Anny Hubbard featured at LSSU gallery

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Artist Anny Hubbard featured in Shouldice Art Gallery at LSSU this month

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - Well-known Northern Michigan artist Anny Hubbard is back at Lake Superior State University through the month of October with a display of her work in the Kenneth J. Shouldice Library art gallery.

Her exhibit, Just Anny, features new works created for the exhibit along with a few from various stages of her career.

LSSU Native American Center Director Stephanie Sabatine invited Hubbard to display her wares as part of the celebration of Native American Heritage Month, which will be observed later in November.

"Anny is a northern artist of international renown," says professor Mary June of LSSU's Shouldice Library. "Expressing herself in water media, poetry and traditional crafts, she explores the social, spiritual and physical realities of her community and woodland surroundings. Creating paintings using acrylics, watercolors and gouache on paper, birch bark and found objects, she preserves her impressions of the culture of the north and her observations of the area."

Hubbard continues the tradition of making birch bark cutouts; patterns with which she and others can create appliqué and quill works of art.

She enjoys writing poetry and was included in the anthologies ,em>O’Gushnanan: Our Mother, and Superior Poetry Café 2008-2009. 

She has also published two books: Spirit Seeds, and Strong Women of the North.

Hubbard creates one-of-a-kind, woodland-style leather dolls, and tiny seed beads woven into miniature bags and jewelry.

She also occasionally makes small runs of prints, handmade collections of poems and collages.

Hubbard preserves many old crafts by sharing her knowledge with others in classes and workshops.

She has taught classes at several area institutions, including LSSU and Bay Mills Community College. In 1997, 1998 and 2003, Hubbard was awarded a grant to teach an apprentice in Michigan State University Museum's Traditional Arts Program.

She is currently teaching two classes at BMCC, noting, "While it is important to know how to skin a beaver or weave a basket, it is also important to know how to use the Internet."

Hubbard has displayed and sold her work for more than 30 years at galleries and gatherings throughout the Great Lakes area and has won many awards.

She has sold work to collectors worldwide and has exhibited in several international shows.

Her work may be found locally at Northern Artists Market in Petoskey, Penny’s Kitchen and Alberta House in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the Dancing Crane Coffee House in Bay Mills and the Calico Hen in Richard's Landing on St. Joseph’s Island, Ontario.

Hubbard is available for workshops and shows.

She may be reached at her Sault Ste. Marie gallery by calling 906-635-9230 or writing [email protected] 

Her LSSU exhibit is open during regular Shouldice Library operating hours, which are available at lssu.edu/library

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