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The works of beloved local artist Carol Brauer-Schmidt
will be available for sale to the public in a one-day event.
The 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 15 sale will be held in the social hall at St. John’s Lutheran Church and school,
527 Taylor, Grand Haven.
The sale will feature Brauer-Schmidt’s art supplies, and works created over her more than 55 years as an artist. Brauer-Schmidt died in May of 2022 from complications
of acute myeloid leukemia.
A well-known local artist and long-time member of Grand Haven’s Gallery Uptown, Brauer-Schmidt was perhaps best known for her uplifting images of children. She was a long-time supporter and volunteer with St John’s Lutheran School, and proceeds from the art sale will benefit the school and St. John’s Lutheran Church, her family said.
that she will be one of the presenter teachers
at a national quilt retreat in Utah in June on
"Creating Art Quilt Cards"
Works by Bette DelVecchio can be seen at Van Singel Fine Arts Center
in Byron Center, MI
from January 25-April 28.
It is with sadness that we post the passing of Gallery Uptown artist GG Havens-Reid in September of this year. GG has been a glass artist for over 40 years; half of those years she worked as a stained glass artist making stained-glass windows and kitchen cabinet doors. The other half of her time as a glass artist was focused on lamp-worked glass and making the beads with which she created original necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.
GG will be very missed.
An image of an original oil painting of DeZwaan windmill in Holland, MI, created by Gallery Uptown member artist Lynne Boezaart was included in the latest book by local historian Wallace K. Ewing, Ph.D.
Although Lynne’s painting was created in her studio from reference photos, she has often painted the windmill and surrounding gardens “en plein air.”
...takes the reader on a virtual tour of the 81 state and national designated historic sites in Ottawa County. The book identifies not only seldom noticed sites, but tells stories that ignite our awareness of why that history is memorable. It also is a gallery of photographs and other images that unfolds the past and illuminates the present.”
Email wkewing1@gmail.com to order book
Gallery Uptown artists and friends celebrate the 48 years they have successfully been together as an artist-owned, cooperative gallery!