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Slippery Weasels on the Flatlanders website. See you Saturday, July 14th from 11 am - 3 pm for Weasel Camp!Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-38355581246766270542012-06-10T11:31:00.000-07:002012-06-22T07:34:58.935-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <b>Slippery Weasel Society</b> has landed at Flatlanders Sculpture Supply and Art Galleries in Blissfield, Michigan. <a href="http://www.flatlandersculpture.com/">http://www.flatlandersculpture.com/</a> The gallery show will be up through September 8th, 2012. We'll be doing a Weasel Camp on Saturday, July 14th, 11 am - 3 pm. If you find yourself in the Adrian/Blissfield/Toledo area, take a minute to stop by and see the show and give a little love to Ken Thompson and his Flat people. They're the busiest sculpture installers we've ever seen. Thank you, Ken Thompson, for the use of your hideout during our sojourn among your people.<br />
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know this but the Slippery Weasel Society originated from a band of renegade
Boy Scouts from Lucas County, Ohio. The elusive Slippery Weasel badge,
involving one-handed neckerchief tying, is still one of the most coveted merit
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-56655710621019967262011-12-20T08:43:00.000-08:002011-12-20T08:44:39.297-08:00Detroit News Review<a href="http://detroitnews.com/article/20111215/ENT01/112150317/1033/-Off-Walls-Seven-exhibits-offbeat-spirited">http://detroitnews.com/article/20111215/ENT01/112150317/1033/-Off-Walls-Seven-exhibits-offbeat-spirited</a><br /><br />Many thanks to Michael Hodges for his review of the Slippery Weasel Society: Seven exhibit at the Cass Cafe, in the Detroit News.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-27156432281334686432011-12-02T06:50:00.000-08:002011-12-02T06:58:40.159-08:00Pork & Mead ReviewThe intrepid Jimmy Doom, a born weasel if ever I met one, weaseled his way into writing a Slippery Weasel story for newish hipster mag Pork & Mead. They only had to pay him seven bucks. As soon as I have Jimmy's permission, I'm going to post the letter he wrote in response to Pork & Mead's Craigslist ad seeking writers to work for free.<br /><br />Click your way through to Page 45 for the Slippery Weasel story. There's also a nice spread on Glen Barr, and some interesting looking reviews of other artists' works that I'll look at when I'm through gazing at my own name. I'll even make a sincere effort to stop referring to this publication as Pork & Beans, though I can't make any promises.<br /><br />I don't know about you, but I think this is worth at least seven bucks. Thanks, Doom. You're a gentleman and a scholar. Hee.<br /><br /><a href="http://porkandmead.com/november-issue">http://porkandmead.com/november-issue</a>Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-15507513580898955672011-11-05T07:17:00.000-07:002011-11-05T07:18:33.381-07:00Weasel at SmallOur heartfelt congratulations to Graem Whyte and Faina Lerman on the birth of Isadora Lyuba Whyte. Hotcha.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-19831871948237723522011-11-04T08:49:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:51:01.095-07:00Weasels in the News<a href="http://detroit.metromix.com/events/article/slippery-weasel-at-cass/2901173/content">http://detroit.metromix.com/events/article/slippery-weasel-at-cass/2901173/content</a><br /><br />Robert del Valle did a lovely write up on our exhibit for Metromix Detroit. Thank you, Mr. del Valle. You are too kind.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-85360762394816848332011-11-02T13:22:00.000-07:002011-11-02T13:48:52.543-07:00Weasels at LargeSeveral distinguished members of the Slippery Weasel Society appear to have met with a gruesome fate of unknown origin. Either that, or they've gone underground, preferring to putter in their dens, inscribing tortured manifestos upon the raw lumber walls rather than reveal their latest Projects to their adoring fans. Perhaps they have come to believe they are too good to associate in public with their Weasel brethren. Could this be a splinter group of some kind, a faction preparing to bail on their brothers and strike out on their own? No matter. We shall spit bile upon the ground as we curse their names, even as we toast their memories with strong liquor and pine deep in our scurvy hearts for their company and, dare I say it, their approval.<br /><br />Among the missing:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYl4yVsoIYS_m6AI8oFNVVNm6hZpoGMohXzfOW06J7cVQgIIayHKrIjMpB8k6rxr2i9NEcffVSRVpXwdeJVtuY9yDXh9HGLMHtejhQL-NwNZLSdWAH0nyDpZnLVzfOCUAPRkI5ml6Dc9M/s1600/ninja-weasel_455352a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYl4yVsoIYS_m6AI8oFNVVNm6hZpoGMohXzfOW06J7cVQgIIayHKrIjMpB8k6rxr2i9NEcffVSRVpXwdeJVtuY9yDXh9HGLMHtejhQL-NwNZLSdWAH0nyDpZnLVzfOCUAPRkI5ml6Dc9M/s320/ninja-weasel_455352a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670499478831930082" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Todd Erickson<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJ-X1Pog873MmSC1w-dSoRCK1wlG_tekVGN06pJm4wjH4cfD0mFIwoYCN4SV-bgMZEgNTydgyG5nDMYwBCaqTtvWSl_haiVCLcEuxpQWy3Gnixl5uleo9N7REGnIWGfhxEkcubJ2353eg/s1600/beer-stealing-weasel.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; 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height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBC7eJAiaR0yUx2qTsQBZm1-gBsQT22ILNjuTiHEKBq7mJo4JSZJQSSNd3SGmR7tvw3i95PAxbjVQImx0T8AcRIQ1DVqMHFCGpFOAyh0RlcqFV6GlOw9Hkk2M9YsoNN6mXGXeth0XHxDQc/s320/long_tailed_weasel.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670500610526771058" /></a><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Graem Whyte</div>Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-30565493056588459742011-11-02T13:18:00.001-07:002011-11-02T13:21:36.615-07:00Recent Updates<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi6TwqgWXkhTmKEZ_jy8adqZPyconEP2-caFeNS6nrwx96b5-4F8nvujjdj-t65VEx2cdWAk4SxOCMh504_XiBnCv63Qey3Uta98DS8TCLRaR6kByU4Oea3Hjzm3_Bgnu6jXk5o6_rs7oV/s1600/The_bat_and_The_Weasels.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi6TwqgWXkhTmKEZ_jy8adqZPyconEP2-caFeNS6nrwx96b5-4F8nvujjdj-t65VEx2cdWAk4SxOCMh504_XiBnCv63Qey3Uta98DS8TCLRaR6kByU4Oea3Hjzm3_Bgnu6jXk5o6_rs7oV/s320/The_bat_and_The_Weasels.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670496146117380274" /></a><br /><br /><br />Recent updates regarding the Slippery Weasel Society are sketchy at best. The minutes from the last meeting, furiously scribbled on telephone book pages, are blowing around the Sonoran Desert even as we speak. The fear is that a peyote fueled vision of an apocalyptic nature is to blame. We are still waiting for the report from the toxicologist. Thank you for your continued interest in the Slippery Weasel Society. Sapiri!Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-263045283472878872011-11-02T13:11:00.000-07:002011-11-02T13:17:43.047-07:00Contrary to Popular Belief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionrCfcWeikdRwP375UbN5CHCpaVb0Q2f2EQFd9aXSbaRJD7g7LOE8Tx4fpdDdQyIGetsJGANjzbkNiA4KGuB-muhYATcaIAdOfWnmtkuh3ePdRgFVSfulBYrHb4nDIfkj9TEKXg5-7TuB/s1600/three-weasels-coloring-page.gif.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionrCfcWeikdRwP375UbN5CHCpaVb0Q2f2EQFd9aXSbaRJD7g7LOE8Tx4fpdDdQyIGetsJGANjzbkNiA4KGuB-muhYATcaIAdOfWnmtkuh3ePdRgFVSfulBYrHb4nDIfkj9TEKXg5-7TuB/s320/three-weasels-coloring-page.gif.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670495104550005218" /></a><br /><br /><br />Contrary to popular belief, slippery weasel is an old circus term. The "slippery weasel" was the first clown to go into Cole's tiny car and the last to get out. Behind the grease paint, the rubber nose and the squirty flower beats the heart of a warrior. In the tradition of the zanni of Commedia dell'Arte, the slippery weasel carries on the tradition of the noble fool, entertaining for the edification of the audience. So the next time you see a slippery weasel, be sure to say, "Thank you, you clown."Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-69515023755758877592011-11-01T10:09:00.000-07:002011-11-01T10:12:42.130-07:00Artist's Statement - Matthew Hanna<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytqdV_kpOpVElxlD7QKsThYXusrAUX9OF7lHRty7SUeUb_vNZPq_h79wMwVZEVswaCMoJca7hVlsiKltWnvQYhdEgG3_x7JyHOjZw70stkSlKJq3vYFyB1D-l77cfcGik7CH7nhFssLge/s1600/305271_10150511166753102_553808101_11462105_2071660676_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytqdV_kpOpVElxlD7QKsThYXusrAUX9OF7lHRty7SUeUb_vNZPq_h79wMwVZEVswaCMoJca7hVlsiKltWnvQYhdEgG3_x7JyHOjZw70stkSlKJq3vYFyB1D-l77cfcGik7CH7nhFssLge/s320/305271_10150511166753102_553808101_11462105_2071660676_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670076415312538322" /></a><br />Matthew Hanna<br />Journal 50, 1998-2011<br /><br /> I make art the way some people devour books; it is a self educating process both as a person and as a practicing artist. Paintings are my “words,” the best way I know how to communicate with others about myself, what I understand of the world we share and the things I’ve experienced in my life. This exploration has continued over two decades, learning new methods and techniques, sifting through the detritus, the everyday images and information-saturated world; considering simple, ordinary things that fill everyday life. As the work is refined and re-defined over the years, with images traveling back and forth over time and between media, I’ve found that art is the best way to express one self, especially when images seem to say what words I can’t. <br /><br /> The content of my work is additive. It unfolds gradually, revealing visual puns and symbols. The paintings are loaded with images that are potent in meaning, often to the point of inspiring a poetic interpretation. Driven by history, faith and fantasy, what engages me is a spiritual devotion to the ritual of art making itself; pounding images into the surface with common tools and vernacular materials. Working repetitively until the material and process become the content which records a dense diagram of layered pictorial references, a visual history that is meant to be can be navigated at different levels of engagement. By creating such ever expanding visual journals, I pay tribute to folklore demigods, world book heroes and personal histories that have touched my own life and, I hope, will translate and speak to the viewer’s experience. By appropriating and adopting elements from the prevalent images of modern culture I am also critiquing and exploring a path of learning about what makes up our culture; the everyday pieces that shape our lives and our thinking. In other words, the small things that defines us.<br /><br /> My influences are grounded in, but not limited to, the tradition initiated in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, an aesthetic fueled by an elevated level of seriousness and experimentation that created Detroit’s first true avant-garde. Taken to another level the work is evidently autobiographical. I am essentially a visual thinker who would rather express myself with images than with words. However, the paintings are not representation but, rather, anchored in realism with an essentially abstract approach. Broken down the paintings are basic studies of color, form and texture in the form of landscapes from my mind’s eye.