The Glen Arbor Arts Center celebrates Amy L. Clark-Carels’s love of watercolor painting in a small exhibition of work May 3 - August 31. This exhibition, a visual remembrance, is the GAAC’s second Lobby Gallery exhibit of 2021. It will also be viewable on the GAAC website beginning May 3. Carels’s long, loving history with
Gather, a 2020 documentary by director Sanjay Rawal, depicts the growing movement among Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. From July 19 – August 14, the Glen Arbor Arts Center will make Gather available for online viewing as part of
Glen Arbor Women’s Club hosts the 14th Annual Running Bear 5K Run/Walk and 1/2 mile Kids’ Run on Tuesday, July 27th, 2021. Run/Walk at 9:00am, Kids’ Run at 9:05am. After the run, enjoy celebration and refreshments. Starts/Ends: Cherry Republic on Lake Street in Glen Arbor, MI. Registration info online: www.runningbearrun.com Run/Walk $20, ($25 day of
Discover the Historic Side of Sleeping Bear. Combine the fun of biking with discovery of local lore and history! Find the hidden history tucked into the hills of this 100 year old agricultural farm community. Some of the most fun and interesting things are off the beaten path! Solve the mystery clues. Take a short
There is great need for healing in the world today and Christlike humility can help us meet that demand. Mark McCurties is a Christian Science practitioner from Ann Arbor, MI and is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. Childcare is provided. For further information, call 231-334-4961.
Humans have saved seeds since the beginning of time. The Grow Benzie Seed Saving Guild has been saving seeds since its formation in 2008. Two citizen seed savers who tend this project are in conversation. This outdoor program is offered as part of the GAAC’s exhibition Food Is Art / Art Is Food, in the
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 12th annual Plein Air Weekend opens August 6 with the Quick Draw. Artists will fan out around Glen Arbor and create in a designated two-hour period of time work to this year’s theme: “Capturing Village Life: Images of Empire and Glen Arbor.” The public is welcome to watch the artists in
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 12th annual Plein Air Weekend opens August 6 with the Quick Draw. Artists will fan out around Glen Arbor and create in a designated two-hour period of time work to this year’s theme: “Capturing Village Life: Images of Empire and Glen Arbor.” The public is welcome to watch the artists in
Meet some of the many contributors of the newly released book "Picture-Perfect Sleeping Bear" for a Book Signing at Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor on August 8th from 12-2pm. The book celebrates the history of the area, the formation of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the years of enjoyment from those who
The Glen Arbor Arts Center will be hosting the Traverse City Dance Project and the Traverse City Orchestra string quartet for an evening of orchestral music and dance at its Thoreson Farm campus on August 11, 7 pm. This free program will feature Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as performed by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. The performance
Dr. Gordon Henry, a member of the White Earth Anishanaabe Nation and Professor in the English Department at MSU, will share selections of his poetry and fiction, and discuss his work with "Living Nations, Living Words" an exploration of Native Nations poetry developed in partnership with the Library of Congress. His reading will also serve
The Glen Arbor Arts Center launches a new exhibition in the GAAC gallery, "Everyday Objects." A juried exhibition, asks exhibitors to reexamine and explore new and unexpected aesthetic possibilities in mundane objects. The exhibition runs from August 27th - October 28th. Read more about Everyday Objects and its companion programs here: GlenArborArt.org/EXHIBITS The GAAC is
Since the 1990s, the Glen Arbor Arts Center has welcomed visiting artists who want to immerse themselves in their work. The GAAC’s Suzanne Wilson Artist-in-Residence program offers up to seven, creative practitioners a two-week respite from their daily lives in order to focus on a new idea that needs space and time to develop, to
