Cultural Events

We will have our 3 D Printer creating today from 11-1pm. Come watch and guess what it could be. Admission is $9.00 per person and under 1 is free. Members come right in!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

Open every Sunday 12:00-4:00 pm. Sunday we will have our family games out at the Creation Station for families to enjoy. Admission is $9.00 per person and those under 1 are free. Members come right in.

The GSC and MSU Extension Team have joined forces to create a Play & Learn called STEM Adventures: Innovate, Create & Explore, acknowledging the pivotal role of STEM and literacy in early learning. It will start on Tuesday, June 11th until August 13th. It will be from 9:30-10:30 am in the Party Room downstairs. More details to come soon!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

In the summer join us downstairs in the party room for a short puppet show. It starts at 11:00 am and goes for about 15 minutes. Our Discovery Guides volunteer their time and put on a different puppet show each week. This year our Executive Director, Kristin Korendyke wrote a few of the scripts!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

We will have our 3 D Printer creating today from 11-1pm. Come watch and guess what it could be. Admission is $9.00 per person and under 1 is free. Members come right in!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

Open every Sunday 12:00-4:00 pm. Sunday we will have our family games out at the Creation Station for families to enjoy. Admission is $9.00 per person and those under 1 are free. Members come right in.

The GSC and MSU Extension Team have joined forces to create a Play & Learn called STEM Adventures: Innovate, Create & Explore, acknowledging the pivotal role of STEM and literacy in early learning. It will start on Tuesday, June 11th until August 13th. It will be from 9:30-10:30 am in the Party Room downstairs. More details to come soon!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

In the summer join us downstairs in the party room for a short puppet show. It starts at 11:00 am and goes for about 15 minutes. Our Discovery Guides volunteer their time and put on a different puppet show each week. This year our Executive Director, Kristin Korendyke wrote a few of the scripts!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

We will have our 3 D Printer creating today from 11-1pm. Come watch and guess what it could be. Admission is $9.00 per person and under 1 is free. Members come right in!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

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The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

Open every Sunday 12:00-4:00 pm. Sunday we will have our family games out at the Creation Station for families to enjoy. Admission is $9.00 per person and those under 1 are free. Members come right in.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

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In the summer join us downstairs in the party room for a short puppet show. It starts at 11:00 am and goes for about 15 minutes. Our Discovery Guides volunteer their time and put on a different puppet show each week. This year our Executive Director, Kristin Korendyke wrote a few of the scripts!

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) will host ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ featuring artwork by Jane Rosemont Aug. 2-30 in theart center’s Unframed Gallery.

Rosemont is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Shegrew up in Michigan and lived there until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in2010. Her photographs have been published, collected and exhibited throughoutthe U.S.

“’Relatives You Didn’tKnow You Had’ reflects myfascination with faces and personal narratives. The archival quality exhibitionprints are of existing collages and montages that vary in size and material,”Rosemont says of her exhibit. 

“For over 40 years one of mygreatest pleasures has been observing the world in an unorthodox way andpreserving those visions.”

“Photography is my firstlove. When I developed an intolerance to darkroom chemicals, I wasdevastated. Digital photography was in its infancy and image resolutionwas inadequate. In response I pretended to be bored with photography andfilled the gap with painting, mixed media, and collaging. For me collage(popularized by Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Hoch, Jasper Johns, KurtSchwitters, among others) is about culling disparate elements to constructstories piece by unexpected piece. Whether I spend a day, week, or evenmonths working on one collage, the result ultimately surprises me.”

“Elements in thecollages include my own photographs as well as ephemera fastidiouslyaccumulated throughout decades. There are days when I crave simplicity,limiting myself to five elements. Other times I work on larger, complex pieces.This process is not so different from photography, where I can find myself inLos Angeles surrounded by abundant potential, or remain focused on a turtleshell at home.”

“When digitalphotography matured, I enthusiastically returned to that medium. These days, Ispend time creating collages and paintings in my studios in Santa Feand Los Angeles, and making photographs anywhere, everywhere.”

Rosemont has produced and directed four films. The mostrecent, feature length documentary Acting Like Nothing is Wrong, isabout Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster’s experience with childhoodtrauma. It has won over a dozen awards in the film festival circuit, and willsoon be available to stream. Her other films are Pie Lady of PieTown, Apotheosis, and Shirts!

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Rosemont’sRelatives You Didn’t Know You Had will takeplace Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invitedto attend the opening to view the exhibit, meet the exhibiting artist.Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also becelebrating the opening of the art center’s juried exhibition ‘Outside the Box’in the main gallery and Patti Higinbotham’s ‘So This Just Happened’ in thecenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not forProfit that strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring ustogether, feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107S. Harrison St. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA) is excited to host ‘SoThis Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham Aug. 2-31 in the artcenter’s performance hall lobby gallery.

