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The Art Museum will be open 12- 4 pm on Saturday, October 8, and Sunday, October 9, for Family Weekend. The Museum is free and open to the public. There are currently three exhibitions on view, including New to the Collection: Lundmark and the Lake, Kinngait: Artists’ Reflections in Print, and Selections in Contemporary Illustration, The Up Focus: Linda King Ferguson & Lindsey Heiden, and Jan Manniko: The Last Place on Earth.

New to the Collection: Lundmark and the Lake, Kinngait: Artists’ Reflections in Print, and Selections in Contemporary Illustration - features three groups of new acquisitions from the permanent collection on display for the first time. The paintings, prints, and illustrations on view were acquired from 2020-2022 and highlight the community's ongoing dedication to building a permanent collection for NMU, Marquette, and the wider Upper Peninsula region.

UP Focus Exhibition: Linda King Ferguson & Lindsey Heiden

The UP Focus exhibition series features artists working in or influenced by the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Linda King Ferguson's and Lindsey Heiden's works are the focus of this year's exhibition. Each artist uses their intimate understanding of color, form, and materials to consider the concept of care and how it manifests. The connection to place may not be evident at first blush; the featured artists' work reflects, reacts, responds, and grows from the rich culture and environment where it was made.

Jan Manniko: The Last Place on Earth

Jan (Johnson) Manniko spent her life drawing and painting the people and places that define the Copper Country. This exhibition features nearly forty artworks from throughout Manniko’s career. Intricate, but steady-handed pen and ink drawings of mine buildings, exuberant plein air landscapes, and emotional depictions of people provide a tender decades-long look into the culture of the Copper Country.

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The UP Focus is an ongoing exhibition series that highlights professional artists who are from, living in, or heavily

influenced by the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

While Linda King Ferguson trained as a textile surface designer, she maintains a

practice as a painter with studios in Au Train, MI, and Nashville, TN. She earned a MA

from Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and

studied at Penland School of Crafts and Academia Di Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy.

Ferguson’s recent solo exhibitions include Channel to Channel and Lipscomb

University. Ferguson was awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and Morris

Graves Foundation.

Lindsey Heiden is an artist and educator residing in Dollar Bay, MI. She earned a BFA

from Western Illinois University in 2007 and an MFA from University of Arkansas in

2018. Currently, Heiden teaches at Finlandia University and Michigan Technological

University. She has shown work nationally and internationally and has been a resident

artist at various studios, including the Archie Bray Foundation, in Helena, MT. When

she is not in the studio, she is in the garden or the woods.

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The UP Focus is an ongoing exhibition series that highlights professional artists who are from, living in, or heavily

influenced by the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

August 26 – November 4, 2022

While Linda King Ferguson trained as a textile surface designer, she maintains a

practice as a painter with studios in Au Train, MI, and Nashville, TN. She earned a MA

from Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and

studied at Penland School of Crafts and Academia Di Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy.

Ferguson’s recent solo exhibitions include Channel to Channel and Lipscomb

University. Ferguson was awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and Morris

Graves Foundation.

Lindsey Heiden is an artist and educator residing in Dollar Bay, MI. She earned a BFA

from Western Illinois University in 2007 and an MFA from University of Arkansas in

2018. Currently, Heiden teaches at Finlandia University and Michigan Technological

University. She has shown work nationally and internationally and has been a resident

artist at various studios, including the Archie Bray Foundation, in Helena, MT. When

she is not in the studio, she is in the garden or the woods.

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Three groups of new acquisitions from the permanent collection are on display here for the first time: Lundmark and the Lake, Kinngait: Artists’ Reflections in Print, and Selections in Contemporary Illustration. The paintings, prints, and illustrations on view were acquired from 2020-2022 and highlight the community's ongoing dedication to building a permanent collection for NMU, Marquette, and the wider Upper Peninsula region.

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Graduating seniors from the School of Art and Design present their work. This semester, the exhibition

features students concentrating in ceramics, computer art, digital cinema, drawing/painting, graphic design,

human-centered design, illustration, metalsmithing/sculpture, photography, and woodworking.

Participating artists include:

Emily Burbey

Cindi Carlson

Lizzie Cash

Roscoe Clarke

Robin Collins

Emilee Covers

Sophie Diekevers

Robyn Doney

Jay Foy

Digit Goodall

Keigan Hadley

Laura Hietala

Amy Hoppe

Josh Huffman

Alia Ikezoe

Ryan Kik

A.J. Laatsch

Christopher Lamers

Madeline Langdon

Paul Leow

Alexis Losee

Cody Marecek

Alexandra Martinez

Erin McCormick

Francesca McGinley

Cade Musich

Hannah Muzzey

Drake Perez

Leah Purkiss

Emily Sanderson

Caitlin Snyder

Sarah Stanaway

Reuban Stoor

Dylan Taivalmaa

Kenadee Torres

The Museum will be open until 8 pm on Thursday, April 21, and April 28.

The reception for this year's event will be for graduating seniors and their ticketed guests. It will not be open to the public.

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Jan (Johnson) Manniko spent her life drawing and painting the people and places that define the Copper Country. This exhibition features nearly forty artworks from throughout Manniko’s career. Intricate, but steady-handed pen and ink drawings of mine buildings, exuberant plein air landscapes, and emotional depictions of people provide a tender decades-long look into the culture of the Copper Country.

Jan Manniko was born in Chicago in 1933. Manniko demonstrated a passion for art beginning in her childhood. She studied at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and The Art Institute of Chicago before returning to the Copper Country in the early 1960s. Until her passing in 2013, Jan Manniko lived and worked in Allouez, Michigan, alongside her husband Tom Manniko, a skilled woodcarver. They sold their wares alongside an eclectic array of antiques and found bottles in the iconic red building emblazoned with “The Last Place on Earth.”

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Contemporary iterations of the still-life genre are presented through artworks manifesting impermanence, memory, slippages, familiarity, and the everyday. For nearly two years, we have experienced the still life – living in a time and space that is surreal, strange, familiar, edgy, and banal all at the same time. Searching for comfort in familiar things and feeling time pass, perhaps more slowly, we have looked in at ourselves and out at others through the convenience of an illuminated screen. We have learned to hold loved ones in our hearts and at a distance. Feeling the weight of our mortality has been difficult. Even though life is/was different, things keep moving along. After all, it is still life.

Participating artists include:

Sawsan AlSaraf

Conrad Bakker

Lauren Bartone

Erik Benson

Melissa Cooke Benson

Don Decker

Polly Gaillard

Gabrielle Garland

Michelle Grabner

Breehan James

Brad Killam

Laura Letinsky

Jesse McLean