From staff reports Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to introduce this year’s September Artist-In-Residence at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Phillip Donovan, a sculptor from New York, is living in the National Lakeshore for three weeks, immersing himself in the natural wonders of the dunes, forests, beaches, and varied cultural landscapes this national treasure provides. […]
On September 12, the National Park Service launched a new online service for teachers that brings America’s national parks, including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, into neighborhood classrooms.
Mark T. Meyer is the next Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) artist-resident. His working retreat begins Sept. 1, and will allow the Traverse City resident to study “the visual details that make up the vistas that attract us to the area,” he said.
The League of Women Voters Leelanau County (LWVLC) will present “The Weather Machine Shifts Gears,” with guest speaker Dave Barrons, at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 4, in the Leelanau County Government Center.
The difference between an artist and a business person is that the business person makes art in order to make money and the artist makes money in order to keep making art. Becky Thatcher is the latter, a genuine artist. Not only does she have vision and skill, she has guts, an ability to take risks, confidence, courage and absolute indifference to public opinion when it comes to her jewelry.
A beautiful weekend on the Leelanau Peninsula greeted the 70 artists participating in the Glen Arbor Art Association’s (GAAA) fifth annual Plein Air Paint Out, Aug. 2-3. Expanded in 2012 to a two- day event, the Paint Out has become known as one of Michigan’s largest and most successful paint out events — drawing artists and art collectors from throughout the Midwest.
Northport resident Michael Huey has written a new book, Straight as the Pine, Sturdy as the Oak, a history of Camp Leelanau for Boys, the Leelanau School, and the Homestead resort, from their inception in 1921 until 1963. These institutions shaped Glen Arbor during the 20th century, and continue today. The publisher is Vienna, Austria-based Schlebrügge. The 500-page hardcover book, which includes 300 vintage images, will soon be available for purchase at the Cottage Bookshop in Glen Arbor.
The Honda corporation is holding a lotto for five of America’s Drive-Ins and will pay for the conversion from analog to digital for the theater that gets the most votes. The Honor Area Restoration Project encourages residents of Leelanau and Benzie Counties to vote once a day until Sept. 9 and support the Honor-based Cherry Bowl Drive-In.
When the Glen Arbor Athletic Club closed this past May, it left the Old School building on M-22, arguably among Glen Arbor’s most recognizable landmarks, sitting vacant. But thanks to a group of local artists, the schoolhouse has again found a purpose.
The Glen Arbor Art Association exhibits paintings by Barbara Doepke Cochran, Aug. 9-11 at the Art Association, 6031 S. Lake St. Cochran spends her time painting in the Chicago area, Boca Grand, Florida and nearby Maple City. After graduating from Principia College with an art major, she continued her art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. She pursued a career in graphic design for news shows, specials and was awarded a Chicago Emmy for an animated film. In recent years she has returned to painting oils and watercolors. The exhibit opens with an Aug. 9 reception from 6-9 p.m. Subsequent hours are Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.