Artist-in-Residence
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Composer Andrew Perkins
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandPerkins is a composer, conductor, and music educator from Fenton, MI. In 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax came from Washington, DC to record Michigan’s folk music traditions for the Archive of American Folk-Song at the Library of Congress. Lomax was particularly interested in the trove of ballads remembered by aging lumberjacks and […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Poet Lauren Carlson
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandLife By Water: on Mindfulness and Poetic Form with Lauren K. Carlson and Great Lakes Poet Lorine Niedecker Lauren K. Carlson will present an interactive poetry workshop for the public on mindfulness, poetic form and observing the natural world. Using regional poet Lorine Niedecker’s work as an example, participants will 1) receive a presentation on haiku, […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop Painter John Dempsey
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandPainter John Dempsey will give a presentation on Military Field Drawing during the time of the British and American occupation of Fort Mackinac. The discussion would focus on methods of drawing from direct observation and the training that was given military personnel during 18th and 19th centuries in order to communicate important military field information. […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Artist Patrick Mohundro
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandArtist Patrick Mohundro will give a lecture on their work, outlining their relationship to materials and how it relates to Mohundro's childhood in Iron Mountain, MI. Additionally, Mohundro may give a workshop on stained glass and casting with different materials such as porcelain or deodorant. Finally, Mohundro will introduce their gallery project in some capacity. This […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Playwrights Heron Kennedy and Jessie Lillis
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandFor their public presentation, Heron Kennedy and Jessie Lillis will present their research on the island, as well as excerpts from an adapted script of The Tempest. By this point in the residency, they will have chosen a location for the performance, and will be well-underway with adapting the script, so they will be able […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Author and Journalist Amy Haimerl
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandAmy Haimerl will host a workshop that is a mix of presentation and "Ask Me Anything" about how media works. Haimerl will present a warp speed history of media, from cave walls to TikTok. Then the group will discuss how changes in distribution have detached media from community and how those changes impact newspapers and […]
