It's been a VERY long cold winter, but I am fully recovered from last fall's terrible accident and am hard at it creating a new body of work.
With a freshly broken back and the help of pain medication, I still managed to be the Opening guest lecturer at the Michigan Art Education Association conference held on Mackinaw Island, October 25, 2013. (It was quite the experience).
While working on reassembling "LucKy" the Dog on my highway Property adjacent to Highway US2 & 41 South of Rapid River after returning from the 2013 ARTprize show in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I had a mishap and took a terrible fall off the large dog's posterior side and fell backwards onto an upright barrel resulting in four broken transverse processes in my lower back.
Invited exhibitor, 33rd Annual Bliss Music Festival, July 12-14, near Cross Village, Michigan.
TEDx Houghton, Michigan March 23, 2013.
A Matter of Perspective: Envisioning Potentials as a Found Object Artist
A Matter of Perspective: Envisioning Potentials as a Found Object Artist
Presented at the 5th annual Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition's Celebrate the U.P. held in Marquette, Michigan on Saturday, 9 March, 2013.
Ritch Branstrom appointed to Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Rusty the Dog makes the September 2012 Issue of GQ magazine.
August 2012 saw the closing of the old adhocWORKshop on U.S. 2 and the start of a new location at 10495 Main Street, Rapid River, right next door to Jack's Restaurant.