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New in town: Changed forest, Northwoods Home & Gift, realtors rotate

What’s new in town in 2016 — particularly if you haven’t visited Glen Arbor since last July — are the forests around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. They are completely different. That’s because of the Aug. 2, 2015, megastorm, which packed “straight line” winds of 100 miles per hour, leveled thousands of hardwood trees across Alligator Hill, along the east side of Big Glen Lake, across Leelanau County and on Old Mission Peninsula north of Traverse City. The storm was the most dramatic thing to hit Glen Arbor in modern times, and it changed the experience of visiting our beloved National Lakeshore for generations to come.

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French art and cuisine in Glen Arbor

Join popular art lecturer Linda Young and favorite Chef Randy Chamberlain for a special event exploring the joie de vivre of French Impressionism on Wednesday, May 18th. A three-course par excellence luncheon at Blu, designed by Chef Randy and inspired by Monet’s recipes at Giverny, will be complimented by a talk at the Glen Arbor Art Association.

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Art Association’s Artist in Residence program resumes

The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) kicks off its 15th season of artist-in-residence presentations May 12, 7:30 p.m. at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Painter Robert Ross is the first presenter, one of four artists who will participate in GAAA’s 2016 Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program.

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“Talk About Art” features Joan Richmond

From staff reports Traverse City painter Joan Richmond spent Spring 2015 and 2016 as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. She reflects on these experiences at the next “Talk About Art” interview, Sunday, April 24, 2 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Art Association, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Richmond’s month-long residencies […]

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Art Association holds Readers’ Theater auditions for Madame La Gimp

From staff reports Glen Arbor Art Association announces auditions for the Readers’ Theater performance of Madame La Gimp and In a New York Minute on April 27 at 7pm. Auditions are coming up for a hilarious tale of antics and romance called Madame La Gimp. A down on her luck New York fruit seller named […]

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Art Association annual Paint Out registrations fill in record time

From staff reports The Glen Arbor Art Association’s eighth Plein Air weekend opened and closed artist registrations for the 60 available slots for the Saturday, August 6 Paint Out, which was close to full in a record 60 minutes on March 30. The highly popular weekend for artists and art lovers will be held August […]

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One hundred flower bouquets in 2016

From staff reports Honor, Mich., painter Lauren Everett Finn set a goal of painting 100 flower bouquets in 2016. She saw the project as a way to challenge herself by imposing limits on her subject matter. Finn discusses this project at the next “Talk About Art” interview, Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m. at the Glen […]

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Applications available for Glen Arbor Art Association’s “Storm of Art”

An on-line application for the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) juried exhibition New Views: A Storm of Art is available March 1. The application period runs through May 1 for the June 10-24 show at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A prospectus describing the exhibition and its requirements is available here.

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Art Association’s “Talk About Art” returns

The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) “Talk About Art” series opens its 2016 season Sunday, Jan. 17 in conversation with Fox Television animator Jim Feeley. The interview begins at 2 p.m. at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. There is no charge.

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Glen Arbor Art Association Readers’ Theater performs Amazing Mrs. Pollifax

From staff reports When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that Sunday morning, she quickly forgets all about her Garden Club tea that afternoon. For the voice on the other end belongs to a man she had never seen, a man from the CIA who asks her if she could leave immediately on a mission that […]

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