The Northport Community Band kicks off the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 2018 Manitou Music Festival season on Tuesday, July 3, at 7 p.m. with a musical evening celebrating Independence Day.
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School’s out, but creative thinking and learning never go on vacation. The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s visual art program for kids and teens keeps young minds engaged throughout the summer months. The GAAC offers a wide range of classes—from painting to collography to mixed media to bookmaking—where the focus is as much on fun as it is on enhancement.
After a year’s hiatus for construction, the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Artist-in-Residence [AIR] program resumes in 2018. Composer Kramer Elwell comes to Glen Arbor from Washington State in June to participate in the AIR program.
“When the new Glen Arbor Arts Center gallery opened in January, it signaled the arrival of a physical space that allows the GAAC to plan a series of exhibitions of multiple weeks’ duration—versus creating small, quickie shows that fit in between meetings and classes, all of which took place in the same room.”
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Glen Arbor Players (formerly Readers’ Theater) head back in time to Hollywood of the ’50s in its next production, “Sunset Boulevard”. Performances are June 1-2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, located at 4902 W. MacFarlane Road in Burdickville. The performance is free.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) is issuing a call-for-entries for its next exhibition, “New Views: Water = Life = Art.” The exhibition runs June 1–August 4 in the GAAC gallery, 6031 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor.
After a year’s hiatus for construction, the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Artist-in-Residence program resumes in May. This program of working residencies was established in the 1990s, and now attracts applicants from throughout the United States.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s “Little Artists” get up close and personal with insects in May, to learn where they live and how they live. The May “Little Artists” series begins Friday, May 18, 9:30 a.m.
As part of the “In Bloom” exhibition, the Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) goes into the woods to talk about “Forest Flowers” with Glen Arbor artists and sisters Beth Bricker and Cherrie Bricker Stege on Sunday, May 6, 2 p.m. at the next “Talk About Art” conversation.
Northern Michigan author Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli sheds some light on the illusive art of writing whodunnits in the two-weekend workshop “Finding Dark Places: Writing the Mystery Novel,” April 20, 21, 27, and 28 at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.