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2010 |
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Harbor Arts, Inc. P.O. Box 101 Three Oaks, Michigan 49128 Phone: 269-756-9742 Email: harborarts@harborarts.com |
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Festival of Lights |
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Festival of Lights During the months of December and January, the combined communities Michigan's Harbor Country, celebrated the holiday season with the Harbor Country Festival of Lights. 50,000 individual lights are used to create "light sculptures" of indigenous Michigan Wildlife that are 20 to 30 feet tall. Imagine a school of brightly-lit Co Ho Salmon swimming through a forest of 25-foot geese parading along the lake Michigan shore. 21-foot high foxes peer at traffic along a country road and shimmering deer prance through town. These light sculptures are the creation of James Kuhn, an artist who enjoys working in unusual medium. He's chosen wire canvases held in the air by steel frames. Because the wire mesh is open, they become invisible at night and the lights attached to them appear to float in mid-air. These creations are visible from all sides and angles. "My work has always had a theme of light," says Kuhn, who's a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. He has exhibited work in the Morton Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is part of the permanent collection of the I Due Art 4 U Museum's permanent collection. His smaller work is sold at the Museum of Contemporary folk art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. |
