Water surrounds us in Northern Michigan. And the Glen Arbor Arts Center looks to the Big Lake, the streams, wetlands and ponds for a "New View: Water = Life = Art,” an exhibition running June 1 - August 4 in the GAAC gallery, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. An artist’s reception to open "New Views:
After a year’s hiatus for construction, the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Artist-in-Residence program resumes in 2018. Composer Kramer Elwell comes to Glen Arbor from Washington State in June to participate in the AIR program. During his residency, Elwell will complete a series of recordings based on sounds collected in Glen Arbor that will be part of his composition
Two Michigan poets have cast Lake Michigan as the setting for a new telling of an ancient struggle in the The Lake Michigan Mermaid. Poets Linda Nemec Foster of Grand Rapids, and Anne-Marie Oomen of Empire created an epic poem in book form about coming of age in a troubled world. They read from their 2018 work and
Sprout: Nourishing young minds through art & nature. Tuesdays in the Summer, outside at M22 Glen Arbor, there will be a Kids Art Station from 6/26 - 8/14 from 9:30 - 11:30. Come Create with us! $15 for 3 take-home items. The kids can create, while you get to shop! For this event info, you
Painter Robert Ross likes “to paint ordinary, often overlooked scenes and subjects.” Ross takes viewers on a tour of these places and things in an exhibition of new work at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The show opens Friday, June 29 with a 6pm - sundown reception, and continues through Thursday, July 5.
For her 11th consecutive solo show at Center Gallery in Glen Arbor, Maple City painter Margo Burian breaks with her tradition of landscape painting, and for the first time shows a group of mixed media abstracted paintings on panel. This exhibition of new works opens Friday, July 6 with a 6 p.m. reception. Burian has traditionally worked in
Opening Reception is Wednesday, 11 July from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. Sales benefit the City Opera House. Nine artists will display over 100 pieces of work in oil, watercolor, pastel, and acrylic. A special feature is “Seeking Van Gogh.” Each artist has painted a local view as Van Gogh would have painted it. City Opera
Ohio painter Joseph Lombardo revisits some of his favorite and signature motifs — Glen Arbor night scenes, Lake Michigan beaches, and up-close looks at some of the region’s historic barns — in his next show at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The exhibition opens Friday, July 13 with a 6 p.m. reception. “Most of the
The 47th ANNUAL GLEN LAKE WOMAN’S CLUB ART FAIR is scheduled for JULY 18th, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Art Fair features approximately 100 artists, carefully chosen to represent a variety of art mediums. What originally began in front of the Town Hall has expanded to both inside and out – a great place to
Artists have been inspired by H2O since its first surprising visualization in the prehistoric African Sahara. Artist Hank Feeley springboards off of this history and into “The Art of Water in 28 ½ Minutes,” July 19, 11 am in the Glen Arbor Arts Center gallery, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Cost of the presentation is $10 GAAC
Leelanau County painter Lynn Uhlmann sees the forest, and the trees, and it’s all there on her canvases. Uhlmann returns to Center Gallery in Glen Arbor for a show of her favorite subject, Northern Michigan’s woods, July 20 - 26. A reception to open this show is Friday, July 20, 6 pm - sundown in the gallery at
Grand Ledge artist Michael Lowery returns to Leelanau County with a new body of watercolor paintings on July 27 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor. An artist’s reception is scheduled from 6pm - sundown on Friday, July 27. The exhibition continues through August 2. Lowery approaches the genre of landscape painting from an
