The Wickwood Inn Notebook
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Art 'Round Town

"Saugatuck is One of the Top Five Art Towns in America"   American Style Magazine

Saugatuck and Douglas have a tradition of nurturing art galleries and working artists with Champagne Openings, Meet the Artist Receptions, and Artist Studio Tours.

All year long - the galleries are open featuring figurative, still life, and landscape oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, sculpture, glass, wood, and pottery collections - you name the medium, we have working artists creating it and galleries exhibiting it! Come celebrate the creative process with us!!
 

Some of our favorites include:

SAUGATUCK &

 

Good Goods is proud to offer Sticks Object Art and Furniture handcrafted in the United States - always American craft and fine designs by 12 jewelry design craftsmen, pottery, and hand blown glass artists - and the magical world of Nancy Swan Drew.

 


Constance
Petter Gallery - visit one of Saugatuck's oldest galleries exhibiting over 56 artists. As you view the paintings, be sure to stop at The Hand Blown Glass and Raku Gallery and The Sculpture Barn. Enjoy figurative oils by Clayton Beck III, Craig Blietz, and Lisa Vander Hill, sculptures by Gert Olsen, Sheila Bohann, Harold Larsen, pastels by Win Jones, and bronze sculptures by Fran Larsen, and Jim Miller-Melberg



For thirty-nine years The Button Gallery has represented over thirty artists including Debra Reid Jenkins' Michigan landscapes, imagery oil landscapes of Max Matteson, the floral watercolors of Molly Baker, and oils by Cora Bliss Taylor. All a joy to behold.

Gebben Gray Gallery - the area's newest and one of the most well respected galleries spotlighting Theresa Gray's captivating dune grass drawings, Carlos Ferguson's glimpse of the ordinary in paintings and dioramas. Keiko Ishii's printmaking, the landscapes of Richard Kooyman, and Melanie Park, the pastels of Teresa Bollwerk, and the amazing wood and steel sculptures of Renaissance Man Eddie Parach.



Oxbow School of Art ~ 1910

Your Artist Within

Listen to your curiosity and follow your imagination of what you may be able to create!  Join one of the many art classes around town.  Then, stay at Wickwood and we’ll nurture and encourage you in classes that go on all year long.

Saugatuck Center for the Arts in conjunction with Ox Bow and Kendall Art College – has a full schedule – classes in watercolor, still life portraiture, calligraphy, landscape oils, bead making, silk painting and sculptures abound.
269.857.2399



James Brandess Studio and Gallery on Butler Street finds James often working on one of his vivid paintings in his window - a wonder to watch work! James creates oil still life and landscapes, paintings, watercolors, prints, postcards, posters and periodically teaching classes. A town treasure!
 

 
Marcia Perry's Sculpture Studio - Wander through Marcia's world where she interprets art from her love of native Michigan trees. She interprets the shapes, texture and patterns of wood and sculpts them into one of a kind works of art - bowls, chairs, benches, animals and more.


Water Street Gallery - almost next to Wickwood but moving to Center Street in Douglas - unfolding exhibits of Saugatuck's local artists and works on paper; watercolors, glass, oils by Stephen Hansen, Mary Hatch, Byron Gin, Jona Henka. Ann Corlett Wiley, and Karla Wyss Tye.

Amazwi Gallery - is moving across Culver Street with the amazing art of contemporary African artists from Zulu, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Nairobi, South Africa, Ghana, and The Sudan are brilliantly exhibited.

The Peachbelt Studio & Gallery - Dawn Stafford's "Blue Pears" exhibited at Everyday People Ca moves everyone. Visit Dawn Friday, Saturday, or Sunday at her studio.
269.561.5561



Oxbow School of Art ~ 2005

 

Jim Brandess teaches still life oil painting throughout the year.
269.857.1937

Water Street Gallery – watercolor workshop and glass class
269.857.8485

Express Yourself Art Barn - all of the materials you need are there. All you need to begin are two to three hours and a little imagination to have great fun! Then you'll bring home your own treasure.




