Creative Chairs will Benefit Kids at the Leland Furniture & Fine Art Show

June 16, 2004

Be sure to sit down while you’re reading this: The Leland Furniture and Fine Art Show returns for a second season the weekend of June 18-20 with a chair-ful chairity.
The organizers of the show have teamed up with Traverse City’s Miracle Manor to kick off the “Chair a Child” Campaign. The campaign features the work of area furniture artists, three of which are the original organizers of the Leland Furniture and Fine Art Show. Joe Buteyn, Joe Stearns, and Matt Joppich all have donated their time to create chairs which will be sold to benefit the Manor.
Other exhibitors at the show will include custom furniture maker Jim Rantala along with landscape artists Mary Fuscaldo, Kaye Krapohl, Joyce Petrakovitz and Nancy Stuck. The show will be held at the Old Art Building in downtown Leland.
The opening is scheduled for 6 to 8 pm Friday, June 18. Show hours are: Friday from 1 to 9 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Area artists who have donated their time to create chairs for the benefit include Ralph Rye, Clifton Monteith, Bob Purvis, Paul Czmanski, Joe Buteyne, Paul Paradis, Matt Joppich, Joe Stearns, Baryn Fetter, Chip Gadek, Paul May and Larry Hammond.
The first annual Traverse City “Chair a Child” chairs will be featured June 20 through August 20 in select downtown stores in Traverse City. The public is invited to purchase the handcrafted chairs to help fund the programs of Miracle Manor. Miracle Manor is dedicated to providing recovery services for women and children struggling with addiction.
The chairs will be “revealed” to the public during a special presentation at the Leland Furniture and Fine Art Show on Friday, June 18 at 7 p.m. The public is invited, admission is free.
For info, contact Kaye Krapohl at 231-342-7779.