

Brian Schorn


ALPENA — Thunder Bay Arts proudly hosts Brian Schorn as the Featured Artist for November and December 2022.
TBA will host a reception in his honor from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11 in the TBA Gallery. The occasion is free of charge and open to the community. The TBA Gallery is found at 127 W. Chisholm St. in downtown Alpena. Schorn’s do the job and that of 21 further area artists is found inside the TBA Gallery.
Schorn is a multi-disciplinary artist operating out of his Studio Rubedo workshop in Alpena. He grew up on the wild shoreline of Lake Huron, attained the rank of Eagle Scout, was a Countrywide Honor Society member in substantial university and, immediately after graduation, attended college or university as a biology important/pre-med student. His fascination in nature, science, and images eventually led him to examine wonderful artwork in a wide range of media.
His college or university schooling incorporates a BFA in great artwork photography and MFA levels in great art photography, graphic layout, artistic crafting and electronic tunes. Due to the fact the 1990s, he has taught visual artwork, pictures, comparative art, electronic art, seem art, graphic structure and imaginative producing at institutions together with Alpena Neighborhood School, Interlochen Arts Academy, The University of Michigan, Brown College, Jap Michigan University, and Grand Valley Point out University. He was awarded an Arts Education and learning Grant in New York by means of Arts Mid-Hudson exactly where he worked with 3rd by way of 5th graders creating a collaborative, environmental artwork installation. He regularly contributes to art exhibitions and publications as a curator, juror, and designer. Most just lately, Schorn curated “Modern Artwork at The Besser” from the permanent assortment of the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan.
Schorn’s visible art has been exhibited and revealed widely all through the place considering the fact that the early 1980s. Modern solo exhibitions contain “Comstock Wabi-Sabi” in Nevada, “Lost and Found” in New York and “Magnum Opus: A 25 12 months Retrospective” at the Besser Museum in Alpena. Other modern team exhibitions consist of “ArtPrize,” “Practice, Rhythm and Ritual: Meditative Minimalism” and “Tinker, Tailor, Welder, Weaver: The Artwork of Assemblage” at Crooked Tree Arts Heart in Michigan “The New Digital Art Biennale,” a digital gallery arranged in Brazil “Snap to Grid” at the Los Angeles Center for Electronic Art and “An Homage to Kurt Seligmann” at the Seligmann Middle for Surrealism in New York.
He has attended artist residencies across the nation, together with Iowa Lakeside Lab in Milford, Iowa Resident Artist Method in Silver Town, Nevada I-Park Artists Enclave in Connecticut and Ox-Bow Artist Residencies in Michigan. Work from his residency in Nevada is presently touring the point out in a wide range of company and academic areas.
Schorn’s art is or has been represented by Tricera, Artwork Curator Japan, Michigan Artists Gallery, Crooked Tree Arts Centre, and Rogue Nevada. His art is also in many private collections as very well as the general public collections of Seligmann Heart for Surrealism, Berkeley Artwork Museum’s Pacific Movie Archive, University of Michigan Art Museum, Besser Museum, and the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science.
Thunder Bay Arts Council, Inc. programming is manufactured probable in element by funding from Michigan Arts and Tradition Council, Nationwide Endowment for the Arts, Besser Basis, several granting corporations this sort of as the Group Foundation for Northeast Michigan, corporate sponsors, nearby governments, and from contributions by patrons. Thunder Bay Arts Council offers a variety of arts and cultural programming to the local community of Northeast Michigan, together with accomplishing arts occasions, YouthCORE initiatives, TBA Gallery, Art on the Bay, Art Vision Alpena Bi-Path Sculptures, the Alpena ICE Fest, and additional. Take a look at ThunderBayArts.org.







