Station 256 Conference Room
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 Muralist Dustin Hunt
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandDuring their residency, muralist Dustin Hunt plans to create a series of three to five eleven-by-seventeen-inch graphite portrait studies of residents and seasonal workers. Incorporating elements of Mackinac Island, Hunt will make the overall body of work people-centric and site-specific. These portrait studies will also contain design elements inspired by conversations with the subjects about […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Playwright Alexander Utz
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandUtz will present a staged reading of his new play, which he's currently developing, called Gut. It is about the experiments conducted by William Beaumont on Alexis St. Martin, beginning on Mackinac Island and continuing until their time together came to an end. The presentation will include a brief introduction on how the play came […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Printmaker Nicholas Hill
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island2017 Guggenheim Fellow Nicholas Hill will use a small printing press to create printing plates based upon on-sight drawings that he's created at various sites on the island. His printmaking processes are environmentally-friendly and water-based. He also looks forward to open studio sessions where visitors can come to his studio to see the printing process […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Photographer Raymond Gaynor
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandPhotographer Raymond Gaynor will lead a presentation/workshop on the images he's taken while in residence. He'll provide a detailed explanation on what drove him to take that particular shot, what he saw, and what he felt. Additionally, he will also discuss the technical aspects and processing workflow for each image. This is a free workshop […]
Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Woodcut Artist and Printmaker Benjamin Bohnsack
Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac IslandWoodcut artist and printmaker Benjamin Bohnsack will present a continuous demonstration of block printing during his residency, so keep an eye open for him while on the island! For his scheduled workshop, he will showcase a half hour presentation about the story of literacy and printing, with a visual description of what he does to […]
