Ann Arbor Area

Tole Friends Memory Box Program is an all volunteer program, designing memory boxes for hospital bereavement, serving families dealing with a loss of an infant.

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

The Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild (AAFG) provides opportunities for fiber artists to meet and exchange ideas, and to learn about fiber art through lectures and workshops. In addition to monthly meetings, the Guild promotes the enjoyment of fiber arts through information and demonstrations. We also sponsor sales and exhibits of our members' work, and participate in the Ann Arbor State Street Area Art Fair. The AAFG is an educational, not-for-profit club of fiber artists. It was founded in 1956 as a club for weavers and still has a large contingency of members who are weavers, as well as many members who create other forms of fiber art.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Ann Arbor Area

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival is an exhilarating celebration of performing arts, outdoor entertainment, and community spirit. Each year, this three-and-a-half-week cultural and social event offers dozens of performances, activities, screenings, and more, with eclectic music, dance, comedy, film, visual arts, and family fun.

Ann Arbor Women Artists
Ann Arbor Area

AAWA is a non-profit organization of approximately 230 women and men with connections to Ann Arbor, Michigan, ranging from beginning to professional artists. The purpose of the AAWA is to stimulate creative expression and sharing among its members in order to continually raise the quality of the art produced. Still run as a volunteer organization, members exhibit their work in several different shows and exhibition spaces throughout the year. The organization also offers workshops and monthly events, including presentations by artists and others in the art field who speak on a wide variety of topics.

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.

Arts Alliance
Ann Arbor Area

The umbrella organization for all things arts and culture in Washtenaw County.

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.

BathHouse Reading Series
Ypsilanti Area

The Bathhouse Reading Series brings in a number of writers and artists —both innovative established writers and exciting up-and-comers—who perform readings of their work. All events are free and open to the public.

BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
Outside Washtenaw County

BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art

Belleville Area Council for the Arts
Outside Washtenaw County

Belleville Area Council for the Arts is hosting an art show August 28 11-7pm. The show is open to all artists in all medium. The phone number is my real job work number as I am a volunteer with BACA. A Non juried show, but after entry will be judged for cash prizes. For appllcation, please email. Thanks. K

Bidlack Creative Group
Ann Arbor Area

Bidlack Creative Group is an Ann Arbor-based leader in education, arts, and business marketing, branding, and design for universities, schools, and other related organizations.

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.

Brighton Art Guild
Outside Washtenaw County

Our mission is to foster and encourage the expression of the visual arts. The Brighton Art Guild began in 1999 when a small group of artists and art lovers met at the Brighton District Library to discuss the formation of a visual arts organization for the Brighton area. The goal was to benefit the artists and the community. The Guild 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with over 100 members. Our members are artists and art lovers who volunteer to manage the Guild's programs, create and maintain the Guild Web site; publish a monthly newsletter available on the Web site; and have contributed to a variety of community programs and organizations.

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 Sounds & Sights Festival
Chelsea Area

Chin-Azzaro
Ann Arbor Area

Chin-Azzaro is an art + design firm. Focusing on aesthetics for home and business, we have over 20 years of combined experience in the fine art and commercial photography world. Feel free to call or email any time for a complimentary consultation. We specialize in: PHOTO . MURAL . APPRAISE . CONSULT

Chin-Azzaro
Ann Arbor Area

Chin-Azzaro is an art + design firm owned by husband and wife team, Nick and Yen Azzaro. Specializing in all areas of aesthetics including appraisal (American art), consulting, photography, installation, commissions, buying + selling at auction, they can transform your home or brand your business. Initial consultations are complimentary around the Ann Arbor area.

Community Records L3C
Ypsilanti Area

Community Records L3C (CRL3C) is a social mission organization that builds community through music education, songwriting and music production, artistic collaborations and community involvement. We create relationships with people, organizations and communities to produce creative solution to social barriers using art. We promote positivity in music workshops, producing music that is suitable for young people and families. "We support you creating the most beautiful image of your world." We strive toward... * constituting positive realities using creativity * using creative energy as a force to build better relationships with our selves and others * creating and maintaining positive learning environments * transforming anger, hate, frustration and confusion into constructive projects to help others * using music as a medium to help us deal with complex emotions and realities, physical circumstances and to overcome obstacles of race, gender, class, ages, etc.

