ABOUT US:

Art Showcase Magazine (ASM) is dedicated solely to promoting fine artists and venues of fine art in the Southeastern Michigan region. It is published bi-monthly by Lion Tree Communications of Ann Arbor, Michigan and has a circulation of 100,000 copies annually in the Washtenaw, Oakland, Western Wayne and Southern Livingston County areas.

ASM was conceived to enhance awareness and improve public accessibility to and support of fine artists and fine art venues in the Great Lakes region, to educate readers on the most current and interesting local art content, and to serve our business advertisers and community partners through a widely-read, sharply-designed magazine.

We showcase an extraordinary breadth of talented local artists in all forms of visual media with vivid images and artist biographies, enabling artists to reach a more interested audience and to more easily sell their work.

We're also proud to help enrich the lives of our readers through compelling editorial coverage of important artists, fine art venues and other art-related subjects, helping them to further (or discover for the first time) their love of fine art.

Through our partnerships with local organizations such as community art centers, theaters, museums, art groups and educational institutions, as well as our advertisers, Art Showcase Magazine is a meeting place where the communities of the business world and the fine arts come together.

Jonathan Himlin PUBLISHER Art Showcase Magazine's Publisher and owner of Lion Tree Communications, Himlin was born and raised in Ann Arbor and has held art as a passion in his life from an early age. Inspired by that passion, in the spring of 2003 he brought Art Showcase Magazine to life with the mission to provide local artists and art venues an effective and accessible vehicle to better promote themselves; and to provide the public a tool with which to educate themselves about visual fine art.
Kim Brown CO-FOUNDER, EDITOR, DIRECTOR OF SALES Brown brings multiple talents to ASM with sales, management, and business development expertise. She combines her award-winning, research-style writing with her inherent creativity to engage the ASM audience with articles that are both informative and entertaining. As a hobbyist she enjoys drawing, painting, metal and textile work. Her inimitable high school art teacher, Taylor Jacobsen, inspired Brown's love of art history. Brown grew up in Saline, Michigan and received a BA in Political Science from EMU.
Dana Krozek CONTRIBUTING WRITER When she's not forcing a well-developed insight on what separates good art from bad to apathetic friends, Krozek is enjoying life in NYC, where she writes for THE FADER.
Laurel Reynolds CONTRIBUTING WRITER Reynolds has traveled much throughout the US and Europe, making a temporary home for herself in Italy, but has returned to her beloved Ann Arbor. A writer since the tender age of seven, she believes whole heartedly that scrivere 'e vivere due volte (to write is to live twice)!
Cherie Charbeneau CONTRIBUTING WRITER When Cherie isn't following the whistle of a train to Ohio or the beat of the drum to Nigeria, she expresses her creative energies through beads, fabric, poetry, food, and aromatherapy. Cherie graduated with a BGS from the University of Michigan in 1999.
Paul C. James CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER James is an award-winning photographic artist and a graduate of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. “There is much beauty in the world. All one has to do is slow down and enjoy the journey.”
Marco Mancinelli CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER For the past 25 years, Mancinelli has combined the skills of a photojournalist with the heart of a humanitarian and the eye of both a documentary film maker and a fine artist. Mancinelli takes great pride in his work with charitable organizations, primarily those that serve children.
Sandra Xenakis CONTRIBUTING WRITER An artist herself, Xenakis loves to write about other artists. She has been a writer for 45 years and a jewelry designer for 20, and she understands the challenges of the creative process.
Tony Richards CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Richards is a freelance photographer based in Ann Arbor, MI. He started in the field taking pictures of politicians and college students as a freelance photojournalist in Lansing. Richards has expanded his range to include photographing art, weddings, sporting events, and still life. tonyrichardsphoto.com
Nancy McKeon CONTRIBUTING WRITER A native of Boston and graduate of UCLA, McKeon has spent more than 20 years as a copywriter and broadcast producer. Her work for both domestic and international clients has taken her around the globe to locations as distant asSoutheast Asia, Japan and the Pacific Rim.