

She spends countless hours outdoors, hunting for morels, chanterelles, “and other miraculous finds.” An avid hiker, forager, and wild-experience seeker, Carrie’s acrylic paintings are inspired by her adventures across Michigan. Sunlight and color take center stage with this work. The metal panels will remain on display through April 2023.Ĭarrie’s paintings express a joyful, vibrant celebration of the interconnectedness of the natural world she’s spent so much of her life observing with curiosity and wonder. Carrie’s work was selected from a field of 16 applicants. The GAAC’s Outdoor Gallery competition takes place annually. The panels are installed on the GAAC’s south and west exterior walls. Carrie’s paintings have been reproduced on (five) 5-foot-square, weather-resistant aluminum panels created by Image360 of Traverse City. Outdoor gallery winner announcedĪnn Arbor artist Carrie Hensel’s impressionistic landscape paintings are the 2022-23 Outdoor Gallery installation at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. The GAAC’s AIR program offers up to seven, creative practitioners a two-week respite from their daily lives in order to focus on a new idea that needs space, or to develop an on-going project. Since the 1990s, the GAAC has welcomed visiting artists who want to immerse themselves in their work. On May 27 Petrouske will discuss poems written in both traditional and modern haiku forms - an ancient, Japanese poetic form concerned with the natural world - and the poems she is editing for a volume of poems. The presentations begin at noon at the GAAC.
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Petrouske, a resident of Grand Ledge, Michigan, will spend two weeks working on a series of haiku poems inspired by the area’s lakes and the dunes.Įach of the GAAC’s artist-residents offer a conversational presentation at the end of their stay. The geography and geology of the Sleeping Bear Dunes will be the focus of writer Rosalie Sanara Petrouske’s work during her May 15-28 artist residency with the GAAC. Artist in Resident Rosalie Sanara Petrouske FLAGS may be viewed in the GAAC Main Gallery and online. The exhibition opens May 27 and continues through August 18. The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) will explore some of that territory in its summer 2022 exhibition FLAGS.

Flags are objects that are saturated with meaning.
