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Riverside Arts Center, Winter, 2006, Newsletter

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Woodworking Competition and Exhibit
“It Grows on Trees”
Creative woodwork made from ash trees and other locally-salvaged timber
Emerald Ash Borers threaten 700 million ash trees in Michigan. Millions of trees have already been destroyed. The disposal costs to landowners and local communities reach into the millions of dollars. Hundreds of tons of wood are land-filled, chipped, or burned.

Can this wood be used for anything? Can artists and craftsmen address environmental concerns? Can woodworkers find value in “junk” wood?

This exhibit, scheduled for March, 2007, will present creative uses of local and under-valued wood. Materials may include ash trees and other locally-salvaged timber; sticks, branches and sawmill waste; “junk wood” species like mulberry and box-elder, and lumber salvaged from pallets and shipping materials.

Works may include furniture, turnings, carving, sculpture, toys, musical instruments, kitchenware, pyrography, and all other woodwork both functional and decorative.

Cash prizes will be awarded.  Entry information is available at www.riversidearts.org/woodshow.html.

The exhibit is being organized by Ypsilanti woodworker Dave Gendler, under a grant from Southeast Michigan Resource Conservation and Development Council. In addtion to the competition, Gendler’s work will also be displayed .

August Group show drew raves from A2 News critic

For anyone who missed the double entendre of the “The August Group” show’s name, John Carlos Cantu’s review certainly cleared things up. In his August 19 column in the Ann Arbor News, Cantu reviewed the show of recent works of Adrian Deva, Marilyn Pruka, Ruth Mark, and Carolyn McKeever as “four regional talents whose dispositions are in tune with this handsome gallery space.”

The four certainly fit more than the mere month of their presentation; they are respected, impressive, and venerable visual artists.

“Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice”

Michigan ’s motto, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you,” is certainly reflected in the works of the Michigan Landscapes exhibition. The paintings represented here indicate the artists have sought and found pleasant landscape subjects.

If you seek pleasant paintings, look about you at the RAC gallery.