Ann Arbor Area

“ENGAGE. LIBERATE. HEAL | Social Justice and the Arts” July 23, 2011 @ Noon - 6pm This one-day event is a collaboration between social work students, artists and community members, aimed at exploring art as a therapeutic tool and mechanism for positive social change.

a2tango
Ann Arbor Area

Ann Arbor's Argentine Tango studio. Our teachers, djs, and organizers are among the most experienced in North America and are dedicated to promoting the social art of tango throughout our community and beyond. For more information, email us and/or subscribe to the a2tango mailing list (available on a2tango.com). We hope to see you on the dance floor!

Ann Arbor Art Center
Ann Arbor Area

Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
Ann Arbor Area

The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living is a community enrichment, learning, and advocacy center for people with disabilities in our community. We offer a variety of arts opportunities throughout the year including: month-long art workshops (past topics have included poetry, photography, and scrapbooking), an open art studio once a week, and a performing arts group.

Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor Area

Music lessons, classes and ensembles, open to all ages and stages

Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor Area

Non-profit community music school, providing instruction for students of all ages and abilities.

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 Symphony Orchestra
Ann Arbor Area

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra is passionately committed to enriching the culture of the region. We strive to attract, inspire and educate the most diverse audience possible, foster a growing appreciation for excellent music and regional talent, and provide imaginative programming through community involvement.

Ann Arbor Young Actors Guild
Ann Arbor Area

YAG operates as a production company and as a resource center for education through drama. YAG welcomes all student actors, from novices to seasoned veterans, and offers an annual season of full-scale productions in a variety of theatrical styles, as well as a summer theatre academy, which includes courses for young actors and directors in a variety of theatre arts. YAG was founded in 1993 by Sue Roe, a director and theatre educator with over 37 years experience in directing, teaching and acting. Ms. Roe came to Ann Arbor in 1990 from England, where she directed over 100 productions with young people and adults and developed recognized methods in working through theatre. The focus of the organization is on the opportunity to create a “journey” through the process to the production, into which each student may arrive at self-knowledge and explore their own creativity. YAG provides a variety of opportunities for young actors ages 8 through college. Past and present performance venues include the Lydia Mendelssohn, Trueblood, and Arena Theatres at the University of Michigan, The Ark in downtown Ann Arbor, Ryan and Cook Theatre, and various Ann Arbor public school auditoriums. YAG has an acknowledged partnership with the University of Michigan’s Theatre Drama Department and the Ann Arbor School District. Faculty includes accredited teachers in the theatre arts, university professors and theatre professionals. YAG’s awards include the 1994 Annie Award for “Outstanding Emerging Arts Organization” and the 1997 Annie Award for “Outstanding Youth Organization.”

Argus Museum
Ann Arbor Area

The museum's collections feature Argus Camera Company products, such as cameras, projectors, darkroom equipment, and sighting devices. Also on display are employees' personal items, and images taken with Argus cameras. The museum also explores the stories behind the company and its products.

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

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.

Chelsea Center for the Arts
Ann Arbor Area

Enriching the quality of community life through programs that foster the creation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts.

Creative Studio Group LLC
Ann Arbor Area

Creative Studio Incubrator

Eastern Michigan University
Ann Arbor Area

The apparel, textiles and merchandising curriculum offers practical career-oriented knowledge and skills as well as theoretical foundations of marketing fashion apparel and accessories.

FestiFools
Ann Arbor Area

FestiFools strives to bring students and community volunteers together to create unique public art that is free and accessible to everyone.

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

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.

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.

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor Area

Leslie Science & Nature Center
Ann Arbor Area

Providing environmental education & experiences to foster respect for nature. Our grounds, trails, & raptor enclosures are open daily, free of charge!

Leslie Science & Nature Center
Ann Arbor Area

The Leslie Science & Nature Center is a nonprofit organization that provides environmental education and experiences for children, families, and other individuals to honor and perpetuate the legacy of Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Leslie by fostering understanding, appreciation, stewardship and respect for the natural world.

