Ruth Conklin Gallery, Glen Arbor, is celebrating a decade of Sticks trunk shows Wednesday, August 3 through Friday, August 5, with guest artist Sarah Grant, Sticks creator/owner, and design staff from Des Moines.
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A chef demonstration featuring Randy Chamberlain, chef and owner of Blu in Glen Arbor, will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the Glen Arbor Farmers Market. The chef demo is free, and everyone is welcome to watch Chef Randy prepare a meal using fresh produce and products from the farmers market.
If a tree could be a person, then the mulberry tree shading the grassy bank behind Riverfront Pizza & Specialties in Glen Arbor would be a kindly grandmother, offering shelter beneath her outstretched arms, inviting children to climb in her lap, and giving treats to her visitors — at least for a couple of weeks each year.
This August the Manitou Music Festival continues its 21st season of exciting and diverse concerts featuring jazz, classical, blues, folk, country, celtic, bluegrass and world music in some of Michigan’s most idyllic settings.
Over the past 20 years, Greg and Wanda Sobran of Sobran Studios, have become fixtures of the Glen Arbor arts scene — if two inveterate, peripatetic adventurers could be described in such stationary terms.
The Lake Street Studios’ free annual Arts Collage, on Sunday, July 31, at 8 p.m. welcomes back the Ann Arbor Film Festival tour for the third year running. The Film Fest tour this year will emphasize innovative experimental documentaries and visual pieces, according to Arts Collage organizer Harry Fried, who promises a show that will be “both challenging and aesthetically captivating.”
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) continues its Summer Gallery shows with artist Mary Beth Day’s work. In this full gallery show, Mary Beth will present her newest landscape paintings. Featured will be scenes of the Leelanau area and other northern locations.
Paintings of Leelanau County’s landscape — at least the landscape as processed through the imagination of Grand Rapids artist Margo Burian — are on display next at Center Gallery/Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A public reception opens the show July 29, 6 p.m.
On Thursday, July 28, the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) will hold a meeting and viewing night at the Lanphier Observatory on the beach at The Leelanau School, north of Glen Arbor. Viewing starts at 10 p.m., if there are clear skies.
The Homestead’s ski hill overlooking Lake Michigan will provide the perfect venue for the music of Blackthorn, a Celtic quartet, on Thursday, July 28. What a night it will be with magnificent music at a spectacular venue. This event is part of the Manitou Music Festival summer concert series. It is hosted by The Homestead Resort and presented by the Glen Arbor Art Association.