Buy Your $5 Blues Festival Button Today!

Petoskey's Winter Blues Festival is back for its second year with many exciting new events.  The festival takes place February 15-21 but you can get in on the excitement and start chasing away those winter blues right now by wearing your Winter Blues Festival Button around town and showing your support for the Festival.  The button costs just $5 and is available at the Artists Market and other Downtown locations.  It will get you into many exciting festival events and qualify you for discounts at the Market and other stores.  Sixty percent of the proceeds from button sales goes to the Manna Food Project.  The rest goes to support Downtown Petoskey activities and services.

Take a minute to pick up a copy of The Graphic this week anywhere in the Petoskey area or check it out on their website.  The art scene column is all about the Artists Market.  We always enjoy reading what they have to say about our favorite local artists but this week we are blushing a little.  Details in our blog, Northern Michigan Art.

Artist Market at the Movies

We have added a new feature to our website, artist videos.  Check out Bruce Murray, Leland Dane, Geoff Guillaume, R. Geary Hoffman, Maureen Reisner, Bill King, Karrie Knecht, Tom Webster, Tom Jacobson, Luanne Schonfeld and Gerry Pas talking about themselves and their artwork, with many more to come soon.  Just go to the artist's pages in our website or see them all on our brand new YouTube channel.

And this is just the beginning.  Still to come are more artist videos including some on location at artist studios and art fairs.  Stay tuned as we keep looking for new ways to bring Northern Michigan art to you.

Now there is an exciting new way to stay in touch with Northern Michigan and the Northern Michigan Artists Market, our email newsletter --  Art Up North.  It is free so  sign up today!