Community Calendar

American Tree is an exhibit that explores the role trees played in the formation of the United States 250 years ago — and the role trees will play moving forward into this nation’s next 250 years. This exhibition features the work of 28 artists. Set in Glen Arbor — named Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in February 2026 — the exhibit celebrates trees in a wide variety of media, styles, and materials. It interprets the pivotal role trees played in the history of this nation.

At the same time, American Tree is an exhibition that asks what our relationship with the forests and woodlands looks like today? Is it purely transactional and commercial? Is there respite and renewal to be found in the woods? And what is our blueprint for the forest ecosystem in the next two centuries? What does a United State of Trees look like? Why should we care?

Monday thru Friday: 9am – 3pm
Saturday: 12pm – 4pm
Sunday: 12pm – 4pm

Step back in time at the 1842 Dougherty Mission House built by Chief Agosa, the Odawa and Ojibwe people and Rev. Peter Dougherty. Explore life from 1842 to 1917 through the house, outbuildings and demonstration garden.

See unusual pure American chestnut trees. Docent led tours Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11am to 4pm. Discover the Mission House that gave Old Mission Peninsula its name.

Tours:
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Admission: $5 adults
(12 and under free)

The Northport Arts Association is proud to present the 2026 Northport Harbor of Creativity Invitational Exhibit, launching August 15th with an Opening Reception on Saturday from 5–7pm at the Village Arts Building (301 N. Mill St., Northport, MI). This popular exhibit is a must-see for painting enthusiasts.

The Opening Reception is free and open to the public, featuring complimentary appetizers and a cash bar. The exhibit will run from August 16th through September 12th, gallery hours Tuesday through Sunday, 12–4 PM.

In memory of Joe and Jane Muer, this giant community collage with over 200 canvases, created by local artists, is on display beginning June 6th. Each piece is priced at $40.00 with all proceeds benefiting programming at the Oliver Art Center.

Summer Hours:
June 1 – September 30:
Monday – Saturday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday 12:00pm – 4:00pm

Come to the museum and join an informal tour of our current exhibitions with one of our docents.

Tours are free with museum admission and will begin at 12:00 PM. Please meet by the front desk a few minutes before the tour begins.

Images and poetry are the essence of the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s current Lobby Gallery exhibit. Poetic Visions Of Port Oneida: Painting And Poems That Reimagine is a series of oil paintings and corresponding poems created by Grand Traverse County artist Wendy McWhorter. This exhibition is in the GAAC’s Lobby Gallery through August 27, 2026.

Hours:
Monday thru Friday: 9am – 3pm
Saturday: 12pm – 4pm
Sunday: 12pm – 4pm

We see birds everyday, everywhere, some more often than others, but pollution and the consequences of modern technology, pesticides, and land development as well as the spread of invasive species increasingly impact their natural habitats, threatening their survival. How often do we stop to look and listen, take in their beauty, colors, patterns, behaviors, songs, and marvel at the magic of flight? Songbirds, raptors, shorebirds, arboreal birds and scavengers—each play an essential role in maintaining balance in our ecosystem.

“For the Birds” includes nine artists whose compelling works explore their own attraction to birds as a subject, whether rendered as two-dimensional images or 3D objects in printmaking, pen and ink, fiber, found materials, mixed media or the moving image. Each artist’s distinct approach and vision brings heightened awareness to the act of looking—imperative to both birding and art. “For the Birds” offers an opportunity to meditate on the shapes, colors and details within the broad range of avian species—inviting us to appreciate their diversity as vital to the environment, and our role in protecting the natural habitats we share.

Open during library business hours.

Like many creatives before her, Ohio artist Rachel Mentzer finds inspiration in the Leelanau Peninsula. During her Glen Arbor Arts Center artist residency Mentzer will look to the “light, textures, and forms of the Sleeping Bear Dunes” to create a series of intaglio collagraph printing plates. Mentzer will describe her process, and show examples of her residential work during a public presentation August 20, 10 am at the GAAC.

“Immersion in the Sleeping Bear Dunes will inspire new technical approaches, expand mytextural vocabulary, and yield a series of plates that informs future printed editions and strengthens my sustainable printmaking practice,” Mentzer said. “While I will not print on-site due to the need for a press, developing these plates in Glen Arbor allows me to push technical boundaries, refine composition, and create a cohesive, light-driven series that fosters growth in
both technique and visual storytelling.”

The GAAC has been hosting visiting artmakers as part of its residency program since the 1990s. For more information about the GAAC’s AIR Program go to GlenArborArt.org /
ARTISTS.

Oliver Art Center presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of Nancy I. Foster. A longtime OAC Member Artist, Nancy's work has made an impact everywhere she has resided. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the western and midwestern United States and is among both private and corporate collections.

She has said of her journeys, “My migrations across this huge land have sparked an abiding interest in formations of the land—observing the effects of wind, waters, rivers, the thrusting of tectonic plates, the nature of geological time, questions of scale, and, finally, man’s hand in changing and marking the land.”

This exhibit is an opportunity to travel across America through Foster’s eyes: taking in humble midwestern landscapes, romantic landscapes of the Great Lakes, the edges and shadows of urban Chicago, and the majesty of nature from Michigan to the west coast.

Opening reception July 18th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Refreshments will be served, all are welcome.

Exhibit Hours:
Sunday 12-4
Monday - Thursday 10-4

The Tunnel of Trees Art Trail aims to engage the community in the arts while showcasing the visual fine arts created by local artists along the scenic stretch from Harbor Springs to Cross Village. Join us in art and community as we celebrate local art and artists along and near the Tunnel of Trees (M-119) in a multi-faceted, family-friendly event. The art trail includes stops at:

- Art galleries.
- Private artists’ studios.
- Artists featured at local area businesses along M119
- Artists doing live painting demonstrations at Little Traverse Conservancy Nature Preserves and Thorne Swift Nature Preserve
- Odawa art demonstrations at the King House in Middle Village.
- An art show at the Good Hart Artist Residency featuring the work of local artists.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.

Pick up a map at any of the galleries in Harbor Springs.