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Visual and Performing Arts

Experience The Trouble Notes as they blend traditional folk, gritty punk rock, and tribal dance music in a captivating performance on October 4, 2024, at 7:30 PM in Reynolds Recital Hall. Their global travels have infused their music with diverse influences you won't want to miss!

Find out more about this exciting group at: thetroublenotes.com

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Join us in welcoming the NMU Jazz Ensembles back to Reynolds Recital Hall for their first concert of the season. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and is free for everyone.

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The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center is excited to announce a performance by the folk-jazz fusion group, American Patchwork Quartet. The performance will take place on Saturday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Forest Roberts Theatre. 

Tickets can be purchased online at tickets.nmu.edu. 
General Public - $20 adv./$22 door; NMU Students & under 18 - $10 adv./$12 door.

American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) is on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music. Comprised of four highly acclaimed artists, APQ showcases the dynamic diversity of contemporary culture by reimagining timeless songs from America's past.

American Patchwork Quartet (APQ), led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation, transcending culture, politics, and ideology.

You can view videos of the group performing here.

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Join us on October 10, 2024, at 6 PM for an engaging talk with the artist, Jack Deo, followed by a reception.

This historic photographic exhibition features local legends, friends, neighbors, and everyday heroes of the past. Gestures, expressions, clothing, props, and backdrops reveal rich narratives about the subjects, photographers, and the times. The portraits were taken in Upper Peninsula photo studios between 1890 and 1910 by photographers including Charles Cole and Brainard F. Childs at Childs Art Gallery in Marquette and Ishpeming; John William Nara at Nara Studio in Calumet; Gustav A. Werner at Werner Studio in Marquette and Ishpeming, and Theodore Sexton at Sexton Studio in Garden.

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Join us on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 5:30 PM for an artist talk and reception at the DeVos Art Museum, featuring Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell as they discuss their work on display.

Across Time and Place features Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell's recent multi-media approaches to interpreting and understanding place. Residents of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas, their works examine the nuance of place and focus on the richness of our world today and yesterday.

Robert Ziebell is an American artist who has worked in the field for over thirty-five years. Ziebell is a lens-based artist who bridges still and motion imagery to create new visual languages. Ziebell's work has been shown in numerous US museums, galleries, film festivals, and abroad.

Liz Ward is an American artist who works across various media, scales, and sites. Her work explores the meaning of landscape through layers of human, natural, and environmental history, memory, and experience. Ward has been in over two hundred group shows and has completed over thirty solo exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces, and museums.

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NMU Piano students will share a 30-minute concert of inspiring music. Choose a comfy auditorium seat, or bring a blanket to relax on the stage as the students perform their favorite pieces! Catch a couple of pieces or stay for the entirety.

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Please join us on Thursday, May 9, 2024, for the reception of the Annual Children's Exhibition at the Devos Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public. 

Each year, the NMU DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

Participating Schools:

• AUTRAIN-ONOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL

• FATHER MARQUETTE CATHOLIC ACADEMY 

• GWINN AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Gilbert Elementary School and K.I. Sawyer Elementary School)

• ISHPEMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Birchview Elementary School)

• MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Graveraet Elementary)

• NEGAUNEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Lakeview Elementary School)

• NICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Aspen Ridge Elementary School)

• NORTH STAR MONTESSORI ACADEMY 

• POWELL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL

Visual and Performing Arts

Each year, the NMU DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

Reception: May 9, 5 - 7 pm

Participating Schools:

• AUTRAIN-ONOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL

• FATHER MARQUETTE CATHOLIC ACADEMY 

• GWINN AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Gilbert Elementary School and K.I. Sawyer Elementary School)

• ISHPEMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Birchview Elementary School)

• MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Graveraet Elementary)

• NEGAUNEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Lakeview Elementary School)

• NICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Aspen Ridge Elementary School)

• NORTH STAR MONTESSORI ACADEMY 

• POWELL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL

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Join us on Friday, May 3, 2024, at 7pm for an evening celebrating the talent of graduating seniors from the School of Art and Design. 

6pm - join us for a screening of digital work
7pm - closing reception
8pm - awards announced for Gold, Silver, and Bronze prizes

Annual donors, the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum, sponsor the Gold Award. The NMU School of Art and Design sponsors Silver and Bronze awards.

Participating artists include James Asava, Ashlyn Chandler, Jess Davis, Rhet Hoffman, Rose Jackson, Claire Jorgensen, Ellen Moddox, Heather Maurer, Hunter McArthur, Kaitlyn McMillen, Katerina Robertson, Elizabeth Sack, Shelby Sanders, and Danielle White. 

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Graduating seniors from the School of Art and Design will have their work displayed at the Devos Art Museum from April 20th to May 3rd 2024. This semester, the exhibition features students concentrating in digital cinema, graphic design, human-centered design, illustration, and photography. 

See the hours of the Devos Art Museum here.

On Friday, May 3, 2024, at 7pm, a reception will be held to celebrate the talent of the graduating seniors and to present the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Annual donors, the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum, sponsor the Gold Award. The NMU School of Art and Design sponsors Silver and Bronze awards.

Participating artists include James Asava, Ashlyn Chandler, Jess Davis, Rhet Hoffman, Rose Jackson, Claire Jorgensen, Ellen Moddox, Heather Maurer, Hunter McArthur, Kaitlyn McMillen, Katerina Robertson, Elizabeth Sack, Shelby Sanders, and Danielle White.