HANCOCK, MI – Finlandia University Gallery will present a six-person exhibit titled What We Will Inhabit if Not Our Bodies at the Finlandia University Gallery, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center (FAHC), Hancock from January 8 to February 12, 2021. Appointments for a private viewing of the exhibit can be made with Gallery Director Carrie Flaspohler at (906) 487-7500 or by email at gallery@finlandia.edu

A Zoom reception with the artist will take place on January 28th at 7pm.

Penland School of Craft, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, is an international center for craft education offering workshops, residencies and gallery exhibits. Co-curators and exhibitors Scott Vander Veen (current Core Fellow at Penland) and Kenyon Hansen (former Instructor) have organized the exhibit, What We Will Inhabit if Not Our Bodies, an exhibit of six artists who have been affiliated with the Penland School of Craft past and present.

Along with Vander Veen and Hansen, Tanya Crane (former Instructor), Maggie Jaszczak (former Resident Artist), Ellie Richards (current Resident Artist), and Kento Saisho (former Core Fellow) will also have work in the exhibit. In this year of enormous disruptions to our daily lives, these six artists exemplify the important role creatives play in interpreting, stretching, and embodying the world around us. Each artist brings the common language of craft to translate ideas to physical form, one of arts most transformative powers.