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Novelist to speak at Glen Arbor Art Association

Elizabeth Buzzelli, author of five novels, will have a two week residency at the Glen Arbor Art Association, culminating in a presentation to the public on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. While in Glen Arbor Buzzelli intends to work on a new novel, The Gathering, which will be a departure from her five published works, among them Dead Dogs and Englishmen, which was chosen as one of the best novels published in 2011 by Kirkus Review; one of the best mysteries of the year by the Christian Science Monitor; and available now at the Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor.

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Art Association welcomes Pennsylvania printmaker

Pennsylvania artist and printmaker L.C. Lim will present her work during her residency at the Glen Arbor Art Association on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. The award winning artist teaches painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Frankfort, Mich., during the summer. Her work is exhibited at the River Gallery in Frankfort. Prior to her career as an artist, Lim studied engineering and business to put herself through the University of Michigan. She became successful in corporate America managing a large division of a Fortune 100 company before realizing that she was not satisfying an important part of her “inner being.”

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Nationally recognized artist teaches in Glen Arbor

The Glen Arbor Art Association has invited Minnesota artist Andy Evansen to teach a workshop titled “Creating Impressionistic Landscapes in Plein Air”. During the four day workshop, Evansen will provide a combination of studio and plein air instruction, October 15-18 at The Homestead Resort near Glen Arbor.

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Art Association welcomes submissions for 2013 Manitou Music Festival poster

The Glen Arbor Art Association is accepting artwork submissions until Oct. 1 for the 2013 Manitou Music Festival poster. The limited edition posters are hugely popular and sold through the art association at selected shops and art galleries in Leelanau County. Past posters and guidelines for submission can be viewed at Glenarborart.org. Click on “Manitou Music Festival” or “Artists” tab, then on the right side of the screen click on “Call for Entries”.

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Japanese tsunami survivor starts over at Leelanau School

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Ayaka Ogawa has no idea why she went to her grandmother’s house that day. Her mother was there, maybe that’s why. Usually after school she went home to the house where she lived with her parents, her older sister, and her other grandparents. This was in the small town of Hakozaki-cho, a village of 300 with bus service only three times a day. It is near Kamaiishi City, in the Iwate Prefecture, in the state of Tohoku, Japan.

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Asters at Port Oneida

Glen Arbor artist Kristin Hurlin’s latest naturalist installment.

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Busiest … summer … ever

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Sometime this month, the 1,364,835th visitor to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in 2012 will arrive at the Dune Climb, hike to Pyramid Point, or perhaps bike the Heritage Trail and enjoy its stunning autumnal beauty. In doing so, that visitor will officially make this the busiest year ever for the Glen Arbor region, the most profitable for local businesses, and perhaps the most hectic one too.

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Art Association Writer in Residence reads poems Sept. 27

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Dorothy Brooks of East Lansing plans to use her Glen Arbor Art Association two-week residency to “write a series of poems (10-15) with Lake Michigan as theme: seen from my own unique perspective.” Brooks has spent many summers in northern Michigan on its lakes, rivers and woods and now wants to “breathe the lake” and absorb and record what she finds.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers free, ranger-guided programs

“Saturdays at the Lakeshore” programs take place every Saturday from Sept. 15 through Oct. 27. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire on M-72 at 1 p.m. to meet the Park Ranger who will lead the hike. Then, car caravan a short distance to where the walk will begin. Each week, a different topic and location in the park will be featured. All are welcome. Each program will be no more than a mile and a half round trip and will conclude by 3 p.m.

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Art Association welcomes landscape artist, teacher, children’s book illustrator

Steven Walker of Westerville, Ohio, will make a presentation about his Artist-in-Residence experience at the Glen Arbor Art Association on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Born in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and raised in Richmond, Va., Walker is a prolific and dedicated “nature” artist. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and began a career in illustration. Soon thereafter he began teaching at VCU and then pursued his MFA at Marywood University. He began to exhibit his work in galleries and was well received. His many accomplishments include awards in plein air painting and landscape competitions. He won a blue ribbon in the Ohio Plein Air competition. His work is in many private collections such as Boy Scouts of America, Dominion Resources and the United State Air Force. He has been in many solo and group exhibitions.

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