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Aug 16, 2011 | EDOT Staff

ECVA Calls Artists for Festival of Arts

Nativity Episcopal Church in Bloomfield Township, Michigan will again host the annual “Festival of Arts” on September 16-18, 2011.

 

Since its start in 1956, art has been part of the mission statement at Nativity Episcopal Church.  For the “Festival of Arts” all manner of disciplines will be accepted, including textiles, paintings, sculpture, photography, glass and pottery.  Also included will be acrylics, jewelry, watercolors, fibers, graphics and surface art.  The last call for artists has been extended to August 31st .

 

Deborah Odette, formerly of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will supervise display and hanging.  The juried exhibition items will be for sale and the entire presentation area will be decorated as an art gallery.

 

The juror will be Wayne State Professor Urban Jupina who is an accomplished fiber artist and fine arts historian.  Jupina, who is this year’s president of the Michigan Surface Design Association recently presented in Europe at the International Triennial of Tapestry in Lodz, Poland.   

 

“We will have a gala opening reception on Friday, September 16, at 7:00 pm. for the artists and presenters to mingle with the special guests,” said Henryka Olbrot.  Olbrot is president of the Lakeland Society of Artists which supports the show.  She is an active art ambassador in the Oakland, and Wayne County.  The exhibition items can be for sale and the presentation area will be decorated as an art gallery.   

 

Special prizes will be an artist’s proof vase sculpted by local artist Patricia Auerbach and potter Robert Nixon has done a unique clay presentation dish.

 

Download a notice here for your church newsletter.

 

http://www.nativityartsfestival.org/