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A group of women and girls show off the paintings they made in an art class at Watercolor Café on Mackinac Island

Art galleries of Mackinac Island

A place as beautiful as Mackinac Island naturally inspires the creative spirit. So, it’s no wonder that art galleries can be found throughout downtown Mackinac Island and beyond. One of the joys of visiting Mackinac Island is browsing these galleries and seeing the breathtaking sights through the eyes of artists whose works are for sale …

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Mackinac Island is home to many art galleries and shops as well as permanent sculptures and the Mackinac Art Museum.

Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau contest winner part of Mackinac Island’s artistic legacy

There are no vineyards on Mackinac Island like the one Maeve Croghan painted to win the Georges Duboeuf 2020 Beaujolais Nouveau Artist Label Contest. But the artistry she exhibited in her winning work has been cultivated for decades in the lovely environs of the northern Michigan vacation destination. For the past 25 years, Croghan and …

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Due to COVID-19, visitors shouldn’t fill the streets of Mackinac Island right now. But you can bring pieces of the island home.

These 6 items from Mackinac Island will help you endure COVID-19 quarantine

Is the COVID-19 quarantine making you feel restless? Mackinac Island just might be the perfect antidote to your family’s cabin fever. No, not visiting Mackinac Island…at least, not yet. But you can bring a bit of Mackinac Island home to you in some creative ways during these days of social distancing. Parade Magazine compiled a …

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Music in the Park

Do you long to tell the world when you unexpectedly stumble across something so special that you can’t wait to relive the experience again and again? My “something so special” took place during the summer of 2011 on beautiful Mackinac Island. After weeks of planning a unique and family-friendly vacation, we finally made it to …

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