555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios
Outside Washtenaw County

555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios mission is to enrich the arts in a diverse Metro-Detroit. 555 was founded in 2002 in Ann Arbor and migrated to Detroit in 2004. 555 promotes and develops the arts by providing artists and the public with opportunities and resources to make art and be engaged with the arts. 555 inspires creativity by transforming underutilized spaces into dynamic and diverse arts environments that provide artists and community members the freedom, flexibility, and resources needed to develop artwork within a communal and publicly accessible space. 555 facilitates the development of emerging artists through offering exhibition and installation space; hosting and supporting local, national, and international Residency Artists; leading and collaborating in the development of Educational programs for the visual and performing arts; providing Studios and workspace for practicing Local artists; and developing Public Arts programming. 555's Residency Program is intended to create a better, creatively driven city by providing space for arts and community dialogue. In addition, we provide rental studio space for local artists, who are able to engage with residents as both teachers and students. To meet our goals we have been working to establish a stable location that is affordable, accessible, flexible, and open to a diverse audience and membership.

Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild
Ann Arbor Area

Voluntary membership organization promoting fiberarts in the Ann Arbor community.

Ann Arbor Potters Guild
Ann Arbor Area

A cooperative non-profit ceramics studio with over 50 members. Range of work includes functional pottery, sculpture, tile work and wearable art. Two sales per year at the studio in late April and early December and at the Ann Arbor Art Fair. Two sets of ceramic classes for up to 15 students are offered twice a year.

Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original
Ann Arbor Area

The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original is a non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization dedicated to increasing public knowledge and appreciation for contemporary fine arts and fine crafts by creating opportunities that connect artists, the Ann Arbor community and the general public to their mutual benefit, culminating in a top quality juried art fair. Begun in 1960, the award-winning Street Art Fair is the original of the now four art fairs that take place each July.

Arbor Art Festival
Outside Washtenaw County

The Arbor Art Festival is designed to increase public knowledge and appreciation for fine arts and fine crafts in Michigan. The festival will be hosted by and take place at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Michigan. The University has a strong art program and an art gallery on its main campus. The University is known for a large Christmas event, Hanging of the Greens, with over 2,000 people attending. The Arbor Art Festival will be the University’s signature Spring event and will feature artists from all over Michigan and beyond.

Art Meets Business
Ann Arbor Area

Art Meets Business is designed to help creative people in and around Ann Arbor master marketing, customer relations, pricing, negotiating, the use of technology, and other skills critical to their success. The program is open to writers, musicians, artists, dancers, actors, arts instructors, photographers, and other creative entrepreneurs who are self-employed or own businesses. AMB members have access to individual coaching, monthly networking meetings, business skills training workshops, and other resources.

Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor Area

The Arts Alliance-Community Outreach
Dexter Area

How did my event or share ad get here? We found the info posted publicly elsewhere, or it was sent to us. We want our calendar to give as complete a picture as possible of arts goings-on in and around Washtenaw Co. You can post on a3arts.org. So please log in or register at a3arts.org. Need help with posting? Contact john@a3arts.org

ArtWalk - The Arts Alliance
Ann Arbor Area

Take a tour of the galleries, exhibition spaces, and studios of working artists and craftspeople throughout Washtenaw County at this unique three-day event. Communicate with local artists, participate in hands-on special events, and shop for great things to take home. Organizations and individuals can register to be featured as part of Art Walk, the ArtGuide, and the ArtMap. Contact Arts Alliance with questions: info@a3arts.org or 734.213.2733 ArtWalk 2011 will be Fri, October 21 5-9PM Sat & Sun, October 22, 23 12N-5PM Register: http://bit.ly/artwalkregistration

Baron Glassworks
Ypsilanti Area

OUR MISSION: At Baron Glassworks we desire to create a diverse environment where people from all walks of life can satisfy their curiosity and creativity using glass as the primary medium. WE OFFER: • Classes in Furnace Glass blowing, Torch Working, Fusing and Slumping Glass & Private instruction • Corporate Outings / Team Building • Youth programs • Artist studio rentals • Gallery sales ABOUT US: The furnace at Baron Glassworks was ‘fired up’ on November 24, 1998. This studio was designed and built to function equally as a teaching facility and as a working artist’s studio. Annette Baron, as the founder/owner of Baron Glassworks and a recognized artist, is committed to providing a unique and rewarding experience to all who have a passion for glass. WHO WE SERVE: • The curious novice. • Established Artists exploring new media. • Aspiring Artists and Artisans in need of incubation. • Art Collectors seeking a deeper understanding of the workings of glass. • The Renaissance man or woman who can recognize a good opportunity when they see one.

BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
Outside Washtenaw County

BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art

Blue House Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor Area

Blue House is a handmade studio in Ann Arbor offering studio space, workshops, consignment shop, events and artist networking events. Blue House connects local artists to the community at large by providing a creative platform that supports handmade craft and the hands on learning opportunities vital to sustaining the diy lifestyle.

Blueprint Literary Magazine
Ann Arbor Area

Blueprint was founded in March of 2010 when a group of like-minded students from across the engineering college recognized the need for an accessible medium through which students and faculty of the College could showcase their creativity in non-engineering subjects. This new organization, then called "CoE Literary Magazine," imagined an annual publication where members of the College could share their works of creative art with the rest of engineering community. Blueprint has since expanded its initiative to incorporate the three other schools on North Campus-The School of Art & Design, The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and The School of Music, Theater & Dance-to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas among members of the North Campus community.

Chelsea Center for the Arts
Chelsea Area

The Chelsea Center for the Arts was founded in 1994 with the intent of ensuring that arts & culture were a vital part of everyday life in Chelsea and the surrounding area. Currently, we are a vital part of the Chelsea community by ensuring broad access to the arts through education and initiatives such as Sounds & Sights on Thursday Nights, Culturality, Midwest Literary Walk, community arts projects and more.

Chelsea Center for the Arts
Chelsea Area

The mission of the Chelsea Center for the Arts is to enhance the quality of life in Chelsea and the surrounding areas through programs which encourage engagement with the arts. The CCA offers lessons, classes, workshops, outreach programs, exhibitions, performances, and special events for children, teens, adults, and seniors. Programs produced with community partners, such as the Sounds & Sights Committee, the Chelsea District Library, and the River Gallery, further enhance the capabilities and impact of this important cultural resource, which also strives to contribute to the vitality of downtown Chelsea and support local and area artists.

Chelsea Center for the Arts
Chelsea Area

The mission of the Chelsea Center for the Arts is to enrich Chelsea and the surrounding communities by fostering the creation, understanding and enjoyment of the arts, with a wide variety of art and music programs and events for youths and adults.

Chelsea Sounds & Sights Festival
Chelsea Area

Clay Gallery
Ann Arbor Area

Creative Studio Group LLC
Ann Arbor Area

Creative Studio Incubrator

Dexter Arts Center
Dexter Area

Dexter Arts Center mission: To enrich lives and build a vibrant community through the arts. We inspire creativity, learning, and personal growth through our arts programs, performing and visual arts, presentations, and community collaborations. We promote the enjoyment of the arts through outreach, instruction, performances, and special events for all ages.

Eastern Michigan University Art Department
Ypsilanti Area

The EMU Art Department offers many programs, including: Bachelor in Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Art History as well as a B.S. and BFA Certificate. Areas of study: Photography Art Education Graphic Design Watercolor Printmaking Painting Textiles Drawing Sculpture Ceramics Jewelry Foundations Art History

FOUND
Ann Arbor Area

FOUND is an eco-friendly shop in the historic Kerrytown district, featuring artists who use found or recycled materials, plus a fun mix of vintage and new merchandise.

Gifts of Art, U-M Health System
Ann Arbor Area

Gifts of Art brings the world of music and art to the University of Michigan Health System’s patients, visitors, staff and community. We offer a number of different programs, including nine changing exhibit galleries, weekly performances, an artist in residence program that brings art making activities to the bedsides of patients, Bedside Music, and a symphony orchestra for members of the U-M life sciences community (Life Sciences Orchestra), which performs two free concerts a year at Hill Auditorium. We also have the Friends Meditation Garden and an Art Cart, which brings colorful framed prints to patients at their bedsides so they can choose art for their rooms. All exhibits and performances are free and open to the public. For more info, please visit: http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/ or call 734-936-ARTS (2787).

