2022: Year in Review

From all of us at Tusen Takk, we wish you an art-filled and joyful 2023! We're thankful to be able to host artists from around the world in our corner of Michigan, and we're grateful for your support as part of our community, near and far. Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

2022 YEAR IN REVIEW

RESIDENCIES
In the snowy months, Joe Labate and Laura LaFave worked collaboratively on their series Under One Roof, publishing a full portfolio of their works on paper, set in the wintry backdrop. As the blooms started to appear, local artists Royce Deans and Angela Saxon joined us as our first Guest Artists, taking full advantage of the printshop to produce a series of monotypes. As spring arrived, Ahavani Mullen experimented in her process involving 'charging' raw materials with vibrations, working on several large-scale paintings to be exhibited at the Dennos Museum Center in Feb 2023. The summer saw the return of Marianne Shaneen for part 2 of her residency, during which she continued work on her novel Homing and swam in Lake Michigan nearly every day in residence. By the time the weather started to cool again, Shruthi Rajasekar dedicated her residency to examining the relationship between creative focus and spiritual meditation, making a sacred choral work embodying these two connected realms. As the leaves started to change color, photographers Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer published their handmade book Diana's Baths inspired by Bosworth's landscape images. The day after Halloween, Jon and Cathy Cone arrived, using their printing expertise to collaborate on new digital techniques based in photogravure and relief printing. At Thanksgiving, Debra Salopek experimented in woodcuts and charcoal to expand her chronicles series focusing on Lake Michigan ice formations, inspired by the Cape Dorset collection of Inuit prints at the Dennos Museum Center. And, over the winter break, Juan Giraldo is currently in residence experimenting in photogravure to produce prints taken in/about Paterson, NJ, where he was raised, and editing his East 17th St series focusing on his parents' home life.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Joe Labate and Laura LaFave gave an artists' talk to several classes in Northwestern Michigan College's Art Department. 2021 AIR Jinwon Chang presented an Artist Spotlight at the Dennos Museum Center, where Ahavani Mullen will show in Feb 2023. Marianne Shaneen hosted a studio visit for local teens as part of the National Writers' Series youth programs. Shruthi Rajasekar led a Music, Meditation, and Yoga workshop at the Old Art Building in collaboration with yoga instructor Jeanine Mamary Ball. Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer presented the exhibition Dust Collective: Handmade Photography Books and gave an associated artists' talk at the Traverse Area District Library. Work created in residence by Debra Salopek and Juan Giraldo will soon be on view in downtown Traverse City—stay tuned for details!

RESIDENT NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
2023 AIR Leilehua Lanzilotti's piece with eyes the color of time was named a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music. 2021 AIR Jinwon Chang presented a solo exhibition Revelations 2019-2022 at the Waterfall Mansion & Gallery in NYC. 2021 AIR Vaune Trachtman was awarded a 2022 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. 2023 AIR Carolyn Drake was included in the International Center of Photography's group exhibition Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum. Hertfordshire Chorus presented the world premiere of 2022 AIR Shruthi Rajasekar's Sarojini at St Albans Cathedral in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. 2023 AIR Daniele Genadry's work is featured in a solo show at the Jameel Arts Center in Dubai. 2021 pilot resident Dan Webb and 2022 AIR Shruthi Rajasekar were featured in The Seattle Times. 2023 AIR Katrina Bello was included in the group exhibition Reemergence surveying work by artists across NJ at the New Jersey State Museum.

PRESS
"Tusen Takk in Leelanau County Gives Artists a Place to Create," Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine, Sept 2022
A Conversation between Tusen Takk architect Peter Bohlin and Traverse City-based architects Designsmiths, Boardman Review Summer 2022 Issue, July 2022