May I present the historic Old Art Building in Leland, Michigan. It is a beautiful old building with a river running along the north side of the property. For fifty years, Michigan State University taught art classes here. One summer when I was a university student, I took a course here for college credit.
Three mornings a week I would arrive with a sack lunch and my "artist's" tackle box to paint in watercolor with a group of local artists. I was the only actual college student and I saw first hand what praise and critique could do to art.
I had never been in a painting class before this and the conversations sounded so different to me. "Oh, Darlene, your clouds!" or "I wanted the water to really say something." It was obvious that they were long-time students that really supported each other and that I was just a kid passing through.
Today the building is home to the Leelanau Community Cultural Center and 17 years after that summer class, my ANA's DELIGHT totes debuted here during a Northern Michigan art sale and exhibition - cool, eh?
My advice is to have as many experiences as you can...you never know when you will come full circle.
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