To Bonnie Shumaker for helping fix a formatting issue on an assignment. She did not give up until she got it right. Thank you!
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
To all NMC Faculty, Staff and Students for working together during the big snow storm on the weekend of March 2.
Specific kudos goes out to Student life staff for their handling of evacuation of students from East Hall due to the power outage and moving them to a local hotel for two nights. A special thanks to Marcus Bennett who stayed with the students for those two nights. Kudos to the Hagerty Center and Sodexo food service staff for working together to get the residence hall students fed at the Hagerty Center.
Kudos also to the faculty and students for flexibility in rescheduling final exams that were scheduled on Monday, March 5th!
Also blizzard related kudos goes to our maintenance, custodial and grounds crews as they worked over the weekend and continue to work on clean up!
What a great way to demonstrate so many of the NMC Values! These attitudes are what make NMC a great place to work and live!
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
Tuesday, April 3, 7-8:30 p.m., in Oleson Center Room A/B
David Hill tells of several life lessons gleaned as he recounts Johan’s thrilling hero tale of survival during WWII when he was captured by the Germans while on a secret courier mission with the Norwegian Resistance.
Johan’s intense will to live and to retain his humanity enabled him to endure Nazi captivity for the remainder of the war in the worst of slave labor death camps: Natzweiler, Dachau and Mauthausen.
David met Johan, who became his mentor, while working on Johan’s organic farm in Norway. David has crewed in the Norwegian Merchant marines, managed a dairy her on a bio dynamic farm in Norway, and currently serves as the Executive Director of Concornd Academy in Petoskey, one of only nine Schools of Excellence in Michigan.
The event, sponsored by Michigan Global Awareness Consortium, is free and open to the public. For information, call 995-1155.
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
Romance, passion, majesty and timeless beauty will fill the air Friday, April 13, 2012 when the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company, as part of their first national tour, brings the excitement of flamenco to the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College with the award-winning flamenco dancer and choreographer Juan Siddi at 8 pm.
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.
Joined by an array of sensual and powerful dancers, singers and musicians from Spain, France and the United States, Siddi will present a mixed repertory program, including the stunning work, “Encuentro” which was nominated in San Francisco, CA in 2009 for an Isadora Duncan Award.
Honored recipient of Santa Fe’s 2011 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, Artistic Director Juan Siddi and his Flamenco Theatre Company have made their mark in the world of flamenco with their unique, world-class artistry. The company has made appearances throughout the Middle East, Europe and the United States, and with their summer seasons in Santa Fe, NM.
Michael Wade Simpson of the Pasatiempo calls Siddi’s work “…a refined, intellectual… contemporary take on flamenco.”
Flamenco is a genre of music and dance that originated in Andalusia, Spain in the 18th century, influenced by Gypsy traditions going back to Rajasthan India. The development of flamenco can be traced back to the Middle Ages and the meeting and mixing of several musical traditions in Andalucia where African and Arabic music developed along with the Spanish guitar and its rhythms. During the Spanish Inquisition, groups of persecuted peoples – Romani, Greeks, Visigoths, Moors, and Jews – married their songs and dances of exile, despair, suffering, and also hope and celebration, with the ecstatic religious sounds of Andalucian music to produce flamenco, whose essence is duende.
Duende’s deep emotion is the ineffable mystery of life in art, song, music and dance. The Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca once said about duende: “The greatest artists of Spain, whether Gypsy or flamenco, whether they sing, dance, or play, know that no emotion is possible unless the duende comes. All arts are capable of duende, but where it finds greatest range, naturally, is in music, dance, and spoken poetry, for these arts require a living body to interpret, being forms that are born, die, and open their contours against an exact presence….It is truly deep, deeper than all the wells and seas in the world, much deeper than the present heart that creates it or the voice that sings it, because it is almost infinite.”
In November 2010, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) deemed flamenco a cultural treasure on its Intangible Heritage List. Since 2007, Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company has interpreted flamencoʼs depth and passion in highly regarded venues throughout Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Today, the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company is one of the top flamenco companies in the United States.
Artistic director, choreographer and principal dancer Juan Siddi will be joined by a cast of some of Spainʼs most authentic and world-class artists of today, among them singers Coral de los Reyes and Jose; guitarist Jose Valle, “Chuscales”; and cellist Michael Kott. Siddiʼs colorful array of female dancers will interpret his choreographies to traditional and original musical scores created by the talented cast of musicians.
Justin Nadir, executive producer and managing director for the company, says, “We are very excited to share the unique talent and artistry of the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company throughout the United States. A greater awareness of flamenco’s richness has been recognized over the past several years, and Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company brings to audiences an unparalleled and world-class experience.”
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
50 Years Ago:
- “The feasibility of expanding Northwestern Michigan College into a four-year, degree-granting institution was under study Wednesday by the school’s Board of Trustees.” Grand Rapids Press 3/22/62.
25 Years Ago:
- SGA sponsored a visit by Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan), who created what was up until then the longest-running children’s program on network television.
- The NMC Student Activities Office sponsored a Sock Hop featuring Bill Haley’s Comets. (See photo).
