TempleArts - Saginaw Art Museum + The Temple Theatre

Olivia Dear will be performing at the Saginaw At Museum & Gardens August 5, 2025

Amy Petty will be playing at the Saginaw Art Museum & Gardens on July 1 as part of the Museum Tunes concert series

Bruce Winslow - Painter - Artist Talk at The Saginaw Art Museum & Gardens Today's podcast features Bruce Winslow's artist talk at the Saginaw Art Museum & Gardens. The talk was recorded live on November 6, 2024 in support of Bruce Winslow's current exhibition, The Art of B.B. Winslow: The Restlessness in Me on display at the museum through January 18, 2025 www.saginawartmuseum.org/winslow2...

Bright Moments & Shifting Shadows is now on display at the Saginaw Art Museum & Gardens Learn more about the exhibition at: https://www.saginawartmuseum.org/exhibition/brightmomentsshiftingshadows2024/ Nancy J. Rodwan, known for transforming everyday objects into new and unexpected forms, uses a variety of traditional and contemporary techniques to create ethereal fiber art. Her work refle...

Trevor Edmonds is a multi-instrumentalist from Bay City Michigan who utilizes unique sound samplings, loops, and mixes these sonic elements to create his songs. In our conversation today, learn more about his approach and plan on seeing him perform live at the Saginaw Art Museum as part of our Museum Tunes Concert Series on August 1. Saginaw Art Museum: www.saginawartmuseum.org/museumtunes2023 Tre...

Mickayel Thurin is a Haitian American artist born in 1987 in Newport News, VA. She grew up in NY, VA and MI, eventually landed in Philadelphia, PA to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where she studied painting. Thurin’s chief influences have consistently been expressive color, pattern and texture. The majority of her works tend to be colorful, expressive, abstracted portrait...

Jacob Wisenbach is a multi-instrumentalist with a primary focus on the trumpet. He is also the bandleader of the Midland Community Jazz Band, which will be playing at the Patricia A. Wolfgram Museum Tunes Concert Series on May 30 at the Saginaw Art Museum in our conversation today. Jacob describes his journey to becoming a trumpeter and the experience of being a band leader. Listen in here and pla...

Learn more about James Terrell's current exhibition Transcendence: Beyond the Terrestrial Plane at the Saginaw Art Museum www.saginawartmuseum.org/jamesterrell2023 Terrell Arts DC - https://www.terrellartsdc.com/ James Stephen Terrell is a native Washingtonian who was reared in Ward 7. His parents are Rev. Dr. James E. Terrell, Pastor of historic Second Baptist Church of Washington D.C. and Re...

The Temple Theatre will be hosting TheaterWorks USA's production of The Magic School Bus-Lost in the Solar System on February 15, 2023. The production tells the story of a class that gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! In our podcast today we have guests Katie Kallaus who plays Ms. Frizzle and Alyssa...

Travis Fader is the Executive Director and founder of NOEL: Experience Christmas, a Broadway style Christmas program debuting at the historic Theatre on December 9, 2022. Fader holds a  Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Northwood University. His musical background includes writing and orchestrating Christmas music, at the notable Ocean Way Studios with the renowned orchestra,...

Barry Andersen has been making photographs of the land and sky for over thirty years. Working in both film and digital formats, his career and work have evolved through the use of available technologies. Andersen is Professor Emeritus at Northern Kentucky University where he received the Spirit of Light Award honoring his lifetime commitment to the students. Currently, Andersen's work is part of t...

Robert von Sternberg is a distinguished career artist, photographer, university art educator, and philanthropist. He has served as a guest curator for 17 art exhibitions and is the founding director of The Museum Project working to promote the recognition of internationally known senior photographers by facilitating the addition of the photographers' works to museum collections. His work can be fo...

After 40 years in law and finance, Larry Preston turned to writing in his retirement and recently released his first novel, Forged Fates. The novel centers around characters in the art forgery arena. As the story unfolds, the mystery deeps as characters connected with a murderer art conservator become increasingly entangled. In our conversation today we chat about the process of writing and publis...

