Northern Michigan University DeVos Art Museum

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 to @nmuillustration @nmuart student @lexamillionstudio for earning the gold 🥇 award. We look forward to hearing all about your upcoming adventures! 💫

Congratulations, @nmuart Katelyn Ginger for earning the silver 🥈award! We look forward to seeing what is next! 🐇

Congratulations 💫 Elliott Smith @elliottsmith11 for earning the bronze award 🥉for your incredible ceramic My Mind & Me series! We look forward to seeing what is next! 🎉

🖼️ ❤️‍🩹 I cannot thank JoAnn Shelby enough for tracking me down at the bookshop today to let me know Mom’s work was being featured tonight (and the next almost year!!) at the @devosart in the @lakesuperiorart Permanent Collection 🎨 I had SO MUCH FUN! 🤗 Aunt Julie came and I knew half of the rest of the people there 😱 Friends @artofjohnfrench and @m.bjork.art , both of whom’s work will be in that collection some day 🤌🏻🤌🏻, MARV was there 😻, Diane Kordich, Jack and Cindy Deo…and the art in that room! A who’s who of the history of art in Marquette 💚 Christine Garceau , Ed Risak, and @conover_watermedia , who I’ve known my whole life (plus the people I’d mentioned already) and so many others who’s names I grew up hearing. Seriously go check it out. It’s free. You have zero excuse not to go see the heart of our community 🌈 #marquette #art #imissmymom #bobbiameen #localart

The Winter 2026 NMU School of Art & Design Senior Exhibition is on view through May 1. The show highlights graduating seniors from concentrations across @nmuart . Images 1-15 feature installation photos of works in the exhibit. Image 16, is the poster designed by @nmuillustration Molly Mannor that reads, Senior Exhibition, Are you watching? April 16-May 1, 2026. This exhibition features artists in the following areas: Ceramics, Digital Cinema, Graphic Design, Illustration, Metalworking, Painting and Drawing, and Photography. Featured artists include Madison Buszka, Clara Chambers, Livia Ganley, Katelyn Ginger, Aubrey Huddleston, Victoria Iporre Buitrago, Savannah Johnson, Maggie Jordan, Lexi Klamer, Jane Konigsberg, Gianna Madero, Molly Mannor, Paige Miller, Lex Roach, Elliott Smith, Will Voss, Elyse Wejrowski, Aila Weycker, Taryn Whitney, and Breeze Wojciechowski. Join us for the closing reception on Friday, May 1st, 7-9 pm. Come early for the film screening at 6:30 pm. We are located at the corner of Tracy & 7th. Awards announced at 8 pm. Thank you to the Friends of the DeVos for sponsoring the Gold Award and the NMU School of Art & Design for sponsoring the silver and bronze awards.

We are hiring students for summer gallery attendant positions! Our fabulous student staff (@livia_ganley6 and @abbybfoskuhl ) are soon graduating! 🥲🎉That means there is a chance for you to join us. Positions may be filled on a rolling basis until adequate museum coverage is reached. Federal work-study is preferred for this position. Primary Responsibilities: - Opening and closing the museum and performing basic security checks. - Monitor the galleries during open hours from the front desk. - Answer the phone and greet people. - Answer questions about the exhibitions and the museum. - Assist with installing and de-installing exhibitions. - Occasionally hang posters on-campus and in Marquette. - Special projects as needed. Qualifications: - Comfortable with handling fragile objects. - Comfortable using basic tools (hammers, drills, ladders, etc.). - Ability to work with the general public (all age groups). - The desire to learn about art and work directly with artists. Museum hours: 12 - 5pm on Mon-Wed and Fri-Sat 12 - 8 pm Thurs - Multiple positions are available depending on availability. **Applications must be submitted by 4/5/26, 11:59 pm.** APPLY NOW ON HANDSHAKE (through MyNMU): /emp/jobs/10878037/details 1 Livia and Abby during a recent deinstall 2 We are hiring 3 Installation image of the 2025 North of the 45th 4 Students receive hands-on training 5 Installation of a UP focus show with @lindseyheiden and @linda_king_ferguson 6 Apply on Handshake or reach out to Marlina in the Art & Design office; deadline 4/5/26, 11:59 pm; interviews will be scheduled Tuesday, 4/7/26 7 Our building clad with a portrait of Vida Lautner 8 Clay Vessels by local children. We kick off the summer season with Annual Children’s Exhibition!

