WSG looks back at 2011

In this last week of December, 2011, it seems necessary to remind ourselves of the highlights of our year.

1. Our 13th year in business!
2. We celebrate the life of longtime member Dee Ann Segula, while mourning her death and the loss of a wonderfully creative friend.
3. Lynda Cole takes 3rd at Art Prize in Grand Rapids.
4. Our first wedding proposal happens at the gallery.
5. Scream 4 hits the movie theaters, featuring the artwork of several WSG artists - most prominently, Nora Venturelli's in the scene where the bad girl throws her body onto a glass coffee table.
6. More art from WSG bought & rented for the filming of 5 Year Engagement (watch for it in theaters this year).
7. Another year of top-quality, sometimes challenging, art made in Michigan.

8. Gallery artists Connie Cronenwett, Lynda Cole & Elizabeth Schwartz' artwork featured on Adams Outdoors billboards throughout Southeast Michigan.

WSG's Venturelli shows at Chelsea Center for the Arts

The Legacy Land Conservancy and Chelsea Center for the Arts have collaborated in a landscape show running through February 29, 2012. The show is a gathering of landscape "heavy hitters" in Michigan, and, we're proud to say, they're all local! Check out Ann Arbor.com's article:
http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/chelsea-center-stand/

WSG's Holiday Show Opens

Middy Potter's "Long Tall Sally" greets visitors to WSG's Holiday Show, which opens with a reception Friday, Dec. 2, 7-10 pm. The opening coincides with downtown Ann Arbor's Midnight Madness kick-off of the holiday season.

We have many smaller, unique items in the Holiday Show. Our artists have created smaller paintings, hand-made cards, jewelry, felted, recycled wool mittens and many other objects d'art to fit your list of gift items this season!

Parking will be crazy Friday, but the atmosphere will be festive with music, outdoor performances and special sales in our unique group of local retailers downtown.

We have a new neighbor in our building - Lily Grace - a specialty cosmetics shop, and Friday will be her Grand Opening, as well.

Buy local, buy handmade, BUY MICHIGAN!

Hope to see you at the gallery!