Higinbothamis a life-long artist (seriously, her parents had to hide the household cans ofpaint from 6-year-old Patti or she'd put her "touch" on everything!).She has an eclectic background of art-related ventures and employment thatinclude film set design, publication illustration, home decor boutique owner,muralist, and mid-century modern art and furniture collector/dealer.

For ‘So ThisJust Happened,’ Higinbotham has been working in a variety of mediums and ishaving fun expressing herself with color and whimsy.

Beforemoving to Ludington in 2020, Higinbotham sold everything she owned and moved toSan Miguel de Allende, in the Colonial Highlands of Central Mexico, with justtwo suitcases. There, in a historical artist community, she lived for threeyears and designed furniture along with a carpenter, that she custom paintedfor clients.

 Higinbotham has since put down roots inLudington with her husband, Thom, and Mexican-rescue chihuahua-mutt, Birdie.Higinbotham is LACA's Office Manager and the center’s Art Shop 107 curator,where she can often be overheard saying, "I LOVE my job!" 

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of Higinbotham’s‘So This Just Happened’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Communitymembers and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit andmeet the artist. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACAwill also be celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ a international juriedexhibition featuring surrealism artwork in the center’s main gallery and ‘RelativesYou Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’sUnframed Gallery.

The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profitthat strives to foster a community where arts and culture bring us together,feed the creative spirit, and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. HarrisonSt. in downtown Ludington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with first Friday of the month openingreceptions; and a wide assortment performances and workshops. Art Shop 107 byLACA serves as the art center’s gift shop and features amazing original artworkfrom LACA members, perfect for gifts or home décor. For more information aboutLACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.

‘Outside the Box’ a juried exhibition of surrealism themedartwork will be on display throughout the month of August in the main galleryat the Ludington Area Center for the Arts (LACA).

On display Aug. 2-31, 2024 ‘Outside the Box’ is LACA’s 3^rdinternational juried themed exhibition and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D artworkfrom 57 artists representing 17 states, Canada and Germany.

Surrealism emerged in the aftermath of WWI. Freud revolutionized our concept of the mind.  Dreams, imagination, and the unconscious mind provided new areas of expression for artists. 

The exhibition’s call for art listing on www.artist.callforentry.org asked artists to unleash their unconscious mind to express itself in its full glory of dreamlike, illogical, fantastical imaginings. Transgress boundaries, warp realities, question our ways of perceiving the world. Stretch your imagination and treat us to your mind’s wanderings.

Exhibiting artists include, Ruth Ananda, Janet Ballweg, JohnCalabrese, Brian Christiansen, Lisa Donneson, Henry Droske, Douglas Dykehouse,Michael Farmer, Joshua Field, Richard Foa, Dave Hanson, David Hast, ErinHoughtaling, Ellen Jantzen, Michael Koole, Lyu Kroll, John Leben, JordanLongley, Tom Manning, Charlyn Milkowski, Kamrun Mim, Harold Naideau, Gary WarrenNiebuhr, Jody Peters, Briana Platt, Anton Small, Richard P. Stevens, EricStiens, Maria Suarez, Carlos Sullivan, Venu Tummalapalli, Chris VanWyck, G.E.Vogt, Betty Wolfe, and Keely Wu.

A FREE public artist reception celebrating the opening of ‘Outside the Box’ will take place Friday, Aug. 2 from 5-8 p.m. Community members and visitors are invited to attend the opening to view the exhibit. Complimentary hors devours and drinks will be provided. LACA will also be celebrating the opening of So This Just Happened’ a solo exhibition by Patti Higinbotham in the center’s performance hall lobby gallery and ‘Relatives You Didn’t Know You Had’ a solo exhibition by Jane Rosemont in the center’s Unframed Gallery.

The LudingtonArea Center for the Arts is a 501c3 Not for Profit that strives to foster acommunity where arts and culture bring us together, feed the creative spirit,and fuel community growth. Located at 107 S. Harrison St. in downtownLudington, Mich. The art center is open Tuesday,Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; andSaturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. LACA offers monthly exhibits, with firstFriday of the month opening receptions; and a wide assortment performances andworkshops. Art Shop 107 by LACA serves as the art center’s gift shop andfeatures amazing original artwork from LACA members, perfect for gifts or homedécor. For more information about LACA visit www.ludingtonartscenter.org.