Maple City artist Carol C. Spaulding will conduct a painting demonstration on June 8 at 1 p.m. at the Lake Street Studios Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. This demonstration is open to the public as part of the artist’s exhibition, “Color of Light,” at Center Gallery through June 26.
The difference between an artist and a business person is that the business person makes art in order to make money and the artist makes money in order to keep making art. Becky Thatcher is the latter, a genuine artist. Not only does she have vision and skill, she has guts, an ability to take risks, confidence, courage and absolute indifference to public opinion when it comes to her jewelry.
Grand Rapids artists Jeff Condon paints the “Beauty of the Earth,” an exhibition of landscapes opening Aug. 30 at Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. This show opens 6 p.m. with a reception.
“Bodies,” an exhibition oil paintings of water by Steven Walker, opens Aug. 9 at the Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor. There will be a reception for the artist at 6 p.m. Walker, a resident of Westerfield, Ohio, uses bodies of water to illustrate light and the ways in which it is conveyed in crashing waves, ponds, creeks and streams. In addition to his studio practice, Walker teaches oil painting at the McConnell Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio. “Bodies” continues through Aug. 15.
Ohio artist Joseph Lombardo will exhibit his study of “Patterns,” plein air and studio paintings of Leelanau County, July 12-18, at Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor. The show opens with a public reception July 12 at 6 p.m.
It all begins with a photograph for Maple City painter Don Drabik. The camera is the tool he uses to record scenes of unexpected, overlooked settings that become his watercolor paintings. An exhibition of new work opens Aug. 24, 6 p.m. at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Suttons Bay artist Neil Walling demonstrates some of his signature plein air painting techniques on Aug. 14 at 11 a.m. at the Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Frankfort artist Peggy Hawley returns to Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor with oil paintings of northern Michigan’s water and land. The exhibition opens Aug. 3 at 6 p.m. with a public reception at the gallery, 6023 S. Lake St.
On Sunday, July 29 at 8 p.m. the annual Arts Collage event will take place outdoors at the Studio Stage, located behind Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor. The rain location is the Glen Arbor Town Hall. This year’s Arts Collage features guitarist Will Pearsall, poets Teresa Scollon and Anne-Marie Oomen and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Paintings of Leelanau County’s land and water — as processed through the imagination of Grand Rapids artist Margo Burian — are on display next at the Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios, in Glen Arbor. A public reception opens the show on July 27 at 6 p.m.