The City of Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority is seeking to commission artists or artist teams to design two unique public artwork projects: • The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority is seeking to commission an artist or artist team to design and install unique and creative art as a wayfinding system to connect the Ann/Ashley Parking Structure to the Farmers Market 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
Get the scoop on this year's Winter Art Camps, taking place in Downtown Ann Arbor Monday, December 30-Tuesday, December 31. Choose from our 2-Day Creativity Camp for children ages 5-9, or our 2-Day Handbuilding Clay Camp for children ages 9-12. Registration for Winter Break Youth Art Camp opens on Friday, November 1 at 7:00am *You must be the parent or Continue Reading
Stop by the A2AC with the kiddos and enter our special Halloween Coloring Contest with complimentary colored pencils and coloring sheets by artist Annika Smits. This event is a part of MSAA's Trick or Treat Parade event.
Brush off the chill with crafty winter thrills with a Winter Workshop from the A2AC in Downtown Ann Arbor. Winter Workshops are a great, small commitment way to warm up your creative spirit. Bring a friend to a date night workshop or your household at a Family Friday, or just take a break from the world and give yourself something Continue Reading
Kids aged 5-12 will ring in the year at our special NYE-edition Winter Art Camps, running Monday, Dec. 30 through Tuesday, Dec. 31. Choose from our 2-Day Creativity Camp for children ages 5-9 or our 2-Day Handbuilding Clay Camp for children ages 9-12.
This is part of the 2024 Disability Arts & Culture Gathering, a weekend of disability culture arts-based research and community building centered on twin inquiries of environmental and interspecies gentleness, mad memory, and archival intermedial/technological play. From the organizer: We are happy to welcome people joining from elsewhere. All Gathering events unspool in crip time, with rest and relaxation practices Continue Reading
This is part of the 2024 Disability Arts & Culture Gathering, a weekend of disability culture arts-based research and community building centered on twin inquiries of environmental and interspecies gentleness, mad memory, and archival intermedial/technological play. From the organizer: We are happy to welcome people joining from elsewhere. All Gathering events unspool in crip time, with rest and relaxation practices Continue Reading