By Door County Pulse , July 21st, 2022

This weekend marks the start of the annual Plein Air Festival, put on by the Peninsula School of Art. The festival attracts some of the country’s most talented plein air painters who pop up at locations all over the peninsula to put brush to canvas and capture the scenes of the peninsula. Keep an eye out for easels, or catch featured events here>>

Plein air is the act of painting outdoors, and in Door County it can be traced to some of the early artists who came here in the 1920s from the Art Institute in Chicago.

Little evidence of those initial art communities still remain, but the draw to the landscape does. Each July, Peninsula School of Art brings together over 30 of the finest painters in the country — each with their own painting styles and unique perspectives — to honor the tradition of outdoor painting through the week-long Door County Plein Air Festival. 

Driving through the peninsula, you’ll see these painters peppered along the Door County landscape with their easels, paints, and canvas — capturing how the summer light frames and enhances the fields, waters, and the little-known, untouched corners of the peninsula. 

Visitors can watch the process unfold as the artists paint at our peninsula’s iconic galleries. Take in a lecture with prestigious artists and art collectors. Get a front row seat to the fast-paced magic that is the Quick Paint competition, where our invited artists complete a painting from start to finish in record time on the streets and shoreline of Fish Creek. Kids can join in the excitement as well with their own Quick Paint—just stop in at PenArt for a grab-and-go art kit. 

Peninsula School of Art & Guenzel Gallery

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