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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.
Announcing the eight artists who will be in residence at Tusen Takk in 2025!
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.
by Founder and Director Geoffrey Peckham
We are delighted to announce the Tusen Takk Channel, a new partnership with Alluvion Arts @ 414, housed in Commongrounds in downtown Traverse City, MI.
Read an artist profile of 2022 artist-in-residence Ahavani Mullen published this week in Art Spiel!
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.
“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
“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
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.
Shop our artists-in-residence's studios for unique gifts, and support artists this holiday season!
Now available for purchase: artists-in-residence Emily Sheffer and Barbara’s Bosworth’s limited edition hand-bound photography book Diana’s Baths.
Tusen Takk in Leelanau County Gives Artists a Place to Create
Vaune Trachtman (2021 AIR) was named a 2022 recipient of the Individual Support Grant awarded by the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
Ahavani Mullen reflects on her work and process as she explores the ways subtle energies and ephemeral vibration can be made visible using energetically-charged paint to create fields of color, light, and texture.
As two printmakers working independently, yet resonating with the collaborative energy of process and practice, Royce Deans and Angela Saxon both found new insights and directions in their monotypes during their time in the studio.
Revelations: 2019-2022 opens in NYC on June 9 with work by fall 2021 resident Jinwon Chang and showcases his newest series, revelatory work made in solitude throughout the eighteen months of lockdown in his studio and during his residency.
with eyes the color of time by Leilehua Lanzilotti (2023 AIR) was named a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Artist Spotlight: Jinwon Chang is now open at the Dennos Museum Center through July 24, 2022.
Announcing the residents in our 2022-23 season!