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Outdoor Gallery Exhibit: Pam Spicer

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The vibrant paintings of Traverse City artist Pam Spicer is the 2021-2022 installation in the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Outdoor Gallery. Five of Pam’s paintings will be reproduced on 5-foot-square weather-resistant aluminum panels by Image360 of Traverse City.

Exhibit: Woodland Studies

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center is exhibiting Woodland Studies, a small exhibition of black and white photographs by Grand Rapids photographer Rodney Martin

PaperWork Exhibition

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

PaperWork is an exhibition about works on paper, and works made from paper. It focuses on paper used in a wide array of applications...

Exhibit: 2022 Member Create

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

For longer than anyone can remember, the Glen Arbor Arts Center has presented an annual exhibition of work created by its members. As diverse as the GAAC’s members are, so, too, is the work they make.

Exhibit: On the Precipice

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center is showing On The Precipice, a collaborative exhibition of paintings and poems by Linda Alice Dewey and Anne-Marie Oomen.

Outdoor Gallery Exhibit: Carrie Hensel

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Ann Arbor artist Carrie Hensel's impressionistic landscape paintings will be the 2022-23 Outdoor Gallery installation at the Glen Arbor Arts Center.

Exhibit: Flags

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Flags represent everything -- from a nation to a world view to one’s affinity and allegiance to a sports team. They’re objects that are saturated with meaning.

Mini Masterpieces

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s annual Mini Masterpieces outdoor exhibit is on display. Mini Masterpieces are 3 x 3” canvases illustrated and painted by community members in Leelanau County.

Clothesline Exhibit: Prayer Flags

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center looks to the East for inspiration for the 2022 Clothesline Exhibit. This year’s theme is prayer flags.

Exhibit: Vessels

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center takes an out-of-the-box look at bowls, baskets, urns, pods, and other objects that store and carry things, in its fall exhibit, VESSELS.

Exhibit: Ropes, Ribbons, Twigs, and Things

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s fall, Lobby Gallery exhibition is Ropes, Ribbons, Twigs, and Things, a series of intaglio prints by Traverse City artist Dorothy Anderson Grow.

Exhibit: 2022 Small Works

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 2022 Small Works Holiday Exhibition is an annual showcase of 2D + 3D work that offers small, original art at affordable prices, $150 or less.

Exhibit: A Feral Housewife

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Leelanau County artist Mary Beth Acosta’s collages occupy the GAAC’s Lobby Gallery January 6 – April 21, 2023.

Exhibit: Telling Stories: Fact, Fiction, Otherwise

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Telling Stories: Fact, Fiction, Otherwise asks applicants to tell some stories of their own: true, false, or otherwise.

Exhibit: Swimming

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Swimming is an activity that puts bodies into bodies of water. It is also a universally-understood metaphor for moving through water, literal and symbolic

Swimming Exhibit Opening Reception

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center takes a deep dive into creative waters with Swimming, an exhibition. The exhibit opens March 31 with a reception, 5-7 pm in the GAAC Main Gallery.

Exhibit: The Birds Are Watching

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

In her GAAC Lobby Gallery exhibit, The Birds Are Watching, Jessica Kovan “asks viewers to pay attention from the vantage point of local bird species, in hopes of establishing a sense of interconnectedness between all beings.

Outdoor Gallery Exhibit: Debra Howard

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Michigan and Maryland painter Debra Howard’s work has been chosen for the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 2023-24 Outdoor Gallery exhibition.

Exhibit: 2023 Members Create

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

For longer than anyone can remember, the Glen Arbor Arts Center has presented an annual exhibition of work created by its members. As diverse as the GAAC’s members are, so, too, is the work they make.

2023 Clothesline Exhibit: Insects + Spiders

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center is getting buggy about the 2023 Clothesline Exhibit. This year’s theme is Insects + Spiders. It’s a celebration -- an infestation of appreciation for these small creatures. Insects are the most diverse group of organisms.

Exhibit: In Translation

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

In Translation is a multi-pronged project that explores how humans employ creativity and the arts to translate the world, contemporary life, contemporary social and political issues, and the world in which they live.

Exhibit: By The Side Of The Road

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The outdoors comes indoors to the Lobby Gallery at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. By The Side Of The Road is a series of abstract, mixed media landscapes out of the imagination of painter Alice Moss.

Exhibit: 2023 Small Works

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s 2023 Small Works Holiday Exhibition is an annual showcase of 2D + 3D work that offers small, original art at affordable prices, $150 or less.

Exhibit: Tree Of Life: Connecting The World

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Traverse City artist Mary Fortuna explores the Tree Of Life | Connecting The World in a mixed media installation at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. This small show runs January 5 – April 25, 2024 in the GAAC Lobby Gallery.

Exhibit: Happy

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Happiness is an ever-changing concept/state-of-being/thing. It ranges from pure serenity to absolute ecstasy, from contentment to awe. One person’s happy is not another’s: Happiness is a unique sensation.

Exhibit: By Hand

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

Human hands with their dexterous, opposable thumbs have allowed us to innovate, to use tools, to become nimble, skillful, creative and artful makers.

Opening Reception For By Hand Project

Glen Arbor Arts Center 6031 S Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, United States

The Glen Arbor Arts Center launches its By Hand project with a reception March  29, 5-7 pm.

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