Andrea Modica lives in Philadelphia and is a Professor of Photography at Drexel University. She received a BFA in Visual arts and Art History from State University of New York College at Purchased followed by an MFA at Yale University School of Art. Her photographs have been featured in many magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Newsweek and American Photo. Modica has e...

Ryan Buyssens was born and raised near Detroit, MI; an environment that imparted a rich, lifelong influence from the automotive industry’s mechinized culture. An artist in the broadest sense of the word, he expresses his ideas through countless media. His current exhibition, feedback, is on display at the Saginaw Art Museum through December 18, 2022  Learn more: www.saginawartmuseum.org/feedb...

Artist Bonnie Lalley was born and raised in Detroit before moving to northern Michigan. She is a graduate of Kendall School of Art and received her Master's of Fine Art from the University of Illinois. Lalley's work much like nature assembles vibrant color arrayed with bits of paper and detritus. Her exhibit The Circumference of a Garden is currently showing at the Saginaw Art Museum through Novem...

Zach Williams is a husband, father, recording artist, and songwriter, writing life-changing songs that come from a place of humility, honesty, and a direct reflection of God's redemption in his life. With music reaching fans far and wide, in his career to date Williams has earned two GRAMMY® awards (Chain Breaker, 2018; "There Was Jesus," 2021), and along with an additional five GRAMMY nominations...

A Detroit native, Kimmie Horne developed her own unique style of performing and singing. She was inspired by her great-aunt, the legendary songstress and movie icon Lena Horne and her uncle, Cleveland Horne, lead vocalist of Motown’s Fantastic Four. She is recognized internationally as a Jazz Singer, weaving blends of pop and rhythm and Blues, as well as classic jazz with her rich, alto voice and...

Today's guest is Myles Roznowski, the artist behind our current exhibition Symbols of the Sublime. In the exhibition, Roznowski attempts to visualize the nature of patterns through a range of media on a visually encompassing scale. We talk with him today about the formation of his vision for these pieces and the exhibition as a whole. Learn more at www.saginawartmuseum.org/symbolsofthesublime

Phabies is a Grand Rapids based alternative rock/pop group that has been described as oozing “DIY spirit with eclectic musical vibe” by Local Spins. With five albums to their name including the recently released Fire Seed, members continue to work on connecting with audiences and building a spirit of comradery where ever they play. Phabies consists of members Laura Hobson who leads song writing fo...

Flint based singer-songwriter Fernando Silverio Solis talks to us today about the disciple and work that goes into songwriting and comments about the effort and intentionality of creating songs that have personal yet universal elements. Fernando will be playing at The Saginaw Art Museum as part of the Museum Tunes Concert series on August 10, 2022 More information about the show can be found at sa...

Kora Nixon, known by her moniker MIZNXN earned the title of Michigan’s “entertainment juggernaut,” for her captivating performances throughout the Great Lakes Bay Region where she got her start as a singer-songwriter. Her soothing alto voice, poetic lyrics, and love of good ol’ fashioned fun all contribute to the allure created around her shows. MIZNXN will be at The Saginaw Art Museum on July 11...

The Stapletons are a husband and wife, harp and guitar duo. Together, they write baroque folk rich with hints of Appalachian balladry, Delta blues, and echoes of the English folk revival movement. Blues-driven harp and guitar arrangements topped by ethereal vocal harmonies combine to create a wondrous sound. The Stapletons will be at The Saginaw Art Museum on July 11 as part of the Museum Tunes co...

The Saginaw Choral Society originated in 1930 and consists of volunteer singers from all walks of life representing the Great Lakes Bay Region. Through the group's history they engaged in collaborations with others that include Boys Choir of Harlem, Dave Brubeck, and Judy Collins. The choir will perform the music of Andrew Loyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat at the Temple T...

On April 2, The Temple Theatre will host a masterful collaboration between the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, Pit & Balcony Theatre, and Saginaw Valley State University's Concert Choir, and various vocal soloists as they present Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. This production will include a broad range of Mozart's music played out on the stage. Today we speak with guests Maestro Fouad Fakhouri...