April News
Summer Camps and Classes, Art on Exhibit, a Special Fundraiser, and Spring Thing is back.
Register for Summer Classes and Camps!
Summer camps and classes taught by local teaching artists at REACH are now open for registration! We have exciting camp programs in a range of age groupings from 6 year-olds to 18 year-olds. Plus we’ll be offering many of our core 8-week classes in clay, drawing, Creative Tots and more, for youth and adults. All youth classes and camps have partial and full scholarships available. Click below to browse and register today!
7:00 a.m. May 3 to 6:00 p.m. May 4
Mark your calendars! REACH is participating in the Capital Region Community Foundation’s 35 Hours of Giving campaign to raise $$$ for our endowment fund. Get ready to help us sustain REACH year after year. 100 percent of your donation to REACH’s 35 Hours of Giving Campaign will go directly to the REACH Endowment Fund AND… there will be matching funds and bonuses to boot, making your donation during those 35 hours have an even greater impact!
If you want to help in other ways than financially, we’d love to chat with you about being an ambassador for REACH on this campaign. Contact Alice or Ian to learn about other ways to help.
Creativity in the Time of COVID-19
Art Exhibition
From April 3 to 29, the REACH gallery will be one of the satellite exhibit spaces for “Creativity in the Time of COVID 19: Art for Equity and Social Justice,” an exhibition organized by a team from Michigan State University, headed up by Nancy DeJoy, and funded by a Mellon “Just Futures” grant. This exhibition has compiled art from around the world, made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to foster dialogue about creativity, health, well-being, and social justice.
Along with REACH different portions of the project will be on exhibit at the other satellite sites: the Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center, Impression 5 Science Center, and the Refugee Development Center. The main exhibition can be seen at the old SEARS building in the Frandor mall. Learn more about the exhibition and plan a time to come by to see the show!
Save the date: Spring Thing 2023
On Saturday June 3, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., REACH invites the community to a free Accessibility Arts Community Art project and exhibit in our spacious facility. Mark your calendars. Join the fun. Make your mark on a 6 x 6 canvas that will be added to the Accessibility Arts Mural the same day and on exhibit for the month of June and July. The inaugural Accessibility Arts Exhibition, is a partnership between REACH and the Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center, funded in part by the Community Foundation.
Programs at REACH are made possible in part through funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, The City of Lansing, Capitol Area United Way, Lansing Exchange Youth Foundation, The Arts Council of Greater Lansing, the Community Foundation, MSUFCU - Desk Drawer Fund, the Mariel Foundation, and generous individual donors.
