Porcupine Mountains Artist-in-Residence Program Seeks Michigan Applicants

By Vanessa Torres

Michigan -(Ammoland.com)- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced applications are being accepted for the Porcupine Mountains Artist-in-Residence Program for the 2016 spring, summer and fall and 2017 winter residencies.

The Artist-in-Residence Program is open to artists and artisans whose work can be influenced by the unique northern wilderness setting of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

Brightly colored autumn leaves shown around the rim of the blue-colored Lake of the Clouds with sunshine above.Located in the western Upper Peninsula, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park – nicknamed “the Porkies” – is Michigan’s largest state park. Features include 25 miles of wave-washed shores, four inland lakes, entire river systems, countless waterfalls, wooded peaks and an escarpment, which rises slowly from the edge of Lake Superior until it plummets abruptly into the Carp River valley.

Still, the park’s most impressive feature – and the reason for its creation – is the virgin forest of …Read the Rest

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