Memorial Day Weekend

Dear Scenesters,

The gallery will be open for regular hours on Thursday, May 24, and Friday, May 25. We will be closed on Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27, due to Memorial Day weekend travel.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend, and stop in and visit the gallery before you head out of town if you're in need of a daily dose of art!

Be (SCENE).

2012 Exhibitions

2012 Exhibition Calendar

A Michigan State University Showcase: Jon Anthony, Yareth Fernandez, Ryan Groendyk, Megan Mack, April Matthews, Volodymyr Shcherbak, Jacob Varty, Rebekah Zurenko: Jan. 13th-Feb. 26th
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On the Surface: Robert Park, Steven Stradley, Deborah Wheeler: Mar. 9th-April 15th: OPENING RECEPTION on FRIDAY, MARCH 16th, 6-9 p.m.

Note: some of the art in this exhibition is for mature audiences.
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Words & Afterwards: Moving from Violence to Healing: curated by Melissa Dey Hasbrook: featuring Gail Bohner, Kathryn Darnell, Jen Loforese, Melissa Dey Hasbrook with community artwork: Apr. 27th-June 24th: Opening reception on Friday, Apr. 27th, 6-9 p.m.
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Look at Me: A Close Look at Contemporary Women: Tanya Bakija, Kimberly Lavon, Jena McShane, Britta Urness: July 13th-Aug. 26th: Opening reception on Friday, July 13th, 6-9 p.m.
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Lake Effect: Rurality, Ecology & Art in the Great Lakes: curated by Dylan AT Miner, PhD, Michigan State University: artists TBA: Sept. 14th-Oct. 21st: Opening reception on Friday, September 14th, 6-9 p.m.

Current Exhibition: Words & Afterwards: Moving from Violence to Healing

Current art exhibition!

Please join us on Friday, April 27, from 6-9 p.m. for the opening reception of "Words & Afterwards: Moving from Violence to Healing" curated by Melissa Dey Hasbrook.

Free and open to the public.

The exhibition will run from April 27th through June 24th.

The exhibition features work by local artists Kate Darnell, Melissa Dey Hasbrook, Jen Loforese and Gail Trapp-Bohner.
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During February and March of 2012, workshops--which were run by the participating artists--were hosted by the Center for Poetry at Michigan State University's Residential College of Arts and Humanities' Art Studio, and by the REACH Studio Art Center (as part of its after-school teen program). The exhibition will include books created from the collages of the students and local residents who participated in these "violence-to-healing" themed workshops.
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These creative activities, as well as the exhibition, have been supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Inc.

Community partners include the Peace Education Center (PEC) of Greater Lansing, the Residential College of Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry at Michigan State University, REACH Studio Art Center, and (SCENE) Metrospace.
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Regular gallery hours:

Thur, 2-5
Fri & Sat, 2-6
Sun, 12-4
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(SCENE) Metrospace is East Lansing’s City-funded contemporary art gallery and performance space. It is located at 110 Charles St. in the colorful Division Street parking structure, next door to Georgio’s Pizza. Contact Tim Lane at (517) 319-6832 or visit www.scenemetrospace.com for more information about the space. Regular gallery hours are Thursdays from 2-5 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 2-6 p.m. and Sundays from noon-4 p.m.; and by appointment.

Sunday Soup #3

Soup is on, June 24th at (SCENE) Metrospace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects.

Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most.

Admission is $5.

Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:

110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823

Free parking in the garage across the street and above the gallery.

Please direct all questions, and artist proposals, to Luke at luke@retroduck.com.

Thank you!

On Friday, June 1st, (SCENE) Metrospace presents Matt Bliton and the Kedzie Street Choir.

The group will be performing tunes from Matt's upcoming CD, Solid Ground, which will be available this summer.

The show will feature Jim Green on guitar, Pat Hudson on bass, Rick Seguin on vocals, and Nate Bliton on accordion, strings and keyboard.

Doors at 7:00. Show at 8:00.