Living Arts
Ann Arbor Area

Living Arts is a new, interdisciplinary residential community in Bursley Hall on the University of Michigan’s North Campus that brings together undergraduates in the arts, architecture, engineering, and other fields to explore innovation, creativity and collaboration. The goal of Living Arts is to spur and support collaborative, creative work across disciplinary boundaries and to provide an open, playful environment that encourages students to generate and pursue new ideas.

MODATI Studios
Ann Arbor Area

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

Neutral Zone
Ann Arbor Area

Neutral Zone is a diverse, youth-driven teen center dedicated to promoting personal growth through artistic expression, community leadership and the exchange of ideas. We offer more than 20 weekly programs for high-school age teens in the areas of music, visual arts, education, community leadership and literary arts. In addition, Neutral Zone provides a safe, supervised, substance free drop-in space where teens can come after school to meet friends, study or just hang out. On weekends, NZ's concert venue, The B-Side, hosts shows by local teen and adult musicians ranging from hip-hop to jazz, ska to rock, with occasional movie nights, poetry slams and dance parties.

ONE PAUSE POETRY
Ann Arbor Area

our mission One Pause Poetry strives to make poetry accessible to all. We are non-academic and non–market-driven. One Pause Poetry honors diversity and quality in our selection process and is dedicated to supporting Michigan poets. We select both established and emerging writers for our series and website, with the goal of breaking down categories and camps and encouraging collaboration and innovation across poetic forms, the arts, and media. history One Pause Poetry @ CCMA arose in response to a direct need—university reading series were losing their funding, and Shaman Drum, a great local independent bookstore, had closed. In a time when all funding in the arts seemed bankrupt and depleted, we decided to rush in. One Pause Poetry is named after the 15th-century enlightened Zen master and poet Ikkyu Sojun, whose name means "Once Paused." Ikkyu revolutionized the aesthetics of medieval Japan—much of what we consider when we think of Japanese culture. Rock gardens, Noh Theater, calligraphy, and poetry are because of Ikkyu and the group of artists he surrounded himself with. It's something to aspire to here and now. One Pause Poetry exists with generous support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, the Dam Tsig Foundation, Josh Pokempner and Gretchen Gardner, and other generous individual donors, interns, and more than forty volunteers. One Pause is also indebted to METAL, which will provide the venue for many of our upcoming events, and the Tsogyelgar Dharma Center, where our series originated.

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.

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!

University Musical Society (UMS)
Ann Arbor Area

One of the oldest performing arts presenters in the country, UMS is committed to connecting audiences with artists from around the world in uncommon and engaging experiences. With a program steeped in music, dance, and theater, UMS contributes to a vibrant cultural community by presenting approximately 60-75 performances and over 100 free educational activities each season (Sept. - April). UMS also commissions new work, sponsors artist residencies, and organizes collaborative projects with local, national, and international partners. While proudly affiliated with the University of Michigan and housed on the U-M campus, UMS is a separate not-for-profit organization that supports itself from ticket sales, grants, contributions, and endowment income.

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor Area

University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History
Ann Arbor Area

natural history museum

University of Michigan North Quad
Ann Arbor Area

Vincent York's Jazzistry
Ann Arbor Area

Jazzistry is an Education Program that uses live performance to teach children and adults the story of jazz and its role in American History in order to: -Expand how we view our society -Cultivate a personal relationship with our history -Demonstrate the benefit and beauty of our multi-cultural heritage; and -Create a new generation of jazz lovers. JAZZistry is a concept, a program, and a growing educational non-profit partnership that is becoming a movement! Vincent York, a leading national jazz musician, created Jazzistry as an educational program in which artists tell the story of America's own true integration of history and culture, of past and present, and of races brought together with respect for a unique American artistic treasure known to the world as jazz. The program has diverse partners who understand the deep message, powerful method and social significance of Jazzistry. They see how Jazzistry turns on learning, connecting learners to the lessons of multicultural American through the power of the Arts.

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