2020 Competition Juror:
Kathie Wheeler, OPA, AIS, AWA
Juror Presentation: Live-streamed and in-person at 11:00am on Thursday, September 17, 2020
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Juror 2-day Workshop: "The Poetry of Plein Air" at the Grand Marais Art Colony, September 19-20, 2020
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Competition and Festival of Outdoor Painting
on the North Shore of Lake Superior
2020 Competition Dates:
September 11-18, 2020
Competition Class is closed.
Open Class is OPEN!
2020 Competition Exhibit Dates:
September 18-October 11, 2020
Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery
115 Wisconsin St., Grand Marais, Minnesota
September 11-18, 2020
Competition Class is closed.
Open Class is OPEN!
2020 Competition Exhibit Dates:
September 18-October 11, 2020
Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery
115 Wisconsin St., Grand Marais, Minnesota
Daily Schedule as of 6/29/2020:
COVID-19 Response Plan: Plein Air Grand Marais is planning our event in Cook County, MN during Competition Week as usual, but we have added online-only programming for all artists to participate from any location with internet access. The PAGM Planning Committee is developing a virtual event program consisting of online galleries of Open Class and Competition paintings for jurying and sale. Some Mini-Workshops will be live-streamed or video recorded for participants staying home. Virtual exhibit tours led by participating artists will be publicly live-streamed. All paintings will be juried online. This year only, paintings in the Competition and Open Class may be completed any time from June 1-September 18, 2020. And they may be painted anywhere, not only in Cook County.
Stay tuned for publication of a 2020 Artist Guide with details about all special accommodations, special award categories, and changes to the rules. Thanks for your continued support, and now get outside and paint!
Stay tuned for publication of a 2020 Artist Guide with details about all special accommodations, special award categories, and changes to the rules. Thanks for your continued support, and now get outside and paint!
Plein Air Grand Marais is a 17 year tradition bringing outdoor painters to the North Shore of Lake Superior for a week of painting, competition, learning, and camaraderie. Beginning in 2018, the event is organized by Outdoor Painters of Minnesota together with the Cook County Historical Society's Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery.
Plein Air Grand Marais welcomes artists of all ages and abilities. The Competition consists of invitational and juried painters. An Open Class consists of registered artists who may exhibit their best original work created during the event in an Open Class reception-exhibit and compete for the Art On The Rocks award in the Quick Paint. A public art activity at Joy & Co. in downtown Grand Marais will offer supervised plein air painting for children and adults and a clothesline art exhibit. Daily paint-outs and Mini-Workshops with professional plein air Competition Artists are open to all artists.
Thank you to our community partners and sponsors!
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Mini-Workshops17 professional plein air painting instructors competing in the event will offer a 3-hour workshop during the week of competition. These popular mini-workshops are attended by painters of all ability levels, helping to make Grand Marais a destination-painting event for artists to learn from each other and get inspired. This year, many of our Mini-Workshops will be live-streamed or recorded for viewing by registered participants at home.
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Daily Paint-OutsIn 2020, painters may paint anywhere legal and safe en plein air to be eligible for Competition and Open Class exhibits. For those present in Cook County during Competition Week, we work with community partners and award sponsors to provide a list of recommended painting locations and schedule daily paint-outs in some of the most scenic places on the North Shore.
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Public Art ActivitiesPlein Air Grand Marais provides opportunities for community members and visitors to try outdoor painting. Community paint-boxes will be available at local sponsor Joy & Co. for anyone to create a painting for public display in a picket-fence gallery. A children's plein air painting activity also will be supervised at Joy & Co.
Artists' SocialsPlein Air Grand Marais is more than a painting competition: it is an opportunity for artists of all levels to socialize, learn, make new connections and enjoy conversations, food and drinks together. On opening Friday night, we'll have a social gathering and Night Paint at the harbor picnic shelter at Grand Marais Municipal Campground. Watch the schedule for traditional bonfire social at Neil Sherman's, west-end bonfire social at Sugarloaf Family Cabins, and outdoor happy hour gatherings at local restaurants.
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Panel DiscussionOn Thursday before the Quick Paint, panel discussion in JHP will be scheduled, in-person and via Zoom, for artists to discuss the future of plein air events in our age of uncertainty around pandemic planning.
Hootenanny
It's a Thursday night tradition: After the Quick Paint, we gather at the harbor picnic shelter at the Grand Marais Municipal Campground to sing, play music along with our ad-hoc band "The Plain Errors," and celebrate the week's painting achievements.
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