Reach Studio Art Center focuses on offering Lansing area residents creative, visual art-making experiences especially to those who may find art classes difficult to access, due to location or cost.

Description:
Reach Studio Art Center has serviced hundreds of community members, children, youth and adults with art making programs including: 1.)"Creative Connections" and "Teen Open Studio", free, art-making after school drop-in programs facilitated by volunteer artist and art student mentors 2.)summer art day camps for kids, 3.) Open Clay Studios, for all ages to experience the joy of "making" with ceramic clay. 4.) Community art projects and collaborative projects with other youth serving organizations which focus on improving the community 5.)and various fee and scholarship based classes in art for children and adults.

History:
Reach was founded in November, 2003 by local textile artist, Alice Brinkman, who felt there was a need in the city of Lansing for art making venues that were accessible to Lansing residents and especially to those who did not typically access extra curricular art activities due to barriers of income, location or transportation. Board members, volunteers and contracted art teachers have worked hard to develop this community resource for art-making. Reach became a non-profit corporation in February, 2004, and is sustained by grants, donations, registration fees and generous volunteers who are committed to the vision. Among other grants, Reach has received, 3 years in a row a Community Art Partners grant from the Michigan Association of Community Art Agencies. In 2005, Reach was one of five organizations to receive a statewide: "Great Lakes Community Arts Award".

Contact person: Alice Brinkman, Executive Director, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (517) 999-3182

Address:

1804 S. Washington Ave Lansing, MI 48910 (See a map)

Web Site: http://reachstudioart.org

Directions:

Reach Studio Art Center is located on Washington Ave. at Smith Ave., one half mile South of where Washington Ave. crosses over I-496, or one block North of Mt. Hope Ave. From I-496, take the Grand Ave. exit (from the. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: #2 on Washington Ave. or Mt. Hope CADA bus, 5 minutes minute walk