<br /><br /> The work exhibited here is from a series of mixed media collages started in 1998 and continues today.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-40344717387495680652011-10-21T12:56:00.001-07:002011-10-21T13:17:26.175-07:00Weasel ProjectsBecause that's what weasels do. They make projects.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqvpzSefGIQC0EmUcE8CwfwOuz-TWkIfA40m-vWKqvvxVePtjWuHsdFj4ccDqXYdwKJnGgtpD98WE1sSVdXsroP0Zl4p5TTWDELwmm5VKNpQPg31kTCT6j_zzuX8uaMnQMejWxitUsWGs/s1600/seven+stages+of+anger+3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqvpzSefGIQC0EmUcE8CwfwOuz-TWkIfA40m-vWKqvvxVePtjWuHsdFj4ccDqXYdwKJnGgtpD98WE1sSVdXsroP0Zl4p5TTWDELwmm5VKNpQPg31kTCT6j_zzuX8uaMnQMejWxitUsWGs/s320/seven+stages+of+anger+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666041321221979698" /></a><br /><br />Carl Butler - The Seven Stages of Anger<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhniqV9IZHfmgREAMjlIBZxVr3XEZOWV7lMa6LySIWIwwIv28wcQEkGIL6QQ_jMbhJXJ3CgrHAtuDJ0Myquc9im4w8v6QIVuuQcejgAAAo-ixFaurlD-gpvFhyphenhyphenvunJoxetKCKE3HoxDm2xB/s1600/2011+image+2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhniqV9IZHfmgREAMjlIBZxVr3XEZOWV7lMa6LySIWIwwIv28wcQEkGIL6QQ_jMbhJXJ3CgrHAtuDJ0Myquc9im4w8v6QIVuuQcejgAAAo-ixFaurlD-gpvFhyphenhyphenvunJoxetKCKE3HoxDm2xB/s320/2011+image+2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666041317587022738" /></a><br /><br />Carl Butler - Untitled (Summer 2011)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_jj0TkB5up3h-QjdHhYDjy6BGYdvvZTLofUY-Ter1WomwpBnnAhFSKfRhpadhcRN3lKPckKPbslYxKlDxOtejZ6rjg6cRESV2f5XqNVvxhKXwwj4KLhDKyZqqKWh2R0fNeO0j4x7A-gR/s1600/2011+image+1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_jj0TkB5up3h-QjdHhYDjy6BGYdvvZTLofUY-Ter1WomwpBnnAhFSKfRhpadhcRN3lKPckKPbslYxKlDxOtejZ6rjg6cRESV2f5XqNVvxhKXwwj4KLhDKyZqqKWh2R0fNeO0j4x7A-gR/s320/2011+image+1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666041305995908770" /></a><br /><br />Carl Butler - Untitled (Summer 2011)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAME8kzE8nuFNMxVrOlNgd9Y8UO7CA8vwb6N5AZgiDIk9tdZ8Zt55ovFt8nVutQotz3qum8LMVelaYKq37pkRKUgWBDTXYUE3dz4deHok_e6h6wQiG4Tmnd1y-jRljQrNz2FKij7RoK07w/s1600/summer+2011.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAME8kzE8nuFNMxVrOlNgd9Y8UO7CA8vwb6N5AZgiDIk9tdZ8Zt55ovFt8nVutQotz3qum8LMVelaYKq37pkRKUgWBDTXYUE3dz4deHok_e6h6wQiG4Tmnd1y-jRljQrNz2FKij7RoK07w/s320/summer+2011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666037295381681314" /></a><br /><br /><br />Carl Butler - Untitled (Summer 2011)Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-21882086879058430712011-10-21T12:49:00.001-07:002011-10-21T13:09:02.210-07:00The Truth of the Matter - OriginsThe truth of the matter is that the “slippery weasels” were a rival faction to the notorious Purple Gang that terrorized Detroit during the prohibition era. Rum running characters and wiseacres such as Gus “Curly Top” Skinner, Marty “Pars Fortuna” Brent, and Charlie “Two Chins” Abbelskeevers headed the “vermin ermine” as they were collectively known in the local press. These generals organized a crime wave that was utterly disastrous in terms of crimes committed and subsequent time served for felonies both real and imagined. One singular problem was the insistence on the part of the criminals to use stockings in the execution of their criminal behavior. Hosiery was not put over their heads to thwart identification, but rather worn on their legs to aid with swift and deliberate escape from the scene of the crime (not to mention the intention of making a fashionable exit).<br />The Slippery Weasel Society became a loosely organized collection of gangster groupies; it was a big draw for curious thrill seekers, who were motivated in large part by the societies “clothing optional” Tuesday night meetings. It should be noted that Society members then and now demonstrate a noticeable lack of social propriety when it comes to liquor, improvisational music and anyone with a reasonably charming smile.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4H0BfzU-t1-7SGZLsNOOWJH-00F9zwe4rVxeRTAyzlsOjKq1m0-dG5_SGMKpvWMt28Mupp3WDr74OhyWLdNB8VIkkMSbjQZuqTz4rVELsXwF2aoxFRdU6UhnilyXZUeFPDLSFQIl5ToXX/s1600/purple+gang+hats+pic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4H0BfzU-t1-7SGZLsNOOWJH-00F9zwe4rVxeRTAyzlsOjKq1m0-dG5_SGMKpvWMt28Mupp3WDr74OhyWLdNB8VIkkMSbjQZuqTz4rVELsXwF2aoxFRdU6UhnilyXZUeFPDLSFQIl5ToXX/s320/purple+gang+hats+pic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666035048850817922" /></a><br /><br />A vintage photograph of some original society members.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-6407069830227601102011-10-13T11:47:00.001-07:002011-10-13T12:09:25.345-07:00Slippery Weasel Society - Seven<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_M0lk9yO92JvANkEioVUZUBBmqxg8OX557S2tQx3cj2SHrkL0q5JWSu-NO1rxVfIzPKlo64sth1DTrSui3Uken1PFHKVlVu7MnhwghMvxtIP9N24W5ULei2viw4bV0TYSqLpazT4kuv6/s1600/FINAL+Card+image+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_M0lk9yO92JvANkEioVUZUBBmqxg8OX557S2tQx3cj2SHrkL0q5JWSu-NO1rxVfIzPKlo64sth1DTrSui3Uken1PFHKVlVu7MnhwghMvxtIP9N24W5ULei2viw4bV0TYSqLpazT4kuv6/s320/FINAL+Card+image+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663055868706770642" /></a><br /><br /><br />Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition<br />SEVEN<br />Jeanne Bieri<br />Carl G. Butler<br />Treena Flannery Ericson<br />Mary Fortuna<br />Matthew Hanna<br />Andrew Krieger<br />Faina Lerman<br /><br />Cass Cafe<br />4620 Cass Avenue<br />Detroit MI 48201<br />313-831-1400<br />www.casscafe.com<br /><br />November 5, 2011-January 7, 2012<br /><br />Opening Reception: <br />Saturday, November 5th 7-10pm<br />Music by Ben Teague, Andrew Thompson and Nate Brent <br /><br />The Slippery Weasel Society is preparing to occupy the Cass Cafe. We're moving in with a new gallery show called Seven. Why Seven? Because that's how high we can count. And there are seven of us weasels participating in this show. And that was a pretty good flick that featured some fairly creepy serial killer artwork and some fine performances by the likes of Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey. Not that we're creepy, or serial killers, or Morgan Freeman. We're weasels. And we're slippery. And for this show at least, there are seven of us.<br /><br />You have been warned.<br /><br />p.s. There will be some tasty music provided by Andrew Thompson/He Bops; Nate Brent; and Ben Teague. Again... you have been warned.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-25978336487832687982011-07-16T06:27:00.000-07:002011-07-16T06:30:06.314-07:00Cass Cafe ShowThe Slippery Weasel Society will have a show of their work at <a href="http://www.casscafe.com/">The Cass Cafe</a> November 5, 2011 - January 7, 2012. I can't speak for the rest of the weasels, but I'm working on... a contraption. Thank you, Dave Roberts and Cass Cafe.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-26516036872093447362011-06-19T14:18:00.001-07:002011-06-19T14:25:54.249-07:00Friends of the WeaselsHere's a shout out to some Friends of the Weasels who have provided support and sustenance in the form of musical interludes at some of our events.<br /><br /><a href="http://benjaminteague.com/">Benjamin Teague</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thedetroiter.com/v3/2010/06/andrew-thompson/">Andrew Thompson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/tonearm">Nate Brent</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuQATLARkc">Space Band</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BujRiU6qDPA">Mick Vranich and K-9</a>Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-38827803052581967462011-06-19T13:33:00.000-07:002011-06-19T14:43:04.292-07:00A History of the Slippery Weasel Society<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UBspNxGY4x_4Y2oF0zoOXeSRmfLUjVtQvxI2rZ0_Descri6NdaFFkADVrJ2T7g_Fh5lJs1VqXtyX1UiGnMQVsyStbFUR94MBtTYJfVc7XGpNAqpcDPtK8WUK91JUKK0iTEihwX5DVrPm/s1600/for+jack+white.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UBspNxGY4x_4Y2oF0zoOXeSRmfLUjVtQvxI2rZ0_Descri6NdaFFkADVrJ2T7g_Fh5lJs1VqXtyX1UiGnMQVsyStbFUR94MBtTYJfVc7XGpNAqpcDPtK8WUK91JUKK0iTEihwX5DVrPm/s320/for+jack+white.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620032437365357794" /></a><br /><br />Though the origins of this secretive fraternal organization are shrouded in mystery, its antecedents can be found in several Native American Medicine Societies of certain Great Lakes tribes. The first mention of the society can be found in H.R. Schoolcraft’s “Algic Researches” of 1839, where in Pauppukeewiss, a “crazy brain”, likens the slippery weasels in his lodge to a “sack of fish” and wishes them good luck in surviving the harsh winter. (La Poudre, Historical and Statistical Information Respecting...the Indian Tribes of the United States. Mentor L. Williams, Editor.) <br /><br />The society not only managed to survive, but thrived. During the war years it claimed the largest number of furniture movers among its ranks of any other civic organization of its kind in North America. Though interest waned at times, the society has enjoyed something of a renaissance during the ferret boom of the mid 1990’s. Today Slippery Weasels are everywhere. Membership is up, and council meetings are more egalitarian. Due to multiple lawsuits in the early part of this decade the Society has been forced to open its doors to women, dancing bears, and the Irish.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-66356657546237841382011-06-19T13:32:00.000-07:002011-06-19T13:33:18.029-07:00Tale of the Weasel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKexRAMCiBHrKk5H6FriI12PE59G9v4yUd4059uB-JDCUSifDY_jwgqSEpdRTmiIaQpWH9APM-azBXZKvee8DtNZwbEyfZGNnZ_gm58xYsfpfLfVg0HyPXU6i8Qh_CqbTCDQgpIhpZ6f4/s1600/Knot_Weasel.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKexRAMCiBHrKk5H6FriI12PE59G9v4yUd4059uB-JDCUSifDY_jwgqSEpdRTmiIaQpWH9APM-azBXZKvee8DtNZwbEyfZGNnZ_gm58xYsfpfLfVg0HyPXU6i8Qh_CqbTCDQgpIhpZ6f4/s320/Knot_Weasel.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620031671430233458" /></a><br /><br /><br />A Weasel Tale by Alison Wong<br /><br />I once heard an old folklore about one particular slippery weasel that mysteriously went missing and was never to be seen again. <br />It was in a spooky old building way out east. The weasel was minding his own business, just trying to set up camp. Just as he was getting the lay of the land, he got too curious and went a little too far.<br />All of a sudden… VOOOM!<br />He fell hundreds of feet down a tiny black hole. He tried desperately to find his way out, wiggling, squirming, and rolling all over through the narrow, dusty and cobweb ridden spaces. The poor weasel tried for many days and nights to get out. The rest of the weasels stayed at that camp for about a month, hoping and praying the little one would find his way back until the pack had no choice but to pack up and leave.<br />We suspect that little weasel wiggled himself to death. He sacrificed his life but the rest of the weasels lived happily at camp for one long beautiful month.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-46928168320990435412011-06-19T13:21:00.001-07:002011-06-19T13:32:14.820-07:00Weasel Mating Dance<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfXqRmfyJNfwuYwuC92ZQBww_vYnGOUKkeCDMqe5gAaHUY5VeBaP1FqXOLN86C8KwqTmOD-YvFn3leYihSK-HCv79lkfJuVmwEQYupjADNs6NyfsRqJm4qCbaoa58RD2Qi3gZdUEXarvo/s1600/slippery+weasel+5.