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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
Mixed media

Roots and Rings Ruin
Dorris Akers
Photograph
Photograph

Sleepwalker
David Baker
Acrylic
I saw this image on the wall, then the torch went out.
Acrylic
I saw this image on the wall, then the torch went out.

Azalea
Joan Bonnette
Casein watercolor
From the pages of a garden magazine is painting on a 22x30 page of watercolor paper. Now cut out of the page and the shape can be mounted on the wall.
Casein watercolor
From the pages of a garden magazine is painting on a 22x30 page of watercolor paper. Now cut out of the page and the shape can be mounted on the wall.

Pollinate
Vanessa Rae Brocato
Block print on dictionary page
Hand-carved, hand-pressed block print of a tiger swallowtail on a page from an old dictionary, featuring the word "pollinate." Swallowtail
reference photo also taken by the artist.
Block print on dictionary page
Hand-carved, hand-pressed block print of a tiger swallowtail on a page from an old dictionary, featuring the word "pollinate." Swallowtail
reference photo also taken by the artist.

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.
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.

What was Written, What Remains! Echoes of Grace
Talisha Cannaday
Oil, paper
Music has the power to take the mind anywhere it wants to go. What begins with lyrics on a page can move off the page and into imagination and space!
Oil, paper
Music has the power to take the mind anywhere it wants to go. What begins with lyrics on a page can move off the page and into imagination and space!

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Hope
Deborah Correnti
Mixed media — oil and cold wax with collage
I was inspired by the Emily Dickinson Poem "Hope" - is the thing with feathers. The love the idea that hope endures and requires nothing from you; like a bird
in a storm.
Mixed media — oil and cold wax with collage
I was inspired by the Emily Dickinson Poem "Hope" - is the thing with feathers. The love the idea that hope endures and requires nothing from you; like a bird
in a storm.

Fragile Beauty
Mercedes Ebbers
Acrylic, watercolor paper
Acrylic, watercolor paper

Wise Old Man of the Woods
Mercedes Ebbers
Acrylic, watercolor
Acrylic, watercolor

Fall
Len Gryga
Paint on wood panel
Paint on wood panel

Eye of the Storm
Sue Hadaway
Handmade paper
We are immersed in a storm of information
every day. The world is at our fingertips; literally
in our hands. Sanity is found in the calm center
of ourselves.
Handmade paper
We are immersed in a storm of information
every day. The world is at our fingertips; literally
in our hands. Sanity is found in the calm center
of ourselves.

Memories of Linda’s Studio
Sage Hagy
Collage on watercolor paper
Every week for many years, I went to Linda’s studio and created art and then wrote about the piece.
This is a collage of writings and art I created in that space. By mixing words and images akimbo, if you will, the piece challenges the traditional expectations of placement in a two-dimensional format.
Collage on watercolor paper
Every week for many years, I went to Linda’s studio and created art and then wrote about the piece.
This is a collage of writings and art I created in that space. By mixing words and images akimbo, if you will, the piece challenges the traditional expectations of placement in a two-dimensional format.

Discarded
Sage Hagy
Mixed media
After years of needing glasses to see what was
on and off the page, I now have implanted lens. Celebrating the fact I will no longer be searching
for my glasses, I made a collage of old glasses.
Mixed media
After years of needing glasses to see what was
on and off the page, I now have implanted lens. Celebrating the fact I will no longer be searching
for my glasses, I made a collage of old glasses.

Haiku Mountain
Jeff & Theresa Heaton
Mixed media
Mixed media

Everybody... Get In Line
Jeff & Theresa Heaton
Mixed media
Mixed media

Drawing 2025 #8
Edward Hoagland
Pen, ink, watercolors
I have an interest in astronomy, calligraphy and cartography. This piece derives from books on astronomy and specifically detailed images of the surface of the moon and at the same time images
of the earth as seen by ancient cartographers.
This source material takes my off the page and
out of this world.
Pen, ink, watercolors
I have an interest in astronomy, calligraphy and cartography. This piece derives from books on astronomy and specifically detailed images of the surface of the moon and at the same time images
of the earth as seen by ancient cartographers.
This source material takes my off the page and
out of this world.

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!
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!

Trees
Joanne Janicki
Paper mache acrylic and oil
This piece started out by recycling the South Haven tribune into the paper mache tree trunks to add dimension to the upward climb of the trees. Parts
of the print is visible in some of the trunk folds, appreciating the full lifecycle of our trees.
Paper mache acrylic and oil
This piece started out by recycling the South Haven tribune into the paper mache tree trunks to add dimension to the upward climb of the trees. Parts
of the print is visible in some of the trunk folds, appreciating the full lifecycle of our trees.

Untitled
Carolyn Jeffers
Acrylics
By gluing items onto the surface giving the effect of being raised off the page/surface.
Acrylics
By gluing items onto the surface giving the effect of being raised off the page/surface.

Inspire Creativity
Carolyn Jeffers
Acrylics
Using different shapes and items glued to a stenciled background to hopefully imply being
raised off the flat surface/page.
Acrylics
Using different shapes and items glued to a stenciled background to hopefully imply being
raised off the flat surface/page.
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