• GAAC DEDICATES NEW OUTDOOR GALLERY PANELS

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

    A ceremony to dedicate the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s new Outdoor Gallery exhibition takes place Sunday, May 30, 1 pm. The public is welcome to attend this event celebrating the work of Traverse City artist Pam Spicer. Five, vibrant paintings by Pam Spicer have been reproduced on 5-foot-square, weather-resistant aluminum panels by Image360 of Traverse

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  • Suzanne Wilson Artist-in-Residence Program Presentations

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

    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

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  • Mini Masterpieces

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

    The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s annual Mini Masterpieces outdoor exhibit is on display. Over 100 tiny works have been hung on trees along the GAAC’s gravel walkway from Lake Street to the gallery and in the GAAC’s Grove behind the building. This self-guided experience runs through May 26. Mini Masterpieces are 3 x 3” canvases

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  • A CELEBRATION: THE PAINTINGS OF AMY L. CLARK-CARELS

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

    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

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  • Outdoor Gallery Panel Auction

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

    All five panels from the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s inaugural Outdoor Gallery exhibition are now available for acquisition. The GAAC is holding an online auction April 28-30, 2021. The 5-foot square artworks are reproductions of original, acrylic paintings by Empire artist Mark Mehaffey, winner of the 2020 Outdoor Gallery competition. There are two options for

  • Mini Masterpieces

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

    The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s annual Mini Masterpieces outdoor exhibit returns in April. These tiny works will be hung on trees along the GAAC’s gravel walkway from Lake Street to the gallery and in the GAAC’s Grove behind the building. This self-guided experience begins on April 26 and runs through May 26. Mini Masterpieces are

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  • Plein Air Weekend – Registration

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

    The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 12th Plein Air Weekend is scheduled for August 6 - 7, 2021. Northern Michigan’s premier painting weekend, featuring artists from throughout Michigan and the Midwest, is Glen Arbor Arts Center's largest fundraiser. This popular alfresco event takes place throughout Glen Arbor and Empire. Returning in 2021 are the August 6

  • Exhibit: Joan Richmond | Paper + Scissors + Glue = New Collages

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

    Traverse City artist Joan Richmond exhibits collages at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. Paper + Scissors + Glue = New Collages, an exhibition of 12 new works, is on display in the GAAC Lobby Gallery January 15 – April 22, 2021. Paper + Scissors + Glue = New Collages may be viewed on-line, too. Go

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  • Exhibit: Joan Richmond | Paper + Scissors + Glue = New Collages

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

    Traverse City artist Joan Richmond exhibits collages at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. Paper + Scissors + Glue = New Collages, an exhibition of 12 new works, is on display in the GAAC Lobby Gallery January 15 – April 22, 2021. Richmond is more widely known for her distinctive, spare gouache paintings depicting land- and

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  • You Are T/HERE

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

    Glen Arbor Arts Center January 15 – March 25, 2021 The Glen Arbor Arts Center begins 2021 with You Are T/Here, an exhibition that asks exhibitors to visually explore and describe what their own, personal “here” or “there” looks like. What IS “t/here”? Is it a concept? An ideal? An abstraction? Or, a real place?

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  • Light Up Glen Arbor

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

    A Community Project at GAAC Come one, come all! Help light up our corner of Glen Arbor for the holidays. The Glen Arbor Arts Center will be lighting up its neck of the woods and you are invited to participate. On Saturday, December 5 we will light the path from Lake Street to GAAC and

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  • Enter An Ornament!

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

    We are inviting all business, organizations, community members, and visitor to create an ornament for our outdoor, community tree. On Saturday, December 5 we will light the path from Lake Street to GAAC and present our community tree. The tree will remain lit for the season. Stroll by throughout the holiday season to take a

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