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfXqRmfyJNfwuYwuC92ZQBww_vYnGOUKkeCDMqe5gAaHUY5VeBaP1FqXOLN86C8KwqTmOD-YvFn3leYihSK-HCv79lkfJuVmwEQYupjADNs6NyfsRqJm4qCbaoa58RD2Qi3gZdUEXarvo/s320/slippery+weasel+5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620030652847846306" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIchLlsH5ULD4NVHkQjRkR_8gfdbYmTaIHRInPWNtskkePGn75yy0KlehBLtE9DALGRJn6UTHXHcLdRigml46uwF6820dX4mQCmvNlqLrDF92CqxILB_FuV6SDQNGEiwwCLHdyOr1MB0wo/s1600/slippery+weasel+1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIchLlsH5ULD4NVHkQjRkR_8gfdbYmTaIHRInPWNtskkePGn75yy0KlehBLtE9DALGRJn6UTHXHcLdRigml46uwF6820dX4mQCmvNlqLrDF92CqxILB_FuV6SDQNGEiwwCLHdyOr1MB0wo/s320/slippery+weasel+1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620029930881936034" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYw041-4cLa9f6O4YRJ3UGzpKLtdT1imy6Z8Gl7_7lQlZ8AJoQAEsd1NtWRqjTPPyGMyPIySSEWQbMgIemyuwINjazp3KQnOtCafv-s3V6k87Cs8uOXGPGSGNBKnJgrOeyyCCGtDhxh7le/s1600/slippery+weasel+3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYw041-4cLa9f6O4YRJ3UGzpKLtdT1imy6Z8Gl7_7lQlZ8AJoQAEsd1NtWRqjTPPyGMyPIySSEWQbMgIemyuwINjazp3KQnOtCafv-s3V6k87Cs8uOXGPGSGNBKnJgrOeyyCCGtDhxh7le/s320/slippery+weasel+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620029927696138354" /></a><br /><br />Weasel Mating Dance<br /><br />Weaselographer Mary Fortuna recently captured extremely rare footage of a solitary weasel engaged in the rarely seen Slippery Weasel Mating Dance. This elaborate ritual is most often performed under the full moon in May, by both male and female lone weasels1 longing for a mate. It is thought that secretions from a musk gland beneath the tail are deposited on the ground during the execution of the dance, in hopes of attracting a weasel of the opposite sex. Slippery Weasels are notoriously difficult to live with, and generally copulate briefly if ferociously before biting one another behind the ears and going on about their solitary business. In the photos above, note the subtle cock of the head and the open position of the forearms. The weasel maintains this posture while moving slowly – almost imperceptibly – around in the circle. Time elapsed in the above photos, in which the subject advanced from Position A to Position C, is approximately 7 hours 13 minutes. <br /> <br />1. Lone Weasel – see Oswald, Lee HarveyFortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-54248543005199925012011-06-19T12:38:00.000-07:002011-06-19T12:50:43.549-07:00Jeanne Bieri<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNt9oH7d9GgldpOaa4edW_w_zXcRjre1m-mgQ1hUjFTcSHYZKMcwjb_Cqvy1IqRJrpvOz0K4VwUd0_cidFRb5c6ttdq4igFetk1bTd84lkOF9k9sjcD_glkMpUXuQrmo09W0npp1br8wM/s1600/jeanne+bieri+2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNt9oH7d9GgldpOaa4edW_w_zXcRjre1m-mgQ1hUjFTcSHYZKMcwjb_Cqvy1IqRJrpvOz0K4VwUd0_cidFRb5c6ttdq4igFetk1bTd84lkOF9k9sjcD_glkMpUXuQrmo09W0npp1br8wM/s320/jeanne+bieri+2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620020702947505906" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxC9SfX0IcZ1ZDm4QAzSmpAECQUVMtXVpz5NVFw_IqYgsGlvqzcC5dDzcUMQ3eqD0blLFy-6ruPtQ7mDuY0dYPhjS9iI7s2dzGujnd8LWMlK6FCrR4HicIMDXYSJkYg01U9yZGBEeDt2u/s1600/scratch.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 82px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxC9SfX0IcZ1ZDm4QAzSmpAECQUVMtXVpz5NVFw_IqYgsGlvqzcC5dDzcUMQ3eqD0blLFy-6ruPtQ7mDuY0dYPhjS9iI7s2dzGujnd8LWMlK6FCrR4HicIMDXYSJkYg01U9yZGBEeDt2u/s320/scratch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620020695736247298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEroRo-HGlpfZWX3trhfQhw47_kYz-Yp2TDlSy_FJCAqO78JX0Xw2A6rrnjmqeZOhf7jKBgM_jrtW6RlmMNOVBqoSb3Vb7EBqE2Bf14Sr1x-gqU5EJohWMz7H11IWxxefkjufRqeOUhoU/s1600/scapegoat.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 64px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEroRo-HGlpfZWX3trhfQhw47_kYz-Yp2TDlSy_FJCAqO78JX0Xw2A6rrnjmqeZOhf7jKBgM_jrtW6RlmMNOVBqoSb3Vb7EBqE2Bf14Sr1x-gqU5EJohWMz7H11IWxxefkjufRqeOUhoU/s320/scapegoat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620020676305027026" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgQ6MbvXoAp_vuNO5tf6UpLQzX5yHqyMyKag0_NKJsUp-e8JN0cxcWnluO6ivDzHIczhKMJmYtWw82g3fxam_fEfxpK21OP60BIOAe_dBnKVHZYxotK19rklgzqNXAGXCxYU4Eiu6w2Bm/s1600/Untitled1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBgQ6MbvXoAp_vuNO5tf6UpLQzX5yHqyMyKag0_NKJsUp-e8JN0cxcWnluO6ivDzHIczhKMJmYtWw82g3fxam_fEfxpK21OP60BIOAe_dBnKVHZYxotK19rklgzqNXAGXCxYU4Eiu6w2Bm/s320/Untitled1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620020676894490658" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.jeannebieri.com/">Jeanne Bieri</a><br />jeannebieri@biericompany.com<br /><br />Education<br />1993 Master of Fine Art, Painting Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan<br />1971 Bachelor of Science Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan<br /><br />Past Employment<br />1995-2005 - Adjunct Professor, Painting, Drawing University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan<br />Adjunct Professor, Painting - Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan - Design - Henry Ford Community College, <br />1986 Present - Maintained a studio<br /><br />Professional Contributions<br />Board of Visitors - Wayne State University<br />M.A.C. - Committee Member <br />Slippery Weasel Society<br /><br />Awards<br />2000 Creative Artists Grant Recipient - Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs <br />Ewald Library Installation, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan (Juried, Permanent) Grosse Pointe Artists Annual Exhibition (Best of Show, twice) Grosse Pointe, Mi.<br />Gold Medal Award, Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan - 2007 <br /><br />One Person Exhibitions<br /> Affirmations Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan - 2009<br /> University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe, Michigan - 2008 <br /> Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan - 2006<br /> Solo Exhibition, Port Huron Museum, Port Huron, Michigan - 2000<br /> University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Kansas - 1998<br />2 Person Exhibitions<br /> Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan<br /> Sisson Gallery, HFCC, Dearborn, Michigan<br /> Mask Gallery, Hamtramck, Michigan <br /><br />Selected Group Exhibitions<br />University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio<br />Harvest Gold - Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan <br />Anton Center for the Arts, Mt. Clemens, Michigan <br />Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham, Michigan <br /> Issues of Containment, Downriver Council for the Arts, Taylor, Michigan <br />On, In, Up, Of - Four Installations, A.C.,T. Gallery, Detroit, Michigan <br />Creative Artists Grant Exhibition, Padzieski Art Gallery, Dearborn,Mi<br /> Plaiedes Gallery, New York, New York (juried)<br /> Fourteenth Annual Michigan Biennial - Kresge Museum, Lansing, Michigan <br /> By a Thread - Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan<br /> Undefining Painting Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan<br /> Detroit - Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois<br /> <br />Publications:<br />Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Ann Arbor, Lansing Journal, Kansas City Star, Real Detroit, Detroit Home, Grosse Pointe News, Hastings Banner, Barry County Reminder, Port Huron News<br /><br />Collections<br />Pfizer Corporation , State of Michigan, Museum of New Art, Gyro Design, Grosse Pointe Park Fouindation, Rose DeSloover, Jack White, Robert Bielat, Skip Davis, Judith Solomon , Kenneth Dzubia, Louis Redstone Collection, Richard Rollins, Christine Biegas, Christine Hagedorn, William Zeising, Christine Zantop, Peter Williams, Dan Haddad, Jim Lucky<br /> <br /><br />Art-making is visual problem solving. Its language is image and material. The materials are finite, the solutions infinite. The process juggles a finite set of materials with an infinite assortment of solutions in reaching a plausible conclusion. Relationships are the focus of this process and time figures prominently because the process centers on time-based seeing. <br /><br />Art making asks, how do you take the mundane and create a truth? How do you create this truth over space, distance and time? It records a series of visions, one overlaying the other to depict a particular truth. How do you sift the visual through personality, style and perception? And finally, communication, how do you tap the viewer to become engaged? <br /><br />The particular truth, that is my truth, is grounded in my experience and personality. It is a document of my response to a particular experience. The problem posed is framed and explained by the art-making and through the interaction of material, experience past and experience present, the finished work documents the journey. Its authenticity is based on my fidelity to those experiences along the way. Truthfulness is the essential. <br /><br />Art making studies the here and now and at the same time taps into history. It takes multiple dimensions and condenses them into their most essential elements. My interest is in discovering a story that although unfamiliar engages me. The final work reflects this meditative journey of discovery and combines the real with the intuitive; it mixes the realities of the world with the intuitive suggested by reality. The problem tackled is how are these elements recorded and all but the essentials eliminated?<br /><br />Art making is a task that recognizes conscious insights that tap the intuitive sub layer of my experience and weaves a composite of visual information that asks the viewer to become engaged with my particular point of view. It is my vision presented to the viewer, with just enough information to engage them, to give nod to their own set of observations drawn on their set of experiences. <br /><br />It is visual problem solving that prioritizes relationship formed by experience, memory and intuition. The art work is bracketed by technical skill and reflects the decisions made to create a visual diary.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-82977851576607173302011-06-19T12:34:00.000-07:002011-06-19T13:15:14.148-07:00Carl Butler<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYaveJpDR1g2cguYt4WeFJIt7rwQXp6OwOJTWUVWlr4L1D4b-e2_GqXZ8UsN3z5se4xoHglNB6XVrOZxsbgw4n991hz12MJiA4wDOGRwzRY6gLtch3k7V8rcOrH4cKYPz_JXgnY5HL8rbc/s1600/Carl+Butler+Monkey+Mask.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYaveJpDR1g2cguYt4WeFJIt7rwQXp6OwOJTWUVWlr4L1D4b-e2_GqXZ8UsN3z5se4xoHglNB6XVrOZxsbgw4n991hz12MJiA4wDOGRwzRY6gLtch3k7V8rcOrH4cKYPz_JXgnY5HL8rbc/s320/Carl+Butler+Monkey+Mask.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620017437025354690" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0_ENbLNlOCfassjYgeU8eNLoChuX17EWR0Wzxce15EgSIdm2InGvxdwrzqgKdlahLzRnUolsAd5YIXDEHizDQqk54SeDHcJwaMC-e4rsUO2Byk5o5_xfGhy5cUjXCjQR3o-q1TdOOs37/s1600/Carl+Butler+mask.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0_ENbLNlOCfassjYgeU8eNLoChuX17EWR0Wzxce15EgSIdm2InGvxdwrzqgKdlahLzRnUolsAd5YIXDEHizDQqk54SeDHcJwaMC-e4rsUO2Byk5o5_xfGhy5cUjXCjQR3o-q1TdOOs37/s320/Carl+Butler+mask.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620017431887554818" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHe8XGsId2g40UMIv1_uvHPRroxxtupBKlUTDybFZnks_7FfpzTsL-hT1YovE2hc_JeWj47-yxSKL4wTIfRzopJnO3nMkmOjRAdknlMwSutDwxaeNqEApm-YIl56Uz2jHW00A9QB0UV_x/s1600/carl+butler+southern+fried+soul+dixie.