Current Exhibition

The South Haven Center for the Arts’ Exhibition Committee invites members to share artwork for the 77th Annual Themed Member Exhibition.
The theme for the May 2026 exhibition is “Off the Page”. Artists were able to interpret this theme in any way, in any medium

"Off the Page" runs through June 13, 2025. Click on the images to view the artist statement and more information about the artwork.

Geometric Shapes Dissolve

Dorris Akers

Mixed media

Strength

Vanessa Rae Brocato

Block print on old dictionary page
$65.00

Hand-carved, hand-pressed block print on old dictionary page, featuring the word “strength.”

The definition of "strength" is framed out. Tarot art inspires this image. The bunny-person’s mane evokes a sunflower and a lion. The life cycle of the dandelion is for both weedy tenacity and impermanence of all things. This was created in the year of the snake.

Mysterious Places

Alisa Clark

Acrylic, monoprint, ink, book pages

My work often connects writing and image-making, allowing language and visual form to interact. In this monoprint, text from my book Painting Memories (2022) becomes part of the printing process itself. I incorporated fragments of the printed page and also wrote words from the book directly onto the surface, allowing language to merge with paint, texture, and mark-making.

As I work, leaves and flowers spread across the table in front of me. I press them into wet paint and roll my brayer across layers of acrylic and organic impres-sions, sometimes drawing botanical forms directly onto the printed surface. These layered impressions create ghostlike traces of the natural materials used to make the print.

The Very Happy Tortoise

Alisa Clark

Acrylic, monoprint

As both an author and an artist, I often write about my creative process and the stories behind my work. This piece moves off the page by incorporating text from my book Painting Memories (2022). I tore a page from the book and used it as the printing surface for a monoprint, allowing the words to become part of the artwork rather than remain confined to the book.

The tortoise, Churro, lives in our basement and has become something of a running joke in our home. I enjoy placing him in unexpected settings in my work, and he always seems to carry a small smile. Here, Churro wanders through a layered world of monoprints and collage, moving freely across the page and into painted space.

I titled this monoprint “The Very Happy Tortoise,” and it now appears in my most recent book, The Liminal Print, continuing the idea of images and stories traveling beyond the page.

Decades Past

Mary Conley

Mixed media in canvas

A tribute to many years gone by and the memories that have survived peaks and valleys. The existence of a wedding dress, carefully hidden in a space forgotten: yellowed, wrinkled, and aged by time.

The youth that once was, now distant recollections. Through decades the lace withstands its beauty and finds new purpose. A freedom in strength, enduring its legacy and a gentle flow remains. This is a rep-resentation of chapters well lived from challenges and achievements and those yet to come.

The Moors

Deborah Correnti

Pastel

"The Moors" was inspired by the novel, "Wuthering Heights". I captured the lone tree on a visit to the moors in Yorkshire, right outside the home of the Bronte sisters. I imagined it might be the tree where Heathcliff stood when he learned of Catherine's death. My favorite passage from the novel is secretly buried in the underpainting. The form of the painting was inspired by a wood engraving in the endpapers of my copy of the novel.

Drawing 2025 #9

Edward Hoagland

Pen, ink, watercolors

My work references my interest in cartography, astronomy and calligraphy. The source for this
piece is a map of New York created in 1767 and reproduced in many atlases and textbooks.

I reimagined the map as if the image was expanded and printed on fractured tile pieces. The idea behind this drawing derived off the page of the source.... Way off the Page!