We Great Lakers have to stick together.

The Detroit Institute of Arts and Let's Save Michigan are teaming up to sponsor a contest asking creatives to create WPA-style posters intended to "be a call to action, and serve as part of a campaign to rally citizens to do the hard work that's necessary to position Michigan as a state that will thrive in the future." Cut from the same optimistic stock, Casey and I decided to throw our hats in the ring and fire off a few entries. Here's the first, intended to champion one of Michigan's greatest assets - her bountiful natural beauty - as well as remind everyone that the beauty of the Midwest is deserving of your ecotourism dollars:

Comments

[Erin Modrzynski]

Joseph! Give the Thumb some love!! Maybe Sleeper State Park in Caseville or historic Huron City and Grindstone...best ice cream in the state, you know!

[Joseph]

Hey Erin, how are you? We just wanted to make sure to get a good smattering from around the state, given our relative inexperience with the beauty that's up there (we are planning on going). I take it you're from the neglected thumb? And where's this ice cream? We can be bribed, you know.