The community has chosen artwork created by local artist, Avery Jade Graham to be featured on the Art Week 2024 magazine cover. Avery Jade Graham Art Week 2024 magazine cover. Thank you to all the artists who have shared their artwork, and to everyone that voted. All the entries can still be viewed in the Virtual Exhibit. SAVE THE DATE for Art Week 2024! June 24-29 will be packed with free to attend art events of all kinds. We'll also be engaging you all with the big projects we're working on to GROW Marquette's Arts & Culture sector. Visit Art Week - MQTCompass.com for more information about…

We received checks that totaled $645.40 to help with our mission. We could not have accomplished this without YOU!  We continue collecting grocery receipts from this year into next year. Tadych’s Marketplace will give 1% of the total register receipts to LSAA (a 501c3-not for profit organization) when turned in twice a year according to their instructions. There is a drop-box at the Deo Gallery, in the Peter White Public Library. You can also mail the receipts to LSAA, PO Box 9, Marquette, MI 49855

The 6th annual Fresh Coast Plein Air Festival was held on Friday and Saturday, June 23rd and 24th in Marquette, MI. The event attracted the most artists ever with 38 participants! The festival has been part of the “Grand Finale” of the City of Marquette Art Week, a week-long celebration of Marquette's creative community held during the last full week of June. This year's judging, reception, presentation of awards, and artwork display was held at Provisions MQT, one of Marquette’s newest coffeehouses on the shore of lake Superior. Artists decided for themselves if they were Level 1 Professionals, or Level…

May 08 - 26 2023, Reception on Friday, May 12, from 5 – 7 pm. Each year the DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools. Join us for the reception on Friday, May 12, from 5 – 7 pm. Participating Schools Include: Aspen Ridge Elementary School Birchview Elementary School Cherry Creek Elementary School Father Marquette Catholic Academy Gilbert Elementary School Lakeview Elementary School North Star Montessori Academy Powell Township School Sandy Knoll Elementary School…

Sunday, 20th of August (rain date, August 19th) Artwalk from noon to 5:00pm Set up at 11:00am Take Down from 5:00 to 6:00pm Water carves the land; land surrounds the water; land and water blend into a bayou. The bayou nurtures life, nurtures culture. We walk in the bayou, being shaped by its beauty and abundance. Our joy and gratitude pour out like water into our art. UP. Land Conservancy has preserved 13 acres of varied habitat around the bayou of the Chocolay River in Harvey, MI. Help us celebrate by exhibiting and selling your art in any media! Julie…