Painted Bird Sold:

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 Painted Bird to Traverse City resident Kathy Dittenbir who was also an artist at the Painted Bird.