Clinch Tunnel Refresh, Art Installations, Mural Festival on Deck for TC Arts Commission
By Beth Milligan | Sept. 23, 2026
The Traverse City Arts Commission (TCAC) is moving forward with several public art projects, including a planned refresh of the Clinch Park tunnel art, two different installations near Boardman Lake, and the return of the Traverse City Mural Festival in 2027.
When installed in 2019, the Mazinaadin exhibition by Colorado artist Bobby McGee Lopez in the Clinch Park tunnel was the largest public art project in the history of TCAC. A partnership with the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the installation featured 19 four-by-eight-foot panels displaying Lopez’s digitized mural artwork. The tunnel “was identified as the preferred location because of its proximity to the river and the …
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