June 14, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Muralist Dustin Hunt Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island During 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. Â 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... Read more »
June 15, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Playwright Alexander Utz Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island Utz 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... Read more »
September 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Printmaker Nicholas Hill Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island 2017 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... Read more »
