Gallery News: The STUDIO Gallery at Presque Isle will be closed for Art on the Rocks™ on Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1, 2010. Our regular daily hours will resume on Monday, August 2nd.  If you are in Marquette please visit Art on the Rocks™ (artontherocks.org) where show regulars and Studio Gallery artists Kathleen Conover and Vicki Allison Phillips will be showing their latest work.

The Studio Gallery at Presque Isle has reorganized, recreated and revitalized its 15 year old business by formally launching a new venture that pools the talents and collections of nine local artists—many nationally recognized—who have come together in one gallery space.  With this change comes a new name: The Studio Gallery at Presque Isle.

“Many people have told us that we are the best gallery in the area,” says watercolor artist and founding partner, Kathleen Conover. “We want to hold that status and the only way we can do that is to continually offer to the community the best of what is available.”

Kathleen Conover and partner Maggie Linn are national award winning artists and feature their originals and print reproductions of their watercolors and mixed media paintings.

New partner and Studio Gallery Manager, Diane Jarvi creates photographs on copper that pay homage to the origins of photography and combine historical and modern technologies.

Vicki Allison Phillips’ jewelry of sterling, copper and gold designs are hand finished using traditional processes and blend classical styling with abstract form and textural details.

Mark Mitchell is inspired by nature, beauty and humor seen through recycled slabs of wood, and creates carved and assembled wood sculptures.

Betsy Rutz' hand-made books are made from vibrant tactile materials from around the world (including the Upper Peninsula), and thoughtfully crafted into art you hold.

Diana Magnuson’s acrylic and water color work is a blending of social observation, emotional response and cultural input put into detailed design and reflection.

Amy Conover creates found object jewelry—reduce, reuse, re-art.

Yvonne LeMire's jewelry and garden sculpture compositions are influenced from the surroundings—the industrial aesthetic of mining industry.

Collective energy is a key to the future success of the gallery located at the entrance to Presque Isle Park. Every artist participates either behind the scene or in the gallery. “You can walk into The Studio at any time and talk to an artist,” says Jarvi.

Summer hours are Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday noonto 5:30 p.m.  Closed holidays.