Join us on NMU Giving Day on March 19, 2026, as the NMU community comes together to support the arts organizations (@nmudevos 💚), departments (@nmuart 💚), teams, and programs that make our university so vibrant. This year’s theme, Give to What You Love— and rally your fellow Wildcats to do the same, celebrates not only what you care about at NMU, but who you share it with. It honors the friendships, mentorships, and shared experiences that connect Wildcats across generations — the classmates who became lifelong friends, the teammates who pushed you further, and the community that continues to shape who you are. Thank you for your supporting arts and culture in our region, and for ensuring ART THRIVES HERE today, tomorrow and forever! 💛💚 Join us: (link in bio😊) use the dropdown and under programs, please select Devos Art Museum. 💛 When Wildcats give together, the impact reaches farther. The more we give together, the greater the impact — Always North, always connected. 💛💚

Late next week we plan* to open « Celebrating Legacy: Lake Superior Art Association in the Permanent Collection » This year marks the 75th Anniversary of Lake Superior Art Association (LSAA), the longest-running arts organization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In celebration of this legacy, this exhibition brings together past and present LSAA members from the museum’s permanent collection who were creating in a variety of media including ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, collage, textile, and painting. The artwork offers glimpses into their observations and experiences of everyday life expressed through abstract, representational, and functional forms. Artists include: Bobbi Ameen, Claire Bennett, Barry Bernstein, Helen Bice, Ben Bohnsack, Sally Brebner, Jon Brookhouse, Thomas Cappuccio, Alice Carr, May Cebalo, Sallie Chisholm, Kathleen Conover, Cynthia Coté, Jack Deo, Verna Depro, Nita Engle, Linda Ferguson, Wayne Francis, Christine Garceau, Vivian Glass, Paul Grant, John Gustafson, Niel Haapala, Elizabeth Hadley, Bill Hamilton, Claire Harkin, Ken Hatfield, John Heath, Kaye Hiebel, Marc Himes, John Hubbard, Kathy Carlton Johnson, Celia Kelly, Diane Kordich, Maude Kronquist, Robert LaLonde, Stella Larkin, Vida Lautner, William Leete, Yvonne Lemire, Marj Lehwald, Maggie Linn, Carl Mayer, Mark Mitchell, Josephine Morris, Tyyne Ostlund, Carol Phillips, Vicki Phillips, Bernard Park, James Quirk, Ed Risak, Sue Robishaw, Ann Russ, Christine Saari, Steve Schmeck, JoAnn Deuel Shelby, Betty Shirtz, Patty Smith, Helen Steinhoff, Patrick St. Germain, Dorothy Tracy, Dale Wedig, Sally Wilson, and Marvin Zehnder. Join @lakesuperiorart for a meeting/open house to celebrate the exhibition in April. * every exhibition install schedule in 2026 has been interrupted by snow days. ❄️ The show will be up for a year, so there will be plenty of time to enjoy it.

Now on view! Presented by the nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This year, there were 130 total submissions from Upper Peninsula students. Forty-six creative teens from the Upper Peninsula received regional honors, including Gold Keys, Silver Keys, Honorable Mentions, and American Visions & Voices nominations, from the local Scholastic Awards Affiliate Northern Shores Storywork Writing Project. The featured visual artists in this year’s exhibition are – Reese Collins, Eleanor Dohrenwend, Cat Ernsberger, Morgyn Hansen, Nynna Jarvi, Brooke Johnson, Hannah Josefsen, Natalie Joyal, Madeline Meilahn, Gabrielle Myers, Arianna Paananen, Isabelle Recollet, Savanna Rautio, Miles Spaulding, Lilia Skoglund, Addisyn Sundberg, Esme Ulland-Joy, Lila Witham, and Quinley Wonch. Join us for the Art & Writing Awards on the campus of NMU in the Art & Design Building, room 165, on Saturday, March 14, from 2-4 pm. The exhibit & awards are in collaboration with @nmuart & northern shores storywork project. 💛

