2008 PROGRAMS FOR KIDS & ADULTS

Stories are everywhere---among bones and stones, feathers and fur. Explore with artist/naturalist Lori Taylor as you learn about Michigan’s wildlife and wild lore in a variety of programs for all ages. In these art/nature classes “come to your senses”, learn basic sketching techniques, and make creative compositions to instill stewardship while getting outside to enhance your outdoor experience and “wander the wild with wonder!”

NEW! Legends of the Land: Sleeping Bear
Lori Taylor, selected as 2007 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Artist-in-Residence, will take you on a journey from the “shores of Gitchee Gumee” to the cedar forest of South Manitou Island with a slide show and talk. Lori will read her rewritten poem styled after the famed legend and “reassemble” her experiences and mixed media painting that she donated to the National Park’s Philip Hart Visitor Center in Empire, MI. Participants will create their own mixed media “Great Lakes, Great Land” greeting card” (one per family please) to raise awareness and protect Michigan’s waters, flora, and fauna.
1 hr. program
*Family program suitable for children age 4+
$300.00 (includes paper and misc. supplies)

ArtWILD! “Hide ‘n Sneak”
Calling all naturalists! Discover some of Michigan’s unique and unloved creatures that roam the night. We fear what we don’t know, so let’s protect our nightly neighbors by learning more about them. Explore “cabinet of natural curiosities” (small museums) of jaws, paws, and claws to create your own altered book “creature cabinet” to tell your animal’s story.
*Bring glue stick, pencil, old hard cover book (to be cut apart)
**Ages 7 to 12 (30 max. class size)
1 ½ hr. program
$320.00 (includes paper and misc. supplies)

Book of SEASONS
Books of old celebrated the seasons, light, and life. Gather the family to get outside and find spring, summer, autumn, or winter! Learn sketching techniques and decorate an accordion-style “codex” book of your seasonal scavenger hunt and natural finds.
*Bring glue stick, pencils
**Family program suitable for children age 4+
1 hr. program (12 family class size)
$250.00 (includes paper and misc. supplies)

Migrators and Messengers: An Avian Miscellany
Birds have long been revered for their song and dance of the seasons. Learn the lore of Michigan birds while observing them and sketching them “on the wing”. Make egg tempera paint to decorate the cover of your unique accordion-style “codex” book.
*Bring binoculars, pencil, paper, 4 (10-12”) twigs, glue stick.
**Ages 12 to adult
1 ½ hr. program (30 max. class size)
$320.00 (includes paper and misc. supplies)

Please email LORI TAYLOR at loonwoman@gmail.com or call 810-877-8680 to schedule.
**Discounts available for multiple program presentations.

LORI TAYLOR Art Show & Exhibition List 2008

Mar. 28, 29, 30 Cottage & Lake Living Expo c/o Whisper in the Woods, Grand Rapids, MI

May 3, 4 Pinckney Studio Tour, Brighton Art Guild email:loonwoman@gmail.com

May 17 Kirtland Warbler Fest, Roscommon, MI

May 31 Pinckney Art in the Park, Pinckney, MI

June 7 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Show, Kalamazoo, MI

July 26, 27 Art on the Rocks, Marquette, MI

Aug. 3 Portland Art Fair, East Jordan, MI

Oct. 15 - Nov. 25 Sweet Water Cafe' - Marquette, MI

*Watch for the Greater Flint Arts Council Show 2008 TBA, Flint, MI

NEW! SLEEPING BEAR: The Legend Prints

NEW! Signed Limited Edition of

170 Giclee' Prints Celebrating

Michigan's 1837 Statehood

"Sleeping Bear: The Legend" (12x16")
This giclee' print of the 20x24" original on display at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, MI celebrates Michigan's lakes, land, and legends.
Comes with the artist's complete poem of the famed Ottawa legend presented at the Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore National Park in September 2007.

Fleeing fires of Wisconsin
Seeking refuge, seeking shelter
Forth upon the Gitchee Gumee
On the Shining Big Sea Water
Came a mother with her two cubs
Swam the black bear, Mishe Mokwe...

To order: EMAIL Lori Taylor at loonwoman@gmail.com or
From the http://www.loritaylorart.com/ Gallery Page, select any $40 print and email specifying the NEW Sleeping Bear: The Legend - Print

Then came a soft voice gentle
A message soft and gentle
Like the whisper of a feather
Like a falling leaf on water
Tell your children to remember
To recall with utmost care
Tell them, dream of wild places
Dream the beauty that is there...

NOW you can order "Sleeping Bear: The Legend" giclee' print matted in black, displayed in a walnut, cherry or black 16x 20" frame for $150.00 plus shipping!

"Sleeping Bear: The Legend"

"Sleeping Bear: The Legend"

by Lori Taylor

20 x 24" (Mixed Media)

September 2007

Property of Sleeping Bear

Dunes Lakeshore National Park

Empire, MI

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park Artist-in-Residence

As winner of the 2007 Sleeping Bear Dune National Park Artist-in-Residence program, I will be staying in Empire, Michigan from Sept. 9 until Sept. 29, 2007. I will be studying the fauna and flora as well as gathering inspiration from the voice of the land and lake to tell the story of the Legend of the Sleeping Bear. I will be creating a piece to donate and and excited to work on the site for the three weeks. During my stay I will be visiting South Manitou island, greeting visitors and presenting a program on Sept. 28. For more information:


http://www.nps.gov/slbe/parkmgmt/artistinresidence.htm

Nature Likes to Hide

"Nature likes to hide." Heraclitus, 6th century BCE

"Yet how does one see into the secret of nature? The answer to that riddle may lie in a quiet mind, "this quiet place that Buddhas love." ...To plumb the secret act of doing nothing, of letting the book of nature speak for itself, is the lesson facing us more today than ever."
---David Applebaum, PARABOLA magazine 1999

"Let Children Walk with Nature..." (detail)

"Let Children Walk with Nature..." is a new work, 18x24" mixed media, that celebrates the child and artist/naturalist with an illuminated quote from John Muir.

Celebrate Artists & Naturalists

"It will be the artists and naturalists who will save and protect the children and the earth, a bridge, a link from them to the natural world."
---Richard Louv Last Child in the Woods

"Everyone in the creative field has the responsibility to prevent the destruction of nature. We must try to get people to think differently rather than going around picking up beer cans."
---Gwen Frostic, Michigan Artist

Thank you to all of the artists and naturalists, parents and grandparents that walked with us and told us natural stories and brought our generation to a nature awareness and showed us the beauty of this Earth so that we may pass it on. There will always be those who will remember.