2024 Winter Plein Air
Annual painting retreat and exhibit
Retreat: Sunday, March 3 to Friday, March 8, 2024
**Meetup on March 3 at Cook County Whole Foods Co-Op between 3-4pm for 4:00pm caravan departure**
Public Reception at Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery (JHP)
115 W. Wisconsin St, Grand Marais, MN: 5:00-7:00pm on Friday, March 8, 2024
Exhibit: March 8-24, 2024
**Meetup on March 3 at Cook County Whole Foods Co-Op between 3-4pm for 4:00pm caravan departure**
Public Reception at Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery (JHP)
115 W. Wisconsin St, Grand Marais, MN: 5:00-7:00pm on Friday, March 8, 2024
Exhibit: March 8-24, 2024
Read about our Winter Plein Air retreat in a 2018 article in OutdoorPainter.com and in the January/February 2019 issue of The Artist magazine.
REGISTRATION IS OPENING SOON! Space is limited to 30. Register early to secure your reservation. 2023 COST: $425 per person includes five nights lodging, all meals, staff guides, and use of snowshoes/skis at Menogyn. 2024 cost is pending confirmation. Dog Sledding is an additional option for $15 per person. This fee directly supports the dogs and dogsledding activity program. CANCELLATION POLICY: Registration may be cancelled with full refund minus PayPal fee until January 31, 2024. No refund can be given after the deadline, when OPM pays the fees to Menogyn. Any exceptions are subject to the policies of the YMCA. |
Winter Plein Air is an annual painting retreat at YMCA Camp Menogyn, a wilderness camp with lodge and cabins located a half-mile walk/ski/snowshoe across Bearskin Lake at an entry to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). The parking lot at YMCA Camp Menogyn is 31.5 miles up the Gunflint Trail from Grand Marais, Minnesota.
WPA is not a competition. It is a painting expedition to a YMCA wilderness camp to spend 5 days painting the beauty of the BWCAW and enjoying the camaraderie of other painters. After the retreat, painters return to Grand Marais to hang their paintings at Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery. A Friday night public reception is followed by an exhibit. Unsold paintings may be retrieved by volunteers who return to the North Shore at the end of the show. Organizer: Allison Eklund allison@outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org Paintings from Menogyn 2010-2022
Alumni, please send a couple painting images for the slideshow to allison@outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org. |
