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WMUK Art Beat: Installations With Purpose
via wmuk.org Justin Tyler Tate’s work combines sculpture, installation, media, performance, and social art. He's exhibited more than 80 projects in more than 20 countries on four continents, most recently in Taiwan. Tate's work also merges architecture, carpentry,...
Back to the Future: The Mill at Vicksburg
via revuewm.com It’s safe to say at this point in 2020, everyone could use something to look forward to. But looking ahead doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting the past, as shown by the massive multiuse event space currently under construction in the village of...
WMUK Art Beat: Cave Music
via wmuk.org From deep inside a cave rise the haunting sounds of 'Cavernous,' by Minneapolis-based composer and percussionist Zack Baltich. Composing and performing his music, a mix of neoclassical and experimental sounds, is Baltich’s passion. In November 2020,...
WMUK Art Beat: Doing Art In The COVID-19 Era
via wmuk.org As with everything else in our communities, COVID-19 has brought the world of the arts to a standstill. Galleries are closed and music venues are silent. At the Prairie Ronde Artist Residency in Vicksburg, artists are no longer residents. So, John Kern,...
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WMUK Art Beat: Art In Light
via wmuk.org When Pamela Hadley walks into a dark room, she sees things. A sliver of light. The curve of a shadow. The Chicago resident is a future artist at the Prairie Ronde Artist Residency in Vicksburg. It brings artists inside a now-empty paper mill. Hadley says...
WMUK Art Beat: Photographing The Night
via wmuk.org There is magic in the night. And mystery. And, sometimes, fear. These are some of the things that draw photographer Steve Giovinco to the night. Night-time photography is his passion. His photography has been exhibited around the world. Giovinco recently...
WMUK Art Beat: Bike Art And Paper Mills
via wmuk.org Bike Friendly Kalamazoo recently unveiled its first public Bike Art Prize competition and awarded $1,750 in cash prizes. A committee with representatives of local art councils, organizations, and local governments conducted the juried selection process....
Residency Allows Artists to Work in Ruins of Historic Paper Mill
via Mlive.com While some see the crumbling remains of an old paper mill, others see a canvas riddled with art supplies, an acoustically unique concert hall or an open space to write. The historic site of the Lee Paper Mill has become a workshop for...
Artists Reinvent Ruins of Old Paper Mill in Vicksburg
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Art Springs From the Ruins of Vicksburg’s Old Paper Mill
via secondwavemedia.com It’s not an uncommon sight in Southwest Michigan — crumbling ruins of factories that once formed the backbone of the area’s manufacturing heyday. They may not be the pyramids of Egypt or the Parthenon of Greece, but the 420,000-square-foot...