Events › Playing with Paint and Collaborating with Collage

Join Maker-in-Residence Joel Schoon-Tanis and help create and assemble a community project for the Big Read Lakeshore. Joel will help you explore the properties of acrylic paint, and then together the group will create elements for a large scale piece of community art. Come dressed in paint clothes.

About Joel Schoon-Tanis:

For over 30 years Joel Schoon-Tanis has been a working artist in Holland, Michigan. He has written and illustrated a handful of books (including "The Dragon Pack Snack Attack", “40: the Biblical story”, “At Psalm’s School” and “Lulu and the Long Walk”), painted murals around the world (including Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, The Dominican Republic, Germany, Palestine and exotic northern Wisconsin), and painted nearly a gazillion paintings in his career. His work is in churches, children’s hospitals, schools, restaurants, businesses and many private collections. In 2016 one of his images was presented to the Pope. In 2017 he joined international artists in Leipzig, Germany to create art around themes of social justice in conjunction with a gathering for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Last summer, he moved his art studio to the Third Reformed Church of Holland, MI, where he is the artist in residence.