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A two mile, two and a half hour, guided walking tour through the historic neighborhoods and waterfront of Traverse City. Now in our seventh consecutive season.

Join us for Paint Grand Traverse Artist Demos August 15 at 10 AM in Hannah Park with Richie Gunn. The demonstration is FREE and open to all ages. In this demonstration Richie will discuss useful methods in quickly capturing the tone of an urban environment. For more information regarding the event, and how to RSVP, please visit paintgrandtraverse.com under the schedule of events. We thank MSU-FCU for sponsoring this event for our artists and community.

Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of FLOW (For Love Of Water), will talk about the mission of FLOW and the current issues facing this vital resource on Monday, August 15th, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.

A two mile, two and a half hour, guided walking tour through the historic neighborhoods and waterfront of Traverse City. Now in our seventh consecutive season.

Join us for Paint Grand Traverse Artist Demo August 16th at 10 AM in Hannah Park with Jennifer Tobias. The demonstration is FREE and open to all ages. Learn how Jennifer interprets Michigan's landscapes and lakeshores with some abstraction of the scene using acrylic. For more information regarding the event, and how to RSVP, please visit paintgrandtraverse.com under the schedule of events. We thank MSU-FCU for sponsoring this event for our artists and community.

Local History Talk with Tim Carroll

Award winning garden writer and author of the Petoskey-based novel on cottage life, RANGE OF MOTION, Mary Agria will speak on "The Changing Face of the Little Traverse Resort Community" at 7 PM on Tuesday, August 16th at Little Traverse Historical Museum. This event is free and requires no reservations to attend. Author Agria will use vintage photos to trace the development of tourism as it relates to retail and industrial life as well as the human demographics of the Petoskey area.

Five-time winner of the statewide Michigan Garden Club competition for feature writing, Ms. Agria's column on gardening and spirituality has appeared since 2006 in the Petoskey News-Review. A past featured Michigan writer with the Charlevoix Zonta club and at Michigan Ag Extension garden conferences, in July she was the keynote speaker for the 60th anniversary of the statewide Keep Michigan Beautiful program. At the conference she also received an award from the Wayne County Commission for her writing in support of gardens and community building in Michigan.

Agria’s books will be available to purchase at the event, as well as in the Little Traverse Historical Museum's gift shop. The Little Traverse Historical Museum is open Monday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm. Tickets are free for children and members, and $3 for non-members.

A two mile, two and a half hour, guided walking tour through the historic neighborhoods and waterfront of Traverse City. Now in our seventh consecutive season.

Join us for Paint Grand Traverse Artist Demo August 17th at 5:30pm in Hannah Park with Steve Stannard. The demonstration is FREE and open to all ages. Steve’s plein air demo examines the charm of limited color palettes in watercolor. For more information regarding the event, and how to RSVP, please visit paintgrandtraverse.com under the schedule of events. We thank MSU-FCU for sponsoring this event for our artists and community.

For the third of our summer PAIRINGS we are featuring the art of Carrie C & Charles Murphy, of Traverse City.

Join us for an outdoor reception Saturday, Aug. 20 at 3 p.m. to meet the artists and discuss what inspires their artistic expression.

These partners in life and in art will be showcasing works in Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor in the living room of our Cottage Gallery through September 10th.