Artist’s Statement:
Art is food for the soul. When you contemplate art you mirror the artist’s experience; you are in touch with the universal creative imagination that breathed life into the picture. The animals and mysterious ladies who visit my pictures have also visited my dreams. They are wise, shy presences whom I try to depict in a respectful, poetic way, using a satisfying yin/yang combination of collage and painting.

Medium:
Painted silk collage in shadowboxes.

Education:
BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1977
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, 1979
Selected Group Exhibitions
From Women’s Hands, Traverse City, 2003 – 2006 annually
Michigan Artists Gallery, 2002 – 2007
Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, 1996
American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, 2002, 1999, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1991, 1984
American Craft Council Show, West Springfield MA, 1991, 1990
American Craft Council Show, San Francisco, 1991, 1990
American Craft Council Show, Boston, 1990
Suttons Bay Art Festival, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 (best of show), 1999
“ All But Oil,” Detroit Institute of Arts, 1986

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Michigan Artists Gallery, 2003
Kejara’s Bridge, 2000 – 2006 annually
University of Michigan Slusser Gallery, 1982
Ann Arbor Art Association, 1981

Grants:
Michigan Council for the Arts Creative Artist Grant

Corporate Collections:
SmithKline Corporate Headquarters, Philadelphia
Sealed Power Corporate Headquarters, Muskegon
Executive Center, Dallas

Biographical Information:
Char has maintained a studio in Northport, Michigan since 1991 where she owned Zoon Gallery 1992 – 2002. She has taught at Wayne State University, Lansing Community College, The Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Northport Public School, Suttons Bay Public Schools, and the Ann Arbor Art Association. Char’s work is included in many private and corporate collections, and she has exhibited in dozens of galleries nationwide. She lives Northport with her husband Steve Wetherbee and son Ben, a University of Michigan student. They sail to Beaver Island every summer and enjoy nature in Leelanau County.