2025 Winter Plein Air
Annual painting retreat and exhibit
Retreat: Sunday, February 23 to Friday, February 28, 2025
**Meetup on February 23 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, February 28, 2025
JHP Exhibit: February 28 – March 23, 2025
**Meetup on February 23 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, February 28, 2025
JHP Exhibit: February 28 – March 23, 2025
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 OPEN! Space is limited to 30. Register early to secure your reservation. 2025 COST: $465 per person includes five nights group lodging in bunk rooms, all meals, staff guides, and use of snowshoes/skis at Menogyn. 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 before February 23, 2025. No refund can be given after fees are paid to Menogyn. Please read the YMCA liability waiver, and print or save a copy for your records. OPM's registration form requires participants' consent to its terms.
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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 exhibit the weekend of March 20-23 and may stay at Sugarloaf Family Cabins. Organizer: Allison Eklund [email protected] Paintings from Menogyn
Alumni, please send a couple painting images for the slideshow to [email protected]. |
