Step into the Art Center as we bring five talented artists together for a mesmerizing Live Drawing Event, where they'll be turning planter pots into their canvas to create limited edition works. You will have the opportunity to observe their creative process up close, interact with the artists, ask questions, and gain insight into the techniques that have shaped their Continue Reading
Join us for the Opening Reception of the next A2AC Gallery exhibition, We are here because you were there. This event features DJ Manan Desai and will coincide with the opening of the Spotlight Gallery exhibition, Talismanic: The Collected Collages of Amy Sacksteder. We are here because you were there explores the socio-political and cultural impact of post-colonial migration on Continue Reading
Join us for the Opening Reception of Talismanic: The Collected Collages of Amy Sacksteder in the Spotlight Gallery on the 2nd floor of the A2AC. This event coincides with the opening of We are here because you were there in the A2AC Gallery. Talismaniac: The Collected Collages of Amy Sacksteder presents four collage series created by the artist over the Continue Reading
Join us Saturday, September 9 at 11am for a fun morning of Japanese songs and movement with local performer and music teacher Momo Sensei (Momo Kajiwara)! We will explore singalongs, finger plays, shakers, scarves, movement, and stories! September's A2AC PlayLab is best for babies through 6 years of age alongside their caregivers. This is a bi-lingual event and is a Continue Reading
A University of Michigan Community Event to Support Ann Arbor Businesses! Free & public welcome!!! Students can collect a unique wristband in the three downtown districts when they show their MCard at the tables noted in the map below (students, faculty & staff included). Receive a gift card when you collect all three wristbands (while supplies last)!
The A2AC Gala: Thriving in Transition will be on September 14, 2023, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at Venue 4M in Ann Arbor, with proceeds directly supporting the organization’s art education and scholarship program. New for this year, the event's cocktail happy hour is available as a stand-alone opportunity to support the A2AC, with a ticket price of $100. Tickets for Continue Reading
Come downtown and experience the potential of public space activated by and for people instead of cars. A standard parallel parking space is 24 feet long by 8 feet wide, that's 192 square feet. 2 parking spaces could be a similar footprint to a studio micro apartment. Come see how we are dedicating city space to private car storage while Continue Reading
Take in an evening downtown with friends and family, and stop by the A2AC to make your own customized clay tile! Each participant will carve and stamp their own unique designs, names, words, symbols, drawings, etc., into a soft clay tile. Tiles will remain at the Art Center to be processed and fired in our kiln. The fired and finished tiles may be picked up from the Continue Reading
Join us for the Opening Reception of the 2023 Autumn Instructor Show featuring artwork by a collection of dedicated instructors who create the vibrant arts education community at the A2AC in Downtown Ann Arbor. This exhibition is held in the Spotlight Gallery on the 2nd floor of the A2AC. Featuring Eve Bratten Tricia Hampo Soyeon Kim Andrea Lozano Lila MacKinnon Continue Reading
Join us at the next A2AC Author series for a morning of Asian-American food-inspired writing! Drawing from their East Asian culture's culinary traditions, six writers read excerpts from their published work while responding to the current A2AC Gallery's show titled We are here because you were there. featuring Shannon Daniels Grace Han A. H. Kim Hanna Kim Kyunghee Kim Michelle Continue Reading
Local Asian-American bakery owners Grace Han of Porch Bakery and Rachel Liu Martindale of Milk and Honey will lead a conversation and demonstration about Asian-American cooking and baking, touching on themes of process, community-building, and identity.
Join us for a special Curator/Artist talk for the A2AC Gallery show We Are Here because you were there, moderated by University of Michigan's LSA Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies professor Manan Desai. Dive deeper into how each artist approaches their studio practice as well as how they relate to the expansive, diverse narratives being told about Asian-American experiences in the Continue Reading
