Presence

Naomi simply loves to create. Her artistic path since acquiring her BFA has taken numerous turns through countless expressions until her barefoot beach walks brought her to driftwood a few years ago. Naomi holds a deep reverence and awe for Nature, especially trees. In her sculptural works, the late chapter of a tree’s life in driftwood form feels symbiotic to her own life chapter.

Naomi has happily and gratefully been known as: an art teacher, chef, baker, herbalist, nutritionist, documentary filmmaker, activist, farmer, international yoga teacher and author, and alchemist. Her favorite role, which has brought her the most profound blessings, is as a mother of two sons. She also loves supporting others in embracing the divine orchestration of life through offering New Moon Gatherings for women, which she has done for twenty five years.

Johnny Camacho sees abstract art not as an art-historical relic, but as a living beat that pulses through his portraits and abstractions. Working under the moniker “Ultrathinkers,” he merges color and line in works where memory, rhythm and identity collide.

His creative roots trace back to his home in the Bronx, New York, where the textures of urban life street culture, graffiti, sound formed his early visual vocabulary. From there, he found in abstract art a way to reconcile the fragmented energy of his environment with the emotional core of his memories.

Corrina grew up in Leelanau County and returned after studying illustration at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. She’s a lifelong artist with an enthusiasm for tactile craft and experimentation. She primarily works in collage and assemblage, but dabbles regularly in drawing, printmaking, textiles, and photography. A deep love of place is a central driving force and constant inspiration.

She’s fascinated by the small moments of light, color, texture, and line that inspire a desire to hold, touch, be enveloped by, or even eat what’s being seen. She believes mystery is at the core of great art and she strives to invoke that mystery in her own work. Outside of making, art Corrina enjoys spending time with loved ones, putzing around in the woods, swimming, cooking, sewing, and listening to British comedy podcasts.

Rachel Winslow is an experimental analog photographer living in Leland, MI. Her work focuses on the use of vintage, toy, and homemade cameras as well as expired film, prisms, and multiple exposures to create abstract and dreamlike images.

For the past decade, Rachel has been creating Solargraphy prints, using pinhole cameras to capture the sun’s path across the sky over an extended period of time. Rachel makes her cameras out of empty beer cans, strategically placing them around Northern Michigan. The cameras are attached to trees and left for many months to expose. These makeshift cameras beautifully capture the sun's path through the sky, offering a unique visual narrative of celestial movement.

Glenn Wolff grew up in Traverse City, Michigan. He studied Printmaking at Northwestern Michigan College and received his BFA in Intermedia from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His professional career began in New York City as an illustrator for The New York Times, The Village Voice, the Central Park Conservancy, the New York Zoological Society, and numerous book publishers.

In 1987, he returned to Northern Michigan and has since concentrated on fine art, book illustration, music, and frequent collaborations with environmental organizations. His illustrations often appear in books by Jerry Dennis including “It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes” and, most recently, “Up North in Michigan”. He was on the art faculty of Northwestern Michigan College from 2013 to 2024. His artwork is represented by Twisted Fish Gallery in Elk Rapids, MI.

Pier Wright lives on the Leelanau Peninsula in the village of Northport, a short walk from Lake Michigan. He has operated the Wright Gallery in Northport since 2002 during the summer months. Pier received his BA from Kalamazoo College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and his paintings are included in many personal and corporate collections across the country.

His paintings celebrate color, form, spontaneity & imperfection. Finished paintings are meant to look “easy” but they are nearly always the result of a great struggle. For Pier, “poetry, ceramics & painting have been and continue to be an investigation into my own ignorance, a process of self-discovery in which not knowing results in its own unique kind of knowledge.”