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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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)!
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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