It was one of those rainy fall days that makes a person long for something to do besides work. Katy Newman to the rescue. She, too, had missed the Midener/Beeby opening and the treats. Her solution was to scoop up Betty and me and hare off to lunch at the Front Porch in Ellsworth on […]
Big doings this weekend. The new show over at the Jordan River Arts Council opened today, and Babs was there. Thanks to her photos, you were, too. I know, I know, it’s not the same as being in the gallery, where there were lovely treats. I wasn’t there, either, as I had to work at […]
Babs Young has been over in East Jordan all weekend working on the installation of the current JRAC show. She writes: This is the hand of Chris Allen-Wickler carefully placing another of the 1000+ rocks in her Big Heart sculpture on a wall at the Jordan River Arts Council. Each rock has had a groove […]
You may recall that students over in Ellsworth designed a program they dubbed the Artism of Betty Beeby. I like it. Artism sounds like something a person could get up to in the course of ordinary life, sitting right next to a person who’s making Art. Whenever artists get up to something in Antrim County […]
When I went over to JRAC for the opening of its current show, I admired a quill box. Upon close inspection, I discovered that it was made by Babs Young. Is there no end to the woman’s creative capabilities? There was a lot to admire, and I’m sorry I didn’t get around to telling you […]
September, and my thoughts turn to art. I don’t know why. Here are some artistic adventures you could have this very weekend: Fine Arts Festival in Central Lake, September 13, 10am-4pm You’ve probably been to at least one arts event at Murphy’s Lamplighter. Saturday’s festival will be held on the grounds, but it’s a juried show […]
October 6, 2009
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