We are a statewide, membership-based organization dedicated to ensuring cultural leaders have the tools necessary to provide services of the highest quality. On the Cultural Advocacy Podcast of Michigan, we discuss topics faced across the cultural sector with host Josh Holliday.
Michelle Sider is a Michigan-based mixed media artist whose work reflects interpretations of the world around her while she pushes the boundaries of working in glass mosaics and paintings. A full-time artist, she focuses on her own work and commissioned works from her studio in the metro Detroit area.
Sider began her art career as a painter, working in watercolor, pastel, acrylic and oil. Her work has evolved to include lush glass mosaics, each one built atop a fully realized painting. She is passionate about a series of mosaics she began in 2019 titled “I am Yemenite.” The works represent her most ambitious project to date and hundreds of hours of work and research.
This podcast was produced by the Cultural Advocacy Network of Michigan with support by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council.
20 May 2025
Global Artists in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula feat. Miles Mykkanen
Miles Mykkanen has quickly become the go-to tenor for roles requiring a deft balance of power, lyricism, and dramatic acuity, having performed on stages in all corners of the globe. A proud Yooper from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Mykkanen leveraged his pandemic downtime to create community around the arts in his hometown of Ironwood. As founding Artistic Director of the Emberlight Festival, he has built a formidable board, raising $750,000 in a county where the annual median income is $29,000. Emberlight has now produced 119 individual events – including a film festival with entries from 83 countries, live performances of chamber music, cabarets, and plays, a photography show and public art installations, and performance infusions featuring regional artists in everything from Ojibwe basket weaving to wool waulking. More than 70% of those events have been free to attend, ensuring that the arts are accessible to everyone in the rural region.
This podcast was produced by the Cultural Advocacy Network of Michigan with support by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council.
31 Mar 2025
LIVE at Cultural Advocacy Day
On this podcast, we talk with 3 professionals in Michigan's cultural sector about their efforts as an advocate and stories they share with elected officials in supports of arts and culture in the Fresh Coast State.
This podcast was produced by the Cultural Advocacy Network of Michigan with support by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council.
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