This five day festival and Extreme Painting event includes an optional group painting retreat "Winter Camp", at YMCA Camp Menogyn and lots of other outdoor winter painting activities.

This Art Colony sponsored event is a part of the Winter Tracks Festival up the Gunflint Trail.  For more information visit: www.wintertracks.com.





Our First Winter Plein Air Festival was held at the end of February in 2010 and was a success. 17 artists and many beautiful paintings. The weather was perfect. See our photo gallery for images from the event. Or visit our Facebook photo gallery: www.facebook.com/pages/Grand-Marais-MN/Grand-Marais-Art-Colony/11726089263


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