These links are far from complete but they best reflect my interests and passions. No doubt this will constantly change as the cybernetic universe is always being born and growing. If you have an interesting link, please let me know, perhaps it will too may be posted. fritzatsea@yahoo.com
Clients:
http://www.crookedtree.org/ An amazing gallery that our Superior group will exhibit during the summer of 2008.
http://www.audioseastories.com/ Great talking sea stories to listen to when traveling either by sea or land.
www.bonifasarts.org/Exhibits/index.html William Bonifas Fine Arts Center - an art magnet in Escanaba, Michigan where I have exhibited in two different occasions.
www.coppercountryarts.com Copper Country Community Art Center - A small but vibrant art gallery in Hancock, the Keewaunaw Peninsula in Michigan. I've exhibited there, sell note cards there and the art director, Cynthia Cote was one of the crew that accompanied me in 2001 and 2003 in Lake Superior.
www.central-city.net Downtown Kalamazoo, Inc. - I designed and constructed Santa's Workshop that was displayed in Kalamazoo's Mall Plaza, December 2005.
www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/hiawatha Hiawatha National Forest - I was artist in residence there in February 2004 and my prints are presently touring in their touring 'Centennial Exhibit'. My note cards are for sale in National Forest Center, Muninsing, MI.
http://floridawildlifemagazine.com/pdfs/may07-island.pdf A story on sargasso grass that I illustrated recently. The magazine is a slick publication loaded with great articles and photos on Florida's outdoors.
www.gilmore.org/gilmore_festival/festival_2006.asp Gilmore International Keyboard Festival of 2006 a marvelous foundation biannually hosts an international keyboard festival held in the Kalamazoo area. Some lucky young keyboard artist becomes their main attraction along with some of the world's greatest musicians. I designed their logo/metamorphisis illustration for the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival of 2006.
www.goodoldboat.com Good Old Boat Magazine - a great magazine for the rest of us regular working people who also work on our own old classic sailboats. I have regularly illustrated for them during the last several years.
www.kalamazooarts.com/council Great Lakes Cruising Club - the hub of information on the Great Lakes for boating and cruising enthusiasts. www.glcclub.com/about-general.htm Kalamazoo Council for the Arts - the sponsor who awarded us four grants in the circumnavigation from 2001 to 2003 and subsequent traveling art exhibitions.
www.lakesuperior.comLake Superior Magazine - a bimonthly magazine on an about Lake Superior. Our circumnavigation appeared in the May 2003 issue.
http://www.mhprofessional.com/category/?cat=132 Home of International Marine/Ragged Press with a huge selection of nautical books. Some that I I had the wonderful opportunity to illustrate.
www.michigannature.org/index.shtm Michigan Nature Association - One of the oldest Michigan environment organizations that I'm presently illustrating a series of endangered species they're studying.
http://www.natureconnect.com Nature Connection - a store whose theme supports natural and organic products also carries a complete line of my cards. Located in the Epic Center, Burdick Street in Kalamazoo, MI.
Perspectives - places where my feet have carried the earth:
www.byways.org/browse/byways/12398/travel.html?map=Inside_Passage_Section Maps, photos and travel descriptions of the Inside Passage.
www.davidsanger.com/stock/northwest.html I traveled the Northwest's Inside Passage on memorable trip with my son in 2000. David Sanger is one of the better photographers representing this area.
www.greatcanadianrivers.com/rivers-home.html Mississnaibi National Wildlife Refuge - supposedly the world's largest wildlife refuge with river tributaries emptying into the Hudson Bay. I've canoed in the area on several occasions.
www.grosmorne.com Gros Morne National Park - general and commercial information. great photos.
www.isleroyalewolf.org Frequently updated info on the wolves on Isle Royale. Our circumnavigation took us there both in 2001 and 2003.
www.jaspernationalpark.com Jasper National Park - I visited the amazing region last year traveling the length of the mountain range.
www.leelanau.com/manitou/islands North and South Manitou Islands. Still one of my favorite places to anchor and explore located in northern Lake Michigan. Part of the Sleeping Bear National Park. They offered a remote place - fun to explore, filled with history and no vehicles.
www.naturecenter.org Kalamazoo Nature Center - When I'm in town, I frequently roam on their 1500 acres. For over 25 years, I've gotten to know the animals and haunts where they have flourished in an old deciduous forest flanked Kalamazoo River and several streams. I have exhibited in their Glen Vista Gallery.
www.ontarioparks.com/English/lakes.html Superior Provincial Park - cruised along its coasts in Lake Superior in 2001 and 2003. Heard rutting moose and wolves last autumn and again 45 years ago.
www.ontarioparks.com/english/lady.html Temagami Provincial Park - The highest point in Ontario. A very rugged and beautiful canoe country in northeastern Ontario.
www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/index_e.asp L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland official web-page - possibly the first European encroachment into this Continent almost a 1000 years ago. There the Vikings build a fort and forge iron in a settlement for 120 years.
www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nl/grosmorne/index_e.asp Gros Morne National Park official web-page - park information
http://www.rccpf.org.uk/Publications/Labrador%20&%20Greenland.htm A couple that I and my partner had the good forturne to run into in Nova Scotia before they embarked on a winter - long stay in the icey waters of Greenland. Annie Hill also published a great book, 'Voyaging on a Small Income' that I read many moons ago.
http://thestory.org/ While one doesn't use feet on this, Dick Gordon nightly hosts a wonderful managerie of common people with incredible stories on public radio. If you are in my area it's on at 8 on WUOM npr.
www.tyrrellmuseum.com Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta - a four hour, two billion year walk through the history of life we know of on Earth.
Artists and free-spirits that have opened doors in my mind:
www.robertbateman.ca/art/portfolio/portfolio.html Robert Bateman wildlife artist - is his ability to depict an animal within the environment.
www.quinlanroad.com Loreena McKennitt - Songs of mythology, religion of far away places and times. Musical instruments and her vocals serenaded our way through the waves for many years.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Kohler-s-Pig-Posters_i381526_.htm Michael Sowa - whimsical and almost nonsensical illustrations.
www.ralphsteadman.com Ralph Steadman - wild man with a pen quill. I can't draw like that but I often imagine worlds similar to that.
