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.

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?

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.

For nearly two decades, Amy Russell was an adrenaline junkie.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PHILADELPHIA — As Russian forces were closing in on Kyiv last Thursday, Oksana Maslova, a Philadelphia Ballet dancer from Ukraine, was exchanging text messages with friends and family nearly 5,000 miles away. Her mother, who had gone to Kyiv to be with Maslova’s sister, spent the previous tw…

HOLLAND — The annual campus-wide, 24-hour Dance Marathon fundraiser organized by Hope College students is returning to an in-person format — although still with adjustments – when it runs on Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, in the Dow Center.

The Grand Haven Art Festival is putting out a call to artists to apply for the 2022 show, which will is scheduled for June 24-26.

Grand Rapids Ballet is kicking off its 50th anniversary with the classic fairytale, “Cinderella,” from Feb. 25-27.

Hackley Public Library in Muskegon has several events planned throughout February to celebrate Black History Month.

An Artist Trail will be held in Grand Haven on Saturday, Nov. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

MUSKEGON — The Frauenthal Center has announced its 2021-22 season, which begins Dec. 18.

The biannual Holly Berry Bazaar, sponsored by the United Methodist Women, will take place Saturday, Nov. 13.

It’s taken more than two years, but the Midwest Miniatures Museum is poised to finally open in Grand Haven.

The newly renovated and relocated Midwest Miniatures Museum in Grand Haven plans to officially open its doors to the public on Nov. 6.

The Grand Haven Schools Foundation was once again the beneficiary of the Art at the Yard fundraiser.

After a year’s hiatus, Art at the Yard is back.