Mackinaw City Area Arts Council

The mission of the Mackinaw City Area Arts Council is to promote and encourage participation in and appreciation of the Fine Arts in the Greater Mackinaw City Area through exhibits, instruction, activities, and performances throughout the entire year.

The Mackinaw City Area Arts Council organized in late spring of 2011 with a six-member steering committee. We are in the process of filing Articles of Incorporation as a nonprofit organization and will develop a membership structure in the Fall.

This summer, with money donated from community supporters and in cooperation with the Village’s recreation program, an art teacher was contracted to conduct four two-hour Art Workshops. Each was held in a different outdoors venue and attendance varied between 10 and 28 students. We will hold an evaluation soon with the goal of improving the structure and location for next summer.

The Village of Mackinaw City is in the process of renovating a room on the second floor of the Recreation Center as an aerobic workout area with equipment donated from the Ice Breaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum, a dance studio to offer dance classes, as well as for Taoist Tai Chi classes and possibly Yoga classes. We also are planning a fall photography workshop and a January exhibit of works by the 13 artists and wood carvers in the immediate Mackinaw City area. Please participate or volunteer for one of these programs.