CALUMET -- First Friday in Calumet will feature two opening gallery receptions, a book signing and organ music this evening, Friday, Aug. 7.
Vertin Gallery
The Vertin Gallery will host "Paintings by John Lundeen," with a reception from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, in the Gallery. The exhibit will run through Sept. 2.
Lundeen, whose background is Finnish, has his MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He supported himself by doing fine building work for Frank Lloyd Wright's protogees, and he lives in a beautiful house on the edge of a cliff overlooking the lake, where he can daily watch the lake and its moods.
The Vertin Gallery is at 220 Sixth St., Calumet. For more information call 906-337-2200.
Ed Gray Gallery
"A Cabinet of Curiosities," a one-person show in Printmaking, by Emily Gray Koehler, will open with a reception from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at the Miskwabik Ed Gray Gallery, 109 Fifth Street, Calumet.
For more info call 906-337-5970.
Conglomerate Café
A Meet the Authors and Book Signing with Peter Oikarinen and Barbara Simila will take place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at the Conglomerate Café.
Their books will be available: Simila's Watermarks: Poems from the Coast of the Keweenaw, and Oikarinen's Armour: A Lake Superior Fisherman and Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale.
Art prints w/ poetry will also be available. The café, at 104 Fifth St., will be open until 9 p.m.
Visit the Web site Big Lake Gallery for more information.
Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's
The Keweenaw Heritage Center will feature pipe organ music by guest organist Mike Maksimchuk on the newly restored 1899 Barckhoff Tracker Pipe Organ. The Center will be open from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. for people to view the summer exhibit, "Keweenaw's Musical Heritage" photo display, and enjoy the pipe organ music.
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