Glass Shack Studio
Ann Arbor Area

Glass Shack Studio is located in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor. We are an art glass studio and offer a variety of mosaic classes and workshops that include stained glass mosaics, mosaics with Italian smalti, and Dalle de Verre mosaics. All ages welcomed. As well, we operate an in-studio stained glass and supply shop for mosaic and stained glass artists. We sell sheets of glass by Youghiogheny, Uroboros, Bullseye, Wissmach, Spectrum, and others. We also carry glass cutting tools, solder, and foil. We also love to feature other artists! Please check website to see current featured artist. To learn more about our studio please visit www.GlassShackStudio.com, or give us a ring at (734) 904-4663, or email haley@glassshackstudio.com

The Guild of Artists & Artisans
Ann Arbor Area

The Guild of Artists & Artisans is a non-profit, membership organization of professional artists. Guild members can be found throughout North America and Europe. The Guild’s mission is to promote community awareness, understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and to maintain a support network for artists, which provides educational, mentoring and marketing opportunities. Best known for its award-winning Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair, The Guild is recognized and valued for its ability to bring the fine art and fine craft directly to the individual via its art fairs and festivals. It is committed to the preservation and enhancement of arts and culture in the community.

Milan Area Arts Council
Milan Area

The Milan Area Arts Council is a new non-profit dedicated to developing the MIlan Art Center and building an educational arts community in Milan.

MODATI Studios
Ann Arbor Area

A DIY screen printing collective specializing in innovative inks, education, and live printing. We make fun things!

Motawi Tileworks
Ann Arbor Area

Motawi Tileworks is an Ann Arbor tile studio, producing hand made, historically-informed art tile for distinctive installations and as art pieces.

Prison Creative Arts Linkage Project
Ann Arbor Area

The Linkage Project affirms the creativity of adults and youth returning from incarceration.

Saline Mills Studios
Saline Area

Taylor and Charlene Jacobsen, are retired art teachers from the Saline Area Schools. They remain active artists, in their own right, and teach art classes at their studios and for Saline Community Education. The Jacobsen's host other art events and gatherings at their property outside of Saline, Michigan. The also host classes taught by other experienced artists/ teachers in a wide variety of media and art techniques and from many different regions. They welcome questions and visits to their studios.

The Side Door Gallery
Dexter Area

Art Gallery and Frame Company

SlapHappy Cookery
Ann Arbor Area

SlapHappy Cookery is a Cottage Industry Barkey run by Isaac Ellis and Pam Ball. We specialize in fresh, handmade baked good made from the happiest ingredients we can find!

Sounds & Sights Festival Art Market
Chelsea Area

Visit www.chelseafestivals.com for up coming events such as: Sounds & Sights Festival Art Market

the greenroom
Ann Arbor Area

the greenroom is an unconventional, creative God-centered movement designed at bringing together all forms of artists for the purpose of experiencing God in new and creative ways, and actively living out the radical love of Jesus in the world. The greenroom will officially launch on September 27th 2010 in Downtown A2. Get ready!

Two Twelve Arts Center
Saline Area

The mission of Two Twelve Arts Center is to provide a creative hub offering visual and performing artists the opportunity and working space to come together to work, create, and teach. The Center also contributes to the cultural life of the residents of Saline by supporting a full schedule of classes, programs, performances and exhibits. We look forward to providing a framework for a vibrant and supportive arts community with varied opportunities for artists, students and audiences. The Center provides an environment conducive to the creative process. Exhibits and shows will be held periodically throughout the year to highlight local artists work. The public is encouraged to view and purchase the art work. Artists and students are always welcome to gather for conversation in the first floor meeting room. Two Twelve Arts Center is sponsored by the Cowan Slavin Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit operating foundation.

Village of Dexter Arts, Culture & Heritage Committee
Dexter Area

Westside Neighborhood Art Hop
Ann Arbor Area

Within the boundaries of Liberty, Seventh, Pauline and Eberwhite Woods artists will open their studios and homes to public on December 15th, 2012. There will be other events as well.

Whole Foods Market-Art That Is Local Gallery
Ann Arbor Area

Art That Is Local Gallery is a peaceful space in a store full of life and great food. Located on our Mezzanine level, the gallery highlights the work of our partners, The Ann Arbor Women's Artists along with other local artisans and our talented team members.