Saugatuck

 DOUGLAS GALLERIES

Amazwi Contemporary Art
249 Culver Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.5551
Original contemporary paintings from Africa
Amaru
322 Griffith Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.3745
Original & custom creations in leather by 2 resident designers
Bentley’s Fine Art & Antiques
50 Center Street • Douglas • 269.857.3339
Antiques, original vintage posters, bronzes, paintings, furniture, accessories
Blue Roan Studio
6301 – 122nd Ave • Fennville •
269.561.2931
Jessica Bohus incorporates glass beads into sculpture and silver jewelry
Blue Star Pottery
337 Blue Star Highway • South Haven • 269.637.5787
Features handmade stoneware with Mark Williams signature leaf-printed designs
Blue Star Studio of Wood & Glass
1684 68th Street • Fennville •
269.227.3647
Barb Hograth creates wall pieces and shaker boxes of native woods
Bruce Baughman Studio & Gallery
242 Butler Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.1299
James Brandess Studios & Gallery, Inc.
238 Bulter Street •Saugatuck •
269.857.1937
Laura Brewer Photography
421 Water Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.4692
Seasonal images of Michigan
Button Gallery
955 Center Street • Douglas • 269.857.2175
Since 1966, original paintings, bronzes, garden sculpture from nationwide artists
Czarina’s Treasure
403 Water Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.7216
Specializing in Lotton art glass, crystal, vases, icons, bronzes & jewelry
De Graaf Fine Art, Inc.
403 Water Street on Main • Saugatuck • 269.857.1882
Contemporary fine art and sculpture
Discovery Art Center
347 Water Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.8225
A co-operative of Saugatuck artists
Gebben Gray Gallery
120 East Main
• Fennville •
269.561.2004
Landscapes, oils, prints, and sculptures - some of the best!

Good Goods
106 Mason St • Saugatuck •  269.857.1557
Wearables, jewelry, furniture, painting & sculpture
Indian Summer
800 Lake Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.4570
Authentic Native American Indian art
Janice Miles Studio
421 Water Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.5202
Local and British landscape watercolors
Khnemu Studio
6322 – 113th Ave • Fennville • 269.236.9260
Elegant porcelain pieces
Koorey Creations
104 Hoffman St • Saugatuck •
269.857.8050
Fine handcrafted jewelry designs, extraordinary gemstones & original art
Lake Effect Pottery
2139 – 66th Street • Fennville • 269.543.8905
Lee McKee specializes in functional hand thrown stoneware and porcelain designs
Lattner Studio
319 Blue Star Highway • South Haven • 269.637.1810
Suzi Lattner Zwissler’s vibrant landscapes, floral and still life studies
Luoma Art Gallery
202 Center Street • Douglas •
269.857.7428
Scott Luoma’s “Relief Arylics,” Joan Luoma’s watercolors & sculptures by Lisa Burrows
Marcia Perry’s Ark Gallery & Sculpture Studio
6248 Blue Star Highway • Saugatuck • 269.857.4210
Wood sculptor’s habitat/gallery featuring prints & art glass
Mixed Media
25 Center Street • Douglas • 269.857.7737
Specializing in thought provoking art
Peachbelt Studio & Gallery
corner M-89 & 63rd Street • Fennville • 269.561.5561
Oil painting by Dawn Stafford & sculpture by Jill Lareaux
Stantall Studio
6691- 120th Avenue • Fennville • 269.543.8733
Kathy Stanton’s original oil paintings and photo-digital imagery
13 Hawks Studio
Center & Washington • Douglas
269.857.3059
The oldest working studio in downtown Douglas: stained glass design, painting & photography
The Timmel Collection
133 Main Street • Saugatuck •
269.857.7274
Representing 120 artists, sculptures and photographers
Tuscan Pot
321 Water Street • Saugatuck • 269.857.5550
Handcrafted Italian Majolica pottery and mosaic tile work
Vesuvius Art Gallery
1173 Blue Star Hwy • Glenn •
269.227.3970
Unique contemporary fine art and craft gallery
Water Street Gallery
546 Butler Street • Saugatuck •  269.857.8485
Fine art paintings and sculpture
White Oak Studio & Gallery
907 – 52nd Street • Pullman •
269.236.0352
Offers jewelry, wearable art, oil paintings, prints, clay, glass, mosaics and fiber art
You ’nique International Gallery
95 Blue Street • Douglas • 269.857.6022
Original paintings, limited edition prints, pottery, art glass, sculpture 

Wickwood Inn   |    510 Butler Street P.O. Box 1019   |   Saugatuck, MI 49453
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