ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore's September Artist-in-Residence Ani Garabedian works on a landscape painting outside the Tweddle farmhouse near Empire during a session for visitors to meet the Detroit artist and learn about her work. Garabedian said she often works from found or personal photographs as a way of bringing old memories back to life, and that she approached the residence as a way to be in nature enough to see how it would affect her work. The park hosts two artists-in-residence a year, in September and October, and has sponsored the program since 1993. Artists donate an original piece of art to the park, interact with visitors and offer at least one formal public presentation of their work.

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