JANUARY

• Art 180 - a 3 hour (180 minute) mini-gallery event to be held monthly at Short’s Brewing Company in Bellaire. We’ll be transforming the stage side of SBC into a temporary gallery for area artists. This is an informal, non-juried event - a great chance to meet other art-ists and arts supporters, show your work, drink a beer or grab a pizza. Art 180 will run Jan. - April. Contact Tom Brown at 231-350-3449 for more information.

• Photoshop Class - To be held at Bel-laire High School, this class will introduce artists to Photoshop for both creative and marketing purposes. Dates TBA.

MARCH

• Art, Film and Philosophy - In part-nership with ISLAND, a series of lec-tures and films. More information com-ing soon.

• Artist “Second’s Show” - This show will feature work done by local artists that doesn’t normally make it into gal-lery or festival shows. Often referred to as a seconds show, this will showcase older or irregular work by working art-ists. More information coming soon.

MAY

• A Day in the Life of Antrim County - Second Saturday in May. Capturing the daily life of our communities dur-ing the course of one day.

SUMMER EVENTS

• Plein Air Art Classes - TBA

• Studio Tour - July 17 from 10 - 4 pm

• Rubber Ducky Kids Activity

SEPTEMBER

• Parkside Fine Arts Festival - Sept. 10 from 10 - 4 pm.

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NEWS ‘10PARKSIDE ARTS COUNCIL

Antrim Artists’ Studio Tour: A Great Success

Parkside Arts Council, serv-ing Antrim County artists, patrons of art, and art edu-cation in the community, held its first county-wide open studio tour, show-casing 10 artists, on July 18. Those visitors who par-ticipated in the tour had a chance to visit 8 different studios, to chat with the art-ists regarding their meth-ods and techniques, to view their works, and in some cases try a little hands-on experience in making art.

Artists Karen Baker Thumm, Peter Balestrieri, and Margie Guyot exhib-ited a variety of paintings in differ-ent media and subject matter and talked about how they applied paint

to canvas or paper. Stained glass art-ist, Mary Ellen Murphy, demonstrated how to cut glass and shape a design.

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Tom Brown, photographer, spoke about his particular method of pho-tographing and developing prints. John Unger, sculptor, showed both old and new works, and potters Ron and Cynthia Tschudy not only showed their pottery but also allowed their

guests to get a feel of the clay and form a pot. Writer Beth Nelson spoke about her current writing projects.

The tour was both an artistic and financial success, with proceeds go-ing to support fu-ture art exhibitions and events, and to help art educators in Antrim Coun-ty. Parkside Arts

Council has decided to make this tour an annual summer event. www.parksidearts.org

Margie Guyot shows off her painting process and studio.

Cynthia Tschudy shares with a group of tour participants how she textures her clay.

Art, Film, and PhilosophyIn Partnership with ISLAND

Back for our fourth season, Art Film Philosophy brings you a cornucopia of thoughts and ideas. “ The Farm and the Horse” documentary film, Natural birth vs. the cascade of interventions-- Kathi Mulder- midwife, “Ecotrip” film by Anne Swan, City design for chance en-counters with strangers-- Gary Howe. These are a few of the offerings for this year with more to come, stay tuned to Parkside’s website for dates and topics.

Day in the Life Photogra-phy Project showcases life in Antrim County

With the cliché, a “picture is worth a thousand words” in mind, Antrim County residents donned cameras for 24-hours Saturday, May 22, to help document life in Antrim County. A Day in the Life of Antrim County, a project created by the Parkside Arts Council, encouraged residents both professional photographers or ama-teurs, to photograph the daily life of our communities during the course of one day. Over 30 photographers par-ticipated and several hundred images were submitted, ranging in subjects from our watershed sys-tem, our families, and our farmers.

The project will be-come an annual event, taking place the second Saturday in May, and opening up to other art mediums. Join Park-side Arts Council in the spring of 2011 for a gal-

The mission of the Parkside Arts Council is to encourage cultural en-richment in Antrim County by pro-moting awareness, education and appreciation of the arts, and sup-porting those who do creative work.

Parkside Arts Council P.O. Box 163 • Bellaire, MI 49615www.parksidearts.org

2010 Board Members:

President: Mary Ellen Murphy

Vice-President: Jessica VanderHart

Secretary: Elizabeth Balestrieri

Treasurer: Rachel Krino

Additional Board Members: Brad Kik, Tom Brown, Elly Johnson, & Eric Klinert

Please Note: Membership renewals are NOW due for the 2011 membership year. Applications are

available online at parksidearts.org.

lery showing at Short’s Brewing Com-pany to help kick off next year’s Day in the Life! Further information will be available closer to the event at www.parksidearts.org.

UPDATE: “Land, Sky, and Wa-ter: Antrim County Through the Eyes of Its Artists”

We have already had a great re-sponse from Parkside Arts Council member artists for our proposed full-color book, to be entitled Land, Sky, and Water: Antrim County Through the Eyes of Its Artists, with many ex-citing submissions. But we still need more! If you have already sent in samples of your art, we thank you for your interest and participation, and we will be in contact with you as the project progresses. And if you have not yet submitted samples of your art, and you are an Antrim County artist,

please do! Parkside Arts Council is ex-tending an open in-vitation to all of its members to submit samples of their art, either visual or writ-ten (photography, painting, sculpture, craft, poetry or prose) that they feel best sums up their connection to, vi-sion of, or feelings about the Antrim County area, along

with a brief artist’s bio. For further in-formation about submission require-ments, contact Eric Klinert at 231-676-0752 or eklinert@yahoo.com. We look forward to working with you!

Art Festivals We held our 3rd annual Art fair at

the Bridgewalk B&B in Central Lake on Sept. 11. We had wonderful art-ists with a wide variety of work. There was a constant stream of people go-ing through.

Sadly to say Mother Nature did not co-operate all day and we were rained out. Sales were brisk until the rain came.

As usual the artists hung in there visiting and trading with each other. A good time was still had by all. Sept 10 will be next years Art Fair. Watch for info on Parksidearts.org

Some of our 2010 Past Events:• Members Reception at Mt. Mancelona• Art, Film, Philosophy Series• Photoshop Class held at Bellaire H.S.• A Day in the Life Photography Project• Bellaire Fine Arts Festival

• Rubber Ducky Children’s Interactive Art

• Central Lake Arts Festival• Holiday Winefest Fundraiser

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