With art classes for both young and old, the Grand Marais Art Colony offers a great variety of courses and workshops. Click above for full course listing and details.

From Basketry, to Fly Fishing and Timber Framing, North House offers a great variety of courses and workshops. Check out the some of the great summer courses available. Click above for full course listing and details.

Join the JHP Art Gallery for an amazing exhibition titled  “Belvo | Cushmore : Paintings & Drawings 2018” – a magnificent showing of works by famed artists Hazel Belvo and Marcia Casey Cushmore. The exhibit runs through August 12th. Their work is grounded in the environment, but is thoroughly abstract. Both artists will have artwork available for purchase. This is not an exhibit to miss!

Grand Marais Music Collaborative is holding its second annual Stars of the North Music Fest.  Music starts on Friday at 3pm and goes to Sunday!  This is a free event.  There will be a beer and wine bar (thanks to Grandma Ray’s) and a food truck.  T-shirts and raffle tickets will be sold to raise funds for the youth music lesson program.  Come down to join the fun!

Music provided by local and region acts:

July 27 Friday
3:00 – 4:00  Briand Morrison
4:30- 5:30 Mysterious Ways
6:30 – 7:30 Splintertones
8:00 – 10:00 Plucked Up String Band

July 28 Saturday 
10:00 – 11:00 Sky Blue Quartet
11:00 -12:00 Joe Paulik
12:30 – 1:30 Michael Monroe
2:00- 3:15 Katy Vernon
DJ Beavstar throughout the day
4:30 – 6:00 Amy Grillo and Gene LaFond
6:30 – 8:00 Common Ground

July 29 Sunday
10:00 – noonish Chris Gillis with Gordon Thorne many other friends and student performance!

Everyone is invited, you don’t need to be staying at a particular location to join the program.
These programs are provided free to all by the Superior National Forest and Visit Cook County.

Multiple events Tuesdays through Saturdays, click for details.

Thursdays – In-Depth Nature Discovery

Aug 8 – 1 pm, Lutsen SNA Hike
Aug 15 – 10 am, Geology Field Day and Community Invasives Training at 6 pm
Aug 22 – 8 am, Bird Exploration Adventures

Fridays – 7 am  – Bird Banding Demos

Have you ever seen a wild bird up close? Discover the many types of birds that live along the North Shore.

Saturdays – Nature Talks

Aug 10 – 2 pm,  An Up-Close Look at Northwoods Animals
Aug 17 – 10 am, State of the Birds
Aug 24 – 10 am, Photo Scavenger Hunt
Aug 31 – 10 am, Life on the Edge

Sundays – 10 am – Geology Walks

Discover how Lake Superior was formed. Learn how to find agates. Free, donations appreciated.

Calendar and details here

Take a glimpse into the ephemeral art of stone balancing with Peter Juhl. Using photos and live demonstration, Peter will show how shape, weight, and friction can be used to create beautiful, fleeting works of sculpture. You won’t believe your eyes.

$5 per person; $10 per family.

Oh, how wonderful to be read aloud to; joins us summer Saturdays for this story hour with the Muffin Man.

Also check out these other readings at Drury lane:

Aug 25 :: Brenda Child & Jonathan Thunder: Bowwow Powwow :: 7:00pm
Aug 26 :: Full Moon Reading featuring Children’s Books :: 7:30pm

Yvonne is the author of eleven nonfiction books for children and the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. She and her husband began taking their children to the BWCA when all five of them could fit in one canoe. It’s still one of her favorite places.

When Sadie thinks of the wilderness, (in “Sadie Braves the Wilderness”) she worries about bears and boulders and bellowing waterfalls. But a family adventure in the Boundary Waters, complete with camping, hiking, and canoeing, helps her appreciate the wonders of the “wild, wild north.”

Author Yvonne Pearson will be the guest reader during our children’s story hour and discuss her writing process with the audience.

The Grand Marais Garden Club presents its annual Flower Show. You are invited to view beautiful floral arrangements of locally grown flowers and enjoy tasty treats. Also included is a Master Gardener display and plant exchange. Free.

This year’s theme for 2018 is “Childhood Memories”

Community members are encouraged to bring your favorite flowers, even if your don’t have many …we will gather them up with others to show at the Flower Show. Remember we will have a PLANT SALE and a MASTER GARDENER’S display  ….AND REFRESHMENTS !

Childhood Memories: Grand Marais Garden Club Flower Show