Weekend Idea Round-Up

This week's giveaway answers tickle me so, graduating with an art major/art history minor once upon a time in my schooling days. The great thing about art is how it varies so, how it uniquely speaks to each individual. Even looking at the same piece at different times in your life will conjure a different set of emotions and experience.

I've decided to display everyone's favorites, including my own, for an artful Friday feast for your eyes.

Hippo and the Hand by Peter Beard

The Seine At Asnieres by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Summer Sun by Dale Chihuly

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

Diego a la Chemise Ecossaise by Alberto Giacometti

The Dance by Henri Matisse

Water Lilies by Claude Monet

The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn

Lying Cow by Vincent Van Gogh

And the winner is...

The Night Watch, i.e. Ethan! 

Congratulations, Ethan. Please send me an e-mail at shannon@wmta.org so we can hook you up with your Muskegon Museum of Art prize pack.

Inspiration has surely settled in, so spend this weekend celebrating art. Here are a few ideas in our Weekend Idea Round-Up, and as always, creative and cultural events in West Michigan can always be found at WMTA's art preview.

High five,

-Shannon

Starting This Weekend

• Houghton Lake: Tip-Up Town USA
• Grand Rapids Art Museum: Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey
• South Haven Center for the Arts: Regional Juried Art Exhibit

All Weekend

• Gaylord: Treetops Resort: Fabulous 50's Weekend

Saturday

• Fennville: Fenn Valley Vineyards: Chili Cookoff & Wine Lovers Potluck
• Interlochen Center for the Arts: Joshua Roman with the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra
• Shanty Creek: Beer & Boards Microbrew Festival

Saturday & Sunday

• White Lake Area Perch Festival
• Grand Rapids: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: Orchid Show

Don't Forget

• Grand Rapids Art Museum: Diana - A Celebration and Selections from 100 Years/100 Works of Art
• Grand Rapids: Gerald R. Ford Museum: Betty Ford - An Extraordinary Life
• Grand Rapids Public Museum: Bodies Revealed
• Muskegon Museum of Art: Splendid Threads, Secret Messages: The Language of Japanese Kimonos and We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball
• South Haven Center for the Arts: Circus Exhibit by Joan Bonnet