2025 Summer Schedule
June
M 16 Opening Day for the season
Featured Show: Art of Washington Island School Kids: The opening exhibition draws inspiration from the recently installed collaborative tessellation on the school’s front pediment, which features 45 interconnected birds arranged in a triangular pattern. This installation is the result of a collective effort involving students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The exhibition at the ANC will present a miniature version of the original piece alongside a variety of bird designs created by students of all grade levels. Each piece highlights the unique creativity of the students. The works on display will showcase a range of mediums, including printmaking, sculpture, painting, drawing, and multimedia.
At its core, the installation symbolizes how each student, while an individual, is part of something much larger—our school, community, and the world. Just as the birds are interconnected in the tessellation, the students' unique contributions come together to form a greater whole..
Sat 21 Opening Reception: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Th 26 Understanding our Waters: Why Conservation Matters on Washington Island with the Door County Land Trust. 1:00 pm presentation at the ANC. 2:30 HIke to Little Lake Meet at the Main Road Entrance
July
T 1 Hike Jackson Harbor Ridges Meet at Fisherman’s Cottage 9:00 a.m.
Art with Grace: Royalty for a Day
Wednesday, July 2 Wouldn’t it be fun to dress like a king or queen in all their finery?
Please call to register for all classes between 10:30 am- 4:00 am 920-847-2025
Age 3-5 10:00 - 10:30 Class size: 9 children plus adult with 3’s and as needed. $5
If I were a king or queen, what would I wear? Children will stamp facial features on a cardboard cutout, add hair and robe, stencil a golden crown, and decorate with jewels and ermine.
Age 6-9 *11:00 - 11:45 Class size 12 students. $7
Court artists painted a record kings and queens in the time before photography and still do portraits today. Students draw a regular person with pastels, then transform them into a royal portrait collage by adding luxurious lace, fabric, fur, crown and jewels fit for a king or queen.
Age 10-Adult *1:30 - 2:30 Class size 12 students. $9
Royalty, it’s in the cards! There are eight kings and queens in a deck of cards. You will observe the complex, unique, and highly stylized images of royalty in primary colors. Some are in profile and others a three quarter view. Then, with markers, in primary or surprising secondary colors, you will design a larger than life king or queen playing card of your own.
W 2 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
Art with Grace What are You Wearing? What you wear says a lot about who you are and what you do.
Thursday, July 3:
Age 3-5 10:00 – 10:30 Class size: 9 children plus adult with 3’s and as needed. $5
Build a life-size marionette dressed in clothes that you design. Start with the head, neck and hair, choose a shirt and shorts or skirt color and stamp-print designs, and then add buttons, stitching, pockets and other details. Hands and feet and clothes are fastened to pantyhose arms and legs which can be posed by pulling on strings fastened at the knees and elbows.
Age 6-9 *11:00 – 11:45 Class size 12 students. $7
Clothes change with fashion trends in history, type of work or play, season of the year, or country you live in. Costume, uniform, or everyday clothes, what you wear says something about you. You will trace a jointed pattern to pose a figure and paint your fashion statement.
Age 10- Adult *1:30 – 2:30 Class size 12 students.
Silks, furs, lace, silver, gold and jewels, only the wealthy could afford. Before cameras, artists such as Rembrandt, Velasquez dazzled the eye with details of texture, pattern and shine of wealth worn by their rich patrons. They tell the story of fashion in the past. Your choice of media; colored pencils, pastels, or other to capture all that glory in a view from the front or a profile portrait.
F 4 Junior Naturalist (call to register) * 9:00-10:00
M 4 Owl Pellets with Amber 1:00 pm $10 Call to register
T 8 Hike Little Lake Trail Meet at ANC parking lot at 9 a.m. then we will travel to trial head.
T 8 Open Door Bird Sanctuary 11:00-11:45 Co-sponsored with the Washington Island Library. Meet at the the Community Center
W 9 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
Th 10 Mountain Tower Hike: 9:00 am Meet at the Mountain Tower Parking lot. Involves climbing stairs
F 11 Junior Naturalist (call to register) * 9:00-10:00
S 12 Art in the Park and Ice Cream Social 11 a.m.- 3 p.m.
M 14 Digital Microscope 1:00 p.m.
T 16 Hike Jackson Harbor Ridges with our naturalist team. Meet at Fisherman’s cottage. 9:00 a.m.
W 16 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
F 18 Junior Naturalist (call to register) * 9:00-10:00 a.m.
F 18 Fossil Hunting with Terry Cooper 2:00 p.m. Meet at Boo’s Bluff
F 18 Flora of the Niagara Escapment with master gardener Michael Schneider 7:00 pm
F 18 Featured Show: Retrospective of Lonn Frye’s Work
Su 20 Reception for Lonn Frye 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
M 22 Poetry of Nature with Claire Wisniewski 1:00 p.m.
