Maggie Pavao 11/12/24 Maggie Pavao 11/12/24

Construction underway on the Prayer Building

Construction of Tusen Takk’s Prayer Building is underway! The building was designed to give residents a place of quiet and retreat from the making processes.

Maggie Pavao 8/20/24 Maggie Pavao 8/20/24

Fall 2024 Community Updates

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Tusen Takk Announces 2025 Artists-in-Residence

Announcing the eight artists who will be in residence at Tusen Takk in 2025!

Maggie Pavao 6/26/24 Maggie Pavao 6/26/24

“Sky Into Stone” Opens this Fall at the Dennos Museum

The Tusen Takk Foundation and the Dennos Museum are pleased to present Sky Into Stone, a solo exhibition by alumni artist-in-residence Katrina Bello featuring charcoal and soft pastel drawings created around the time of her 2023 residency.

Maggie Pavao 5/30/24 Maggie Pavao 5/30/24

Summer 2024 Community News

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Spring 2024 Community News

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Winter 2023-24 Community News

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“A Separate Shining” Opens this Fall at the Dennos Museum

Maggie Pavao 8/14/23 Maggie Pavao 8/14/23

Fall 2023 Community News

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Two Ways of Doing Things

by Founder and Director Geoffrey Peckham

Maggie Pavao 5/15/23 Maggie Pavao 5/15/23

Tusen Takk Channel: An Artist Engagement Series at Commongrounds

We are delighted to announce the Tusen Takk Channel, a new partnership with Alluvion Arts @ 414, housed in Commongrounds in downtown Traverse City, MI.

Maggie Pavao 5/10/23 Maggie Pavao 5/10/23

Ahavani Mullen Artist Profile in Art Spiel

Read an artist profile of 2022 artist-in-residence Ahavani Mullen published this week in Art Spiel!

Maggie Pavao 5/3/23 Maggie Pavao 5/3/23

Artist Journal: Leilehua Lanzilotti

Spring 2023 composer-in-residence Leilehua Lanzilotti shares more about the work she is pursuing in residence, a new installation piece co-commissioned by the Noguchi Museum and Sō Percussion, inspired by the work of artist Toshiko Takaezu.

Maggie Pavao 4/17/23 Maggie Pavao 4/17/23

Artist Journal: Alyssa Smith

“Through a personal journey of healing, I've also been exploring the healing properties of various plants - often considered weeds - as well as the energetic properties of color, wanting to visualize the invisible properties of these plants and how they may affect the world around them. ” —Alyssa Smith, 2023 Guest Artist

Maggie Pavao 4/4/23 Maggie Pavao 4/4/23

Art in Flux

“Tusen Takk vibrates with a feeling of creation and refinement, and what is creation but the transition from nothing to something, refinement the transition from something to something better?” —Snowden Wright, 2023 writer-in-residence

Maggie Pavao 3/31/23 Maggie Pavao 3/31/23

Spring 2023 Community News

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Artist Journal: Debra Salopek

Debra Salopek shares her process and inspiration behind her residency project. This body of work is on view in her exhibition Fallen Pieces of the Moon at Commongrounds in Traverse City, March 30-May 14, 2023.