Healing Power of the Arts Opening Reception - all day event!

The Art Experience Celebrates the
Healing Power of the Arts

Pontiac,
MI.  June 10, 2013:  The Art Experience (TAE) invites all to join us for a day of art and music, beginning at 12pm on June 22, 2013. 

Join us at
The Art Experience, between 12pm-2:30pm, 
to create a community mosaic piece, and for $1, mosaic brick with glass
and other ephemera to take home. 
Materials are provided and registration is requested via website or
telephone.

At 3:30pm,
this year’s featured artist, the international singing group, Gaia Women of the
Great Lakes Basin, will perform inside the Pontiac Creative Arts Center.  Comprised of women from Canada and the United
States, they share a joy of singing and a love of the earth.  Carolyn McDade, a singer, musician and artist
in her own right, is the group’s primary composer, and identifies herself as an
activist.  Her compositions have strong  environmental, ecological, and social justice components.  Those themes are the foundation for the Gaia
group and are their reason to gather, sing and participate. 

Also on
display at the Pontiac Creative Arts Center will be, “All Beings Confluence,”
an international collaboration of McDade and Martha Cole, a fiber artist from
Saskatchewan, Canada.  Banners, made of

sheer fabric and paint, capture the elements of the earth that Gaia women love
and want to preserve.  The banners
symbolize the interrelation of all beings, and are never displayed individually. 

The evening
will continue at The Art Experience studio and gallery space.  Various artists’ works will be on display for
the opening of the exhibit Healing Power
of the Arts: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves, accompanied by

statements on the role the arts play in the artists’ lives.  Story telling by renowned storyteller, Miz
Rosie the Storyteller, will round out the evening at 8pm. 

Donations of
$10 are suggested and greatly appreciated.  

The Art
Experience is located at 175 S. Saginaw #109, in downtown Pontiac, at the south
end of the Woodward Loop.  Find out more
by calling the studio at 248-706-3304 or by visiting our website, www.theartexperience.org.