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| Shannon Karol |
Shannon Karol joined the art facility June 12, just before the annual Arts and Acts Festival. No stranger to the community, Karol is a 1999 graduate of Northville High School. She attended the University of Michigan, majoring in English and art history and went on to earn a master's degree in art history from the University of Iowa in 2005.
She has been a museum educator in art museums for 18 years, including the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University (now the MSU Broad Art Museum), the Dallas Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY. Most recently, she served as the director of museum education and community engagement at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Karol said the Arts and Acts Festival was both exciting and overwhelming with more than 1,000 visitors to the art house during the weekend.
Karol said the Art House is currently observing summer hours and is open from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. While the main gallery is currently dark, art work by students of Sandra Nursilo are on display as part of the Emerging Artist Wall. She said that the art installations at the Tuscan Café downtown would be changed today and included work by Linda Pelowski and work by well-known photographer Allen Brooks will on view after July 27.