August 2017 Residency ‘In Land, An Island’ A year after my residency, I returned to the US for the @rabbitisland residency 2016 group exhibition @devosart in Marquette, Michigan. In addition to making a huge photographic survey of many aspects of the island I also developed several pieces of writing, one of which is below: ‘Traces that last only as long as the earth will hold them’ It is not I, or others, who make the pathway – it is the composition of the earth and its matter responding to my journey, and those who went before and follow after. Leaves are crushed, moss squashed and twigs broken – all signs of passage – without the qualities of these materials that yield under my weight I would go unnoticed. I find the path of least resistance in the water, a body like mine, supporting my actions as I reach around the island with the swell, carried with the snakes and fish and circling eagle. I notice I have travelled by arriving somewhere else – to go back is to go forward again. It is the environment that records my actions – both in a pathway and rise in water temperature – my impact causes materials already present to change. In a million years, we won’t be here to notice the natural order thrive in our absence. I am optimistic for another earth, an earth that recreates a balanced ecology – a life system with no name, no reference, and a process that does not recognise knowledge. It is the correspondence between things that will endure. Swimming against the tide in Lake Superior, I’m thinking – as I cross by foot to the other side of the island – where is the wilderness I proposed to explore? I return to camp to watch the mainland four miles away. At the water’s edge I follow the rock underfoot, underwater, surfacing again to sandstone; and the water disappears to reveal the bedrock of the lake and leaves me standing on the flattened summit of a small peak. The real wilderness lies below the surface of the water, deep under the skin of the lake inside me – where my concern is shared with every breathing body. #LuceChoules (aka Laroche / Guide74) IMAGES @luce_choules

Join our friends @peterwhitepubliclibrary and @mqtartsandculture for two artists receptions tonight, Thursday, February 12, from 6-8 pm. The exhibition in the Deo Gallery is for, Lindsey Heiden, an artist who has this artwork in the Museum’s permanent collection room. Mostly Leporid, was part of the 2022 UP FOCUS exhibition. Heiden lives and works in the Keweenaw. Image: Lindsey Heiden Mostly Leporid, 2022 Ceramic Gift of the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum If you are in the Keweenaw, you can see more of her colorful and layered ceramic work @coppercountryarts . Where she has artwork in the Kalevala-themed exhibition and for sale in the main gallery. 💛

The 2026 Annual North of the 45th Exhibition Call for Art is open! 🎉🎉🎉🎉Apply through March 16. This call is open to MI, MN, and WI residents, 18+, living north of the 45th parallel or 45.9. The exhibition features artists residing in the Upper Midwest. Work in all media made in the last three (3) years is welcome. Work previously exhibited at the museum is not eligible. Submissions: All entries must be submitted by creating an account at devos.slideroom.com. There is a $20 fee to submit 1-5 images; the juror will select specific artworks for the exhibition based on submissions. Awards: • Jurors’ Choice award, with a prize of $500 • Audience Choice - Based on votes by visitors to the exhibition. • Permanent Collection Acquisition Award. (Dependent on the acquisition committee approval.) Exhibition dates: June 19 - September 4 This year’s jurors are: Shane Mcadams and Shane Walsh! 🙌✨🎉 Shane McAdams is an artist, writer, curator, and educator residing in Cedarburg, WI. He is a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a Creative Capital, Andy Warhol Writer’s Grant finalist. He currently writes for the Shepherd Express and received the Visual Arts Achievement in Arts Writing from the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Curator at Saint Kate in Milwaukee, WI. McAdams is a partner in REAL TINSEL, an art space in Milwaukee, and a Co-Founder of the Door County Contemporary art fair. He has shown artwork in solo and group shows at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally. Shane Walsh is a painter, teacher, and co-director of the Door County Contemporary Art Fair. He received his MFA from the University of Washington-Seattle and presently teaches painting and drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, splitting his time between his studios in Milwaukee and New York City. Represented by Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York, he has shown his artwork in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally. We look forward to seeing and sharing your artwork!