Community Calendar

The Lake Superior Art Association Challenge Exhibit
The LSAA annual Challenge Exhibit will be on display October 1 through 31 in the Deo Gallery of the Peter White Public Library, with a public reception October 10, 6 - 8 pm. The theme of this exhibit is “Opposites,” which artists might interpret with colors, shapes, media, or subject matter. Come and see how opposing forces shape our reality in apparent and hidden ways. Visitors are welcome to vote for the Peoples’ Choice award, which will be announced after the exhibit closes. For more information visit lakesuperiorartassociation.org.

Standing Still: Studio Portraits from the Upper Peninsula August 6 - November 2, 2024

October 10, 2024, at 6 pm – Please join us for a talk with Jack Deo, followed by a reception.

This historic photographic exhibition features local legends, friends, neighbors, and everyday heroes of the past. Gestures, expressions, clothing, props, and backdrops reveal rich narratives about the subjects, photographers, and the times. The portraits were taken in Upper Peninsula photo studios between 1890 and 1910 by photographers including Charles Cole and Brainard F. Childs at Childs Art Gallery in Marquette and Ishpeming; John William Nara at Nara Studio in Calumet; Gustav A. Werner at Werner Studio in Marquette and Ishpeming, and Theodore Sexton at Sexton Studio in Garden.

Across Time and Place features Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell's recent multi-media approaches to interpreting and understanding place. Residents of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas, their works examine the nuance of place and focus on the richness of our world today and yesterday.

Robert Ziebell is an American artist who has worked in the field for over thirty-five years. Ziebell is a lens-based artist who bridges still and motion imagery to create new visual languages. Ziebell's work has been shown in numerous US museums, galleries, film festivals, and abroad.

Liz Ward is an American artist who works across various media, scales, and sites. Her work explores the meaning of landscape through layers of human, natural, and environmental history, memory, and experience. Ward has been in over two hundred group shows and has completed over thirty solo exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces, and museums.

On Thursday, September 26th, 2024, at 5:30 pm, please join us for the talk and reception with the artists.

The Lake Superior Art Association Challenge Exhibit
The LSAA annual Challenge Exhibit will be on display October 1 through 31 in the Deo Gallery of the Peter White Public Library, with a public reception October 10, 6 - 8 pm. The theme of this exhibit is “Opposites,” which artists might interpret with colors, shapes, media, or subject matter. Come and see how opposing forces shape our reality in apparent and hidden ways. Visitors are welcome to vote for the Peoples’ Choice award, which will be announced after the exhibit closes. For more information visit lakesuperiorartassociation.org.

First Presbyterian welcomes all knitters to join them in their parlor for weekly knitting on Mondays at 10 am. Knit for those in need or work on your own projects.

The Marquette Regional History Center presents the Special Exhibit:
SCHOOL DAYS: EDUCATING MARQUETTE COUNTY
October 7 – February 1, 2025
Opening reception: October 23, 2024, from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Explore the educational history of Marquette County from the Bishop Baraga parochial school, to the John D. Pierce School run by Northern Normal. High school education was a luxury for many families, with only 55% finishing school in 1970 nationwide. Marquette was progressive in many ways in educating its children, including building a public high school in 1859. Early examples of technology, class projects, and artwork will be on display. For more information visit marquettehistory.org or call 906.226.3571.
Attached image: Compliments of the John M. Longyear Research Library
Michigamme, teachers and pupils at farmers public school, Burns Farm chicken coop.

Standing Still: Studio Portraits from the Upper Peninsula August 6 - November 2, 2024

October 10, 2024, at 6 pm – Please join us for a talk with Jack Deo, followed by a reception.

This historic photographic exhibition features local legends, friends, neighbors, and everyday heroes of the past. Gestures, expressions, clothing, props, and backdrops reveal rich narratives about the subjects, photographers, and the times. The portraits were taken in Upper Peninsula photo studios between 1890 and 1910 by photographers including Charles Cole and Brainard F. Childs at Childs Art Gallery in Marquette and Ishpeming; John William Nara at Nara Studio in Calumet; Gustav A. Werner at Werner Studio in Marquette and Ishpeming, and Theodore Sexton at Sexton Studio in Garden.

Across Time and Place features Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell's recent multi-media approaches to interpreting and understanding place. Residents of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas, their works examine the nuance of place and focus on the richness of our world today and yesterday.

Robert Ziebell is an American artist who has worked in the field for over thirty-five years. Ziebell is a lens-based artist who bridges still and motion imagery to create new visual languages. Ziebell's work has been shown in numerous US museums, galleries, film festivals, and abroad.

Liz Ward is an American artist who works across various media, scales, and sites. Her work explores the meaning of landscape through layers of human, natural, and environmental history, memory, and experience. Ward has been in over two hundred group shows and has completed over thirty solo exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces, and museums.

On Thursday, September 26th, 2024, at 5:30 pm, please join us for the talk and reception with the artists.

Marquette Choral Society will begin its Fall 2024 season with its first rehearsal and membership sign-up at 7 p.m., Monday, August 26, in the Choral Room in the Thomas Fine Arts Building on the NMU campus.
No audition is required. Members may join August 26, September 9, and September 16. (No rehearsal on Labor Day) Registration starts at 6 p.m., before rehearsal from 7 to 9 p.m. Fees and music costs are $65. Some scholarships are available. Choral Society is also available for NMU Credit.
This semester’s concerts will be December 7 and 8, in the Reynolds Recital Hall. The featured work will be John Rutter’s “Magnificat,” with soprano soloist Amanda Boundy and chamber orchestra. Other winter-themed works will include “On a Winter’s Night” by Karen P. Thomas; “Ave Maria” by Javier Busto; “The Rune of Hospitality” by Alf Hakoum; “Winter Suite: Six Songs Without Words, Opus 19…With Words,” based on music by Felix Mendelssohn and text by Laurie Betts Hughes; and “Christmas is Coming” arranged by Mack Wilberg with four hand piano accompaniment.
Members will also have the opportunity to perform with the Marquette Symphony Orchestra on December 14, as well as at the Community Christmas Sing-along on December 20.
Marquette Choral Society is a mixed-voice, non-auditioned, adult choir of approximately 100 singers from a four-county region in the Upper Peninsula. MCS strives to engage, enrich, and inspire this region through the art of choral music. The ensemble was founded in 1971 by Dr. William Dehning and is currently led by musical director Dr. Erin Colwitz.
For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/MarquetteChoralSociety, www.marquettechoralsociety.org, or email choralsociety906@gmail.com.

The Lake Superior Art Association Challenge Exhibit
The LSAA annual Challenge Exhibit will be on display October 1 through 31 in the Deo Gallery of the Peter White Public Library, with a public reception October 10, 6 - 8 pm. The theme of this exhibit is “Opposites,” which artists might interpret with colors, shapes, media, or subject matter. Come and see how opposing forces shape our reality in apparent and hidden ways. Visitors are welcome to vote for the Peoples’ Choice award, which will be announced after the exhibit closes. For more information visit lakesuperiorartassociation.org.