First Friday, December 2nd
5:00 – 9:00 pm

Handmade origami ornament by Jake Webster

Come with a handmade gift, leave with a handmade gift.

Get in the spirit!  Artpost will be hosting a handmade gift exchange in honor of the holidays.  All ages are welcome to participate.  Show off what you can make.  Come enjoy this local gathering and exchange your handmade gift with another.  Share your creativity and design a pretty card or make your own ornament.

We’re encouraging all gifts to be handmade.  This exchange is a great way to connect with your community this holiday season.

Friday August 5th, 5-9 pm

James Cornish

James Cornish and friends will perform avant-jazz at Artpost beginning at 5 pm. James is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser and Detroiter, who works in a variety of ensembles and multi-media pieces. You can get a preview of his music on his MySpace page.

This free event is part of the exhibit “What’s going on: Contemporary art from Detroit”, on display at Artpost through August 28th.

Sunday, June 12, 4:00 pm
Admission $5 at the door (includes a copy of the CD)

Join acoustic American folk duo Return to Normal as they debut their new release, Overflown. In this ten song CD, artists Marty and Corinne Lucas invert the motto of the City of Chicago, “Urbs in Horto”, (“City in a Garden). They turn their backs on the city, and wander among the folks that dwell in the garden outside the city, watching as the jets fly overhead, “west by northwest to or from Chicago”, so often that on clear days they serve as a makeshift compass.

The set begins with “Joe Casey,” a song which tells the story of a South Bend artist who worked days in the Studebaker plant and spent his evenings creating paintings depicting his younger days in the Missouri Ozarks. “The Lincoln Highway Song” conjures the mirages, and perhaps the chimeras, of a boring drive on a hot midsummer day down the flat and tired pavement of America’s oldest transcontinental road. Then there’s the frustrated wanderlust of a boy who grew up on the wrong side of the clouds in “Ode to the Overflown”.

Released on their own Quality Hill label, Overflown was recorded at Marty and Corinne Lucas’s home in North Judson, Indiana, and mastered by Jon Huxstable at Smallfishrecordings, Ashford Britain, UK. Dirk Shorter joins them on bass.

Overflown is available for download at Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon MP3. The CD can be purchased on Bandcamp, at Artpost Gallery and at R2N shows.

Sample their music at http://returntonormal.net/. For more information, or to book R2N, write marty@bigeastern.com.

On April 9th and 10th, 2010, poets from the Michiana area read for 15 minute slots, for 24 hours at Artpost’s first ever poetry marathon – our tribute to National Poetry Month in April. Below you can view videos of many of the poets who read, click the arrows right and left to move through them. BIG THANKS to Fiddler’s Hearth, who donated refreshments and breakfast for the occasion, for Ida and Glenn Williams, who donated chairs and our sound system, and for the many volunteers who kept it all running!

Friday night April 9

Saturday April 10

Schedule of Poets (2010)

Sunday, March 13, 2:00 pm

Monica Mody

Artpost is honored to be hosting a performance-reading by Monica Mody, accompanied by poets Jen Stockdale and CJ Waterman.

Monica Mody’s work has recently appeared in Boston Review Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Joyelle McSweeney), West Wind Review, apocryphal text, horse less review, Cannot Exist, and LIES/ISLE, among other journals. She is the author of a chapbook, Travel & Risk (Wheelchair Party), and has a book forthcoming with 1913 Press in Fall 2012.

She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and was awarded the Nicholas Sparks Prize.

Jen Stockdale is a student in the MFA program at Notre Dame and she teaches at IUSB. Her poems have appeared in alice blue, Salt Hill, Hot Metal Bridge, and elsewhere. A small chapbook, Now Puppy Teeth, is forthcoming from What to Us (Press).

Friday, April 15th at 5pm through Saturday April 16 5pm

2010 Marathon (l-r) Zorina Jerome, Shaun Christensen, Pam Blair

“Come early, leave late, or come late, leave early” at Artpost Gallery’s 2nd Poetry Marathon – a tribute to National Poetry Month in April. This year, 75 poets took turns reading in 15 minute time slots for the entire 24-hour period. A big THANK  YOU to  Fiddler’s Hearth — who will be providing appetizers and brunch for Saturday morning, and to The Foundation for Light Verse, for donating publications to give away during this event, and to the African-American Chamber of Commerce, for lending more chairs!

Below is a YouTube playlist of most of the poets who read — we will be adding more every day.

Friday, April 15

Saturday, April 16

See YouTube videos of last year’s poets >>

Schedule of poets

Friday, February 4, 6-7:30 pm
$5 suggested donation at the door

Niles author G.R. Pearson Burrel will be reading from her book of poetry, Passion Under the Purple Parasol, at Artpost Gallery on February 4^th from 6-7:30 pm. This inspirational book of verse talks about life, love and spirituality, and is a good read for young adults. A book signing will take place following her reading, and all four of Pearson Burrel’s books will be available for purchase.

G.R. Pearson Burrel has a Bachelors Degree in English Literature, Speech and Theatre from Grand Valley State University and a Masters in Educational Administration from Western Michigan University. She taught English to Middle School students at Niles Community Schools, has written four books and produced a CD of inspirational music. Her husband, Carlton Burrel, is also an educator and together they have raised four children and are grandparents of six.

For more information, visit http://grpearsonburrel.com.

Sunday, November 14, 3:00pm

Poets Nancy Botkin, David Dodd Lee and Clayton T. Michaels, all on the Creative Writing faculty at IU South Bend, read from their latest works at Artpost.  Clayton Michaels read from his recently published chapbook, Watermark, which just won the 2010 Qarrtsiluni Chapbook Contest.

Nancy Botkin’s published works include Parts That Were Once Whole (Mayapple Press) and In Waves (March Street Press).

David Dodd Lee is the author of The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books 2010), Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere: Ashbery Erasure Poems (BlaxeVox 2010) and Orphan, Indiana, forthcoming from University of Akron Press. His last book, Abrupt Rural (New Issues), was published in 2004.

Saturday, Dec 4th
11:00 am to 3:00 pm

Corinne and Marty Lucas of Return To Normal

The Acoustic American folk duo Return to Normal made our Holiday Art Walk very special this year. Return to Normal is Corinne and Marty Lucas, a husband and wife team who perform their own Americana compositions, as well as crafted covers and traditional folk songs.

One of their songs, “Christmas In Our Village”, was featured in the Elf Sparkle Christmas series, and awarded a Silver Sierra Award from the 2010 Yosemite International Film Festival.

Listen to some of their original tunes below:

Return to Normal by MLucas

First Friday, October 1st, 5-9 pm

Steve Echols, Marian Stetler-Emery, and Mark Snell

Join Artpost in celebrating our one year anniversary on First Friday, October 1st.

LIVE MUSIC is involved – Featured guests include Marian Stetler-Emery, Mark Snell, and Steve Echols, who will be performing jazz and originals.

The entire evening is free, light refreshments will be served.

YOU help make Artpost happen — come celebrate with us!