2024 A2AC GALA A FUNDRAISER BENEFITING THE A2AC THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 COCKTAIL PARTY: 5:30 PM – 7 PM DINNER & LIVE AUCTION: 7 PM – 9 PM Join us at the A2AC Gala on Thursday, September 19, 2024, to celebrate 115 years of our creative impact in the Ann Arbor community and hear more about where our creativity will take us next. Continue Reading
The A2AC is proud to partner with A2Tech360 to offer an evening of creativity + tech! Come explore and get inspired. Drop in to this FREE event and learn all about the amazing ways we create art with digital technology at the A2AC. Youth, teens, adults, and families are welcome- we have something for everyone! Tour the A2AC's Digital ArtLab, generously funded by Continue Reading
Join us for the VIP Meet & Greet with Pete Souza for the Obama: An Intimate Portrait exhibition, a profound look at a historic presidency through the eyes of former Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza, who did more than document a president, he invited the country into the home of an intelligent, compassionate, graceful, and complex man. For Continue Reading
The A2AC is looking for solo and two-person show applications, showcasing work within the context of contemporary painting, printmaking, illustration, and other crafts in our Spotlight Gallery space on the 2nd floor of 117 W Liberty in Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. The A2AC Spotlight Gallery provides a space for both emerging and established Michigan-based artists to showcase their work in Continue Reading
The A2AC Author Series features MI-based writers whose work builds connections with the visual art presented in the A2AC Gallery. October's author series presents Saba Kerama, Rachel Nelson, Molly Pershin Raynor, Onna Solomon, Ellen Stone, Michelle Yang, and Michael Zadoorian. Please join us for this Thursday Evening event, which is in connection with Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza Continue Reading
The A2AC is dropping some hauntingly creative "weres" for the season! Over 10 ceramic, 2D, and fiber artists will sell their fabulously spooky goods online on October 11th. Come into our spooky corner in person starting on October 14th.
Join us for the opening reception of Meli Bandera and Taylor Childs' show in the Spotlight Gallery on the 2nd floor of the A2AC in Downtown Ann Arbor. Through shared investigations of family, legacy, and origin, Meli Bandera and Taylor Childs' Ancestral Echoes of Resilience and Providence addresses questions of migration, place, subculture formation, and protection. Using the collective language of Continue Reading
The A2AC is dropping some hauntingly creative "weres" for the season! Over 10 ceramic, 2D, and fiber artists will sell their fabulously spooky goods online on October 11th. Come into our spooky corner in person starting on October 14th.
Handshouse Studio’s 1:10 scale white oak model of “La Forêt,” Notre Dame’s notably intricate roof structure, will be on display at the A2AC Gallery for public viewing October 17-19, 2024. This exhibition has been brought to A2AC by Handshouse Studio in participation with Lower Town Bar and Cafe, Roof Jumpers Timber Frames, Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute, and the Timber Framers Guild. Continue Reading
Join us for a truss-raising adventure and Notre Dame Project presentation in Ann Arbor! Handshouse Studio representatives will crane-raise the full-scale reconstruction of Notre Dame choir truss #6 and present its significance and story to the public. Includes a Q+A with Notre Dame Project Participants from 11:30am-12:30pm. This exhibition has been brought to A2AC by Handshouse Studio in participation with Lower Continue Reading
Presented by Lindsay Cook, Professor of Architectural History at Penn State University, and Marie Brown, Executive Director of Handshouse Studio and Notre Dame Project Director. Learn about the experiences of Americans who worked alongside French carpenters to reconstruct Notre Dame de Paris in France and how a gesture of global solidarity among makers became an embodied act of reconstruction across Continue Reading
The City of Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation and the Ann Arbor's DDA seek an artist or artist team to design and paint colorful, fun, and non-representational art on the concrete walls in Liberty Plaza in Downtown Ann Arbor. BUDGET: $35,000DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2024, at 11:59pm EST
