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Find creative spaces, cultural sites, and natural areas across the Great Lakes.
Go, spend time there; experience these gems of the Great Lakes for yourself.
Share an observation, tip, or moment from your visit to help others discover it.
Abigail Pixler is a portrait and figure artist based in Loves Park, Illinois. Her practice centers on portraiture and the female figure, working primarily in an impressionist style that she describes as having a delicate, blurry quality. She begins each piece by seeing shapes of color that gradually come together
William Lindemann is a Traverse City, Michigan-based artist whose mixed-media abstract paintings develop through a process grounded in intuition, memory, and close observation of both natural and built environments. His practice begins with sketches created during quiet, contemplative moments, which gradually develop into compositions before moving to the studio. Working
Julia Kemerer is a visual artist based in Gages Lake, Illinois. After many years working behind the scenes in the arts—framing, installing exhibitions, organizing collections, curating, cataloging, leading tours, arranging events, and supporting galleries—she has increasingly focused on exhibiting her own work. Over the past several years, her Portals series
David Buetsche is an Ohio-based mixed-media artist working with salvaged materials, maritime artifacts, collage, paint, and found objects. His practice includes paintings and sculptures created through processes of layering, erosion, reconstruction, and assemblage.
Brigid Broderick is a comedian, writer, and filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. She creates live comedy, film, and writing, and describes herself as “a gay comedian, writer, and filmmaker from Chicago.” Her nationally touring solo comedy and music hour, Horse Girl Nation, is presented as a fundraiser for lesbian horses
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Interlochen Arts Academy’s jazz students bring the sweet sounds of swing to Traverse City. Join the Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Combo for a diverse program
Comedy! Songs! Entertainment! Step right up as Heidi Armbruster chronicles the rise and fall of the Ringling Brothers: five boys from Baraboo, Wisconsin. The story
Hello! I’m Steve McQuown.
I built this as a way to keep track of places I kept noticing—small museums, trails, bookstores, public art—and to help others explore the Great Lakes region more confidently.
Through my work with SMQ Consulting and Optimize.art, I spend a lot of time thinking about how people find the arts. This is a more personal version of that.
If you’ve ever come across something that felt worth sharing, this is a place to leave a note—and help someone else find it.
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