Creative Rights
Ann Arbor Area

Creative Rights is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal representation, educational programs, and project coordination services to the creative community. We seek to spark a renaissance in creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and to redefine the way in which legal services are delivered.

Creative Rights
Ann Arbor Area

Creative Studio Group LLC
Ann Arbor Area

Creative Studio Incubrator

Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan
Outside Washtenaw County

The regional voice of arts and culture - our mission is to help nonprofit arts and culture organizations to thrive and to be sustainable community assets.

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

EMU Campus Life
Ypsilanti Area

Campus Life offers student-centered learning, development and involvement activities that challenge and support the unique gifts, needs, experiences and interests of our students, our professional staff members and members of the broader campus community.

Envisions Design, Ltd.
Saline Area

Museum Exhibition Design, Master Planning, Strategic Planning,

Fighting Obstacles Knowing Ultimate Success (F.O.K.U.S.)
Ann Arbor Area

Fighting Obstacles Knowing Ultimate Success is an arts advocacy 501(c)3 organization with chapters at the University of Michigan and in New York City. In encouraging student, local and national artists to develop and share their creative talents, F.O.K.U.S. also strives to create and foster a diverse community by using the arts as a common medium. F.O.K.U.S. encourages artists, art enthusiasts, and other communities to work together and expand their comfort zones through arts-related events and dialogues. Our NYC location compiles and publishes Insight Magazine. For submissions, write to info[at]onefokus[dot]org

FLY Children's Art Center
Ypsilanti Area

FLY Children’s Art Center is a non-profit organization in Ypsilanti, Michigan whose mission is to provide meaningful art making experiences for children ages 3-10. We offer classes in our community for a small fee, as well as activities inside public schools at no cost to the students. Young children need every opportunity to learn how to be critical thinkers, risk takers and creative problem solvers. This lays the groundwork for their future greatness. The programming at FLY Children’s Art Center is open studio format. Supplies and tools are arranged cafeteria style, inviting each child to select what ever they wish. Children in our sessions engage in the process of decision making, problem solving, creative ingenuity and ultimately art making.

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).

glacier hills senior living community
Ann Arbor Area

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

Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates
Ann Arbor Area

Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates is a non-profit booking agency serving artists, presenters, and educational programs throughout the Great Lakes and the nation.

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.

Intrinsic Multimedia and Entertainment Group
Ypsilanti Area

Audition for Talent Search and Artist Showcase= All Talent, All Ages

Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor Area

Ann Arbor's premiere center for fine filme and the performing arts for more than 80 years.

MODATI Studios
Ann Arbor Area

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

Oz's Music
Ann Arbor Area

Oz's carries all types of new and used musical equipment ranging from electric guitars to trombones. Rental Options are available. We have all your band/orchestra instruments and supplies as well as a full line of guitars and accessories. The Oz's lines include Dean and Godin guitars among many others. We also are one of the only authorized Chapman Stick® dealers. Check below for some of our most unique and interesting lines. Oz's also sells magazines, tab music, training books, reeds, strings, drumsticks, and other accessories. We have half off all guitar and bass string sets all the time. At Oz's you will also find very competetive prices for all other accessories. Oz's will also buy your new or used equipment, or you can trade it for something else here at Oz's Music. If you've got an instrument that you don't play anymore that's in decent condition, stop on by and we'll see what we can do. Oz's Music does more then just sell music instruments: we provide the best variety and most experienced teachers in the Ann Arbor area.

People Dancing
Ann Arbor Area

People Dancing is a consortium of modern dance artists with a style that is fresh and eclectic. Performances include new and repertory dance works which portray inventive choreography. These works are performed with a "satisfying physicality" and unique, quirky theatricality. The company’s artists have been lauded in the press as presenting a “dazzling display of the human form and the joy of motion ” in their dancing, and as possessing an “ethereal beauty” (2005). The whole company performs “tight and captivating” productions and often include new video, costumes, original music.

Photo Studio Group
Ann Arbor Area

Rental studio for professional photographers. We help photographers with space, equipment, and support to help them succeed.

Photo Studio Group
Ann Arbor Area

I am the training director at Photo Studio Group in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Photo Studio Group is a commercial-size photography rental studio. As a business we rent space and equipment to local photographers while helping them grow their businesses through job experience and training opportunities. We are also a very active part of the local photography community and work closely with local photography groups.

