Newsletter -October 2022
Save the Date:
A Not So Silent Night 2022
REACH announces the dates for this year's Not So Silent Night annual fundraising event! From December 4-10 we will be hosting a hybrid silent auction with opportunities to bid both online and in person on super great art, giftable items, and gift cards from local artists and businesses. The event week will be filled with cozy, smaller group gallery exhibition evenings, hometown artist talks, special presentations and of course all the wonderful donated items on which to out-bid your best friend! Mark it on your calendar and don’t miss this year’s Not So Silent Night!
NSSN Featured Artist Exhibition: Hometown Artists
Our theme for this year's Featured Artist Show during A Not So Silent Night is Hometown Artists! This exhibition, which will open in the REACH Gallery during A Not So Silent Night, will feature four to six artists who live or work in Lansing.
Featured artists works will be for sale with fifty percent of the sales benefiting REACH Studio. If you’re a working artist living or working in the City of Lansing and would like to be considered as one of our featured artists, scan the QR code to go to the featured artist RFP.
Fall Walk-In-Wednesday Schedule
Walk-In-Wednesday is back this fall with a new slate of activities scheduled each week! All ages welcome. Children under 7 must have an adult accompany them during workshop. Feel free to drop in or pre-register online for one or many of our free/optional fee Walk-in Wednesday workshops. Check out each week’s workshop below:
Oct 5 - Week 1: Beadwriting
Oct 12 - Week 2: Paper jack-O-Lanterns
Oct 19 - Week 3: Mixed Media Spooky Scenes
Oct 26 - Week 4: Burlap Weaving
Nov 2 - Week 5: Felted Geodes
Nov 9 - Week 6: Collage Coasters
Nov 16 -Week 7: Watercolor Resist Leaf Prints
Nov 30 - Week 8: Stark Raving Paper
Welcome REACH's new Clay Studio Technician:
Jesse Kaspar
We welcome to the team our new Clay Studio Technician: Jesse Kaspar! Jesse may be a familiar face to many who have taken our clay programs, and she will continue to teach along with her new duties managing the clay studio. This expansion of duties as clay studio technician will help the clay studio run smoothly and help facilitate the needs of our many clay classes!
Jesse holds a BFA as well as a BA in advertising from Michigan State University and has extensive experience teaching clay classes both at REACH and many other community centers and art studios.
We all welcome Jesse into this new and exciting role here at REACH!
Programs at REACH are made possible in part through funding from 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, Elements Studio Inc, and generous individual donors.
