Painted Bird Sold:

Changing of hands in the art industry
  • Carol Bawden has sold her business “The Painted Bird” a major fixture in Suttons Bay for more than 35 years. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
    Carol Bawden has sold her business “The Painted Bird” a major fixture in Suttons Bay for more than 35 years. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
There’s another changing of the guard amongst the Leelanau art titans as Carol Bawden sold the iconic Painted Bird in Suttons Bay after 37 years selling local and American art on the shores of the peninsula.“I’ve been thinking about it for some years off and on. It’s a great business community here … It was a great place for me to start a business in a good time and a good place.”Bawden sold The…

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