Pop Up A2
Ann Arbor Area

Pop Up A2 curates pop-up exhibits in Ann Arbor, challenges the status quo of the art scene, and promotes engagement with artists.

Prison Creative Arts Linkage Project
Ann Arbor Area

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

purple earth
Ann Arbor Area

Organization promoting environmental awareness, social justice, and the arts.

Ring of Steel Action Theatre and Stunt Troupe
Ann Arbor Area

Ring of Steel Action Theatre, established in 1989, is an educational organization dedicated to developing and promoting the art of stunt work and refining the portrayal of staged violence. We believe that the skills necessary to practice theatrical combat compose a martial art unto themselves and that stunts require regular practice of basic skills and techniques for safety and effectiveness. One of the largest theatrical fencing salles in the nation, the Ring of Steel teaches classes in swordplay and stuntwork along with 15 basic combat skill areas, provides in-house workshops, choreographs for film, stage and TV, offers summer camps & programs and maintains an aggressive performance schedule in renaissance festivals, celtic faires, Sci/Fi & Fantasy conventions, haunted houses, film, television, opera, birthdays, weddings, movie openings, business parties and any other production or event that needs or is interested in adding action performances to their events. Anyone age 14 and up is welcome to join us. No previous skills or experience necessary! Meeting times are Tuesday and Thursday from 7pm - 10pm and Sundays from 10am - 1pm. Go to http://ringofsteel.org for more information or email rosteel@umich.edu.

Riverfolk Festival
Manchester Area

Our mission is to engage the community in music and arts experiences which nurture creativity and promote cultural diversity. Three day traditional music (Bluegrass & Cajun) Camp, concerts, Songwriting contest, and more...

The Scrap Box
Ann Arbor Area

The Scrap Box has been Ann Arbor’s premier "green" art non-profit organization for over 25 years. Materials usually headed to the landfill have found new life through the artists, teachers and children that frequent The Scrap Box. This unique setting is where creativity and recycling join forces, generating unique artistic expressions while promoting a ‘greener’ Earth. The Scrap Box provides all kinds of materials for sale and offers classes, workshops & birthday parties for all ages and groups. Join the Green Arts Evolution by upcycling - the artistic, inventive use of recycled/reused materials!

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!

SOS Community Services
Ypsilanti Area

SOS Community Services is dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in Washtenaw County. Recently the agency was named the Housing Access for Washtenaw County—the single point of entry for anyone experiencing a housing emergency in the county. Our programs include shelter and transitional housing, employability and educational assistance, parenting programs, therapeutic child care and after-school children’s programs. For more information about SOS Community Services, including opportunities to volunteer and donate, please visit www.soscs.org.

SPUR Studios
Ann Arbor Area

Spur Studios is a collection of private work spaces for artists, musicians and other creative people who need a place to get things done. We feel that artists play an integral role in a community worth living in and facilitate their efforts in any way possible.

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.

UMHS Gifts of Art
Ann Arbor Area

Visual Arts Coordinator for an Arts-in-Healthcare program at the University of Michigan Health System

Ventures in Media and Visual Arts
Ann Arbor Area

Ventures in Media and Visual Arts is organized to help young adult independent artists between the ages of 18 and 30 achieve their creative dreams by providing access to resources, connections and opportunities. Ventures operates by building alliances with organizations, institutions, business leaders established artists and various individuals to facilitate access to resources, networks and opportunities that might otherwise be unavailable to the young creative entrepreneurs in the area.

Women's Caucus for Art Michigan Chapter
Ann Arbor Area

The mission of the Women’s Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education and social activism. We are committed to: • recognizing the contribution of women in the arts • providing women with leadership opportunities and professional development • expanding networking and exhibition opportunities for women • supporting local, national and global art activism • advocating for equity in the arts for all

WOW! Factor Finishes
Ypsilanti Area

WOW! Factor Finishes. "It's all about the WOW! factor." We offer customized touches to finish off any area, indoors or out. Our colorful cement finishes can be used in wall hangings framed or unframed, complete wall coverings, floors, counter/desk tops, shelves, chairs and just about anywhere you can think of that could use something glorious. You'll never think of cement the same way again.