The Art Coast has cast her spell on Southwest Michigan and #fabulousfennville

We're gathering together ingredients for herbal foraging events that will focus upon getting out in the sunshine to gather native plants. Plein Air Painting T.B.A. with local talent. Lucky us, join us won’t you. Look to the saugatuck.com site for events.

Keep a good Attitude, we’re all in this together.  Workshops on hold for now, but stay tuned @artfarmfennville


Flex your creative muscle. Be Great. Create.

#glamping #paradisevalleyglamping #nzspiritfestival

Found Object. Upcycled. Treasures Bound for the Dump.

There’s an added delight to dumpster diving when the things headed to the dump become a viable art centric project and the project ends up looking like a lovely little shack for writers visiting in the summer, or hosting  wwoofers needing a respite from Art Farm duties. 
Traveling to Slipper Island while wwoofing was a highlite of making a little elbow grease and some paint go a long way towards transformation. Slap on some sun screen and see what happens. Here’s a bit of where it all went.
Culturally this exchange of barter is alive and well, it’s the backbone of how many of my own projects get done seasonally creatives that arrive at art farm fennville to hone a new outlook, to learn and to share
My own adventures in wwoofing have taught me how digging through other peoples’ farm projects on another continent have a similar charm- mixing leftover paints and using stencils with sponged paint the dive shack seen below is got a bit of charm. 

Where ever I go-

My Art du Jour pop-up series of create with junk has found a home in Tairua, NZ at least for the month of February. Nice to tie in with the creative community here on the Coromandel and lend some creative juju to whatever is on the daily duJour of art project.  

Thank you to the Pepe Reserve Tairua hosting the Saturday sandy stretch workshops while I’m here.. 

Fast forward if you will to 2020, we'd like to offer up an opportunity to WWOOF in #fabulousfennville
The link here will send you in the right direction. We'll have open studio time set aside for those seeking to plug in to the workshops and classes. Limited creative space can be set aside too, let us know   

Oh My…. how the time flies. Five years ago this coming weekend, I landed here in Saugatuck.  


What I found was a fantastic creative community and great venues to showcase art.   I’ve been able to experience Ox-Bow, Lake Michigan creatives and a true community of support to help Artdujour find it’s footing.

The 35th annual #bluecoastartists will showcase the talented creative community on a lovely October weekend in a few days. My farm was once on the tour when the talented sculptor and welder Terry Thomas  opened his studio that weekend five years ago. I fell in love with the idea of working full-time as art director to artdujour.org while hosting classes and workshops on the almost 20 acres here.

Alas fast forward, the torch passed on and many a sculpture lives in the space I’ve recreated as #artfarmfennville.  I’m delighted to call this patch of land home. My skills have grown as welding, and feral farm girl maintence continue to be my main stay of form and function here in fabulous Fennville.

I’ll be hosting another Democratize The Bean Workshop this Saturday. Find the offerings on airbnb experiences and join us as we roast fair trade beans from Nicaragua and Chiapas Mexico. The last month of roasting and coffee education coming to a close as the weather turns.

As a ode to this ole farm, my five year anniversary is coinciding with the Blue Coast Tour. Stop in and say hello is you venture down 66th st. I’ll have artisan roasted beans for sale, my studio might be open ( weather permitting) to showcase my latest round of creative awesome-asembledge  art ala found object metal .

Thank-you to this amazing community as we say good by to the summer season and a great year of  hosting classes, workshops #hipcamp and @airbnbexperiences. @christine_currie