Tri-ARTs Calendar

INTIMATELY PUBLIC Friday, June 2 Gallery Uptown
2017-06-02 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Gallery Uptown, 201 Washington St., Grand Haven, MI, 49417, United States
“INTIMATELY PUBLIC” Opening Art Reception
When: Friday, June 2, 2017, 5:30 -8:00pm
Gallery talk at 7:00 pm

Where: Gallery Uptown, 201 Washington St,
Grand Haven, MI. 616-846-5460
Please join us on the first Friday of June, June 2nd, for the opening of this exhibit of recent works by featured artists:
Margaret Benefiel, Adam Dahlstrom, Jan McLaughlin, and Sandy Meyer. Come and enjoy seeing more than 40 works recently created.
Ask questions of the artists, they love to talk about the struggles to get to the finished work of art. Open to the public. This is a free event.

"Inspired" May 5 Opening at Gallery Uptown
2017-05-05 17:30 - 20:00 | MI
“Inspired” opens at Gallery Uptown Friday, May 5, 2017 from 5:30-8pm. Enjoy wine and horse d’oeuvre as artists Laura Whitesides Host, Mary Lanka, Helen Percy Lystra, Colleen Rockey and Glenda VanRaalte speak about what inspires their work.
The public is invited to attend this free event. The show runs from May 5 through May 27, 2017.
The Gallery Uptown is located at 201 Washington Ave. in downtown Grand Haven. Gallery hours are 10am – 6pm, Monday through Saturday. For more information about Gallery Uptown, the show, or the artists:
website
www.galleryuptown.net
Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/galleryuptown/
WordPress:
https://galleryuptown.wordpress.com/blog/

or call us at 616-846- 5460.

Poetic Voices of Detroit
2017-04-28 12:30 | Spring Lake District Library, 123 E. Exchange St., Spring Lake, MI, 49456, United States

Poetic Voices of Detroit
2017-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Loutit District Library, Grand Haven, 49417, United States
Loutit District Library, The Bookman, C3 – West Michigan’s Inclusive Spiritual Connection, and Spring Lake District Library are excited to present “Poetic Voices Of Detroit.” This special event will feature two public readings by award winning Detroit based poets Nandi Comer, Sonya Marie Pouncy, and Willie Williams.
NANDI COMER received a joint MFA/MA in Poetry and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Cave Canem, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in To Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Detroit Anthology, Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Pluck!, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Indiana Review. She is a recipient of a 2016 Write A House Permanent Residency in Detroit award. Nandi will read from her forthcoming chapbook American Family: A Syndrome a series of poems that examines the history of race, mental and physical illness in America. Through clinical descriptions some of the poems highlight the disturbing reality of race as a social construct while lyrical work seeks to unearth the complexities illness and treatment.
SONYA MARIE POUNCY is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop Fellow and holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Central Michigan University. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Temenos, the Central Review, Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor; and Drum Voices Revue; as well as the anthologies Poet in the House; Abandon Automobile; and Eclipsing A Nappy New Millennium. She was a Broadside Press poet-in-residence for the Detroit Public Library and an InsideOut poet-in-residence for the Detroit Public School District. Currently, Sonya is working on a collection of poems about the life of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks, progenitor of the immortal HeLa cell line. She will read from this work in progress.
WILLIE WILLIAMS has served as a Broadside Press poet-in-residence at the Jefferson and Chandler Park branches of the Detroit Public Library and is a former director of the Broadside Press Poets’ Theater. His poetry has appeared in various anthologies including HIPology, Poet in the House, and Abandon Automobile. New work from Mr. Williams is forthcoming in the much anticipated Heaven Was Detroit. Willie is also an editor, a photographer and a life-long Detroiter. In honor of National Poetry Month, Willie will read from his developing collection of poems about women poets who have inspired him over the years.
The three visiting poets will offer a public reading at Loutit District Library at 7:00pm on Thursday, April 27th. On Friday, April 28th, they will visit Reeths Puffer Schools for an event with students, followed by a lunchtime public reading at Spring Lake District Library at 12:30pm the same afternoon. The two library events are free and open to everyone.
For more information please call Loutit District Library, The Bookman, C3 – West Michigan’s Inclusive Spiritual Connection, or Spring Lake District Library or visit their websites.

Southwest Michigan Printmakers Exhibit at Gallery Uptown Friday, April 7
2017-04-07 17:30 - 20:00 | MI
Southwest Michigan Printmakers will present an exhibit of diverse printmaking techniques, including relief, intaglio, screen printing, and lithography. The exhibit will include work on the theme of TEN and additional new work created by this diverse group of artist printmakers dedicated to the creation of handmade and fine art prints.

An opening reception for the show will be Friday, April 7 from 5:30 – 8:00pm. The artists
will be on hand for the event and will speak about their work at 7pm. The public
is invited to attend this free event; wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
The Gallery Uptown is located at 201 Washington Ave. in downtown Grand
Haven. Gallery hours are 10am – 6pm, Monday through Saturday. For more
information about Gallery Uptown, the show, or the artists, please visit the gallery
website at http://www.galleryuptown.net, find us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/galleryuptown, follow us on Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/galleryuptown or call us at 616-846- 5460.

FOOTPRINTS: NATIVE AMERICANS OF WEST MICHIGAN WITH DR. WALLY EWING
2017-03-09 19:00 - 20:30 | MI
The Indians whose presence shaped the history of Western Michigan are marginally represented in books and articles about the past, if they are mentioned at all. Dr. Wally Ewing’s presentation, Footprints, attempts to correct that omission by telling the stories of individual Native Americans who once walked the Grand River Valley, Lake Michigan’s wooded dunes, and the land between. Included are the chiefs, their tribal members, those who claimed both Native American and European descent, and a few of the Whites who played critical roles, for better or worse, as they interacted with Indians in the early years of settlement.
