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| Mary Jean Reusch |
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 Mary's work |
Trained as a graphic artist,Mary worked for 15 years in the commercial field. She kept her interest in fine arts by taking courses and workshops, eventually completing a BFA in painting at Aquinas College in 1999. Her work is in many private and public collections, and has been seen in solo exhibits in Lansing and Plymouth, Mich. | Her paintings have been shown in galleries in Grand Rapids, East Lansing, Glen Arbor and Douglas. Her work appeared in California in the Carquinez Poetry Review 2004, an anthology of poetry and art, with her friend Sherry Sheehan. |
| Rick Stevens | ||
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Rick is from Sparta, MI. He is a 1982 graduate in Fine Arts from Aquinas College with earlier studies at the Kendall School of Design and Grand Rapids Community College. He has work in collections which include the Governor's Mansion on Mackinac Island, Michigan; Northern Trust, Milwaukee; the Muskegon Museum of Art and the Brauer Museum of Art. | His work has been featured in solo exhibitions throughout Michigan and in group exhibitions in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. It also was a part of the 1997-98 "The New Regionalism" traveling exhibition and, in 1990, the 11th Michigan Biennial: Recent Trends in Painting traveling exhibition. |
| Mary Brodbeck | ||
| This Lake Superior artist now living and instructing in Kalamazoo at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts has a BFA in Industrial Design and Mathematics and an MFA in Printmaking. In 1998, Mary was the recipient of the BUNKA-CHO Fellowship, a five-month program designed to study traditional Japanese woodblock printing in Tokyo. She draws her inspiration from "the deep, clear and varied colors of" Lake Superior's water which she interprets with optimism and beauty. | The speciality of Mary's degrees: Printmaking, Industrial Design, and Mathematics combined with her knowledge of the Japanese printmaking style creates a unique approach to art. Acclaims such as the Isle Royale National Park Artist-In-Residence service, grants and scholarships from Western Michigan University, and First Prize in 2005 from The American Color Print society (Cheltenham, PA) constitute this spirited artist's repertoire. | |
| Betts Casey | ||
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Betts is a graduate in art of Western Michigan
University and Calvin College. She has been an art consultant for the
Grand Rapids Public Schools and an instructor at Grand Valley State University,
Kendall School of Design and Aquinas College. She has been an artist in
residence for the Franciscan Life Process Center in Lowell, MI, and has
done art in-service workshops for the Kentwood Public Schools. |
Betts' work is in many corporate and personal
collections and has been featured in exhibitions throughout the state
of Michigan. She is associated with the Christians in the Visual Arts,
the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Artists Alliance and the Urban Institute
for Contemporary Art. |
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| Connie Kuhnle | ||
 Connie's work |
Connie Kuhnle, of Rockford, Michigan, studied at Michigan State University and Kendall College of Art and Design focusing on the Fine Arts and Illustration. In the 1996 Annual Art Competition "The Artist's Magazine" named Connie Finalist in the Landscapes category. Her art work has appeared in the Midwest Pastel Society National Exhibition in Chicago and her paintings were also publised in the book The Best of Pastel Painting. | Connie works from sketches, photographs and life. You could find her driving the Michigan countryside using her attuned eye for content by exploring vantage points, plays on light and the sights and smells you might ordinarily pass by. Her awareness helps create works of pastel which inherently energize the viewer and the space her work inhabits. |
