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OPM Painting Trips & Special Event Lodging

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OPM looks for opportunities to offer affordable painting trips for small groups to travel and paint together. OPM has coordinated painting trips to the Black Hills of South Dakota, to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, to the North Shore of Lake Superior, to Georgia O'Keefe's studio at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, and our annual Winter Plein Air Retreat in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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If you have suggestions for future painting trips, please email our Events Director, Allison Eklund.
Pay Now
The "Pay Now" button may be used for some of our trips to pay with PayPal or credit/debit card after confirming your spot with Events Director Allison Eklund. Note, some trips are payable directly to the host or other organizer.

Painting Trip to Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico

Dates: May 22-26, 2022

OPM Events Director Allison Eklund is coordinating a painting trip to Georgia O'Keefe's famous studio destination called Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Painters arrive on Sunday, May 22 and leave Thursday, May 26. Our rooms are reserved in a block together so we can socialize and coordinate paint-outs. Currently we have one room with two beds available in our block. Additional lodging at Ghost Ranch may be available by independent reservation. Contact Allison about details and availability. (651) 592-7858 or events@outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org

2022 Plein Air Grand Marais painting kickoff at Sugarloaf Cabins

Sunday, August 14 to Friday, August 19, 2022
Sugarloaf Family Cabins, Schroeder, MN
This year, the painting period for Plein Air Grand Marais opens on August 15, 2022. Allison Eklund's family cabin compound in Schroeder, called Sugarloaf, will be available for a 5-night stay, with daily paint-outs in Cook County along the North Shore. Fees are paid directly to OPM as a charitable fundraiser for PAGM in September. Five bedrooms in two shoreline cabins plus a loft with double bed and two singles are available.

Cost for the entire 5-night stay is $375 per bedroom or $275 per person to stay in the loft. Bedrooms are private but cabins might have mix of genders. Cabins have running water, kitchenette, refrigerator, and electricity. A shower is located in the hot tub/sauna cabin. A Gathering Cabin includes living room/dining room and full kitchen for collaborating on meals and socializing. Contact Allison events@outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org to reserve your spot for PAGM Kickoff at Sugarloaf Family Cabins, August 14-19, 2022!

2022 Plein Air Grand Marais: Gull Harbor

Friday, September 9 to Saturday, September 17, 2022
​Gull Harbor #1030
OPM director Janey Palmer is offering her North Shore condo for painters to stay for 8 nights during 2022 PAGM, from Friday, September 9 to Saturday, September 17. Proceeds will be donated to OPM as a fundraiser for PAGM. 

There are four spots available for female artists from Friday, Sept. 9 through Saturday Sept. 16 at Gull Harbor #1030, which is perched atop Lake Superior between Tofte and Lutsen (appx 23 miles from Johnson Heritage Post on Highway 61). Includes full use of the condo and on-site facilities including fire pit, beach and sauna. The main bedroom has its own deck.

Cost is $65 per night.

See details and photos here: www.vrbo.com/1003410

Accommodations are as follows, available on a first-come basis:
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1. Twin bed in upstairs loft - toilet and sink area in room, shower on main floor
2. Twin bed in upstairs loft - - toilet and sink area in room, shower on main floor
3. King bed in the main bedroom - with adjacent full bathroom
4. Pull-out queen in the main bedroom - with adjacent full bathroom

Contact Janey Palmer to reserve your spot: curly3600@gmail.com

**COVID-19 Notice: For everyone's safety and reasonable assurance, participants should be at least 2 weeks past their latest CDC approved vaccination by departure. As organizer of group activities, OPM will comply with any current local or State requirements and asks all participants to follow current CDC recommendations and guidelines.
REFUND POLICY: If you must cancel your reservation before the cancellation deadline for a trip, OPM will refund your payment minus the PayPal transaction fee. If you must cancel after the cancellation deadline, your payment is nonrefundable and may be considered a tax deductible donation to OPM, a 501c3 charitable nonprofit.

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