Community Arts Center's Shaft exhibit continues through Dec. 5

Cutting Copper, acrylic, by Kevin Breyfogel, is one of the entries in The Shaft exhibit, which continues through Dec. 5 at the Community Arts Center. The public is invited to cast a vote for Public Choice cash awards. (Photo by Keweenaw Now)

HANCOCK -- The 16th annual Shaft exhibit is currently on display in the Community Arts Center’s Kerredge Gallery. The community exhibit on mining includes 31 pieces by nineteen local artists: Leona Blessing, Daniel C. Boyer, Kevin Breyfogel, Cynthia Coté, Linden W. Dahlstrom, Bob Dawson, Tammy Toj Gajewski, Sue Hamilton, Charles Eshbach, Phyllis Fredendall, Joyce Koskenmaki, Margo McCafferty, Eric Munch, Clyde Mikkola, Ron Gratz, Mary Ann Predebon, Barbara Simila and Peter Oikarinen, and Jack Oyler.

The exhibit includes art depicting workers, lifestyles, buildings and landscapes as well as conceptual art in such media as photography, painting, pencil, mixed media, clay, fiber, collage and found objects. Artists were invited to submit work inspired by mining in the Copper Country, the physical signs of its presence or the effect it has had on the area and its people. Members of the Quincy Smelter Association, guided by Sean Gohman, provided photographic and field sketching opportunities for artists in October.

The exhibit will remain in place through Dec. 5. Viewers are invited to cast their vote for public choice. Cash awards will be presented at the close of the exhibit. The Community Arts Center is located at 126 Quincy Street in Hancock. For more information call 482-2333.

Editor's Note: See our slide show with some of the entries in The Shaft and Junior Shaft exhibits (See upper right corner on this page or click here). Photos were taken at the Nov. 12 Opening Reception for these exhibits in the Kerredge and Youth galleries at the Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock.