"Recent Works by Tom Rudd and Margo McCafferty" to open June 4 at Community Arts Center

"Pine Street" is one of the recent color reduction relief prints by Tom Rudd and Margo McCafferty on exhibit at Hancock's Community Arts Center from June 4 through July 3. (Photos courtesy Community Arts Center)

HANCOCK -- The new exhibit in the Community Arts Center's Kerredge Gallery, "Recent Works by Tom Rudd and Margo McCafferty," will open with a reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 4. The exhibit will run through July 3.

In 2005 the two artists were awarded an Artists in Residency on Isle Royale. After spending three weeks on the Island working on their art along with their young son, Max, they decided to buy a house and move to Calumet.

"Calumet Windows" by Tom Rudd and Margo McCafferty.

Rudd and McCafferty have had long careers in the arts. As an arts administrator, Rudd facilitated a state program for support to individual artists, directed projects for a public art program and was visual arts coordinator for yet another state arts commission. McCafferty, who earned her MFA in drawing and painting from Arizona State University, has taught English in Japan and painting, drawing, design and printmaking for colleges and universities. She has also worked as an arts administrator on the state level and has written art reviews. Both have continued making their art individually and showing art in museums, art centers and galleries and have their work in private collections throughout the world.

"Winter Raven" is another of the recent works by Tom Rudd and Margo McCafferty on exhibit in the Kerredge Gallery.

Their collaborative work, color reduction relief prints, combines their talents for drawing, painting and carving. Each year for the past decade they have completed a series of prints depicting an environment or happening in the places where they have lived. Their show of recent works will include nine new relief prints from this winter as well as McCafferty's drawings and paintings and Rudd's sculpture with an installation featuring 89 carved fish.

The exhibit is supported by a grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Community Arts Center is located at 126 Quincy Street in Hancock. For more information call (906) 482-2333.