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How does a shortage of housing in Northwest Michigan take its toll on residents and businesses? That question is the focus of an hour-long panel discussion June 11, 10:30 am at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. This program is open to the public without charge.

Traverse City author Kathleen Stocking’s new book, From the Place of the Gathering Light—her second book of Leelanau County essays—is the topic of conversation at the next Talk About Art interview June 9, at 2 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

The Glen Arbor Arts Center offers a fairy house building day Sunday, May 26, 1–3 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Instructor Michelle Auchello leads the workshop. Cost is $20 per fairy house.

The Glen Arbor Arts Center is hosting a yarn bomb Maker Day on Sunday, May 19, from 1-3 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. This is one of several Makers Days leading up to a September 15 yarn bombing/installation at the GAAC.

Susan Wink, a Big Rapids resident, shares stories from her 2019 artist’s residency with the Glen Arbor Arts Center on Friday, May 17, at noon at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

The Glen Arbor Arts Center hosts the 31st edition of Exposures, an annual exhibition of creative work of nearly 100 Leelanau County students in grades k–12. The exhibition runs April 19-28. A reception to honor the exhibitors is Thursday, April 25, from 4–6 pm in the GAAC gallery.

Celebrate wood—the material, the place, the state of mind—at the opening reception for “Wood, Woods, Wooden,” the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s (GAAC) second exhibition of 2019, on Friday, March 8, from 6-8 p.m. in the GAAC gallery, located at 6031 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor.

Make 2019 the year of kid creativity. The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) offers two programs for kids in pre-school up to eighth grade at the GAAC, which is located at 6031 S. Lake St., in Glen Arbor.

Writer and visual artist Jen Sperry Steinorth leads a day-long bookbinding workshop on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 9 am-4 pm at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

Traverse City resident Sarah Kime will become the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s (GAAC) new executive director on Dec. 3. She takes the reins of this impactful and growing Leelanau County arts organization following the retirement of Peg McCarty, who has directed the GAAC since 2003.