July 26, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop Photographer Marilyn Murphy-Feather Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island Photographer Marilyn Murphy-Feather will present “Find Your Art on the Island,” a program about their artist residency experience on the island and a photography walk with the public. This may also include a “Photographing the Landscape” slide program and photography walk on the island. This is a free workshop located in the Station 256 Conference Room,... Read more »
July 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Poet Lauren Carlson Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island Life 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,... Read more »
June 28, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Composer Andrew Perkins Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island Perkins 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... Read more »
