Higher Art Gallery: Live Art and Jazz Collaboration Starts July 19

Look and listen every other Monday in Traverse City

By Lynda Wheatley | July 10, 2021

A super-sensory summer experience not to miss: From 7pm to 9pm every other Monday beginning July 19, Higher Art Gallery is hosting “Collaboration,” an intimate and entertaining look-and-listen mesh of music and art in action. Picture it: As you roam a gallery teeming with contemporary sculpture, paintings, and photography, you’ll watch two well-known professional artists — in the case of July 19, Melonie Steffes and Royce Deans — at work while at the same time, at play, is the equally well-known Jeff Haas Trio (Haas on piano, Bruce Dondero on upright bass, and Will Harris on drums) jamming out favorites from the Great American Songbook, as well as their own original music. A cross-collaborative experience of the kind big city transplants yearn for, this bi-monthly event just might the coolest collision to happen to northern Michigan’s summer Monday nights. Tickets — a $12 goodwill offering — are encouraged as space is limited. Purchase at www.higherartgallery.com or call (231) 252-4616. Find the gallery at 219 East Front St. in Traverse City.