Zinta Aistars

Elizabeth Cowan is a professional opera singer and a vocal teacher, and an adjunct professor at Western Michigan University’s Lee Honors College. Her courses incorporate the birth of the blues and jazz and how those genres work hand in hand with the restoration of America and the Civil Rights Movement.

When we think of origami, we think about paper folded into artistic shapes. But Gary Barton and Wayne Edmonds decided to fold metal instead to enter the 2021 Battle Creek Origami Sculpture Exhibit.

How many people get to turn their childhood school into their dream? Not many. But Joy Richmond is one.

David Small and Sarah Stewart are bonded in marriage and more. They are bonded by their mutual love of art and literature.

Ellen Airgood co-manages a diner in Grand Marais, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with her husband Rick. She serves in multiple roles as waitress, pastry chef, and bouncer. Between and around all that, Airgood writes.