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“Precious Substratum” featuring Mary Rose, Lea Friesen and Summer Scharringhausen opens July 3 at MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids.

210 Gallery & Art Center
210 Commercial Ave., Sandstone, Minn.
Sat. & Sun. 12-3 p.m.
Through Aug. 9: Summer Gallery Show featuring Jean Crocker.

Artist Alleyway
1921 W. Superior St., Duluth
Saturdays through Sept. 5, 2-5 p.m.
Outdoor market featuring local artists.

Artists Squared Studio & Gallery
406 W. Bayfield St., Washburn
Weds. - Sun. 12-6 p.m.
Local art by J.R. Lince-Hopkins, Susan Lince, Kathleen D’Angelo and more.

Cultures, Humanities & Arts on the Iron Range
510 Chestnut St., Virginia
Open Art Club & Gallery second & fourth Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. and Thursdays, 5-7 p.m.

Duluth Art Institute
130 W. Superior St., Suite 400
Mon.-Fri. 12-5 p.m.
Through July 10: Annual Member Show.

Dovetail Café
1917 W. Superior St., Duluth
Fika & Fiber, a free drop-in knitting and fiber arts group, Saturdays 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Earth Rider Makers Market
Sunday, July 5, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior

Ely Watercolor 46th Annual Show
Thursday, July 16 - Sunday, July 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ely Arts & Heritage Center, 105 Miner’s Landing Rd.

First Friday Art Walk
Friday, July 3,  4-7 p.m., downtown Grand Rapids. Grandrapidsarts.org

Grand Marais Art Colony Studio 21
21 W. Hwy. 61
Thurs. - Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
July 2-31: Kimberly Baerg, acrylic wildlife painter from Duluth, and Ellen Cashman, bead artist from Ely.
Through Aug. 29: Summer exhibition “Play.”

Grand Marais Arts Festival
Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, July 12, 10 a.m.  to 4 p.m.
Downtown Grand Marais

Grand Rapids Downtown Art Fair
Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Old Central School Grounds, 10 NW 5th St., Grand Rapids

Hovland Arts Festival
Saturday & Sunday, July 4 & 5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hovland Town Hall, 4957 E. Hwy. 61

Island Gateway Gallery & Gathering
23 N. 2nd St., Bayfield
Thursday - Monday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Through July 6: “Lake Superior Kinship,” paintings of the Apostle Islands by Lance Wurst and Sarah Holst.

Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery
115 W. Wisconsin St., Grand Marais
Weds. - Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 1-4 p.m.
Through July 13:  “Natural Gestures” by Emily Donovan.
July 17-Aug. 9:  “Borderlands” featuring Betsy Bowen, Jeanne Hedstrom, Stephan Hoglund and Heidi Sobanja. Reception Friday, July 17, 5-7 p.m.

La Pointe Center Gallery
794 Chebomnicon Bay Rd.
Madeline Island, Wis.
Daily 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Through July 5: Island artists’ Winter Works Community Show.
July 6-26: Summer Artists Show featuring Mariela Martin, Steve McHugh and Phyllis Rieman. Reception Saturday, July 11, 4-7 p.m.

Lake Superior College
2101 Trinity Rd., Duluth
Through Aug. 7: Photography and fiber art by Ivy Vainio in the Erickson Library Minnesota Room.

Macrostie Art Center
405 NW 1st Ave., Grand Rapids
Mon. - Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Opening July 3: “Precious Substratum” featuring Mary Rose, Lea Friesen and Summer Scharringhausen. Reception Friday, July 3, 4-7 p.m., artist talk at 6 p.m.
Through July 31: “Cut Away: Reduction Relief Prints” by Eric Johnson.

Minnesota Discovery Center
1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm
Through July 16: Ranger Fiber Arts Guild Exhibition.

Nice Girls of the North Marketplace
Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Spirit of the Lake Community School
5401 E. Superior St.
Local women-owned art cooperative hosts markets the second Saturday of each month.

North Shore Bank
131 W. Superior St., Duluth
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays
Through Aug. 20: Lake Superior Watercolor Society 45th Anniversary.