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHe8XGsId2g40UMIv1_uvHPRroxxtupBKlUTDybFZnks_7FfpzTsL-hT1YovE2hc_JeWj47-yxSKL4wTIfRzopJnO3nMkmOjRAdknlMwSutDwxaeNqEApm-YIl56Uz2jHW00A9QB0UV_x/s320/carl+butler+southern+fried+soul+dixie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620017429811874002" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0kdUom5_g4y7AlJ_Xx2odXKigVMN0n4yO8RUP_UNewQ-85eJsAclvoA6NFlxaM5eR86biEZtyDEsnqIAo9330-L3qyuj4P9t0FsubVo9xy8527CESchZqOMsTGLM27qMsL6E_mYyygbc/s1600/carl+butler+wall+of+paintings.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0kdUom5_g4y7AlJ_Xx2odXKigVMN0n4yO8RUP_UNewQ-85eJsAclvoA6NFlxaM5eR86biEZtyDEsnqIAo9330-L3qyuj4P9t0FsubVo9xy8527CESchZqOMsTGLM27qMsL6E_mYyygbc/s320/carl+butler+wall+of+paintings.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620017421976956354" /></a><br /><br /><br />The body of work in this exhibit is the culmination of days and nights spent on the journey. The geography of the land, the corners of the mind, and the vagaries of the human heart are my source material. Just follow the signs and you’ll get to where you’re going.<br /><br />“Painting is like making love to a Frenchman, too much technique and you make a bore of it.”<br /><br />Carl Butler<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://utnews.utoledo.edu/publish/Arts_13/See_works_by_artists_from_Slippery_Weasel_Society_2888.shtml">Carl G. Butler</a><br />313-886-6542<br />e-mail: cgpb2003@yahoo.com<br /><br />Education <br /><br />Wayne State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts<br /><br />Exhibitions<br /><br />Detroit Sampler Nick Cindric Contemporary Ft Lauderdale, FL (2003)<br />Actual Size Detroit Contemporary Gallery Detroit, MI (2001) <br />Heat: Butler, Lucero and Ohara Grey Gallery Detroit, MI (2001)<br />Independence Show Om Café Ferndale, MI (2001)<br />Birds and Water Alley Culture Detroit, MI (2001)<br />Paintings and Drawings, Solo exhibition <br />University Liggett School Grosse Pointe Woods, MI (2000)<br />Canvas: Ann Mikolowski memorial show Alley Culture. Detroit, MI (2000)<br />Junior League of Detroit: Designers Show House Grosse Pointe Park, MI (1998).<br />Honor the Earth Biennial Willis Gallery Detroit, MI (1995).<br />Black and White Biegas Gallery Detroit, MI (1995).<br />Face to Face - Vis a Vis Detroit Focus Gallery Detroit, MI (1995).<br />Lost in Nebraska Hanna and Butler Mask Gallery Hamtramck, MI (1994).<br />Once upon a time...Happily ever after Benefit for the Michigan Opera <br />Theater, Galeria Officentre Southfield, MI (1994)<br />Creating the Temple of the Goddess Argo Gallery Detroit, MI (1994)<br />K.A.C.A. Argo Gallery Detroit, MI (1994)<br />Ofrenda Butler and Butler de Alvarado Willis Gallery Detroit, MI (1993)<br />Whitney Garden Art Party Whitney Restaurant Detroit, MI (1992)<br />Buy Art Willis Gallery Detroit, MI (1992)<br />Solo Exhibition Urban Park Gallery, Trappers Alley Detroit, MI (1992)<br />XIII International Art Invitational Swords into Plowshares Gallery <br />Detroit, MI (1991)<br />Butler, Breneau, and Moore-White Union Street Gallery Detroit, MI (1990)<br />All Media Exhibit Detroit Artist Market Detroit, MI (1989)<br />Student Exhibitions Wayne State University Detroit, MI (1987-90)<br />Drawing Exhibit Marygrove College Detroit, MI (1985)Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-46089769601667613412011-06-19T12:18:00.000-07:002011-06-19T12:32:29.448-07:00Todd Erickson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE9iY8o-L6nC8kH2Ofkx6y3b0ewn6rh10oHPxczT_ySHXAKNiYnnXKpdeSP3FsRJOF5spMATyXTIY9llHNgBqND_oKoBJ51xz0_XNXzfiAhtysTOYgueaYBEWuhfLYyRsSAWm6os2Oq36Z/s1600/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+067.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE9iY8o-L6nC8kH2Ofkx6y3b0ewn6rh10oHPxczT_ySHXAKNiYnnXKpdeSP3FsRJOF5spMATyXTIY9llHNgBqND_oKoBJ51xz0_XNXzfiAhtysTOYgueaYBEWuhfLYyRsSAWm6os2Oq36Z/s320/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+067.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620015982170512114" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZvGWZrdy6x5liYsU4m1YFHhlxbDOoZ7OkRBwjjChjh5nJiCqWAi_VJqZQKv2UX5BnBJX8oRGhi_TK-p0uC0Cgecxbyc2Ls47zsdMp9aPXITa8PxGw_h_CfW0n9kbnFh0PYfIvQ_90ACy/s1600/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+070.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZvGWZrdy6x5liYsU4m1YFHhlxbDOoZ7OkRBwjjChjh5nJiCqWAi_VJqZQKv2UX5BnBJX8oRGhi_TK-p0uC0Cgecxbyc2Ls47zsdMp9aPXITa8PxGw_h_CfW0n9kbnFh0PYfIvQ_90ACy/s320/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+070.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620015977521996434" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwT7pXVX0YDNr8rGSDhcQDzvGIJjY4U0eX6CjpWimX4Ih1v3c3j64mBIykdhUTxEC3FvQRdRqhjD9cg54YgxVsQZ4UjYvDFxvhg7j6non0IniiIEKcibqHzs1oJue9XaCEBFRXbZgMoBT/s1600/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+071.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwT7pXVX0YDNr8rGSDhcQDzvGIJjY4U0eX6CjpWimX4Ih1v3c3j64mBIykdhUTxEC3FvQRdRqhjD9cg54YgxVsQZ4UjYvDFxvhg7j6non0IniiIEKcibqHzs1oJue9XaCEBFRXbZgMoBT/s320/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+071.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620015971533129522" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-WZ30k9mOtmq5Fb_16dSuPmvcY7whXvdcjNpOiIHyIxpxjMgdPDZDc7TpSHjMM0XO9pcYUSRu1eEiUvyi0vhaXb-5etIpm2ssI5fqvgu_A74f1_J-aYaaxLHYE9Ea4btGE-SV_SepXpta/s1600/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+072.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-WZ30k9mOtmq5Fb_16dSuPmvcY7whXvdcjNpOiIHyIxpxjMgdPDZDc7TpSHjMM0XO9pcYUSRu1eEiUvyi0vhaXb-5etIpm2ssI5fqvgu_A74f1_J-aYaaxLHYE9Ea4btGE-SV_SepXpta/s320/Todd+Erickson+%252707+%252708+sculptures+072.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620015964919073906" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.robertkiddgallery.com/">Todd Erickson</a><br /><br />Todd Erickson<br />32218 Hull Ave.<br />Farmington Hills. MI 48336<br />248.471-0472<br /><br />Todd Erickson received his undergraduate degree from Hope College and his Masters of Fine Art at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been making and exhibiting his sculpture for over 25 years and has been an employee of the College for Creative Studies since 1983. During his tenure at CCS, Todd has taught in the Sculpture Section of the Fine Arts Department, managed the college shops and has held positions as Director of Academic Facilities, Assistant Dean and currently Director of Exhibit Services.<br /><br />His career has included guest teaching, consulting, commission work and exhibiting. Erickson’s work is cast and fabricated in bronze, iron, aluminum, steel, stone, wood and glass. His work delves into issues regarding the self, faith, shelter and personal history.<br /><br />EDUCATION<br /> 1984-1986 Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Cranbrook Academy of Art – Bloomfield Hills, MI<br /><br /> 1977-1981 Bachelor of Arts (Biology, Art), Hope College – Holland, MI<br /><br />EMPLOYMENT<br /> 2004- Director of Exhibit Services, College for Creative Studies <br /> Responsibilities:<br />Coordination and implementation of a broad range of exhibitions staged both on and off campus<br />Creating and maintaining permanent collection exhibition<br />Initiating and implementing a permanent student exhibition<br />Special projects liaison to galleries and museums<br /><br /> Key Accomplishments:<br />Project Managing preliminary design phase for the CCS exhibit at the 2005 Detroit North American International Auto Show<br />Assimilation of exhibits and art collections currently prepared and housed in departmental and administrative centers<br /><br /><br /> 2000 -2004 Assistant Dean, College for Creative Studies <br /> Responsibilities:<br />Preparation of gallery spaces and hanging of 3600 pieces of student artwork annually<br />Health & safety program, maintaining MSDS Library and Student Competency Program in college shops<br />MIOSHA Compliance Program Liaison and on-campus Safety Inspector<br />Curriculum inventory for internal use and NCA/NASAD accrediting organizations<br />Research, quotes and contracts for capital allocations of equipment, machinery, audio visual, carpet, furniture and remodeling<br />Supervisor of College Shops including Wood Shop, Metal Shop and Foundry.<br /><br /> Key Accomplishments:<br />Reconfiguring and remodeling educational spaces to increase space utilization by 30%<br />Relocating college departments into new facilities to accommodate new technologies<br />Directed fabrication of large-scale steel bridge, educational and studio components for a program called “Connections,” with High School students from Detroit and Windsor for the celebration of the Detroit’s 300th anniversary<br />Designed, produced and operated mobile exhibits and functioning studios for Eye on Design Toledo Art Museum and the NASSA annual meeting in Detroit, MI.<br />Project Managing of CCS exhibit at the 2004 Detroit North American International Auto Show<br /><br /> Authored:<br />“Campus Occupancy Analysis” – Statistical and quantitave analyis of space usage in Walter B Ford II building<br />Portions of “Health and Safety Manual” for United Educators, an insurance company specializing in colleges and universities.<br /><br /> 1998 - 2000 Director of Academic Facilities, <br />Center for Creative Studies-College of Art and Design<br /> Responsibilities:<br />Manage educational facility<br />Oversight of renovations including creation of library, galleries, computer labs, studios and shops<br /><br /> Key Accomplishments:<br />Implemented safety protocol and competency training in all shops and curriculums<br />Assisted in programming 100,000 sq. ft. art and technology building, helping create classrooms, offices, studios, labs and shops for students studying design and animation<br />Assisted in implementation of solvent and hazardous waste recycling program<br />Led health and safety audit of classrooms, offices, studios, labs and shops<br />Assisted in upgrading 25-year-old facility including: HVAC, data and communication cabling, acoustics, lighting, floor, wall and window treatments, furniture and audiovisual equipment<br /><br />1996 - 1998 Director of Metal Shop and Foundry Operations,<br />Center for Creative Studies-College of Art and Design<br />Implemented and managed new equipment and processes to improve student learning and health and safety.<br />Ceramic Shell Casting<br />Sand Casting, TIG and MIG welding<br />Gas and plasma cutting<br />Complete metal shop and chasing studio<br />Ventilation systems for silica dust, wax smoke and metal fumes<br />In-ground melting furnace<br />Iron casting- cupola style<br /><br />Developed competency program providing training for students in:<br />Hand tools<br />Metal shop equipment<br />Gas/TIG/MIG and ARC welding<br />Gas and plasma cutting<br /><br />Authored successful grant proposal to The Detroit Edison Foundation for foundry improvements enabling students’ greater scope and better results.<br />Guidelines for studio work in Foundry and Metal Work, from beginning to advanced level.<br />Competency Tests for metalworking, welding and foundry practices.