• WALK AND TALK THROUGH SWIMMING, The Birds Are Watching

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    Glen Arbor Arts Center Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal leads a conversational walking tour of the SWIMMING and The Birds Are Watching exhibits, May 13, 11 am. The Walk + Talk is free. No reservations are required. During this one-hour program, Bearup-Neal talks about how the exhibiting artists interpreted the SWIMMING exhibition’s theme, both literally and

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  • Free Gaudi-Inspired Fairy House Workshop

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    Community members are invited to free, hands-on workshops on May 13 and 20 at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, from 2:30 - 4:20 pm. Two pop-up classes invite families and individuals to learn about Antoni Gaudi, the Catalan architect and designer known for Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church. Participants will be introduced to Gaudi’s style and

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  • Creativity Q+A LIVE with Blacksmith Scott Lankton

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    How do artists think, work, and practice? Those questions are explored during Creativity Q+A LIVE, a series of conversations with Northern Michigan artists at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. On May 14, 1 pm Leelanau County artist Scott Lankton talks about his practice with Sarah Bearup-Neal, GAAC gallery manager. The program is free. No reservations

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  • Artist In Residence Presentation – JoAnn Deuel Shelby

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    Marquette, Michigan, artist JoAnn Deuel Shelby will use her Glen Arbor Arts Center residency to document Leelanau County plant biomes – their biological communities – and then contrast them with those native to the Upper Peninsula. Shelby’s investigations will be used to create eco-printed papers and fabrics that allow her to interpret and illustrate changes

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  • Artist In Residence Presentation – Ruth Trok

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    Pennsylvania artist Ruth Trok will use her Glen Arbor Arts Center residency to produce a body of porcelain pots and vessels that explore the interaction between native and invasive species in Leelanau County. Trok, a ceramist, will talk about her project during a public presentation June 9, noon, at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St.,

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  • Members Create Opening Reception

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    An annual tradition returns to the Glen Arbor Arts Center. Members Create, an exhibition showcasing GAAC members’ talent, opens in the GAAC Main Gallery with a reception June 9, 5- 8 pm. The exhibit features the work of 49 current members, in an array of work: 2D + 3D media including: clay, collage, fiber, mixed

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  • Late Night Fridays

    MI, United States

    The Glen Arbor Arts Center is keeping the lights on a little longer this summer on Friday nights. Late Night Fridays continues June 16 with a front porch concert featuring the PULSE Saxophone Quartet, 7 – 8 pm. This unique chamber ensemble is the GAAC’s 2023 Musicians-in-Residence, part of the Manitou Music Series. Read more

  • Lost and Found Landscapes

    Lost and Found Landscapes

    Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios

    Landscape painter, Wendy McWhorter exhibits her oil paintings of Historic Port Oneida Homesteads, SBNL and beyond. The paintings portray the artists vision of what original homesteaders planted and overtime no longer blooms, but through the poetry of painting is reimagined. View over 20 oil paintings of local scenes through the artist lens. Exhibit opening reception

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  • 51st Annual Glen Lake Woman’s Club Art Fair

    Glen Arbor Township Hall

    2023 marks the 51st annual Glen Lake Woman's Club Art Fair, a juried Art Fair with over 90 artists carefully selected to represent a wide variety of one-of-a-kind art pieces for sale at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. The Art Fair features artisans in many mediums including pottery, painting, textiles, woodworking, and jewelry. Each year,

  • Stephanie Schlatter Live Painting Pop-Up

    M22 Outdoor Wine Patio 6298 W. Western Ave, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

    Join us out on the M22 Wine Patio Thursday, July 27th from 5-7pm at the M22 Wine Patio for Live Painting with Stephanie Schlatter! With gorgeous colors, and beautiful talent, Stephanie's art embodies her love for Northern Michigan. Original art for sale on location for one night only.

  • Plein Air Weekend

    Glen Arbor Township Hall

    Painters from across Michigan and the Midwest will converge on Glen Arbor August 4 and 5 for the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 14th Plein Air Weekend. This year the event will be highlighted by two outdoor painting competitions and exhibitions of original work. The Quick Draw is Friday, August 4. This year’s theme is BRANCHING OUT: Honoring the

  • Artist In Residence Presentation – Ian Kennelly

    Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI

    Massachusetts artist Ian Kennelly will use his Glen Arbor Arts Center residency to “further my observations” of the ephemeral space that exists where water, land and sky meet. This is familiar territory for the painter. In the last two years, Kennelly has created works that explore the human relationship to the boundaries created by water.

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