Mark talks in more detail about the process and thinking behind his Random collages, a series he began seven years ago, in a short video interview.
Random: Collages From The Scrap Pile, an exhibition of spontaneous compositions by Leelanau County artist Mark Mehaffey, is on display at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. Random is also a tutorial about remaining alert to creative possibilities.
Coffee With The Authors is a series of conversational interviews with local, regional, and state authors about the art, craft, and process of writing. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal talks with writers — poets, essayists, memoirists, fiction writers, historical fiction writers, writers of creative non-fiction – and explores how a writer works and thinks.
Building A Character
Michael Delp — poet, essayist, teacher, fly fisherman – speaks to the beauty of streams and fresh water, and the aggressions against it, through the unfiltered voice of his literary doppelganger, the Mad Angler. Delp, an Interlochen resident, discusses a new edition of his Mad Angler poems, and the device of speaking through a character.
The video interview will become available below on April 1, 2025.
Many thanks to the Cottage Book Shop and the Glen Lake Community Library for their support of Coffee With The Authors.
Coffee With The Authors is a series of conversational interviews with local, regional, and state authors about the art, craft, and process of writing. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal talks with writers — poets, essayists, memoirists, fiction writers, historical fiction writers, writers of creative non-fiction – and explores how a writer works and thinks.
Building A Story
Teresa Scollon, Traverse City poet and teacher, talks about her 2012 volume To Embroider The Gound With Prayer, creating a collection of poems that consider her father’s illness + death, with humor, love, and humanity, bringing in the voices of his family, friends, and neighbors to build the portrait; and a new volume, No Trouble Staying Awake.
The video interview will become available below on July 1, 2025.
Many thanks to the Cottage Book Shop and the Glen Lake Community Library for their support of Coffee With The Authors.
Coffee With The Authors is a series of conversational interviews with local, regional, and state authors about the art, craft, and process of writing. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal talks with writers — poets, essayists, memoirists, fiction writers, historical fiction writers, writers of creative non-fiction – and explores how a writer works and thinks.
Building An Escape
Janie Paul, co-founder of the Prisons Creative Art Project, published Making Art In Prisons, and received a 2024 Michigan Notable Books award. This book details a project that brings visual art practice to incarcerated people, inserting creative work into a dismal, spirit-flattening environment, which “upend[s] the manufactured stereotypes of those living in prison, imparting a real human dimension — a critical step in the movement to end mass incarceration.” Paul teaches at the University of Michigan.
The video interview will become available below on October 1, 2025.
Many thanks to the Cottage Book Shop and the Glen Lake Community Library for their support of Coffee With The Authors.
On a 2024 painting expedition, Traverse City, Michigan painter Barbara Reich stumbled upon a small group of windswept trees and vegetation 600 feet above Lake Michigan. She knew it was the scene she wanted to record, and it became Sleeping Bear Dune Overlook #10, a pastel painting that pays homage to yet another of the National Lakeshore park’s iconic views and dune ecology – and the hands-down favorite of the Manitou Music Poster Project Committee for the 2025 Manitou Music Poster.
Barbara Reich talks about her experience painting this scene, and the challenges of working en plein air on top of a dune. Watch a recorded conversation with Barbara below.
The GAAC’s Manitou Music Poster project began in the early 2000s. Now an invitational, the Manitou Music Poster Committee selects original paintings that offer a quintessential view, and capture the spirit of the Glen Lake region and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. All the past Manitou Music Poster winners may be viewed here. Sleeping Bear Dune Overlook #10 is available at the GAAC or online.
Read more about the Sleeping Bear Dune Overlook #10 – the site – here. https://www.nps.gov/places/000/sleeping-bear-dune-overlook-pssd10.htm
The 2025 Manitou Music Poster is available for purchase here.
