The Sunset Project featured in The Boardman Review's 2026 Spring Issue
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As a continuation of our work together, the issue include samples of stories from The Sunset Project's most recent Local Creative Highlights Series.
Traverse City, Michigan | The Sunset Project was recently featured in the 2026 Spring issue of The Boardman Review, a quarterly print and digital publication based out of Traverse City, Michigan.
Created in 2017 by Nick and Chris Loud, The Boardman Review is a creative culture and outdoor lifestyle journal featuring stories about the Northern Michigan region’s creatives, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and outdoor enthusiasts.
This issue featured samples of stories from our most recent Local Creative Highlights Series, exploring the unique ways that creatives are finding their way back to Northeast Michigan.
Form and Flow written by Bret Hauff, profiles photographer Emily Skiba and surfboard shaper Josh Weisfeld, a couple who blend two unique disciplines and illustrate the growing mix of skills and perspectives shaping the region’s creative scene.
Thread and Chain written by Karl Williams, features Maren Winter and Levi Goebel, a couple reshaping a design-first apparel brand and a community-focused bike shop, representing an emerging generation building long-term creative careers in Northeast Michigan.
A snippet of our story can be read below, and the full story is available now through a purchase of The Boardman Review's 2026 Spring Issue at theboardmanreview.com.
There are parts of Northeast Michigan that, by most definitions, are easy to explore. Miles of untouched Lake Huron shoreline, sprawling state forests, world-class rivers. There are small towns, rooted in tradition and industry, and communities of hardworking people proud of the lives they've built.
If you ask around, these are the things that make the region what it is, and what it has been, for as long as anyone can remember. But while so many say, with conviction, what this place is, there is a much less certain view of what it could be.
At The Sunset Project, part of our mission is to help define that view by investing in the growing creative scenes of these largely rural communities, believing that when we do, the region becomes a better place for all. Through our FOCUS45 Program, that mission takes shape in the development, implementation, and support of culturally enriching and placemaking projects, acting as a catalyst for change where resources and opportunities for creatives have historically been hard to come by.
In late 2021, as part of this program, we introduced a small initiative, the Local Creative Highlight Series, to celebrate the broad, but fragmented, groups of creatives whose interests, hobbies, and careers are helping to shape this region. What started as here-and-there social media posts quickly grew into routine short-form articles, framed as conversations between us and the subjects. It was always scrappy — no outside funding, no creative help, and very little supporting content.
But then, we had a thought. What if they could be more?
To read more, please consider purchasing a copy of The Boardman Review's 2026 Spring issue at theboardmanreview.com
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