T 23 Hike Little Lake Trail Meet at ANC parking lot at 9 a.m. then we will travel to trial head. Meet in the parking lot off Michigan Rd. This hike takes us through sand dunes that were an ancient shoreline and then through a beech/maple forest. 9:00 a.m
T 23 Gyotaku: Japanese Fish Printing with Ellie Dunham. $5 We will be inking up fish models, then making prints right off the fishes! Lots of different shapes to choose from, and we can add leaves and other shapes as well.
W 24 Book Discussion: The History of Bees, led by Libby Sachs and co-sponsored with Fair Isle Books 2:00 p.m. meet at the ANC
W 23 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
F 25 Junior Naturalist (call to register)* 9:00-10:00 a.m.
M 28 Leaf Litter Critters: 2:00 p.m. Call to Register
T 29 Hike Jackson Harbor Ridges Meet at Fisherman’s Cottage 9:00 a.m.
W 30 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
August
F 1 Junior Naturalist (call to register)* 9:00-10:00 a.m.
M 4 Storytime Nature Walk: 1:00 p.m. Co-sponsored with the Washington Island Library
T 5 Hike Big and Little Marsh Meet in the parking lot off Michigan Rd. This hike takes us through sand dunes that were an ancient shoreline and then through a beech/maple forest. 9:00 a.m
T 5 Gyotaku: Japanese Fish Printing with Ellie Dunham. $5 We will be inking up fish models, then making prints right off the fishes! Lots of different shapes to choose from, and we can add leaves and other shapes as well.
W 6 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
F 8 Junior Naturalist (call to register)* 9:00-10:00 a.m
M 11 Bug Motel Construction 2:00 p.m. Call to register
Art with Grace
Tuesday, August 12: It’s a Jungle Out There! Meet Henri Rousseau, the French artist who never saw a jungle, but made up fantastical, lush and colorful jungle scenes.
Ages 3-5: 10:00-10:30 Class size 9 children plus adult with 3’s and as needed. $5 It’s a jungle in a box! Peek in at the many greens of stamped leaves and colorful flowers. Hide the wild jungle animal stickers high in the yarn vines, creeping on the ground and in the water.
Ages 6-9: 11:00-11:45 Class size 12 students. $7
It’s a riot of color from birds, bugs and beasts, to flora and fauna, fliers, creepers and swimmers, all in their habitat at different levels in the jungle. This busy collage of tissue paper, original and stamped animals with added textures, invites the many vibrant shades of green.
Age 10-Adult: 1:00-2:00 (more time as needed) Adults join in play with imagination and color. $9
Rousseau imagined jungle plants and animals from other’s descriptions and drawings. His paintings showed fantastical shapes of leaves and flowers and his mysterious figures make you wonder. Your layered jungle scene, brilliant in tempera and oil pastel details, can be realistic or fanciful. Either way you will certainly mix some amazing colors.
Wednesday, August 13: Habitat, it’s Home for Wild Things
Ages 3-5: 10:00-10:30 Class size 9 children plus adult for 3’s, and as needed. $5
Habitat is where birds, bugs and animals sleep, hide, play, eat and get eaten. It’s a just right place for them. Children make a triptych that shows different animals in a habitat that they share. Children will stamp animals, birds, bugs and plants and add crayon details.
Ages 6-9: 11:00-11:45 Class size 12 students. $7
Meet artist Georgia O’Keefe in the hot, dry desert, a place she loved and called home. Georgia painted unusual colors in a landscape habitat for animals that can live with heat and little water. Students use different watercolor techniques to show the colors, textures and patterns of the desert environment and sky, and the creatures that live there.
Ages 10-adult: 1:00-2:00 (more time s needed) Adults encouraged to join in.) $9
Tigers, lions and wolves, oh my! It’s feline fun with the big cats. Look deep into their eyes, feel the fur, and the claws. Study the patterns and textures that identify and define the wild cat of your choice. Habitat is optional in this large, cat portrait in pastels. Or if you prefer, and delight in dogs, catch a canine from the wild and show the unique qualities of that family of animals.
T 12 Hike Little Lake Trail. Meet at the ANC parking lot. 9:00 a.m.
W 13 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk
Th 14 Geology of Washington Island with Bob Bultman 10:00 a.m.
F 15 Junior Naturalist (call to register) * 9:00-10:00 a.m.
F 15 Annual Exhibit of Washington Island Art Association:
F 15 Reception for WIAA Show 4:00-5:30 p.m.
T 20 Hike Little Lake Trail with naturalists team. Meet at ANC parking lot at 9:00 a.m.
W 20 Star party (Meet behind Farm Museum) Dusk.
Th 21 Mushroom Walk and Talk with Walker Rugely Meet at ANC at 1:00 p.m. Following discussion we will travel to location to look for mushrooms.
F 22 Junior Naturalist (call to register) * 9:00-10:00 a.m.