From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will host the exhibition Harvey Gordon: Recent Paintings from April 14 – June 17, 2012.
For nearly fifty years, Harvey Gordon’s art has reflected his life by depicting resonant aspects of his visual experience. In simpler terms, he paints what moves him in what he sees around him. His approach builds on the artist’s direct, unimpeded connection to his or her surroundings that blossomed with the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements during the late nineteenth century. His technique integrates major characteristics of Post-Impressionism and moves forward from it by incorporating contemporary materials and technology; a highly analytic method of execution; and a personal sensibility shaped in part by the dynamic, perplexing, self-conscious twentieth century. He seeks to balance convincing representation with an open, painterly surface while simultaneously striving for maximum grace and refinement in his brushwork. After succumbing periodically to the pressures of both commerce and ego to produce larger paintings, he determined, about ten years ago, that his aesthetic goals were best achieved, and his long standing natural inclination was best satisfied, by working on a smaller, more modest and intimate scale. The paintings in this exhibition are the result of that decision.
Gordon’s paintings have been exhibited widely, received several awards, and been the subject of eight one person exhibitions in New York City galleries and six in Michigan museums, including Flint, Grand Rapids, and Kalamazoo. His work has been collected by museums, corporations, and private collectors in this country and abroad. His writing on art and culture has been published in several periodicals, and he taught art at the college level for thirty years.
Harvey Gordon was born in Flint in 1941 and attended Flint Public Schools, the University of Michigan, Mott Community College, Cranbrook Academy of Art (BFA), and the University of North Carolina (MFA). He has lived in Michigan and vacationed in northern Michigan almost all his life and has lived in Glen Arbor since 2004.
This exhibition is supported by grants from the Michigan Humanities Council, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, Local support comes from the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Hughes Memorial Endowment Fund, TV 7&4 and WCMU Public Broadcasting.
The Dennos will host a program with Gordon as part of the exhibition:
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:00 pm
Harvey Gordon will discuss his process, techniques, and work in his exhibit at the Dennos Museum Center
For more information on the program call Diana Bolander, Curator of Education and Interpretation at 231-995-1029 or check online at www.dennosmuseum.org.
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will host the exhibition The Art in War: Photographs by Benjamin Busch from April 14 – June 17, 2012
Benjamin Busch, author, photographer, and film-maker, was born in Manhattan and grew up in rural New York State. He graduated from Vassar College in 1991 with a major in Studio Art, and soon thereafter accepted a commission as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. The prints to be featured in this exhibition were taken during to combat tours; April – September of 2003 and February – September of 2005
Busch writes of his photography, “On my first tour I was serving as the commanding officer of a Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance company during the invasion, liberation and occupation of Iraq and, when security permitted me, I recorded the unique obscurities of the country from my perspective. On my second combat tour I captured images in and around the Iraqi city of Ar Ramadi, capitol of the Al Anbar Province. Serving in combat units during both deployments, I was restricted to capturing only one or two images each day due to my position and situation. Many of these photographs address politics, war, America and Iraq but they are also dedicated to abstraction and have a dialog with the history of works in painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, film and, of course, photography.
I am drawn artistically to environments that rely upon artifacts to define a human presence. I have always been fascinated by archeology and there is some of it in my photography. In some ways I am searching for things while they are still on the surface, while they are still informally displayed, before we wait long enough to consider them historical evidence. I am trying to catch the moment when what we consider common no longer draws any attention. The importance of these moments will not be noticeable until they become impossible to find. Cubism, symbolism, abstraction, icons and iconography, photography and photojournalism, portraiture and cave paintings are all referenced in these images and they are as much about the history and discovery of art as they are a particular record of Iraq. They demonstrate, in some ways, the perseverance and the necessity of artists to find art in their surroundings despite circumstance.
I tried to record Iraq as its past was dissolving and its future uncertain. Photographs allow me to hold on to what I notice as I pass through time and place. This collection is a condensed rearrangement of my selected memory from 398 days in Iraq. It grants me the right to assign longevity to impermanent observations. I am often drawn to record fragile evidence and temporary debris for this reason. The images that you see are moments that cannot occur again. What I photographed there has already been repainted, burned, or discarded. I only had one chance to take a photograph of any moment there. These are the chances that I took.”
Mar 22, 2012 | Intercom
The Dennos Museum Center is pleased to announce that the iconic folk/rock singer and songwriter Judy Collins best known for her recordings of songs such as Both Sides Now and Send in the Clowns will have a second performance in Milliken Auditorium on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 7:30 pm.
With an impressive career spanning more than 50 years, Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes. At 13, Judy Collins made her public debut performing Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos but it was the music of such artists as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, as well as the traditional songs of the folk revival, that sparked Judy Collins’ love of lyrics. Judy Collins continues to create music of hope and healing, that lights up the world and speaks to the heart.
Tickets on sale now. All tickets are $30. Please note that those holding tickets for the June 5th Judy Collins performance may not exchange them for the June 7th performance.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.dennosmuseum.org or by calling the box office at (231) 995-1553. The box office is open for walk up sales from 3:00 – 5:00 PM Wednesday through Saturday.
