This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

The OAB is pleased to be a Satellite Partner for the International Affairs Forum.

Join us for a special Earth Week Exhibit featuring the photography of Charles Aydlett. Fleeting Moments: Ice Season turns to Lake Michigan during the stretch of winter when everything is in transition—when the lake is neither fully frozen nor fully open. Ice forms, breaks, drifts, and reforms along the shoreline, creating patterns that can disappear as quickly as they arrive.

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

A monthly gathering to share your writing, listen to others' works, and find inspiration.
Host: Dan Lisuk.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

This class is all about playful art making with a focus on the process and experience of creating!
Teacher: Tracy Smedes-Hepler.

Join our monthly Grateful Gathering to explore inspiring ideas through meaningful conversation.
HOST: Barbara Burkhardt.

An introductory metalsmithing workshop! Create a Lake Michigan beach stone pendant or ring.
Teacher: Janet Ryan, J Art Jewelry.

For Jon Muq, a singer-songwriter born in Uganda and now living in Austin, Texas, music is part of a larger conversation he’s having with the world and everybody in it. Drawing from African as well as western musical trends and traditions, he devises songs as small gifts, designed to settle into everyday life and provoke reflection and resilience.

The OAB Plein Air Painters announces its 26^th season. Painters will meet all over the county on Wednesdays for 19 weeks of plein air painting.
Leader: Martha Elchert.

On Saturday, May 23, artists will paint and draw scenes around Leelanau County ‘en plein air.’ The finished fresh-off-the-easel pieces will return to the OAB for the 13th Annual Leland Air Exhibit.

The OAB is pleased to be a Satellite Partner for the International Affairs Forum.

In celebration of the annual Leland Wine & Food Festival, the Old Art Building is proud to present "Art of the Vineyard," a multi-media exhibition dedicated to the beauty, culture, and craftsmanship of the wine world.

Six Mile Strings aim to expand the scope and artistry of the traditional string quartet by working with artists of many genres and across disciplines.

1000 Watt Prophets are a Michigan-based roots-funk powerhouse blending Americana, New Orleans groove, and soul-forward rock into a high-energy, deeply musical live experience. Featuring veteran players from the Midwest festival circuit, the band delivers songs that feel both road-worn and urgent, driven by deep pocket rhythms, rich harmonies, and a relentless commitment to the groove.

Looking Forward came into focus to celebrate the musical genius of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Never with the intent of playing their songs “note for note,” rather the concept is to share the music in concert with the audience–their music, our way.

Kyle Brown is a singer/songwriter based out of west Michigan. For over a decade Kyle has been honing his craft in clubs and barrooms throughout the Midwest. His band, The Human Condition, consists of Nina Sofia (Vocals & Guitar), Mike Schertenlieb (Drums), Kosta Karis (Bass), and Mikey Olsen (Keys).

The 28th annual market will offer over 70 booths of fine art from artists and makers around the state.

Warren & Flick's music reflects their wide-ranging influences and shared curiosity. They spend much of their time composing, arranging, and performing together—crafting pieces that balance clarity and complexity, familiarity and surprise.

Offering a blend of original songs plus covers of the band’s favorite songs, presented with their own unique footprint and crossing numerous genres and eras - from Beatles to Steely Dan – from Crosby, Stills and Nash to Tom Petty - from Nashville to L.A.

Join us for the 34th Annual Art Leelanau Exhibition. This show features work from invited artists who reside in or have strong connections to the Leelanau area.

Touring nationally and playing many well known theaters, breweries, festivals and venues. Elizabeth can be seen playing with her trio including Caul Bluhm and Joe Wilson. You are sure to get lost in Elizabeth’s sweet, smoky melodies, and storytelling lyrics.

The OAB is happy to welcome Zach Watson & Co., bringing a raw mix of folk, blues, and soul that reminds you why live music matters.

Finding Beauty and Light explores Gayle’s love of painting and her search for the common thread of beauty in everyday moments. Whether in a sun-dappled face, a flapping clothesline, sparkles on a wave, or simple nudes, she finds a way to hold the moment in paint.
Instructor: Gayle Kabaker.

Gayle will lead participants through a series of fun, low-pressure warm-up exercises designed to train the eye to really see what you want to draw. The workshop continues with drawing from a simple still life, focusing on interpretation rather than accuracy—encouraging each participant to draw in a way that feels natural, playful, and enjoyable.
Instructor: Gayle Kabaker.

Inspired by the sketchbook practice Gayle shares with her five-year-old granddaughter—whose favorite subject is monsters—participants will explore imaginative drawing of monsters or whatever else they are inspired to draw.
Instructor: Gayle Kabaker.

Having previously spent a decade as the lead singer and principal songwriter of Brooklyn, NY indie-pop band The Stationary Set, Andrew Lutes relocated back to his northern Michigan birthplace in 2016 to pursue a more quiet existence set to the backdrop of NoMi's natural amenities.

Spend the day painting and drawing for fun in this relaxed, creative workshop. Participants will draw and paint from a still life and from what’s around them, learning to observe the world with fresh eyes. Gayle will guide you in developing a fun and sustainable sketchbook practice, showing how to draw and paint not only what you see, but how to interpret it—transforming observation into something expressive, playful, and uniquely your own.
Instructor: Gayle Kabaker.

This outdoor show will feature original work from our 2026 OAB Plein Air Artists group. Stop by the front lawn to view their beautiful paintings from around Leelanau County!

Audrey Mason and Zinnia Dungjen, both multi-faceted instrumentalists and vocalists, are a young local talent going by the name A to Z. Having met at their current high school, Interlochen Arts Academy where they study songwriting, the young women have been playing around Northern Michigan together for two years now.

Cultivating moments of vulnerability, laughter, original songs, and incredible 3-part harmonies in their shows, The Rebel Eves can promise you will walk away feeling inspired, connected, and hopeful.

Our annual member exhibit, showcasing work from our OAB Member Artists.