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Mary Blocksma relocates Beaver Island Arts to Bay City in 2001

Also What Ever Happened to Mary Blocksma · Beaver Island Arts Bay City relocation

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TypeEvent
Date2001-04
Withinplace/bay-city
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2001-04
Kind
Migration
Where
place/bay-city
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
artsliteraturecommercecommunitycommunication
Within
place/bay-city

Summary

The April 2001 Beaver Beacon reported that Mary Blocksma moved Beaver Island Arts to Bay City to be more accessible to readers, workshop attendees, and printers. The notice says she resumed publishing her books, paintings, and artist’s journal, FIZZ, after the move.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper profile of a business and studio relocation; it does not document the move’s exact date, legal structure, or later operations.

Sources

  1. The profile says Blocksma moved Beaver Island Arts to Bay City for greater access to readers, workshop attendees, and printers, and continued publishing books, paintings, and FIZZ after the relocation. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2001-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the relocation profile.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2001-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Mary Blocksma relocates Beaver Island Arts to Bay City in 2001”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-mary-blocksma-arts-relocation-2001/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2001, “What Ever Happened to Mary Blocksma?” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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