Alma Community Art Center
We are a community center for the visual arts in Alma, Michigan, offering a wide variety of art classes for youth and adults. Our Wassenaar Art Gallery provides exhibition space for local and regional artists, and exposure to art for inspiration and education for the community. We also support artists and the Art Center through retail sales of art and handmade items from our region.
We are thrilled to offer some new classes and also Art Camp in June.
The mission of the Alma Community Art Center is to create a space for the community to have exposure to educational art opportunities for all ages and abilities, offer an artist mentoring program for children and young adults, and to provide community gallery space. We provide a regional Mid-Michigan location for area visual artists to share both their artwork and their artistic skills with their community through displaying, selling and instructing in their art.
In a collaborative effort, the Creative Arts Guild of Mid-Michigan, the Pine River Arts Council, Alma College and area schools provided the initial funding to establish a community art center located in Alma, Michigan. Discussion, planning and collaboration began in August of 2011 when a vacant storefront in downtown Alma was donated for a year to develop the art center. Community volunteers spent many hours cleaning and renovating the space prior to opening the Center on November 11, 2011. Initially called ArtVentures, with a name change to Alma Community Art Center occurring in August, 2012, the Art Center has had an immediate positive response and support from the area communities. Funding for our programming, publicity, exhibitions and part-time staff has come from class fees, commissioned sales, monetary donations and grants.
The Alma Community Art Center has recently found a permanent home at 318 Woodworth Avenue, and plans to begin its programming at the new location in the spring of 2013. Future plans also include expansion of our banner project to include more communities, and to take our classes and instructors out into the communities to teach those who may have difficulty getting to the Art Center.
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