201 Washington Avenue Grand Haven Michigan 49417 616-846-5460
Our shows and receptions are now inside our main gallery. Each month gallery members and guests present fresh new works as part of themed show for your enjoyment!
commemorates Gallery Uptown 50th Anniversary
and being Michigan's oldest member-owned gallery.
This show will be held at Central Park Place
(formerly Grand Haven Community Center)
from
Tuesday, August 26th to Friday, September 26th.
with Opening Reception on Friday, September 5th
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
All Gallery Uptown members have been invited to participate
as well as some of our former members.
This exhibit will be in place from September 3 to September 27
Come see it Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm or
Sunday 1 to 5 pm.
Don’t miss a chance to meet the artists – opening reception Friday, September 12, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Kristi Beukema
Karen Meis
Terri Saltsman
Tom Saltsman
Nancy Schneider
Patty Westfield
Ken Widing
Two former members of Gallery Uptown are returning as guest artists.
Catherine McClung, watercolor
Peter Johnson, ceramics
July 30th to August 30th
with opening reception Friday, August 8th
5:30 to 7:30 (artist talk at 6:45)
Catherine McClung’s new series of watercolor paintings is called Not-So-Still-Life. She has found a fresh and exciting challenge of painting birds in uncommon places. This unusual theme of presenting birds with collected artifacts gives us a sense of nostalgia and preserves the past.
"The Stories They Tell," Catherine McClung,, watercolor (left)
Peter Johnson, from Whitehall, Michigan and known locally as
"Peter the Potter" was a long time member of Gallery Uptown. He was recruited in the seventies by its founding members, when the gallery was above a Grand Haven hardware store, above a book store, and then in its current location.
He has been working with clay for over sixty years at Terrestrial Forming Pottery Studio.
Many of his thirty-six apprentices have become full time artists.