Opening Reception & Artist Panel, April 24th 5-8 pm
Long Memory Project
Sharing Our Elders Stories Through Art: Long Memory Project Exhibit
Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology will host an art exhibit celebrating the quiet stories of Michigan’s farmland with Alluvion Arts and The Alluvion. This exhibit is the culmination of The Long Memory Project: Farmland, a pop-up artist residency program committed to the passing down of important, but rarely told, stories. Over the summer, Crosshatch, in collaboration with MSU’s Broad Art Museum, brought together a group of elders with ties to the state’s farming history to share their life stories with a group of artists.
Together, they visited the Farmland: Food, Justice, and Sovereignty exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Museum, attended the Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference, and gathered for a day of facilitated discussion about farming in Michigan. The conversations flowed between heartfelt memories, laughter, and important equity work within the farming world. Artists then returned to their home studios to create work based on this experience.
As they departed, elder Willye Bryan shared, “Do something. You don’t have to accept things as they are. Do something, even if you are afraid, do something in fear.”
Patricipating artists include ceramist Debbie Carlos, painter Lilian Martinez, poet Alex Rivera-Sastre, and mixed-media artist Mike (Michaela) Nichelle.
- Opening Soon -
Fresh Coast Film Festival
mini-exhibition
Featuring 10 years of poster designs & highlighting the work of Goeffrey Holstad
Alluvion Arts will host and install a mini-gallery exhibit of Fresh Coast Film Festival art from April 23rd - June 6th, 2026. It will feature posters and artist info, ephemera, and a section showing the design process and workflow of the 2026 Traverse City look and feel from designer, Geoffrey Holstad.
Geoff is a Michigan-born art director, designer, lake surfer and trail runner who currently lives most of the year in the small, mystic mountain town of Ojai, California. Geoff has worked for over a decade as a Senior Art Director on product at Patagonia, focusing primarily on Trail Running, Mountain Bike and Kids products.
During his tenure at Patagonia, and in his off-hours, Geoff has collaborated with dozens of grassroots enviro NGOs on creative strategy-building, many based in his heart’s home of the Great Lakes. Prior to working at Patagonia, he founded and directed Cabin-Time (501c3), a roaming creative residency to remote places.
Geoff and his wife Sarah Darnell (fellow Michigan-born Patagonia designer) have an all-season cabin with their two little girls, on fifteen acres bordering Palmer Woods Forest Reserve. They are so inspired to be a part of thoughtfully preserving Leelanau’s natural magic and to connect closely with Northern Michigan’s thriving (and growing) community working/playing at the confluence of art, sport and environmental action.
- Also on view -
International Biennial of Indigenous Art & Culture
Partial Exhibition still on view on the 3rd Floor of Commongrounds.
Curated by Jorge Iván Cevallos, Ecuador
This traveling collection of artwork features over forty artists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru. Curated by Jorge Iván Cevallos of Ecuador around the concept of Indigenous history and identity. The exhibition also includes several indigenous artists from the US and Michigan; Darryl Brown, Paul Sinclair, Janelle CourTurier Dahlberg, Scott Hill, Ronald J. Paquin, Paula McNamara & Clyde Hart.