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If you mean offerings like art galleries, small sculpture parks, etc... there are several along Michigans west coast. Pentwater is probably the smallest, but they have several galleries.
It can be galleries, sculpture Parks, theater/plays, film, symphonies/music, etc.
It can be galleries, sculpture Parks, theater/plays, film, symphonies/music, etc.
That's what I thought, but just wanted to make sure.
Yeah, there are several along the west coast of Michigan. I guess living right on the shore of Lake Michigan brings out the artist in people. I already mentioned Pentwater (population 938) with several galleries.
Saugatuck (pop 1008) has lots of galleries, and other arts interests.
Ludington has several galleries downtown as well as a couple framing shops to frame whatever flat artwork you purchase, a small sculpture park, a brand new theater group, and decent live music scene for a town of 8,240.
Manistee has a very active theater group that has produced some well known talent and some upcoming talent (James Earl Jones got his start in Manistee's "Ramsdell Theater", and Audie winner Phil Gigante is very active there now.) If you've never heard Phils name, you probably have heard his voice if you listen to audio books. The movie theater in town is being refurbished as will act as a place for indie/art movies to play. they also have a couple jazz/blues bands, as well as a decent music scene. Manistee is home to "10 West Studios" a Movie production studio that films a couple movies a year in our area. -- population: 6041.
There are a lot of the small towns that have galleries and music galore. A little place called Interlochen is an unincorporated village that hosts an International arts center (Interlochen Center for the Arts) that attracts artists of different genres from all over the World.
There is also Blue Lake Fine Arts that hosts Students from all over the US and abroad that is in tiny Twin Lake, MI another unincorporated village of around 1000 people. Proud to say two of my sons attend Blue Lake, and the other two are hoping to go when they are old enough.
^^^ Saugatuck is a great example. The town has a thriving arts community, the Ox-Bow School, a terrific arts center and performing arts venue plus one of the Top 5 film festivals in the world (as voted by the Screen Actors Guild-SAG)
Sarasota, FL would be one except I believe they just went over 50,000 in population, Key West has a good arts scene but not as much in the way of museums, etc.
It's difficult to find a city without any kind of college or university presence. The following may have some schools, but are not known as "college towns."
It's difficult to find a city without any kind of college or university presence. The following may have some schools, but are not known as "college towns."
Lancaster, PA
York, PA
Harrisburg, PA
All these places seem to be too big for what the OP had in mind.
I agree about Corning. I assume many places on the Northern California coast fit the bill too (I have no firsthand experience of those). In Canada, Niagara-on-the-Lake came to mind. In general there are many upscale tourist-friendly coastal towns that are associated with art (Kennebunkport or Ogunquit, ME; Provincetown, MA; maybe Cape May, NJ) but I don't think that's what the OP is looking for.
All these places seem to be too big for what the OP had in mind.
I agree about Corning. I assume many places on the Northern California coast fit the bill too (I have no firsthand experience of those). In Canada, Niagara-on-the-Lake came to mind. In general there are many upscale tourist-friendly coastal towns that are associated with art (Kennebunkport or Ogunquit, ME; Provincetown, MA; maybe Cape May, NJ) but I don't think that's what the OP is looking for.
I'm not picky, but it is just to give an idea of other places outside of the major cities.
Cohoes near Albany and Troy in NY is another place that comes to mind.
All these places seem to be too big for what the OP had in mind.
All have populations less than 50k, which was the OP's criteria.
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