Heritage Festival 2010

Saturday, September 18
11am to 4pm (with last tour entering the site at 2 pm) Featuring a once-in-a-century guided tour
of the Ox-Bow School of Art

Heritage Festival tickets are available:

Daily from 10am-10pm at Good Goods, 106 Mason St, Saugatuck until 9/17
Daily from 11-5 at The Button-Petter Gallery, 161 Blue Star Hwy, Douglas until 9/17

Daily at the Museum, noon - 4pm through 9/6 and the following two weekends.
On 9/18, tickets will only be available at the museum.

Tickets are $20 in advance/$25 day of the event.
Tickets are limited and for specific tour times.
For best selection, please purchase your tickets early.

The tours will run from 11 am to 4 pm, with the last group entering the site at 2pm. Wear sensible shoes. The tour will begin at the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Museum, 735 Park St., Saugatuck, MI 49453.

Please join us for an unforgettable day at Ox-Bow, a century after Frederick Fursman and Walter Marshall Clute, artists from the Art Institute of Chicago, gazed across the Kalamazoo River and envisioned a natural artist's respite from the noise and havoc of a newly industrialized America.

With field guide in hand, we invite you to feel the muse of the woods that inspired so many; to see secluded artists' cabins; to tour the campus studios; to observe artists at work; to fully experience the spirit of a place called Ox-Bow.

The Ox-Bow campus is closed to the public but in honor of the institution's 100th anniversary, visitors will be allowed inside selected historic and contemporary buildings. You will see Ox-Bow beyond the Meadow.

Inside the Tallmadge cottage (left) you’ll see its unique painted ceiling (right).

The Ox-Bow tour will include:
● A pocket-sized event field guide
● A hospitality break inside the Metternich Lodge Guest House
● An optional guided hike through Tallmadge Woods to the Crow's Nest for views of the pristine Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area and Lake Michigan beyond
● Artists painting plein air in the Ox-Bow Meadow
● A raffle for Dinner for Eight at the Historic Park House Inn in Saugatuck

Take a break in the Metternich Lodge (left) and be inspired by the view from the Crow’s Nest (right).

The Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society's 2010 Heritage Festival will also include:
● "A Place Called Ox-Bow: 100 Years of Connecting Art, Nature and People" exhibit at the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Museum
● "Passion for Painting: Rediscovering a Century of Art in Saugatuck/Douglas" exhibit at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts
● An Open House at the Old School House in Douglas
● Saugatuck-Douglas Art Club's Clothesline Art Show, Wicks Park from 10-2

The Heritage Festival needs volunteers from now until Sept. 18. To lend your talents to this festival, click HERE.

Restaurants/bakeries/wineries! Tempt tour-goers to visit you after the event by providing sample delicacies for the mid-tour hospitality stop at the Metternich Lodge. Your sponsorship will be acknowledged on the hospitality menu board, as well as on a sign beside your items. A table will be provided for your promotional materials. Click HERE to receive more information.