Jun 04 Thursday
Material World: Ten Women, an invitational exhibition organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art, features women artists working with non-traditional materials or using traditional materials in non-traditional ways. The exhibition highlights the use of the physical characteristics of material and technique as a component of both visual and conceptual themes. Many of the works use found objects common to the everyday household, or bring elements from nature into inside spaces. Painting, sculpting, weaving, and assemblage merge in surprising ways throughout the show — crocheted metal wire is transformed into complex organic shapes, steel rod is welded into traditional vessel forms and animal shapes, paintings are cut apart and reassembled on the loom, birch bark becomes quilt-like in complex geometric arrangements, and quilts become soft sculptures and drawings, amidst many other approaches that surprise and delight. The participating artists are: Marcelyn Bennett-Carpenter, Boisali Biswas, Elizabeth Brandt, Kristin Casaletto, Kim Cridler, Nanci LaBret Einstein, Hattie Mendoza Lee, Anne Mondro, Mary Stoppert, and Susan Yamasaki.
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Jun 06 Saturday
Indigenous Roots to Early European SettlementExperience the early years (300 BCE-1900)
When: Saturday, June 6th | 10:00 AM
Where: Meet at Robinson Road & Woodmere Ave SE (Wilcox Park sign)
Focus: Learn how the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians developed communities here starting in 300 BCE, and the impact of the first Europeans in the 19th century
Cost: $25/person
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