Reception for The Shaft exhibit to be Nov. 12 at Community Arts Center

HANCOCK -- A reception for the 16th annual Shaft exhibit on mining in the Copper Country will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Copper Country Community Arts Center in Hancock.

The Shaft 2008 by Fredi Taddeucci. Watermedia. Copper Country Community Arts Center permanent collection. (Photo courtesy Copper Country Community Arts Center)

Art works for The Shaft are on display in the Kerredge Gallery and those for the Junior Shaft are in the Youth Art Gallery through Nov. 28.

New to the exhibit this year is a collaboration with the Quincy Smelter Association (QSA). Sean Gohman, graduate student in the Industrial Archeology program at Michigan Tech University and QSA member, coordinated two opportunities for artists to sketch or photograph the Smelter site. During the reception, there will be a slide presentation of the Historic American Engineering Record photographs taken by Gianfranco Archimede in 2001. The documentation of the site was commissioned by the Keweenaw National Historical Park.

For more information call the Community Arts Center at 482-2333 or visit their Web site.