Plein Air Grand Marais Competition Exhibit 

Event Information

Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery

115 W. Wisconsin St.
Grand Marais, MN 55604

Address: 115 W. Wisconsin St., Grand Marais, MN 55604

The Gallery is located behind the Dairy Queen in downtown Grand Marais, MN and next to the Gun Flint Tavern across from the prestine harbor of Lake Superior.

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About

Plein Air Grand Marais is a 20 year tradition bringing outdoor painters to the North Shore of Lake Superior for a week of painting, learning, competition, and camaraderie. Since 2018, the event has been organized by Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and hosted by the Cook County Historical Society's Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery.

Plein Air Grand Marais welcomes artists of all ages and abilities. The Competition Class consists of invitational and juried painters, who submit four paintings eligible for awards in an exhibit at Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery from the opening reception through early October. The Open Class consists of registered artists who may exhibit their best original painting created during the event in a one-night exhibit and reception. A public art activity at Joy & Co. in downtown Grand Marais offers supervised plein air painting for children and adults and a clothesline art exhibit. A 90-minute Quick Paint competition, daily paint-outs, and Artists Socials are open to all registered artists. Any painter in Grand Marais during Competition Week may register to attend Mini-Workshops with professional plein air Competition Artists or the Juror Workshop on the Saturday after the final reception.

More information at Plein Air Grand Marais - Outdoor Painters of Minnesota

Dates

The dates for this event have passed. No future dates are available at this time.

Join painters as the compete around the downtown area for Night Paints and Quick Paints - watch them while they work from September 6 - 12 and then join us for the opening of the exhibition on September 13 from 5 - 8 pm.

  
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