Empire's Sleeping Bear Gallery is pleased to announce a Meet the Artists event this Thursday, July 31st from 3pm to 7pm. Meet oil painter Ellie Harold, pastels artist Lesa Chittenden Lim & clay artist Beth Tarkington. It's FREE for all. Come enjoy the art and the people who make it.
The Leelanau Conservancy invites you to join a Shop Leelanau, Save Leelanau county-wide promotion on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The Conservancy is asking participating businesses to donate 1% of sales on August 9 to the Leelanau Conservancy, and the Conservancy will promote the participating businesses. The Leelanau Conservancy works to conserve the land,
Good friends, a great view, and some incredible live music await you during The Homestead’s 2014 Music on the Mountain Summer Concert Series. The Moxie Strings is the electrifying combination of fiddler, Diana Ladio, and electric cellist, Alison Lynn. With their feel-good melodies and foot-stomping, rock-influenced rhythms, these young women have put a fresh, enticing
Tennis Clinic with Emilio Sánchez Vicario, in Glen Arbor, MI! Emilio Sánchez Vicario is the founder of the Sanchez-Casal Academy, the top leading Tennis Academy in Europe and one of the most prestigious in the world. He will be hosting a tennis clinic on the Glen Arbor Public Tennis Courts (rain location to be determined).
Grand Rapids artist Jeff Condon paints “With A Light Heart,” an exhibition of contemporary landscapes opening Aug. 15 at Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. This show opens 6 p.m. with a reception. Condon’s approach to landscape painting takes a fresh, original twist. He abstracts the perspective by
Good friends, a great view, and some incredible live music await you during The Homestead’s 2014 Music on the Mountain Summer Concert Series. The Wilenes will take you back to the days when Country music was a pocketful of heartfelt ballads and great swing songs you could dance to. From the traditions of Patsy Cline
Empire's Sleeping Bear Gallery is proud to announce a live Blacksmithing Demo with contemporary blacksmith/metalsmith James Viste. A live, interactive event over two days, Thursday, Aug. 21 from 4pm-8pm & Friday, Aug. 22 from 1pm-4pm and 6pm-8:30pm. FREE and open to the public. Demonstrations will take place outside the gallery at 10085 W. Front St., Empire,
Grand Rapids artist Jim Markle exhibits new views of the Sleeping Bear Dunes and Glen Arbor Aug. 22-28 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A reception opens the show Aug. 22, 6 p.m. Markle began pastel painting this iconic landscape a decade ago. “I spend a lot of time exploring the
Empire's Sleeping Bear Gallery is pleased to host a Meet the Artists evening. From natural materials mixed media to painting to photography, come meet artists Frank Clements, Dan Oberschulte, Tim Lewis & Rodger Skinner Wednesday, Aug. 27 from 4pm-7pm. FREE and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. 10085 W. Front St., Empire, MI 49630.
Linda Beeman, an Owosso, Michigan, resident specializing in Japanese woodblock printing, exhibits prints of the landscape and lakeshores of northern Michigan and Japan, Aug. 29-Sept. 18 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The show opens Aug. 29, 6 p.m. with a reception for the artist. Beeman practices a time-consuming art with
Fiber is the focus Sept. 19-Oct. 13 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The gallery will showcase contemporary approaches to an old medium by three artists: Kathy Brady, Stephen Kostyshyn and Lisa Perrine Brown. The show opens Sept. 19 with a 6 p.m. reception. Brady, a Williamston resident, creates mixed media
Traverse City artist Lisa Perrine Brown will talk about her sewn and woven maps on Sunday, Sept. 21, 1 p.m. at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Brown began interpreting maps of local waterways and landform in 2012. After enlarging the maps, Brown translates them into woven tapestries and sewn constructions that