$5

The Fight for Water, A Film by Joshua Spencer at (SCENE) Metrospace

Join us on Thursday, May 17th, for a film screening of Joshua Spencer's documentary film, The Fight for Water: A Documentary about Oil in Ecuador.

Doors at 7/film at 7:30.

Free/suggested donation $3.
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Storyline:

2009, 80 minutes


On Feb. 28th, 2009, near the tiny village of Santa Rosa, the OCP pipeline breaks in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. An estimated 14,000 barrels of crude spill into the Napo and Coca Rivers, both of which are tributaries of the Amazon River. Framed within Ecuador's new pro-environment constitution, that set the first legal precedent for a Bill of Rights, not for corporations, but for the Earth as a living organism with inherent rights and legal protections, the film looks at the Santa Rosa spill, contamination left by the Petroleum Industry, and the people living in the planet's most biologically diverse Rainforest. The film then tells the story of refugees in Ecuador's northern border who have been displaced by the Colombian conflict, and takes a hard look at the relationship between contamination, human rights abuses, and coca eradication programs.

Written by Joshua Spencer

The Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle EP Release Show

Join us on Friday, May 11th, for a great concert put together by The Great Lakes Collective.

(SCENE) Metrospace is hosting The Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle's EP release, with special guests Skinny Black & Sloan Kettering, and Frances Bennigan.

Doors at 7 p.m. Music at 8 p.m. All ages. $5 at the door.

For more info, please click here to jump to the Facebook events page.

Red Tail Ring wsg Doug Mains & the City Folk

On Saturday, April 28th, East Lansing's (SCENE) Metrospace (110 Charles St) will host Kalamazoo-based roots duo Red Tail Ring in concert. Local favorites, Doug Mains and the CityFolk will play an opening set. Music starts at 8 pm, and doors open at 7.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door.

Red Tail Ring is the Americana roots duo of Michael Beauchamp and Laurel Premo. Whether rendering a traditional tune or one of their original compositions, the duo infuses each song with musical imagination, haunting harmonies and instrumental artistry on fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, jawharp and plain-old foot stomping. Three years and 300-plus shows into their partnership Beauchamp and Premo have traveled increasingly farther in their musical ramblings, playing shows throughout the Midwest, East Coast and Southeastern United States. In the summer of 2011, the duo added Denmark to their list when they performed and taught as cultural ambassadors through the American Embassy. Red Tail Ring, a member of the Earthwork Music Collective, has been featured on Michigan Public Radio's All Things Considered, and in February were awarded Best New Artist of 2011 by Grand Rapids-based radio station WYCE.

Doug Mains and the CityFolk is a five piece indie-folk band based in Lansing, Michigan. Their instrumentation includes acoustic guitar, violin, cello, accordion, upright bass, percussion and multiple vocalists, and the music that they create ranges from intimate guitar and vocal melodies to songs that swell with high energy and excitement.

For more information on Red Tail Ring, visit www.redtailring.com

"Put On: Wearing Gender" A Performance by Chelsea Roberts

On Thursday, April 26th, Chelsea Roberts, a local Lansing artist and senior at Michigan State University, will give a performance at (SCENE) Metrospace entitled "Put-On: Wearing Gender."

The work focuses on Roberts' desire to explore gender as being socially constructed on the body via clothing.

Through spoken words, audio-effects, movement, dressing and undressing, Roberts will use this performance to draw focus to and create dialogue around the pieces of our wardrobe that signify gender.

This piece is influenced by Roberts' research into performance art and fashion theory, but it is also a personal work that draws from her experiences as an artist and as a woman.

Roberts is working under the supervision of Dr. Melissa Thompson in order to research, write, and realize "Put-On." Roberts' past work in Lansing has included collage installations at Basement 414 and The Creole Gallery, as well as musical performances at The Root Cellar and Mac's Bar.

This performance will run roughly 45 minutes. Doors at 7 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m. Free to the public.

East Lansing Sunday Soup #2

Soup is on, April 15th at (SCENE) Metrospace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects.

Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most.

Admission is $5.

Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook here.

Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:

110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823

Free parking in the garage across the street and above the gallery.

For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please use the link above.

If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com.

Thank you!