Lobby Gallery: Poetic Visions Of Port Oneida

Lobby Gallery: Poetic Visions Of Port Oneida

Images and poetry are the essence of the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s next Lobby Gallery exhibit. Poetic Visions Of Port Oneida: Painting And Poems That Reimagine is a series of oil paintings and corresponding poems created by Grand Traverse County artist Wendy McWhorter. This exhibition is in the GAAC’s Lobby Gallery from April 30 - August 27, 2026.

McWhorter’s focus is the iconic farmsteads in the Port Oneida district of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Each painting is enriched by a poem McWhorter composed; and her imaginative reworking of the sites’ gardens. “My vision of the eight paintings included in this exhibit was guided by my passion for historic Port Oneida as well as other buildings in SBDNL,” McWhorter said. “This began with reimagining the spaces. With the lakeshore so close I added slices of water in the distance. I thought of myself as the farmhouse gardener. I planted flowers or flowering trees in all paintings.”

Poetic Visions Of Port Oneida is on view in the Lobby Gallery during GAAC business hours; or may be viewed online: GlenArborArt.org / Exhibits