Grand Ledge artist Michael Lowery returns to Leelanau County with a new body of watercolor paintings on Friday, July 27 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor. An artist’s reception is scheduled from 6 p.m.-sundown. The exhibition continues through Aug. 2.
For her eleventh consecutive solo show at Center Gallery in Glen Arbor, Maple City painter Margo Burian breaks with her tradition of landscape painting, and for the first time shows a group of mixed media abstracted paintings on panel.
Empire painter Craig Weisse exhibits independent and Impressionistic images of his shoreline community June 30-July 6 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A reception to open this Independence holiday exhibition is Friday, June 30, from 6-8 p.m.
The Glen Arbor Art Association Readers’ Theater presents two plays by British playwright J.M. Barrie, June 2-3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road in Burdickville (east shore of the Glen Lakes).
Linda Beeman, an Owosso, Mich., resident specializing in Japanese woodblock printing, exhibits prints of Northern Michigan’s landscape and lakeshores, Aug. 19-Sept. 1 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The show opens Aug. 19, 6 p.m. with a reception for the artist.
Grand Rapids artist Jeff Condon opens up his mental file of images — collected over a lifetime living in the city and country — and returns to Center Gallery with an exhibition of contemporary landscapes. This show opens Aug. 12 with a 6 p.m. reception, and runs through Aug. 18. Center Gallery is located at 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Center Gallery hosts the inaugural Northern Home + Table Show Aug. 5-11 at the gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A reception to open this group show is Aug. 5, 6-8 p.m.
Beth Bricker and Cherrie Stege are sisters. They created an art gallery in Glen Arbor. And, their mother may have been a wood elf. What? Ananda Bricker, Cherrie and Beth’s late mother, lived in the woods here, in both the spiritual and literal senses of that verb. It was her natural habitat, and the flowers were her familiars.
Ohio artist Joseph Lombardo continues his study of Glen Arbor with a series of new paintings, July 15-21 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The show opens with a public reception July 15 at 6 p.m.
In 2016 there are 14 art galleries in Glen Arbor and Empire, as well as innumerable creative people practicing their craft in the privacy of a home studio. It was not always this way. The locality’s first art gallery was established in 1985, and up until that point, the Glen Arbor/Empire art scene might have been more accurately characterized as an art vignette. But with the arrival of Glen Lake Artists Gallery (GLA Gallery), the foundation was laid for today’s perception of the Greater Glen Lake Area as a place that attracts art and craft makers.