Mike Kraus: On the Shore of Lake Erie

Monday, January 29, 2024

On the Shore of Lake Erie

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On the Shore of Lake Erie

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)

201910093

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Lake Erie has an over-sized influence. It's more than just location, industry, tourism, and fishing, but in an intellectual and spiritual way. It's the look and feel of the water that communicates indescribable messages to those who listen. Yet, ugliness begets ugliness. For the sake of convenience and profit, we've destroyed wetlands for subdivisions, dumped industrial and animal waste into rivers, and poured fertilizers onto grass to make it a little greener. This predictably has lead to dead zones of toxic Blue-green algae that now engulf over 500 square miles of Lake Erie during the summer. Conservation and restoration of Lake Erie is imperative. Progress requires the protection of our scenic, health, historic, and recreational values. What is good for nature is good for us.

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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Lurie Children's Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.