<br /><br />1983-2000 Instructor/Assistant Professor,<br />Center for Creative Studies-College of Art and Design<br /> Courses taught to Degree Students:<br />Foundry,<br />Intro. To Fine Arts<br />Basic Sculpture<br />Sculpture 1<br />Sculpture 2<br />Sculpture 3<br />Senior Studio<br /><br />Courses taught to Continuing Education students:<br />Foundry Workshop<br />Welding for Artists<br />Basic Sculpture<br />Pewter Workshop<br /><br />Workshops taught to community artists and guest students:<br />“Gypsy” Iron, Bronze and Aluminum pours<br />Pewter casting<br />Mold making<br />Waxwork<br />Patina<br /><br />1995-1998 Visiting Artist, <br />Ox Bow Summer Art Community, Douglas, MI<br />Led workshops in:<br />Pewter casting<br />Patina<br />Studio techniques<br /><br />Assisted in:<br />Direct Metal studio work<br />Iron casting<br />Glass studio<br /><br />1984 – 1998 Director, <br />Center for Creative Studies Bi-annual Iron Casting Workshops<br />Coordinated multi-institution Iron Pours including students and faculty from Wayne State University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Port Huron Community College.<br />Led volunteers and students through three week prep period and final choreography required for a safe and successful Iron pour.<br />Served as Media Liaison and Safety engineer for Bi-annual Iron Pours<br /><br />1992 - 1993 Visiting Artist, <br />Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI<br />Implemented bronze pouring equipment and program <br />Taught Lost Wax Casting<br />Designed, purchased and constructed foundry equipment, tools and supplies.<br /><br />Other professional experience includes:<br />Owner, antique restoration company -1976-1982<br />Elementary Education, Ceramics Teacher- 1980<br />Holland Sentinel Newspaper, Press room/circulation- 1980-1981<br />Youth Social Work and Crisis Intervention Worker -1982-1984<br />Foundry Consultant 1983-2000<br />Owner, private casting and fabricating business-1983-<br /><br /><br />PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS<br />2000-2004 Chair of Neighbors Committee for Komen Detroit Race For the Cure®<br />2000-2004 Produced Trophies for the J.P. McCarthy PAL Tournament<br />2001 Designed and produced model for a successful plastic dog bone called “Texas-T bone” a plastic dog bone produced by Phydeaux.<br />1998 Installed large steel sculpture at the Congregational Church, Birmingham, MI<br />1998 Fabricated in steel a one-third scale early 1900’s GMC Truck for College for Creative Studies Wine Auction<br />1997 - 1999 Designed and produced the prestigious Alpha Award for General Motors Corporation<br />1997 Supervised, cast and assembled life size “Newsboy Monument” for Belle Isle, Detroit, MI<br />1996 Molded, cast, finished, patinated and installed William Burroughs statue for Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI at the Henry Ford Estate “Grotto” <br />1996 Designed and produced trophy for Binson’s Home Health Care Centers fundraiser for Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute<br />1995 - 2001 Annual Donations of cast bronze sculpture to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute<br />1995 Selected artist for “Interventions” Exhibit DIA, where Erickson’s work was juxtaposed with master’s works at the<br />Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI<br />1993 – 1998<br /><br /><br /><br />1992 Mentor for Art on the Move, Detroit, MI Led corporative sculpture fabricating with college and local high school students. Taught basic construction, metal work, mold work, cement and plaster casting, fabrication techniques,<br />Principles of public sculpture, team building, moving and rigging sculpture and public exhibition<br /><br />Birmingham Public Sculpture, Birmingham, MI<br />1986<br />1986 Assisted in restoration of “Mining Thoughts” by Dennis Oppenheim at Cranbrook Academy of Art<br />Assisted Mark Di Suvero in dismantling “La Petite Clef” at Cranbrook Academy of Art<br />1985 Assisted in moving “Orpheus Fountain” figures by Carl Milles at Cranbrook Art Museum<br />1985 - 1986 Director of Cass Corridor’s Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI, maintained gallery, helped install shows, curated gallery<br /> Schedule and exhibitions<br />1985 Assistant to Michael Hall, Sculptor, Detroit, MI - making large public pieces from wood, cardboard, aluminum and steel<br />1983 - 1984 Assistant to Jay Holland, Sculptor, Detroit, MI – Molding, wax work, bronze casting, assembly and installation of larger than life scale<br />1983 Directed Summer Camp Tuition Program, benefiting needy youth, for Birmingham Youth Assistance<br /><br />SELECTED EXHIBITIONS<br />2006 Public Art Installation- Brighton, MI<br />2005 The Seventh Show- 101up Gallery, Detroit<br />2004 Actual Size – CAID, Detroit<br />2003 Functional Sculpture-Detroit Contemporary Gallery <br />2002 Detroit Sampler-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida<br />2000 Faculty Show-CCS, Detroit, MI<br />1998 Undefining Sculpture- Detroit Artist’s Market<br />1995 Interventions-Detroit Institute of Art<br />1994 Alumni Invitational-Hope College, Holland MI<br />1991 - 1992 Monumental Steel public sculpture, Downtown Birmingham <br />1989 Michigan Outdoor Sculpture Show, Southfield Civic Center<br />1987 Collection of Kemp Hogan at Meadow brook Art Gallery, Oakland University<br />1986 Group Show Detroit Institute of Arts<br />1985 Solo Sculpture Exhibition- Willis Gallery-Detroit<br />1984 Bronze Sculpture Invitational, Millersville University<br />1983 Painting and Drawing-Focus Gallery, Detroit MIFortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-11942361861975282462011-06-19T12:10:00.000-07:002011-06-19T12:15:27.875-07:00Treena Flannery Erickson<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht85NFPKDCCoDXmUwVY4-VX2SjNzaCfUG1RgXeFULKgcb3fws9KWpkUgENMprnoslVioeyOkemDRSDPtrZRPzAmQRE8cdRM04Qie-8_qMPBhTc0Xx47pJ8pap3FEc8keyGb24BabgLO9wU/s1600/Elizabeth+stoats.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht85NFPKDCCoDXmUwVY4-VX2SjNzaCfUG1RgXeFULKgcb3fws9KWpkUgENMprnoslVioeyOkemDRSDPtrZRPzAmQRE8cdRM04Qie-8_qMPBhTc0Xx47pJ8pap3FEc8keyGb24BabgLO9wU/s320/Elizabeth+stoats.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620011091494723426" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.scarabclub.org/index.html">Treena Flannery Erickson</a><br />Gallery Director<br />The Scarab Club<br />Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /><a href="http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/01/12/reviving-detroits-hidden-jewel/">Treena Flannery Ericson</a> is a beloved recent inductee into the sneak. Her warm and nurturing spirit sustains us through the dark nights. Her tender ministrations and steadfast support give us the strength we need to carry out our elaborate and perplexing endeavors. We cling to her as to a lifeboat in surging seas and nibble tender morsels from her delicate fingertips. We curl up together in cozy slumber to the dulcet tones of her soothing lullabyes. Treena Flannery Ericson, we salute your tender heart even as we curse your putrid soul, for you are after all to your dying day a slippery weasel, and therefore not to be trusted for a single moment. Demon wench. Miserable harlot. Scurvy slattern.Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-11184187236040304532011-06-19T11:54:00.000-07:002011-06-19T12:09:52.291-07:00Jerome Ferretti<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtNg7KcWZTcY5Q99W2GyFNAtRG5hXmTVm7OHSAyQokeGDHhYrt_k0rVjQ56IdeQyCO6u9Dsg4MKxnz_VNFak4a7oieU4gXKRjuc0bnqf9ep8F41AVSJd7RxxCexvtCa6Ra3SxZ1MS9nPo/s1600/no.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtNg7KcWZTcY5Q99W2GyFNAtRG5hXmTVm7OHSAyQokeGDHhYrt_k0rVjQ56IdeQyCO6u9Dsg4MKxnz_VNFak4a7oieU4gXKRjuc0bnqf9ep8F41AVSJd7RxxCexvtCa6Ra3SxZ1MS9nPo/s320/no.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620010108242993426" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTjhhtx6GosSWORm2meZ-W-4a7_wPPkMw3dmRJT1LIr6UaWP8d6ViCII1RJ4O5aVZPhzYEKdaf8lpYg2vCp1j2kA7T8LutAjzOTslgpWS6uMzyM4ZwPtioPws-mqtP4rtjUygtz-V_oYa/s1600/normsliquorcityweb.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTjhhtx6GosSWORm2meZ-W-4a7_wPPkMw3dmRJT1LIr6UaWP8d6ViCII1RJ4O5aVZPhzYEKdaf8lpYg2vCp1j2kA7T8LutAjzOTslgpWS6uMzyM4ZwPtioPws-mqtP4rtjUygtz-V_oYa/s320/normsliquorcityweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620010102406999362" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKxi5b4NU7g4Ojw7nNW3miF30jbrE8azfD9yFLl7oUVgSJM20esho5svOhkCdW7OEzkCAkOxVhZjYfJeRJEJkso0Es3erPGX4L2YfOjjJnnX2d1rD7Oc6gBBUbtNv36iFc7baviXsUxtO/s1600/laylaweb.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKxi5b4NU7g4Ojw7nNW3miF30jbrE8azfD9yFLl7oUVgSJM20esho5svOhkCdW7OEzkCAkOxVhZjYfJeRJEJkso0Es3erPGX4L2YfOjjJnnX2d1rD7Oc6gBBUbtNv36iFc7baviXsUxtO/s320/laylaweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620010095541406994" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVnkWNJTo8kyVnkHH-LScSGJa-_CI-KRIbC0NSfVIuoOw2fYSnUA_uyWDRjKUsAZj26gFGCf25AuiU8WlMrrf-RvL4XDuOw2kK4kAFVY5FdMvb8Clc_1rpW_uxRopGyh0NcVkqH8ONTFR/s1600/fronchroomweb.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVnkWNJTo8kyVnkHH-LScSGJa-_CI-KRIbC0NSfVIuoOw2fYSnUA_uyWDRjKUsAZj26gFGCf25AuiU8WlMrrf-RvL4XDuOw2kK4kAFVY5FdMvb8Clc_1rpW_uxRopGyh0NcVkqH8ONTFR/s320/fronchroomweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620010093931008082" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.jeromium.com/">JEROME FERRETTI</a><br />3034 Cochrane<br />Detroit, MI 48216<br />313 525 5253<br />e-mail:jeromium@jeromium.com<br />website:www.jeromium.com<br /><a href="http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jerome-ferretti.html">Jerome Ferretti - Fine Art America</a><br /><br />EDUCATION<br /><br />Center for Creative Studies; Detroit, MI<br />Wayne State University; Detroit, MI<br />Macomb Community College; Mt. Clemens, MI<br />International Masonry Institute; Washington D.C.<br /><br />COMMISSIONS<br /><br />2009-Bad Brads Bar-B-Q Murals/Paintings/Custom Masonry<br />2008 Venus Bronze Works Architechtural Accent<br />2007-Avanti Greeting Card Co. Office Painting/mural<br />Papa Joe's Gormet Foods Architechtural Accents <br />2005- Greater Corktown Development Archway to North Corktown Development Project<br />2004- Greater Corktown Development-Mural 6th and Michigan Ave. Berish Development Bld. <br />2002- Oil painting portrait for private collection<br />2000-2001 Fireplace with hand carved glazed ceramic ornamenture for 7500 printing group<br />1999 Carved and Glazed Ceramic Fireplace for private residence New York City, New York<br />1998-City of Detroit Glazed Ceramic and stainless steel murals <br />-Carved and glazed shower panel for private residence Farminton Hills MI<br />- Watercolor painting, Detroit Blowpipe & Sheet Metal<br />1997- Watercolor portrait; Schareges &Huster PC<br />1996- Carved brick garden bench; International Masonry Institute; Detroit, MI <br />--Carved and glazed brick fireplace, mantle, and free-standing sculptures; Corktown Inn; Detroit, MI<br />1995- Carved brick sculptural column; George Meany Center for Labor Studies; Silver Springs, MD<br />- Carved and glazed brick fireplace surround for private residence; Marquette, MI<br />1994- Carved brick fireplace; Irwin and Associates; Omaha, NE<br />- Carved and glazed brick fireplace surround for private residence; Grosse Pointe Shores, MI<br />1993- Carved and glazed brick sculpture/hibachi; private residence; Det., MI<br />- Carved and glazed brick sculpture/barbecue; private residence; Grosse Pointe Park, MI<br />1992- Carved and glazed brick arch/frieze for building entry; Alan J. E. Deal and Associates; Detroit, MI<br />- Trophy prototype "Best of Detroit"; Metro