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Happenings in the Keweenaw Peninsula August 11, 2006 Text © 2006 and courtesy Copper Country Associated Artists. Photos © 2006 J. Luoma, M.D. Reprinted with permission.

Artist Dolly Luoma to exhibit baskets at Eagle Harbor Art Fair Aug. 12-13

CALUMET -- Dolly Luoma is an artist. Her medium is fiber, rattan, birch bark and grass. Dolly Luoma makes baskets. She makes baskets that are functional, arty, decorative, expressive; she makes great ones, small ones, lean ones, brawny ones, brown ones, black ones, gray ones, tawny ones: all kinds of baskets. 

Selected as this year's Featured Artist by the Copper Country Associated Artists (CCAA), Dolly Luoma will show her art on Saturday and Sunday, August 12 -13, at the the 46th Annual Fine Art Fair and Exhibit under the Big Sky on the shore of the Big Lake in Eagle Harbor.

Artist Dolly Luoma starts a new basket in her studio in Laurium. Luoma will be the  Featured Artist at the Copper Country Associated Artists (CCAA) 46th Annual Fine Art Fair and Exhibit on Saturday and Sunday, August 12-13, in Eagle Harbor, Mich. (Photo © 2006 J. Luoma, M.D. Reprinted with permission.)

Born and raised in Laurium, Mich., where she currently lives with spouse, Dr. Jerry Luoma, Dolly has been making baskets "for at least twenty five years, cause I love it! You can find yourself in basketry." Designing bird houses and English roosting pockets for birds that winter here is a recent project in her well equipped studio/shop containing bins and bins of materials.

"If it bends, it can become a basket." Dolly explains. A CCAA member, she will demonstrate her use of the forms, shapes and intrinsic colors in nature on both Saturday and Sunday. 

Artist Dolly Luoma's studio is a room full of baskets of fiber, rattan, birch bark, grass and anything she finds that can bend. (Photo © 2006 J. Luoma, M.D. Reprinted with permission.)

The annual Eagle Harbor Art Fair combines an exhibit of recent work by the members of the Copper Country Associated Artists (CCAA) and, by invitation, an open air fair of fine art and fine craft from more than 55 artists from above and below the bridge. Each piece exhibited is original and presented by the artist who designed and produced it. The work includes watercolor and oil paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, quilting, fiber, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, silver, iron, copper, stone, wood, bark, computer assisted prints and other materials. Of special interest, are the many demonstrations of the technical and philosophic aspects of the work on display.

At the fair several local organizations will be offering food and beverage services, a bake sale and an all-township yard sale. All of the Keweenaw County Historical sites will be open. The hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A handicap accessible restroom is available

Copper Country Associated Artists maintain an art center in Calumet offering workshops and a gallery of members' work. For more information call Ginny Douglas, show coordinator, at 906-337-1736, email vdouglas0643@sbcglobal.net and visit the CCAA web site.

Editor's note: Keweenaw Krayons of Mohawk will be participating in the Eagle Harbor Art Fair on Aug. 12 and 13. See the announcement on our August 2006 Happenings page.