Aug 28, 2014 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the exhibition Chul Hyun Ahn: Infinite Space, September 21 – January 4, 2015.
Korean artist Chul Hyun Ahn creates sculptures utilizing light, color, and illusion as physical representations of his investigation of infinite space. Ahn’s interest in the gap between the conscious and subconscious compels him to construct illusionistic environments providing a space for contemplation. Ahn’s sculpture urges the viewer to consider man’s boundless ability for physical and spiritual travel while exploiting illusions of infinity and the poetics of emptiness. (more…)
Aug 28, 2014 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the exhibition Li Hongbo & Matt Shlian: Stacked and Folded – Paper as Sculpture September 21 – January 4, 2015. The exhibition brings together a Chinese and an American artist to showcase the inventive use of paper in creating sculpture. (more…)
Aug 28, 2014 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the exhibition The Leelanau Conservancy through the Lens of Ken Scott, September 21 – October 26, 2014. The exhibition is being presented in collaboration with the Leelanau Conservancy.www.LeelanauConservancy.org
In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, the Leelanau Conservancy commissioned landscape photographer Ken Scott to take pictures of the natural areas and farm land it has preserved on the Leelanau peninsula. Ken, self-taught, has been photographing nature for more than twenty years. (more…)
Aug 28, 2014 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the exhibition Ann Loveless: Art Quilts August 31–October 5, 2014.
Ann Loveless is a Northern Michigan textile artist who captures the beauty of Northern Michigan in her art quilts. Working from photographs Ann creates realistic landscape scenes using any three of her quilting techniques she has developed. Most recently Ann was awarded first place in the 2013 Art Prize Competition with her four-paneled art quilt “Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore.” (more…)
Aug 18, 2014 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College, in partnership with many educational organizations and businesses throughout the region, presents The Big Draw – Grand Traverse. This series of events in October 2014 will put the Grand Traverse Region on the global scene as a participant in the annual Big Draw.
An impressive collection of organizations in the Grand Traverse Region are working together for the first ever Big Draw – Grand Traverse, offering a calendar of arts events for all ages and abilities. Partners include the Dennos Museum Center, Artcenter Traverse City, Blackbird Arts, SCRAP TC, Oliver Art Center, NMC Art Club, NMC Extended Education Services, SEEDS, Grass River Natural Area, Art Rapids!, Jordan River Arts Council, and Grand Traverse Conservation District, with events happening at several venues as well as local schools. (more…)
