Ticketed Gallery Events

"Collaboration"
An evening of Live Art & Music
Every Other Monday-
upcoming dates:
August 2nd, 16th and 30th
from 7-9

Jeff Haas Trio along with Featured Visual Artists
$12 Goodwill offering
Higher Art Gallery is excited to welcome the energy of live music back into the space again with a regular bi-weekly Monday night concert featuring The Jeff Haas Trio.  
Join us at for "Collaboration", an intimate , multi-disciplinary art experience. Jeff’s trio, with Bruce Dondero on upright bass and drummer Will Harris, will perform favorites from the Great American Songbook as well as original music exploring avenues for cross cultural collaboration. 
Throughout the audience/gallery space , Visual Artists will create visual music by drawing, sketching or painting . To learn about which artists will be featured at each event, give us a call.  As a fluid and evolving event, we never know who else could show up to create or perform!

SPACE IS LIMITED, AND TICKETS ARE ENCOURAGED AHEAD OF TIME
231-252-4616

Print outs are NOT required. we will have your name at the door if you have pre-paid for a ticket. 


 

"Artists for Wings of Wonder"
Annual Community Fundraiser
September 10th/ 6-8 pm
$36 per person and to support W.O.W.
 

Higher Art Gallery invites you for an evening of Art, Music, Libations and Cross Cultural Experience all in an effort to benefit The new Wings of Wonder Tribal Raptor Rehabilitation Center.

About the Organization:

Wings of Wonder and the Little Traverse Bay Bands (LTBB) of Odawa Indians are partnering to build the first Tribal Eagle Aviary and Rehabilitation Center East of the Mississippi River. For Rebecca Lessard (the founder of Wings of Wonder) one of the hardest parts of stepping away from rehab work was knowing there was no one in the wings to pick up the task. Add to it Rebecca’s long-held dream of a fully public raptor center and permanent enclosure for the non-releasable eagles that would otherwise be euthanized – you get the picture. The Migizi Aviary will do all of that and more!

The rehab facility will be named “The Wings of Wonder Rehabilitation Center,” which will cement Rebecca’s 30 years of giving back to the earth.

The Migizi Aviary will be the first tribal eagle aviary and raptor center east of the Mississippi River , one of only eight nationwide. It will be located on LTBB land North of Harbor Springs (northwestern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula). 

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About the Event:

Joining The Power of Art with important local non-profit organizations in our community is what our annual fundraiser and this evening is all about!

In honor of Wings of Wonder, we have tied in the work they do, and put together a "Raptor Themed" art Exhibit by inviting over 20 Artists from our region and beyond. Each one of them is creating a new work of art for the exhibit. Paintings, Sculpture and photography are some of the mediums our selected artists will be presenting work in.

Each one of these pieces will be available for guests to purchase, and portions of proceeds will go to Wings of Wonder.

Stay tuned for a complete list of all participating Artists.

In addition to the Raptor themed art exhibit, guests will enjoy 2 complimentary glasses of wine, and delicious Hors d' Oeuvres catered by Chow Bella Catering.

We also are happy to welcome live music by local singer Arianna Wasserman as she serenades us with vocals and her many talents on cello, banjo and beat box just to name a few.

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~ One of the most exciting highlights of this entire evening which we are so grateful to have the opportunity to experience is a Cultural Dance Performance by Roberta Shalifoe , founder of Eagle Spirit Dancers. Vibrant, Healing, and Exciting is how this sacred and cultural art form has been described.

Roberta will begin her performance promptly at 6:40, which you will not want to miss!

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Some of the exciting events planned for the evening are :

~The very popular game of "Art Dart". Bring some cash so that you can purchase a few darts and try your aim on our dart board.

Depending on your skill and where you land, you could win a raffle ticket to enter a drawing to win a gift.

100% of the proceeds from "Art Dart" go directly towards WOW.

Darts are $5 for 3 throws or $10 for 6 throws.

~ No fundraiser would be complete without a selection of amazing Raffle items. Thanks to our generous and amazing community, we will have close to 30 items up for grabs. Everything from Film Tickets, Food & Dining Gift Cards, to home goods will be on the raffle table. 100% of Raffle proceeds go directly to WOW.

Raffle Tickets are $5 for 3 OR 6 for $10

~ We are also grateful to one of the events sponsors : Fusion Framing for their gift of a $200 gift card towards a custom frame to be gifted to the purchaser of anything from the evening which is in need of a frame. If more than one piece in need of a frame is purchased at the event, the purchasers names will go into a drawing and one of them will be the winner of the Custom Framing Gift Card.

We look forward to this event every year and encourage you to get your ticket while you can, typically this sells out and will not be anything available at the door.

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