The gallery’s summer hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Isa Hastings

Isa Hastings was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She married Bill Hastings in London and moved to the U.S. in 1976. She has traveled extensively around the world, and has tried several mediums from batik (with the natural dyes used on Persian rugs) to oils, watercolors, pen and ink, pencils, screen printing, woodcarvings, wood burnings, clay, alcool inks, gourd carving and painting, custom jewelry and, lately, custom jewelry with clay and resin.

Isa has taught batiks, oils, and watercolor while living overseas, and carving, wood burning and painting in the U.S.

Courtesy Photos Above, Carol Chisholm poses next to a piece of her artwork. She is this month’s guest visiting artist at Dragonfly Art Gallery in Harrisville.

Back in the U.S. since 1982, she has been co-owner and operates the old “Sewing Center,” Alpena Screen Arts and Embroidery, Alpena Sign and Awning, The Alpena Sign Shop and has just retired in 2020 from Alcona Sign Shop, were she used her talent making carved and hand-painted signs along with all the other items in the studio that she and her husband Bill do, just for the fun of it.

Carol Chisholm

“We moved here in 1979,” Carol Chisholm said in an artist’s statement. “We lived in Greenbush for nine years. I taught basket weaving in Oscoda and Alcona High Schools for five years.”

She worked at a gift store called the Lamplighter.

“About 15 years ago I took a watercolor class and loved it,” she said.

She was an artist at Thunder Bay Art Gallery for four years, and she was a member of the Northeast Michigan Artists’ Guild and East Shore Art Guild for five years.

“Pat Bacon was a wonderful teacher who gave me the gift of the beauty of watercolor in my life,” Chisholm said.