Times; Detroit, MI<br />- Carved and glazed brick fireplace for private residence; Omaha, NE<br /><br />TEACHING EXPERIENCE<br />College for Creative Study Detroit MI<br />Beginning Ceramics-Pat Glascock contact<br />Beginning Computer (Photoshop) Diana Alva contact<br />Wayne State University Charter School Detroit MI<br />Ceramics 6-7-8 grades Kiersten Armstrong contact<br />Lectures - Workshops<br />Wayne County Community College Talylor MI- Karl Kamulski Contact<br />Macolmb County Community College Roseville MI- Jim Pallas Contact<br />Wayne State University Detoit MI- Peter Williams Contact<br />College For Creative Study Detroit MI - Diana Alva Contact<br />International Masonry Institute Washington DC- Ray Chapman Contact<br />Bemis Foundation -Omaha NE Ree Shounlaugh Contact<br />EXHIBITIONS<br />2010-Cass Cafe "recent work" Detroit MI<br />2008-Detroit Artist Market "Insider Art"<br />Bohemian National Home Gallery "8-8-8" <br />2007- Detroit Artist Market 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Special Selected Artist) <br />2006-"What is Art?" Wayne County Community College Downtown Campus <br />2006 "Detroit All Stars" Cass Cafe Gallery Detroit MI <br />2005-"Rudd, Krieger, Ferretti, New Work" <br />4731 Gallery Det. MI <br />"Old Style New Style" Bohemian National Home Det. MI <br />2004- Jerome Ferretti new work Flatlanders Sculpture Blissfield MI. <br />"A few bricks short of a load" Biddle Gallery Wyandotte MI <br />2003-"Full Moon Show" 4731 Gallery Detroit MI<br />-"Humor In Art" Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association Birmingham MI <br />-"50 and Under" Biddle Gallery<br />2001- Jerome Ferretti/Matt Blake Alumni Exhibition College for Creative Study<br />2000-"New Work" Flatlanders Gallery Blissfield MI<br />1999- 3d@DC Detroit Contemporary Detroit MI <br />-"Jerome Ferretti New Work" Uzelac Gallery Pontiac MI<br />1998- "First Impressions" Dearborn Gallery; Dearborn,MI<br />-"Ferretti-Bell-Blake" Sisson Gallery,Henry Ford Community College; Dearborn,MI <br />1997- "GWSB"; 2South Gallery; Detroit,MI<br />-"Water, Water, Everywhere"; Center Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />1996-50th Anniversary Celebration of the Italian Parliament; WayneState University; Detroit, MI<br />1995- Box Show; Willis Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />- "Pictures and Statues"; Macomb Com. College; Mt. Clemens, MI<br />- "Great Labor Arts Exchange"; George Meany Center for Labor Studies; Silver Springs, MD<br />- Masonry Craft Fair; International Masonry Institute; Chicago, IL <br />1994- Artist's Sketchbooks; Detroit Artist's Market; Detroit, MI<br />- Bemis Foundation; group show; Omaha, NE<br />- Box Show; Willis Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />1993- Solo exhibition; Pewabic Pottery; Detroit, MI<br />- Coconut Grove Arts Festival; Coconut Grove, FL<br />- "Fud"; Union Street Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />1992- "Focus on Families"; traveling exhibition sponsored by Junior League of Michigan<br />- "Jerome Ferretti"s World Tour"; selections from the artist's sketchbooks; Times Square Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />- "Michigan Artists Invitational"; Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University;Ypsilanti, MI<br />- "Black and White"; group show of artist's drawings in pencil on paper; Wayne State University Galleries; Detroit, MI<br />1991- Bemis Foundation Resident Group Show; Omaha, NE<br />- Solo Exhibition; Xochipilli Gallery; Birmingham, MI<br />1989- "Signs of Life"; Michigan Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />- "Urbanology"; Michigan Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />- "Up With Downriver"; curator; Michigan Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />1988- "School of Abstract Realism"; Michigan Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />- "Motor City Review"; Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University;<br />Marquette, MI<br />1987- "Signs, Times and Writings on the Wall"; Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, MI<br />- "Stairways: Watercolors by Jerome Ferretti"; Xochipilli Gallery;Birmingham, MI<br />- "Michigan Sesquicentennial Exhibition"; Detroit Artists Market; <br />Detroit, MI<br />- "South of the Border, North of Here"; International Art Exchange; Artcite Gallery; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Michigan -----------Gallery; Detroit, MI<br /><br />1986- "Jerome Ferretti: Pastels"; Detroit Repertory Theater Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />-"Immortalization"; Detroit Historical Museum; Detroit, MI<br />-"Humor in Art"; Beasley Gallery; San Diego, CA<br />-"Artists Interpret Fantasy"; Michigan Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />1985- "Auto Effluvia"; Detroit Focus Gallery; Detroit, MI<br />- "Capital City Arts '85"; Lansing Arts Council; Lansing, MI<br />- "27th Annual Mid-Michigan Art Exhibition"; cash award; Midland <br />Council for the Arts; Midland, MI<br />1984- "Art and Architecture"; Detroit Artists Market; Detroit, MI<br />- Michigan Watercolor Society 28th Annual Exhibition; Grumbacher Award; statewide traveling exhibition<br />1983- "Jerome Ferretti: Watercolors"; solo exhibition; Alpha Art Gallery;<br />Grosse Isle, MI<br />- Center for Creative Studies Alumni Exhibition; Detroit Artists Market;<br />Detroit, MI<br />1982- "50th Anniversary Exhibition"; Detroit Artists Market; Detroit, MI<br />1981- Detroit Art; Center for Creative Studies; Detroit, MI<br /><br />AWARDS, HONORS<br /><br />2003 Featured on PBS television series Art beat<br />1999 Featured on PBS television series "Backstage Pass<br />1996 International Masonry Institute Representative; Detroit Builders Show; Detroit, MI<br />1995 IMI representative; Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Trade Show; <br />Chicago, IL<br />- Guest residency; George Meany Center for Labor Studies; <br />Silver Springs, MD<br />1991 Artist in Residence; Bemis Foundation; Omaha, NE<br />1990 Artist in Residence; Center for Creative Studies; Detroit, MI<br />1986-1990 Board Member Michigan Gallery<br />1993-1995 Exhibition Committee Focus Gallery<br />1988 Curator for "Up With Downriver" show<br />1990 Metro Times "Detroit's Favorite Artist"<br />1990-1991 Curator and Project Coordinator for Metro Times Box Project<br />1985 Cash award; Midland Council for the Arts<br />1984 Grumbacher award; Michigan Watercolor Society<br /><br />Electronics<br />1999 Metro Times / 3 covers 4 article illustrations (Adobe Photoshop) <br />www.jeromium.com <br />1998 Mac World Electronic Art Exhibition Finalist Traveling Exhibit<br />Metro Times / 7 covers 11 article illustrations (Adobe <br />Photoshop)<br />Delmar Autosports Electronic Illustrations Photo Retouch<br />(Adobe Photoshop)<br />1997 Metro Times / 5 covers 6 article illustrations (Adobe Photoshop)Fortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-85087696814379454992011-06-19T11:42:00.000-07:002011-06-19T11:47:36.719-07:00Mary Fortuna<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDycid48Sb5TJkS384nQIgrX9LkDmyA-oiEL9qmHUAXPyIl4pBgmjMh1x7gwysjkmFEgh-2KFJeNez5Op29YgYGpWOh7cyPJmlz7loFvWSsBD2gFopl0JhaKdcNxy_obF-YtjZKosrwZGk/s1600/yellow+cat+man.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 151px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDycid48Sb5TJkS384nQIgrX9LkDmyA-oiEL9qmHUAXPyIl4pBgmjMh1x7gwysjkmFEgh-2KFJeNez5Op29YgYGpWOh7cyPJmlz7loFvWSsBD2gFopl0JhaKdcNxy_obF-YtjZKosrwZGk/s320/yellow+cat+man.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620004362468506098" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsgBDRIks2gN1l4hrZPXHqIR5V8aOp8kYuIJ1tCrXxySU_P4EgEHQ6Qf5ubrb3itnliByM0-uvS7hCKU91LQdaDUdAzS8JYVL8Z3bcu-MRlmw-wYjkJnbgxASLk86DDW-Ysk5JoLaCjz-/s1600/New+Kali.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigsgBDRIks2gN1l4hrZPXHqIR5V8aOp8kYuIJ1tCrXxySU_P4EgEHQ6Qf5ubrb3itnliByM0-uvS7hCKU91LQdaDUdAzS8JYVL8Z3bcu-MRlmw-wYjkJnbgxASLk86DDW-Ysk5JoLaCjz-/s320/New+Kali.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620004355548880386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijKwR8ChtTQ8j9UnLmksK0sQ2bb9w0ksdtIU6nrBMnWLrN5DsTVPgwC_fofkTqbMosIcaGYayUjVbqq0q5O_fWsd9E7G_eGIc0NBFqOhduYUL-nTNf6W3VzG577cEIs6a_gCAv8Ogh29ur/s1600/minotaur+5.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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President 1992 –1993<br /> Secretary 1993 – 1994<br /><br /><br />ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITS<br /><br />2011 New Dolls (scheduled) <br /> Bookbeat Back Room Gallery Oak Park, Michigan<br /><br />2006 New Work<br /> Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan<br /><br />2003 Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers<br /> Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, Michigan<br /><br />2002 Hanging Garden<br /> Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan<br />1996 Sinister Objects<br /> Start Gallery Birmingham, Michigan<br /><br />1995 Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina<br /> Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />1993 Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts<br /> Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />1992 On and Off the Wall <br /> Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan <br /><br /><br />SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS<br /><br />2011 Beautiful Creatures<br /> Madonna University Art Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />2010 In Spite of the Evidence<br /> The Gallery Project Ann Arbor, Michigan<br /><br /> Weasel Camp 2<br /> Popp’s Packing Hamtramck, Michigan<br /><br /> Let’s Talk About Love, Baby – Traveling Exhibit<br /> Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection Chicago, Illinois<br /><br /> Detroit Works<br /> Media Nox Gallery Maribor, Slovenia<br /><br /> International Bongo Bongo Brigade – Traveling Exhibit<br /> Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art Prague, Czech Republic<br /><br /> Bread & Butter<br /> Butter Projects Royal Oak, Michigan<br /><br /><br />2009 Year of the Weasel <br /> Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Changing Cities: Pure Detroit<br /> Art Channel Gallery Beijing, China<br /><br /> Aus Detroit<br /> Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan<br /><br /> Vienna Art Fair<br /> With Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Vienna, Austria<br /><br /> Collected<br /> Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan<br /><br /> Artprize<br /> American Seating Park Grand Rapids, Michigan<br /><br />2008 Changing Cities: Made in Detroit<br /> Galerie Eva Bracke Berlin, Germany<br /><br /> Changing Cities: Detroit – Bregenz<br /> Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Bregenz, Austria<br /><br /> Changing Cities<br /> Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan<br /><br /> Changing Cities: Detroit<br /> Three Walls Chicago, Illinois<br /><br /> Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition<br /> Bohemian National Home Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Material Matters<br /> Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan<br /><br />2007 Azutunarasharedo – four person show<br /> Zeitgeist Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Harvest – four person show<br /> Alley Culture Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /><br />2005 Wall to Wall – sculpture