“The urge to link the dots — and to share what you have related — is the urge that makes you an artist.” Arts, lifestyle and the creative abilities who make the magic are dotted throughout northern Michigan, filling the map with a vibrancy that is uniquely our possess. The palette is vivid, crammed with artists and writers, accomplishing troupes and venues, musicians and orchestras, dance and arts residencies, historic preservation and cultural interpretation, artwork facilities and museums, sculpture parks and general public art, movie residences and earth class arts coaching. Every single earns applause in their have ideal and deservedly so. But, if we broaden the lens, we see…