Events Calendar
The Traverse City area hosts a wide variety of festivals throughout the year. By far our largest annual event is the National Cherry Festival, held in early July in downtown Traverse City. Other major celebrations throughout the year are listed below, with links to the official sites if available.
For information and online purchase of ticketed events in the Traverse City area go to TREATickets.
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CalculArt: Mathematics as Art in a 3-D Virtual Environment
The exhibit features a 3-screened, back-projection portable virtual-reality environment called CANVAS. Created by the Beckman Institute, at the University of Illinios. It allows visitors to interact and create their own imagery in planned workshops.
"Two Best Buddies Named Bob"
Featuring the art of musician Bob James and Bob Stehouwer. This collection represents the life affirming power of deep abiding friendship, a universal form of commuication and the ability of art to confort, heal and connect.
The artcenter of Traverse City is located at 300 East Front Street in downtown, Traverse City.
Ways of Seeing: The Abstract Art of Jennifer Gardiner Lam, Delbert Michel, and Debra Lanning
These artists' depict real forms in a simplified or reduced way, keeping only an illusion of the original natural subject. The landscape...the human form...even music...all used as starting points.
The Mercado is located within historic Building 50 at the Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City.
Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture Through Popular Art
(Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. )The Great Lakes Children's Museum brings this exciting new exhibit to the historic Con Foster Museum building at Clinch Park in Traverse City. Jump to Japan focuses on three art forms-anime (animation), manga (comic books and graphic novels), and traditional woodblock and scroll prints. Pokeman and Hello Kitty are well known icons of Japanese pop culture and are immensely popular with American youth. This exhibit connects these popular art forms to Japanese Culture in a 1,500 square foot three-part exhibit.
Con Foster Musuem hours of operation: Monday -Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am-5pm
