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NW MI Arts & Culture Network

MG: Creative Artists at the Missaukee Library

Students and teachers from 12 classrooms, grades 2-4, visited the Missaukee District Library for arts education through its Creative Artists at the Library program between January and May 2022. Local artist, Denise Rubin, designed each experience with the classroom teacher involved and included a curriculum-based art project as well as other other artistic mediums that the teacher and artist agree upon in advance. All takes place at the library which is located within walking distance of the elementary school.

From the library director: “…This has been a wonderful opportunity for the library to offer all-arts workshops for our local 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders.  We meet for 1 1/2 hours at the library.  The minigrant provides a professional artist and art materials to complete the projects.  Many art forms and media were introduced to students.  Our artist was fantastic. She had creative vision, flexible work habits, and a supportive attitude toward the students.  Her wonderful talent, personality and experience proved to make this program a success. The students that visited the library for our workshops remember them as a positive experience….”

The director noted that students and teachers welcomed and engaged with her subsequent presentation about the Summer reading program – in part due to the positive library experience they had with the art workshops.

(NOTE: This project was conducted in 2022 but the Missaukee District Library began Creative Artists for 4th graders at the Library in 2018 with great success, followed by similar projects with more grades in FY19 and FY20 prior to the pandemic)

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Traverse City, MI
49685

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Organizations

Charlevoix Circle of Arts

Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology

Dennos Museum Center

Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts

Good Hart Artist Residency

Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra

Leelanau Historical Society

Michigan Legacy Art Park

National Writers Series

OrdinaryVirtues.com

Traverse City Dance Project

Glen Arbor Arts Center

Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum

Jordan River Arts Council

Mash-Up Rock & Roll Musical

City Opera House

Benzie Historical Society

Harbor Springs Festival of the Book

Downtown Development Authority

The Historic Vogue Theatre of Manistee

Northport Art Association

Voices Without Borders

Blissfest Music Organization

Raven and Lotus LLC

Traverse City Arts Commission

Crooked Tree Arts Center

Up North Arts

Cadillac Visitors Bureau

Parallel 45 Theatre Festival

Old Town Playhouse

Twisted Fish Gallery

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Traverse Symphony Orchestra

Rachael Harrell – Drama Kids

The Croft Residency

Drama Kids – Rachael Harrell

Michigan Museums Associations Scholarships & Conference

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Gary Gatzke

Ian Jones

Jim Young

Kristi Wodek

Mark Bowyer

Mary Gillett

Megan Heator

Molly Thompson

Renee Hintz

Susan Wenzlick

Ted Alan

Greta Bolger

Edward Kocher

Nick Walsh

Heather Harris-Brady

Monica Stokes

Amanda Kik

Mercedes Michalowski

Sharon Hubbard

Leslie Donaldson

Elizabeth Calcutt

Maia Hausler

Becky Lancaster

Linda Dewey

Melissa Johnson

Daniel Stewart

Walter J. Lee

Michelle Bien

H. Eleanor Jones

Tom Kaufmann

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