Brown on Humanities Board

Marlee Brown of Mackinac Island and Petoskey has been appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm to the Michigan Humanities Council for a term beginning October 25 and expiring December 31, 2008. The internationally renowned painter has a gallery at Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island and her exhibit venues have included the Galerie Chabin in Paris and at the Wally Findlay Gallery in Chicago.

She was graduated from the University of Michigan and studied at the University of California - Berkeley and in Tours, France.

She established the Marlee Brown Community Arts Fund with the Mackinac Island Community Foundation and, in 2004, was instrumental in the organization of the Mackinac Island Great Turtle Festival and the Turtles Around Town public art project.

She served on the Michigan Quarter Commission from 2001 to 2004 and on the Make-A-Wish of Michigan board from 1998 to 2003.

Ms. Brown and her husband, R. Daniel Musser III, have three children.

The Michigan Humanities Council has 19 board members whose responsibilities include program and proposal review, planning, fundraising, advocacy for the humanities, liaison to projects, and other representation of the Council at activities around the state.