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OPM Painting Trips

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2023 Plein Air Grand Marais kick-off painting trip artists at Sugarloaf Family Cabins
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 at YMCA Camp Menogyn near 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.

2025 Plein Air Grand Marais Kick-Off Painting Trip

Sunday, August 10 to Friday, August 15, 2025
Fabyanske Family's Sugarloaf Cabins, 9210 MN-61, Schroeder
Cost: $375 per bedroom with double bed, $275 per bed in the loft (one double, two singles)

Registration is open for OPM's annual painting trip to Sugarloaf Cabins, which is a fundraiser for Plein Air Grand Marais. Organizer Allison Eklund's Fabyanske family offers the use of their private cabins on Lake Superior, which historically were used as a resort until 1975. 

The property includes four small vertical-log cabins along the shore, two with bedrooms, one for gathering and dining, and one with hot tub and sauna. There are a total of five bedrooms with a double bed plus a loft with two singles and one double. A small caretaker's house up the driveway on Highway 61 has an additional bedroom with two twin beds.

Painters collaborate to prepare meals and enjoy unstructured time to paint in Cook County and create paintings eligible for exhibits and awards in Plein Air Grand Marais. To inquire or reserve a spot, contact Allison Eklund.

Photo Gallery: OPM Painting Trips 2016-2021

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