Northwoods Friends
of the Arts Gallery
210 S. River St., Cook
Weds. - Fri. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
July 2-30: Celebrating Summer. Opening reception Friday, July 3, 5-7 p.m.

Out of the Woods Winery
10588 Main St., Hayward
Tues.- Thurs. 2-7 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 12-7 p.m.
Through Aug. 27: Janice Hovey. Reception Thursday, July 2, 4-6 p.m.

Reif Center Gallery
720 NW Conifer Dr., Grand Rapids
Open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday.
Through July 3: “Perform!”, visual art about the performing arts featuring photography of the band Wild Horses on tour by Marija Leilynn.
July - August: Lake Superior Watercolor Society 45th Anniversary Exhibition.

Serenity Crego Fine Art Gallery
1811 3rd Ave. E., Hibbing
serenitycrego.com
Gallery open by appointment.
“Monsters and Maidens” by Christopher Crego.

Siiviis Gallery
361 Canal Park Dr., Duluth
Through July 8: “Moments Woven” by Ben McGaffey.

Lisa Webskowski’s paintings are at Split Rock Lighthouse through July.

Split Rock Lighthouse
North of Two Harbors on Hwy. 61
July: Acrylic paintings by Lisa Webskowski. Meet the artist Friday, July 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, July 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tettegouche State Park
5702 Hwy. 61, Silver Bay
July artist: Nicholas Narog. Reception Friday, July 3, 7 p.m.

Tweed Museum, UMD Campus
Tues. - Fri. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“Sky Water Land,” works that reference or are anchored by the horizon.

Washburn Cultural Center
1 E. Bayfield St., Washburn
Thurs. - Mon. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
July 2-31: “Flora, Fauna and Feather” by Patti Corning and “Returning” by Mati Palm-Leis.

Zeitgeist Arts
222 Superior St. Duluth
In the atrium through June 27: Gender Joy Art Show.
In the restaurant: “Animal Form,” works of over 40 artists and poets.

Artist opportunities

Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
Provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and are short on resources. Rolling deadline. Visit gottliebfoundation.org.

Black Bear Casino Resort
Carlton
Native artists from the Fond du Lac Band community invited to submit original artwork for the jersey design that the Minnesota Wilderness team will wear during Heritage Night weekend in November. Visit fdlband.org.

Cornucopia Art Crawl
Seeking artist studios to take part in 22nd annual event Sept. 12-13. Deadline Aug. 15. See visitcornucopia.com.

Duluth Art Institute
130 W. Superior St., Suite 400
Seeking proposals for exhibitions July - September, 2027 and calendar year 2028. Open to any local, regional and national visual artist or artist collective not enrolled in a degree-seeking program at the time of application. Deadline July 17. Visit duluthartinstitute.submittable.com/submit.

Edge Center for the Arts
101 2nd Ave., Bigfork, Minn.
Call for art with the theme of 250th Anniversary of the Nation. Deadline Aug. 15. Visit edgecenterarts.org/gallery.

Johnson Heritage Post
Looking for local artists for 2027 Local Artist of the Month spotlights. Open to residents of Cook County and the Lake Superior North Shore. Visit cookcountyhistory.org/artist-opportunities.

Macrostie Art Center
405 NW 1st Ave., Grand Rapids
Seeking proposals from local Indigenous artists for solo and group exhibitions in the Giinawind Gallery in 2027. Visit macrostieartcenter.org/giinawind-gallery.

North Shore Health
515 5th Ave. W., Grand Marais
Seeking paintings, fiber, photography, mosaic, sculpture, woodwork and mixed media for display. Visit northshorehealthgm.org/nsh-local-art-show.

Prøve Gallery
21 N. Lake St., Duluth
Queerest Art Show Ever opens Sept. 4, Open to all LGBTQ+ artists living in the Duluth/Superior area. Submission deadline Aug. 16. Visit facebook.com/ProveCollective.

Two Harbors Library
Accepting applications for artwork display. Visit twoharborspubliclibrary.com/artwork-display-policy.