The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) âTalk About Artâ series opens its 2015 season with Traverse City author Doug Stanton, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Doug Stanton is a teacher, lecturer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harmâs Way and Horse Soldiers, and the co-founder of the National Writers Series, a year-round book festival held at the Opera House in downtown Traverse City. His writing has been widely published in Esquire, The New York Times, Time and the Washington Post. Stantonâs other notable contribution to the regionâs cultural landscape is as a founding member of the Traverse City Film Festival. On Jan. 29, Stanton will talk about his writing life and a new book in process â a profile of several young men who found themselves thrown together by the Viet Nam war.
Talk About Art is a series of conversational interviews with regional artmakers. It is a winter project of the GAAA and focuses on creative practice, process and making as experienced by a range of visual and performing artists and craftspeople. For more information, go to: http://www.glenarborart.org/; or call 231/334-6112.