invitational<br /> Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan<br /><br /> Actual Size<br /> CAID Detroit, Michigan <br /><br />2004 Group Show<br /> Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois<br /><br />2003 DAM Members Invitational<br /> Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Selecti<br /> Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan<br /> Juror – Lawrence Rinder, Whitney Museum of Art<br /> <br /> Alumni Exhibition: Sandra Cardew, Mary Fortuna and Catherine Peet<br /> Wayne State University Community Arts Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> 8 Mile – Detroit Relics from the Future<br /> Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois<br /><br /> Actual Size<br /> Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan<br />2000 Past, Present, Future - DAM 2000<br /> Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan<br /> Actual Size<br /> Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> German Art / Michigan Art<br /> Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan<br /><br />1999 Content Contained<br /> Ann Arbor Art Center Ann Arbor, Michigan<br /><br /> Body and Soul<br /> Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan<br /><br /> Documenta <br /> Museum of Contemporary Art Ponticac, Michigan<br /> Traveling exhibit<br /><br />1998 Undefining Sculpture<br /> Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Assemblage<br /> CCS Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />1997 Beneath Nature<br /> Buckham Gallery Flint, Michigan<br /> <br /> Sculpture Pontiac ’97<br /> Indoor / Outdoor Sculpture Show Pontiac, Michigan<br /> Co-curator<br /> <br /> Suspended in Space<br /> Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan<br /><br />1996 Celebrate Michigan Artists<br /> Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester, Michigan Third Place Award<br /> <br /> Out of Solitude<br /> Michigan Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> In Residence<br /> Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan<br /> <br /> Art from Detroit<br /> Western Illinois University Gallery Macomb, Illinois<br /><br /> Michigan Fine Arts Competition<br /> Birmingham–Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, Michigan Honorable Mention<br /><br />1995 The Holiday Show <br /> CCS Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> These Animals May Appear Tame <br /> The Gallery at Marygrove College Detroit, Michigan<br /> <br /> Michigan Annual XXIII <br /> Mount Clemens Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan President’s Award<br /><br />1994 Artist’s Books <br /> Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan<br /> Curator<br /><br /> Weapons and Playthings <br /> Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> The Detroit Show <br /> Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />1993 Transforming Ideas <br /> Michigan Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Honor the Earth <br /> Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />1991 Hard Choices <br /> Michigan Gallery Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /><br />PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/GRANTS/COMMISSIONS<br /><br />2010 Artist Talk & Demo – Soft Sculpture Class<br /> College for Creative Studies Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Juror<br /> Macomb Community College Student Exhibit<br /><br /> Juror - Blooms, Bugs & Beasts<br /> The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />2009 Juror – Mount Clemens Art Fair<br /> Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan<br /> <br />2008 Guest Reviewer, Senior Critiques<br /> Adrian College Adrian, Michigan<br /><br />2007 Juror<br /> Lenawee County Annual Show Adrian, Michigan<br /><br /> Juror<br /> Flint Street Gallery 12 x 12 Show Lake Orion, Michigan <br /><br />2006 Artist Talk<br /> Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Artist’s Choice Presentation<br /> Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> Guest Reviewer, Senior Critiques<br /> Adrian College Adrian, Michigan<br /><br />2003 Artist Demonstration<br /> Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />1997 Sculpture Pontiac ‘97<br /> Co-curated a multi-site indoor/outdoor sculpture exhibit in <br /> Pontiac, Michigan<br /><br />1996 Putting Grapes Back On The Vine<br /> Sculpture installation in Grand Circus Park and on DIA lawn<br /> Art On The Move 1996 Artist Residencies Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> MCACA / Detroit Council of the Arts Minigrant<br /> for publication of two special issues of Ground Up, a journal<br /> devoted to the visual arts in Detroit and surrounding areas<br /><br />1995 The Robber’s Nightmare <br /> Set design and construction commission<br /> Prospero Theater Company at the Performance Network Ann Arbor, Michigan<br /><br />1994 Asylum/Asylum<br /> Set design and construction commission<br /> Prospero Theater Company at The Performance Network Ann Arbor, Michigan<br /><br />1993 Pepsi Art Fence <br /> Designed and painted 8’ by 160’ outdoor mural - commission<br /> Department of Natural Resources / Michigan State Fair Grounds Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /> An Evening in the Death of Enrique Miasmo <br /> Set design and construction commission<br /> Prospero Theater Company at The Performance Network Ann Arbor, Michigan<br /><br /><br />PUBLICATIONS<br /><br />City of Possibilities – Exhibit shows why Berliners embrace motor city<br />Mazzei, Rebecca Metro Times, July 23, 2008<br /><br />Berlin and Detroit swap artists<br />Hodges, Michael H. The Detroit News, July 3, 2003<br /><br />Changing Cities: Berlin to Detroit - Detroit welcomes Berlin artists to the Museum of New Art<br />Voss, Elizabeth H. Crain’s Detroit Business - Detroit Make It Here.com<br /><br />Tip of the Week - Changing Cities: Detroit<br />Wise, David Mark New City Chicago, March 5, 2008<br /><br />Windy City trade – Area artists send their works to Chicago gallery for art exchange<br />Voss, Elizabeth H. The Oakland Press, February 24, 2008<br /><br />Azutunarasharedo<br />Sousanis, Nick TheDetroiter.com, October 12, 2007<br /><br />3 planets in one night<br />Mazzei, Rebecca Metro Times, September 26, 2007<br /><br />Playing with Dolls<br />Deb King markszine.com, June, 2006<br /><br />All dolled up: The elusive air of Mary Fortuna’s art<br />Mannisto, Glen Metro Times, September 20, 2006<br /><br />Unique display is as different as night and day<br />Hakanson Colby, Joy Detroit News, February 15, 2003<br /><br />Naturists<br />Mannisto, Glen Metro Times, April 24, 2002<br /><br />4 shows plus novel seating<br />Guten Cohen, Keri Detroit Free Press, April 21, 2002<br /><br />Unusual parts are added together to make a surreal, humorous whole sculpture<br />Hakanson Colby, Joy Detroit News, April12, 2002<br /><br />A Future on Woodward<br />Guten Cohen, Keri Detroit Free Press, June 4, 2000<br /><br />Mary Fortuna – Memory Lapse; Robert Taormina – The Event Horizon<br />Castile, Kevin Ground Up #5, July 1995<br /><br />Artists put the problem of abuse in sharp focus<br />Miro, Marsha Detroit Free Press, July, 1994<br /><br />A.C.,T. encourages energetic new artists by giving their work a venue<br />Hakanson Colby, Joy Detroit News, July 1994<br /><br />8 female artists put attitude in their work<br />Miro, Marsha Detroit Free Press, November, 1994<br /><br /><br />COLLECTIONS<br /><br />Dr. Jan and Sheila van der Marck Huntington Woods, Michigan<br />Dr. Terry and Meryl Podolski Bloomfield Hills, Michigan<br />Dr. Rudolf Sagmeister, Curator, KUB Bregenz, Austria<br />Kenneth Neumann, Neumann/Smith Associates Architects Southfield, Michigan<br />Rick Carmody, Au Courant Design Huntington Woods, Michigan<br />Giorgio Gikas, Venus Bronze Works Detroit, Michigan<br />Dan Graschuck Detroit, Michigan<br />Ken and Mary Thompson Blissfield, Michigan<br />Skip Davis Southfield, Michigan<br />Dawn Badger Rochester Hills, Michigan<br />Aaron Timlin Ferndale, Michigan<br />Yoriko Cronin Farmington, Michigan<br />Marilyn Trent Rochester, Michigan<br />Valerie Parks Beverly Hills, Michigan<br />Christine Hagedorn Troy, Michigan<br />Madeline Nelson Chicago, Illinois<br />Steve Magsig & Janet Hamrick Ferndale, Michigan<br />Robert Bielat Ferndale, Michigan<br />Todd Erickson Redford, Michigan<br />Marsha Friedman West Bloomfield, Michigan<br />Douglas Bulka Detroit, Michigan<br />Margot Delido Ferndale, Michigan<br />Jane Shapiro Chesapeke, Virginia<br />Robert Tucker Rancho Mirage, California<br />Joe & Wendy Davis Chicago, Illinois<br />Pat Ferrill Farmington Hills, Michigan<br />S. Kay Young Madison Heights, Michigan<br />Doug Bulka Detroit, MichiganFortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961100730767517250.post-35014543819230346642011-06-19T11:30:00.000-07:002011-06-19T11:38:43.312-07:00Matthew Hanna<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMm_c0RBOSJ09pgFc1q_MTgEktpVpygMMOnC7hmduhCyg7D-HkciRiiDn-lrvVFF5l-FzI2gqgXDx-MLPc1TtKVoVi3jk0UspONLMe1GtP9n4qdnIK9bjztjv2SgI7lLF3Xjm74LkKDu9/s1600/Hanna_Hastings_2010.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMm_c0RBOSJ09pgFc1q_MTgEktpVpygMMOnC7hmduhCyg7D-HkciRiiDn-lrvVFF5l-FzI2gqgXDx-MLPc1TtKVoVi3jk0UspONLMe1GtP9n4qdnIK9bjztjv2SgI7lLF3Xjm74LkKDu9/s320/Hanna_Hastings_2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620002049959703394" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-N2kxFofRVZne0z_tMx0nQOWb9xwMSFIY5NANvdXboAuIccaagSty-rUSWummEtrG8Bit9fk6bkxGHq2I4WA63kubIN3W5z_NNRVJmraqwA50EYEUB-hscn5GODkFGFcLUWsPIf16IUrd/s1600/Hanna_First+Snow_2010.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-N2kxFofRVZne0z_tMx0nQOWb9xwMSFIY5NANvdXboAuIccaagSty-rUSWummEtrG8Bit9fk6bkxGHq2I4WA63kubIN3W5z_NNRVJmraqwA50EYEUB-hscn5GODkFGFcLUWsPIf16IUrd/s320/Hanna_First+Snow_2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620002038803944514" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjgAb73kf_7G9DMHB8fkmWSYPxKADxSsW4wsUgry4GExV134_lg2fHEQ46Tr3tWEN5KoW8OAFL18wm4vCOvW351c7yrG8unyH2U-thyentBJ5698WEYA9-6VUXGO0J8-bK-xQDhFk6EXE/s1600/Hanna_49_2010.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjgAb73kf_7G9DMHB8fkmWSYPxKADxSsW4wsUgry4GExV134_lg2fHEQ46Tr3tWEN5KoW8OAFL18wm4vCOvW351c7yrG8unyH2U-thyentBJ5698WEYA9-6VUXGO0J8-bK-xQDhFk6EXE/s320/Hanna_49_2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620002037692358946" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA8LOUcX-dyL9icSbA_uVrAEW7Q61MjX5P9Edfr9Ehm18CWYCHhHog10TDFJnUETQthL8heNT4RZbeZSFrT5jUSjls-E2uTUj8_59Zdbh3KsVHR_u0bkz6UW7zUfGL0lDYoEIZ5Wcs396/s1600/matt+hanna+camp+stories+2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA8LOUcX-dyL9icSbA_uVrAEW7Q61MjX5P9Edfr9Ehm18CWYCHhHog10TDFJnUETQthL8heNT4RZbeZSFrT5jUSjls-E2uTUj8_59Zdbh3KsVHR_u0bkz6UW7zUfGL0lDYoEIZ5Wcs396/s320/matt+hanna+camp+stories+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620002033892522674" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.paulbunyanfineart.com/michigan/paul_bunyan_fine_art_at_alley_culture.html">Matthew Hanna</a><br /><br />Biographical Information<br />Born: 1961 Detroit Michigan<br />Education: 1986 BFA College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />Studio: Redford Michigan<br /><br />STATEMENT<br />Driven by history, faith and fantasy I embrace a spiritual devotion to the ritual of art making pounding images into the surface with common tools and materials. Worked repetitively until the material becomes the content- recording and processing stimuli to craft a dense diagram of layered historic pictorial references to navigate. The most recent episode of painting is an ongoing series of mixed media and collaged landscapes that focus on Staghorn Sumac, a roadside pioneer plant often seen growing in the tree line along the way.