The Grand Marais Art Colony is Minnesota's oldest art colony. Begun in 1947 as The Outdoor
School of Painting, it was, until 1958, a project of the Minneapolis School of Art, forerunner of MCAD. Located on
the rugged northshore of Lake Superior, the Art Colony is housed in the heart of the coastal village of Grand
Marais in a 1918 mission church. A recently completed addition contains glass, ceramics, and print studios,
a multi-purpose room and loft space for visual artists.
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