NEWAYGO COUNTY CONNECTIONS May/June 2018 GALLERY HAPPENINGS PG. 4 DOGWOOD EVENTS PG. 6 NCCA-ARTSPLACE CLASSES PG. 10 Cover image, Elk Rapids, by Judith Tummino, Page 5. A BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE NEWAYGO COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS LOCAL LIBRARIES Cultural Resources May/June 2018 Libraries are more than stacks of fabulous books, they are community Performance Venues Letha Fulton School of Dance White Cloud Community Library centers! Did you know that all of our major libraries in Newaygo County 7 West Pine St. www.whitecloudlibrary.net Dogwood Center for Fremont, MI 49412 1038 Wilcox Avenue offer Youth Reading Programs, along with many other free social activities Performing Arts [email protected] White Cloud, MI 49349 www.dogwoodcenter.com lethafultonschoolofdance.com Phone: 231-689-6631 like movie screenings, arts and crafts, illustration clubs, lego clubs, youth 4734 S. Campus Court Phone: 231-845-1491 and adult book clubs, fiber art socials, and many other exciting programs Fremont, MI 49412 Special Interests for the whole community? The list below includes just a few of the events Phone: 231-924-8885 Art Interests going on this summer. Check out the library links on the next page for Grant Fine Arts Center Newaygo County Museum and NCCA-Artsplace Heritage Center detailed information about your community library offerings. www.grantps.net/GFAC 331 East State St. www.ncca-artsplace.org www.newaygocountyhistory.org Grant, MI 49327 13 E. Main Street 12 Quarterline Rd. P.O. Box 361 Phone: 231-834-5630 Fremont, MI 49412 Newaygo, MI 49337 Newaygo Area District Library Hesperia Community Library Phone: 231-924-4022 Phone: 231-652-5003 Animation Club Imagination Library Program Stage Door Theatre Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Fri., May 18 - 3:30 p.m. Do you have a www.stagedoorplayers.webs.com Newaygo County 1147 E. Wilcox www.bluelake.org Agricultural Fair Association Fri., June 15 - 3:30 p.m. newborn or a White Cloud, MI 49349 300 East Crystal Lake Rd. www.newaygocountyfair.org Meet monthly to create a new movie using child under the Phone: 231-689-5437 Twin Lake, MI 49457 815 Stewart - P.O. Box 14 stop motion animation. age of 5? If you Phone: 800-221-3796 Fremont, MI 49412 Theater Groups Phone: 231-924-4450 do and are a Libraries resident of the LionHeart Productions Stephen F. Wessling Fremont Area District Library www.lionheartproductions.org Fremont Area Observatory and Kropscott Hesperia library 77 South Front St. Summer Reading Kickoff District Library Farm Environmental Center district stop in Grant, MI 49327 www.fremontlibrary.net Thursday, June 7 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Phone: 231-834-2787 Newaygo County and sign up! 104 E. Main Street Dark Sky Astronomers Sign up for the Summer Reading Club, make Fremont, MI 49412 The library has Stage Door Players www.sfwobservatory.org some great summer crafts, and get your face joined the Imagination Library program www.stagedoorplayers.webs.com Phone: 231-924-3480 6523 West Baseline Road Painted in the Children’s Department! The begun by the Dolly Parton Foundation. 1147 E. Wilcox Newaygo Area Fremont MI 49412 Teen and Adult Summer Reading Program White Cloud, MI 49349 District Library Phone: 231-924-2420 Through a generous gift from the Gerber Phone: 231-689-5437 also starts on June 7. Foundation we are able to participate in newaygo.llcoop.org Newaygo County Convention 44 North State Road this program to encourage reading and Galleries and Visitor’s Bureau Children’s After school Movie: Peter Rabbit Newaygo, MI 49337 www.newaygocountytourism.com an interest in learning. When a child is NCCA-Artsplace Phone: 231-652-6723 Thursday, May 17 at 3:30 p.m. 4684 S. Evergreen – M-37 registered they will receive a hardcover www.ncca-artsplace.org Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic 13 E. Main Street Croton Township Library Newaygo, MI 49337 book mailed to them each month that is www.crotonlibrary.org Phone: 231-652-9298 tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a Fremont, MI 49412 theirs to keep. Some of the titles are: Owl Phone: 231-924-4022 8260 S. Croton-Hardy Dr. farmer’s vegetable garden. Refreshments will TrueNorth Moon by Jane Yolen, Roar of a Snore [email protected] Newaygo, MI 49337 Community Service Center Phone: 231-652-1615 be served, and all are welcome! (Rated PG; by Marsha Arnold and Little Pink Pup by Dogwood Center Lobby Gallery www.truenorthservices.org 95 min) Johanna Kerby. www.dogwoodcenter.com Grant Community Library 6308 S. Warner Avenue 4734 S. Campus Court PO Box 149 Come to the library for a brochure and grant.llcoop.org Discovery Tuesday: Paleo Joe Fremont, MI 49412 122 S. Elder Street Fremont, MI 49412 Tuesday, June 26 at 10:30 a.m. more details. Children must be residents Phone: 231-924-8885 Grant, MI 49327 Phone: 231-924-0641 Joe introduces animals, plants, and creatures of Hesperia library district and between Phone: 231-834-5713 Newaygo County that have been extinct for millions of years. 