<br /><br />BIO <br />Matthew Hanna is not driven. He drives. He drives a whole community of artists and arts organizations - so nimbly, so magically, most don’t recognize his impact. He’s the man behind the curtain, pulling levers, creating thunder, making things seem effortless, look beautiful. He’s great and powerful, the wizard of art: making it, showing it, installing it, lighting it, packing it, moving it, thinking about it, talking about it, living it, loving it. Of course, he’d be the first to say he’s no wizard, just a guy making a living. But we know differently. For over two decades, Matthew has been there for Detroit art: he’s charmed us with his home-spun, subtly brilliant exhibition concepts; he’s been a tireless under-the-radar activist for art and artists; he’s been the muscle behind some of our most important art spaces; he’s produced some of Detroit’s smartest art; he’s carried our work to points beyond; and he never says no. Even with a flat tire, five deadlines and a dollar in his pocket, he’ll be there for us, with quiet fortitude and the next great idea. He’s the Detroit art community’s Professor Marvel. And don’t you forget it.<br /><br />- Michelle Perron, Director Center Galleries<br /><br />ESSAY <br />Matthew Hanna is an intuitive colorist whose heavy application of deeply colored pigment, clotted blood-red on trees and dripping deep-brown down branches, are reminiscent of the Post-impressionists or German expressionists. They also have an illusory Old and New World effect, as if they could easily be seen on stained glass in a European chapel, or in the window of a hot Manhattan gallery in the 1950s. Because of this, there’s a sense of permanence in his abstract scenes. Forget looking at them; you want to live forever in them.<br /><br />-Rebecca Mazzei, Arts and Culture Editor Metro Times<br /><br /><br />Selected Exhibition<br />2010<br />The Facebook Show: Profile Portraits-The Museum of New Art Pontiac Michigan<br />That DAM Box Show II-Detroit Artists Market Detroit Michigan<br />Weasel Camp 2-Popps Packing Hamtramck Michigan<br />SWAN Members’ Exhibit-Whitdell Arts Detroit Michigan<br />34 Secrets Revealed-River’s Edge Gallery Wyandotte Michigan<br />Andy-liciious Matthew Sandwich-Cass Café Detroit Michigan<br />Creators: Self Portraits of Artist-Wayne County Community College Detroit Michigan<br />2009<br />SWAN Our Creative Life-Whitdell Arts Detroit Michigan<br />Actual Size Preamble-CAID Detroit Michigan<br />Collected-Anton Art Center Mount Clemens Michigan<br />Annual Scholarship Awards & Exhibition-Detroit Artists Market Detroit Michigan<br />What Matters Most-John Michael Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan Wisconsin<br />Year of the Weasel-The Scarab Club Detroit Michigan<br />2008<br />Lair Crafts-Alumni & Faculty Hall/College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />SWS Interstate Reunion Exhibition-Bohemian National Home Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Intergenerational Exhibition-Ellen Kayrod Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Our Rivers Our Lakes-Grosse Pointe Art Center Grosse Pointe Michigan<br />50 Bucks-Center Galleries College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />2007<br />Hot Cast-Zeitgeist Detroit Michigan<br />Pine Wood Derby-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />Black/White- Alumni & Faculty Hall/College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />Summer Show (curated by Narine Kckihin)-Next Step Gallery Ferndale Michigan<br />2006<br />Dia de los Muertos-Zeitgeist Detroit Michigan<br />SWS Traveling Exhibition-CVA Gallery University of Toledo Toledo Ohio<br />Puttopia/Game Show-CAID Detroit Michigan<br />Annual Scholarship Awards & Exhibition-Detroit Artists Market Detroit Michigan<br />American Icon American Myth-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />A Real Allegory-CAID Detroit Michigan<br />Michigan Now-Michigan Institute for the Arts Pontiac Michigan<br />2005<br />Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition-Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester Michigan<br />Hanna/Hendrick/Snow-Cass Café Detroit Michigan<br />Voice of the People-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />Threefold- Center Galleries College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />Artists Showing-101up Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Wall to Wall: Regional Sculpture-Flatlanders Blissfield Michigan<br />2004<br />Drawing Conclusions 2-Rocket Projects Miami Florida<br />2003<br />Detroit Sampler-Nick Cindric Contemporary Ft Lauderdale Florida<br />Italo Scanga/Matthew Hanna- Alumni & Faculty Hall/College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />Event Horizon-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br /><br />2002<br />Alumni Exhibition- Center Galleries College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />2001<br />Honor the Earth Biannual-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />24-7-365 Miriam Bloom/Matthew Hanna-Grey Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />2000<br />Nepotism: Mark &Matthew Hanna- Alumni & Faculty Hall/College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />Canvas-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />Actual Size-Detroit Contemporary Detroit Michigan<br />1999<br />Always Open (9-9-99) - Detroit Contemporary Detroit Michigan<br />On the Wall-Cass Café Detroit Michigan<br />1998<br />Works for Young Collectors-Lemberg Gallery Birmingham Michigan<br />Confetti-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />Chain Art (collaboration with Michael Lucero) - Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester Michigan<br />1997<br />Pontiac Sculpture Invitational Pontiac Michigan<br />1996<br />Collage-Cass Café Detroit Michigan<br />Artpack Makes Art- Lemberg Gallery Birmingham Michigan<br />Works for Young Collectors-Lemberg Gallery Birmingham Michigan<br />1995<br />Fortuna/Hanna/Lemanski- Marygrove College Detroit Michigan<br />Space Available-Weber Building Detroit Michigan<br />Michigan Outdoor Sculpture V-Southfield Civic Center Southfield Michigan<br />Honor the Earth Biannual-Willis Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Visa Via-Detroit Focus Detroit Michigan<br />1994<br />Chain Letters (collaboration with Italo Scanga) - Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester Michigan<br />Motor City/Mountain State Exchange-Concord University Concord Virginia<br />Installments/Rochester City Park- Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester Michigan<br />Lost In Nebraska: Matthew Hanna/Carl Butler-Mask Gallery Hamtramck Michigan<br />Detroit Show- Center Galleries College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br /><br />1993<br />Honor the Earth Biannual-Willis Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Studio Selections-Argo Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />James Boyk/Matthew Hanna-Urban Park Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />1992<br />Retro-Perspective: Cass Corridor Continuum-Detroit Artists Market Detroit Michigan<br />Movers/Makers-Willis Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />1991<br />Drawings-Detroit Artists Market Detroit Michigan<br />1990<br />Works on Paper=Beckerman Contemporary Santa Fe New Mexico<br />Open Corridor: Earth Day-Willis Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />1989<br />Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition-Shidoni Contemporary Tesque New Mexico<br />May Day Philadelphia-Vox Populi Philadelphia Pennsylvania<br />1988<br />(RE) Presents- Broadway Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Group Sculpture Exhibition-Cade Gallery Royal Oak Michigan<br />1987<br />Three Rats and a Brother-in-Law-University Liggett Grosse Pointe Michigan<br />1986<br />Steel (in Detroit)-Willis Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />Outside-Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Michigan<br />Matthew and Mark Hanna/Drawings and Sculpture-Underground 245 Detroit Michigan<br />Constructions-Detroit Focus Detroit Michigan<br />DeRoy Purchase Exhibition-Oakland Community College Farmington Hills Michigan<br />1985<br />Auto Effluvia-Detroit Focus Detroit Michigan<br /><br />Solo Exhibitions<br />2011<br />Natural Beauty-Wayne County Community College Taylor Michigan<br />2010<br />Rhus Typhina L-Majestic Café Detroit Michigan<br />2008<br />Rocky Ford Day-Motor City Brewing Works Detroit Michigan<br />2007<br />Staghorn- Center Galleries College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />2003<br />Aqua-Aqua Salon Ft Lauderdale Florida<br />2000<br />Rocky Ford-Cass Café Detroit Michigan<br />1999<br />SWC-International Institute Detroit Michigan<br />1998<br />55 from Detroit-Cindric Meyer Gallery Boca Raton Florida<br />1996<br />Studio Ritual-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />1995<br />Clowns Scare Me-Michigan Room/ Union Street Detroit Michigan<br />1994<br />History Faith-Paint Creek Center for the Arts Rochester Michigan<br />1992<br />Gods, Saints, Heroes and Other Nuts-Willis Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />1991<br />Sculpture Painting & Drawings-Urban Park Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />1987<br />Sculpture & Prints (LIKE THIS)=Macomb Community College Clinton Twp Michigan<br />1986<br />From Landscape to Detail...Sculpture & Prints-University Liggett Grosse Pointe Michigan<br />1985<br />Sculpture-University Liggett Grosse Pointe Michigan<br /><br />Movie Credits<br />2010<br />Hostel: Part III-Stage 6 Films<br />Secrets in the Walls-Silver Screen Productions<br /><br />Collections<br />HDG Wilmette Illinois<br />Tribute Farmington Hills<br />Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Detroit Michigan<br />Alix Partners Chicago Illinois<br />Crash Edit Royal Oak Michigan<br /><br />Honors<br />1995<br />Michigan Outdoor Sculpture V-Best of Show Southfield Michigan<br />1988<br />Michigan State Fair-1st Award Sculpture/Best of Show Detroit Michigan<br />1987<br />Michigan State Fair-1st Award Sculpture Detroit Michigan<br /><br />Exhibitions Curated<br />2010<br />Art Benefit for Mick Vranich- Center Galleries College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan <br />2007<br />Pine Wood Derby-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />Black/White- Alumni & Faculty Hall/College for Creative Studies Detroit Michigan<br />2006<br />Willis Remembered-Detroit Artists Market Detroit Michigan<br />2003<br />Detroit Sampler-Nick Cindric Contemporary Ft Lauderdale Florida<br />2001<br />Honor the Earth Biannual-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />Heat-Grey Gallery Detroit Michigan<br />1999<br />Honor the Earth Biannual-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />1997<br />Honor the Earth Biannual-Alley Culture Detroit Michigan<br />1996<br />Black and White Review-Galeria Biegas Detroit Michigan<br />1994<br />Black and White -Galeria Biegas Detroit MichiganFortunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299614299442293128noreply@blogger.com0