The Wednesday, August 9, Artist of the Week is Pete

Goehring with dulcimer music, followed the next week by his mother, Annegret Goehring, Wednesday, August 16, as she demonstrates a traditional European method of egg decorating. Both artists will demonstrate at the Les Cheneaux Historical Museum in Cedarville, from noon to 3 p.m.

Mr. Goehring plays trumpet, valve trombone, and hammer dulcimer, and has performed a variety of musical styles, including jazz, classical, pop, and bluegrass. He performs solo, and with the Sault Swing Band, and will be performing later this week with the Swing Band at the Les Cheneaux Antique Wooden Boat Show and Festival of Arts in Hessel. He was a trumpet major at Oberlin College in Ohio, and he has performed in bands, ensembles, and choruses at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, one of the oldest music conservatories in the United States.

Annegret Goehing of Hessel is the Les Cheneaux Historical Museum curator, and an acclaimed local artist. She is best

known for her intricate scissor cuttings, but more recently has been demonstrating the art of Pysanky, which is an ancient form of folk art from the Ukraine. She learned the craft from Mary Torsky of Cedarville, an awardwinning Pysanky artist whose Michigan egg was displayed at the state capital and in the White House in Washington, D.C. Eggs are decorated by using beeswax and dyes, particularly around Easter, when the eggs are given as gifts.

The artist starts by drawing on the egg with a tool that applies wax to protect portions of the egg from color, leaving them white. The egg is then dyed, and wax is applied to protect another design from the next color. The artist continually applies dyes and wax until the end, when a candle is used to melt all of the wax off, leaving a multi-colored egg with symbolism and patterns.

Artist of the Week demonstrations are free.