Join us for a hands-on summer art class that invites children to slow down, look closely, and discover the beauty and importance of the plants growing all around us. Participants will explore common outdoor plants—often called “weeds”— through guided nature walks, drawing, painting, and simple research. Using art and storytelling, they will learn how these plants support pollinators, ecosystems, and people. Each student will create a handmade mini field guide filled with original artwork, observations, and discoveries to take home and continue adding to long after camp ends.
Martina Hahn
Born and raised in the heart of Europe, Martina was immersed in art, culture, and music from an early age. She came to the United States at 19, living on both coasts and in the Deep South before settling in Northern Michigan in 1993 to raise her family. In recent years, she has returned to traveling, blending her journeys with her creative work.
Martina’s artistic talents were discovered at the age of three and nurtured throughout her life. Now well into her second decade as a professional artist, she is a highly sought-after artistic performer and motivational speaker across Michigan, the United States, and Europe. She paints at corporate events, non-profit fundraisers, private gatherings, and motivational school assemblies and literacy programs for all ages.
Combining art and advocacy, Martina often teaches in non-traditional settings, sharing the power of mindful living through speaking engagements at conventions, fundraising events, hospitals, schools, and libraries. Her community involvement includes co-founding the Boyne Arts Center in Boyne City, Michigan, in 2008, serving as its president, and helping establish its non-profit status. A cancer survivor herself, Martina also paints for terminally ill children at summer camps throughout Michigan, bringing empathy and connection to her work.
Martina lives in the Walloon Lake area, inspired by Northern Michigan’s natural beauty and enjoying skiing, biking, hiking, swimming, and kayaking. Her work and story have been featured on television and in print, including Classical & Canvas with the Midland Symphony Orchestra, ArtPrize Grand Rapids, Good Morning Michigan, Boyne USA Resorts, and numerous newspapers, magazines, and online publications. In 2023, she received the prestigious LUX Life Magazine (Great Britain) Award of Educational Excellence as the “Most Inspiring International Curriculum Enriching Art Event Facilitator.”
