More than 50 regional artists will convert Grand Haven’s Central Park Place into one-night-only art show and sale, featuring live jazz and a cash bar.
“Live! On The Lakeshore” is a new collaboration that will bring literature, art, and history to life with a series of live demonstrations of visual arts, musical performances, and dramatic storytelling about the lives, events, and heritage of the Tri-Cities area.
The Fruitport Old Fashioned Days festival kicked off Wednesday and continues through Monday.
On Thursday night, Grand Haven Area Public Schools’ elementary students filed into the community center with parents and family members to celebrate their artistic abilities at this years Elementary Art Show.
Ottawa County facilities have no shortage of blank walls; that is about to change this in the new Family Justice Center.
MUSKEGON — Experience early 20th-century America through the eyes of the country’s most iconic artists at the Muskegon Museum of Art from May 11 through Aug. 27.
The Nature Center at Hemlock Crossing County Park will be transformed into a pop-up art venue in a collaboration hosted by Lakeshore Visual Arts Collective (LVAC) to benefit the Ottawa County Parks Foundation.
HOLLAND – The Hope College Department of Theatre will present an original, devised piece titled “The Boy Who Hates Everything,” on Friday and Saturday, April 14-15; and Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23, in the DeWitt Center main theatre.
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Throughout her life, Carol Bauer Schmidt she created many pictures expressing her interpretation of God’s creation.
ROME (AP) — The Florence museum housing Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.
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A new exhibit is making waves at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum.
The new exhibit at the Atrium Art Gallery of Second Christian Reformed Church showcases the art of Grand Haven artist Diane Van Noord.
Rihanna was above it all. And pregnant to boot.
DETROIT — Lawyers for the Detroit Institute of Arts on Monday scoffed at allegations that a Vincent van Gogh painting was missing for six years until being found hanging on the wall of the museum, using an exclamation point in a federal court of appeals filing to counter the purported owner’…
Santa is coming to Grand Haven’s Centertown on Saturday, and he’s his bringing his elves with him.
NEW YORK — Don’t look for plastic partitions or faraway benches when visiting Santa Claus this year. The jolly old elf is back, pre-pandemic style, and he’s got some pressing issues on his mind.
SPRING LAKE — Your next trip along the Lakeside Trail in the Village of Spring Lake will feature two new vast pieces of art.
After the Doss family sold Muskegon County-based Structural Concepts in 2018, there was a full-fledged assumption that they had washed their hands with the company. The paperwork was finalized, the keys were handed over and life would go on.
Brett Gish says he’s very much a skeptic when it comes to paranormal activity. But when he received the keys to the upstairs portion of the Grand Haven Elks Lodge a few Sundays ago, all it took was a handful of steps for his perception to flip.
The Grand Haven Art Festival is featured on the cover of the November 2022 issue of Sunshine Artist magazine.
WEST OLIVE — Meet the artists, whose work is displayed at Hemlock Crossing Park, during an event from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15.
DETROIT — How do you bring together 74 Vincent van Gogh works worth millions of dollars from museums, foundations and private collections all over the world for one massive exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts?
MUSKEGON — The Muskegon Museum of Art will debut a new exhibit, “Jonathan Thunder: Maamawi,” beginning Thursday, Sept. 29.
GRAND RAPIDS — With the first day of fall singing true to its name, the world’s most attended public art event is well underway in West Michigan.
The Tri-Cities Puentes Initiative is hosting a weeklong celebration of Hispanic heritage in Grand Haven.
Grand Rapids’ biggest art festival is back with hundreds of venues and artists spread all across the city’s downtown and beyond.
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For nearly two decades, Amy Russell was an adrenaline junkie.
The Salvation Army’s September First Friday dance will kick off Labor Day weekend from 7-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2.
More than 50 regional artists will transform the Grand Haven Community Center into an innovative, one-night-only art space from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27.
Despite the forecast of wet weather and a rainy start, Art on the Riverfront still managed to draw plenty of people to Grand Haven’s waterfront Saturday.
Art on the Riverfront is an annual outdoor, juried art show held along Grand Haven’s waterfront. This year’s show is Saturday, Aug. 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The “Beat” went on Saturday, despite persistent storms that pounded the Lakeshore.
Grand Haven’s Central Park on Friday was filled with vendors selling and showing off their handmade products for the annual Coast Guard Festival Craft Fair.
SPRING LAKE — This past weekend, the Spring Lake District Library brought the outdoors inside with the annual Tri-Cities Garden Club Flower Show.
A show of art pieces made out of trash picked up from the Grand Haven State Park beach and surrounding area is open now at the Grand Haven Community Center.
Christina Hutton says she has a special objective when it comes to her artwork: lure people away from the world and let them crawl into another dimension.
MUSKEGON — The award winners in the 58th annual Muskegon Community College Student Art and Design Exhibition, featuring artwork of outstanding merit produced by leading student artists over the past academic year, were announced during a June 1 reception.
MUSKEGON — Fans of the popular TV show and movie “Downton Abbey” are in for a treat with the traveling exhibit now on display at the Muskegon Museum of Art, 296 W. Webster Ave.
This past weekend, the 61st Grand Haven Art Festival flooded the downtown with more than 70 art vendors displaying and selling their works.
The 61st annual Grand Haven Art Festival is slated for next weekend — Friday through Sunday, June 24-26.
The Grand Haven Human Relations Commission recently made a gift of a work of art to Loutit District Library to honor retiring Library Director John Martin.
MUSKEGON — A donation of 150 paintings of women, by women, will elevate the Muskegon Museum of Art to one of five museums in the world that has a space dedicated to women artists.
MUSKEGON — The Women’s Division Chamber of Commerce recently announce that the 14th annual Dancing with the Local Stars event generated a record $258,240.
Central Park Players will perform the play, “A Piece of My Heart,” at the Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Ave., this coming Friday and Saturday, May 20-21. Performances are at 7:30 p.m.
MUSKEGON — The 58th annual Muskegon Community College Student Art and Design Exhibition in the Overbrook Art Gallery begins Monday, May 16, and runs through Sept. 8.
Nancy Buchanan fondly remembers her good friend Maria Bereza, especially during the Easter season.
MUSKEGON — The Muskegon Museum of Art will bring back its annual On Tap & Uncorked event on Friday, April 29.
Staying home for spring break? Need something to do to keep the kids (and yourself) busy?
WEST OLIVE — The Lakeshore Visual Arts Collective will transform the Nature Center at Hemlock Crossing County Park into a one-night-only, pop-up art venue on Saturday, April 16.
MUSKEGON — Several local students were among those recognized during the 2022 West Michigan Student Showcase.
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