Ford House Hosts Fiber Art Exhibit

The exhibit will take place from Jan. 12 through March 10 at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores.

2 University Liggett Plays Open This Weekend

Student cast and crew pull off a double fall play schedule. One show opened Thursday and another tonight.

Sometimes indecisiveness is a good thing. It certainly is for the University Liggett School’s drama program, which is currently producing two plays at the theater at the Cook Road campus – Moon Over Buffalo and A Raisin in the Sun. Moon is a comical farce about the fickle personality of actors, involving love triangles and a comical supply of mistaken identities. By contrast, Raisin is an exploration of a family torn between each member's dreams, racial issues and the ultimate decision of whether a family united is stronger than one that pulls apart. Moon opened Thursday night, while Raisin opens Friday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cook Road campus theater. Saturday, November 12 features a 2 p.m. Raisin performance, followed by a 7:30 …

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Star of the Sea Middle Schoolers Promote Peace

As an art project for International Day of Peace, students wrote about promoting peace and created pinwheels on display in the front lawn for passersby.

Star of the Sea middle schoolers placed more than 100 pinwheels on the front lawn of the school early Wednesday as a display and reminder to passersby of International Day of Peace.  The students prepared a pinwheel as part of an art project focusing on ways to promote peace, art teacher Ann Tignanelli said. Each were a prompt about war and asked to write about ways to create peace, she said.  In addition to war, the students were encouraged to write about ways to reach peace locally, such as in their home, Tignanelli said.  International Day of Peace has been recognized and celebrated since 1982 and this is the first time Star of the Sea students have had a project in conjunction with it, she said.  The day has become more significant in …

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GP History

Grosse Pointe's Wassily Kandinsky Tapestry

The Central Library is home to modern art, including a Wassily Kandinsky Aubusson tapestry.

The Grosse Pointe Public Library is as much a home to fine modern art as it is to books and periodicals.  Some of the artwork, however, is easily glossed over by patrons who might not know what they are looking at—or why it is there. For instance, on the north wall of the main reading room of Central Library hangs an unassuming tapestry.  A little sun-faded, this tapestry has hung in the same place since the building was constructed in 1953.  It is not hanging there by accident.  It was selected by the Library’s Bauhaus architect, Marcel Breuer, specifically to hang where it is now.  Breuer thought that the library “building would be a synthesis of architecture, furnishings, and fine art.”  The generous donation of W. Hawkins Ferry, the …

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Viewfinder: Grosse Pointe North Art Show

Students show off their artwork in a show open to the public.

Grosse Pointe North High School students are showing off their artwork this week in a show open to the public. The show is inside the Grosse Pointe North Performing Arts Center.  The artwork varies from jewelry to photography to painting and drawing. The lobby of the center is filling with displays and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday.  Many of the student artists have won award for their work in a variety of art competition locally and beyond. 

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