0 and 5 years old. There is no charge to Dance Studios Hesperia Community Library Community Choir His high energy program brings life to these participate. SRNB Irish Dance Studio www.hesperialibrary.org Director Joseph Jennings Fremont United Methodist creatures of long ago. June 5 Summer Reading Kickoff! 1 West Main 80 S. Division Street Fremont, MI 49412 Hesperia, MI 49421 Church 231-924-0030 June 26 John Ball Zoo Animals 6:00 p.m. [email protected] Phone: 231-854-5125 Phone: 616-432-3738 NCCA-ARTSPLACE • 231-924-4022 BECOME AN NCCA-ARTSPLACE MEMBER TODAY! NCCA-Artsplace membership dues are tax deductible as provided by current 13 E. MAIN ST., FREMONT, MI 49412 tax laws and membership is valid for one full year. Fill out membership infor- WWW.NCCA-ARTSPLACE.ORG mation on the class registration form and start receiving discounts on classes! 3 GALLERY HAPPENINGS May/June 2018 DOGWOOD CENTER May 3 through June 2 LOBBY GALLERY NCCA Statewide Photography Competition Reception and Awards May 5, NCCA-Artsplace 10:00 a.m. – Noon Permanent Collection Jansma Gallery at NCCA-Artsplace, 13 E. Main St., May 1 - June 2 Fremont. 231-924-4022. Our goal is to exhibit and acknowledge the finest photographers in the State of Michigan and encourage greater growth and achievement in the photographic community. This is a juried competition. Selected works are on exhibit and among them will be the honor of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place and Judith Tummino, View of the Dunes honorable mentions receiving ribbons and cash awards. June 5 through July 7 many art museums and galleries. Select works by Ray JUDITH TUMMINO - SOJOURN Travels to the Chesapeake Bay and the Jansma, Mike McDonnell, Paintings of Michigan Shenandoah Valley instilled the love of the Russ Shepherd and Gail and the Chesapeake Bay landscape as well as the sense of the Johnston will be displayed Reception June 21, 5:30-7:00 p.m. untouched beauty of the land. at the Dogwood from “My appreciation of the moment is central to the NCCA-Artsplace Jansma Gallery at NCCA-Artsplace, 13 E. my work. I find that as my painting evolves Permanent Collection. Main St., Fremont, 231-924-4022. Judith Tummino has often stated that her first I become sensitive to both the change of Justin Stubleski year of study in Italy was a life changing event. the conditions I am painting as well as to the June 4 - August 4 “I fell in love with the light, the art, the people.” changes on my pallette and painting surface. She felt so strongly that she returned to Umbria It is this transformation that keeps me about 9 times in 8 years. coming back to the painted experience. It never loses its interest for me”. Henri Droski, Fall Mist “Studying with teaching artists such as Lennart Juror: Anderson, Israel Hershberg, Nick Carone, Judith has exhibited widely in the United Dan Gustin and William Bailey contributed to States as well as in Italy. Her first experience Paul Petersen my knowledge of art and the formation of what showing in New York came when she Paul Petersen is a professional photographer living in and how I wanted to paint.” was accepted into a show juried by Phillip Grand Marais, Michigan. Although landscape and nature Pearlstein. She showed her work in the Born in Washington D. C. and raised in photography are his recent focus, he has an extensive Chelsea district of New York for about four Maryland, Judith received exposure to the body of work in architectural, lifestyle, maternity and years. During that time she painted at the portrait photography. Petersen has a Bachelor of Chesapeake Bay in addition to many places Stunning nature and Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin- in Michigan that she now called home. still life photography Stevens Point in Resource Management and Biology, Her work is included in the collections of printed in a variety of adding a love of nature to his work. In 2011 Petersen the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Grand Valley contemporary styles will be was the Artist in Residence for the National Park Service State University, the Dennos Museum on display from Muskegon in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, has received photographer Justin Center, and in Chestnut Cabin and Museum numerous awards and been exhibited at galleries, art Stubleski. of Port Republic Maryland. fairs and exhibitions throughout Michigan. Judith Tummino, Parkers Creek NCCA-ARTSPLACE • 231-924-4022 BECOME AN NCCA MEMBER TODAY AND GET CLASS DISCOUNTS! NCCA membership dues are tax deductible as provided by current tax laws 13 E.