Community Calendar

UNA Cadillac Plein Air Challenge - Spring and Summer 2026 

Calling all artists!

This summer we’re gathering every Tuesday morning from 9:30-11:30 to paint and sketch around beautiful Cadillac.

Each week we’ll explore a different scenic location — lakes, parks, downtown landmarks, and more. When you join you’ll receive a text or email with each week’s location.

This is a free event for all members of Up-North Arts. Not a member? Join today! Only $35 for an annual membership with many benefits. www.upnorthartsinc.org.

Bring your supplies and join us for:

🎨 Creativity
🌞 Fresh air
👩‍🎨 New artist friends
📍 Amazing local views

The challenge runs May through July, ending with an August community art exhibit.

All skill levels welcome.

Landmark: Less Cancer Hike and Bike America 2026
Walk, ride and roam anywhere/anytime. Enter your photos of local landmarks and favorite adventure places to win prizes!
June 6th – July 6th
The annual event serves as our primary fundraiser, helping fuel our critical cancer prevention initiatives.
Register for FREE today at: https://www.lesscancer.org/

Practice the art of pointillism, or dot painting, with instructor Annie Croft. Inspired by Australian Aboriginal designs, students will create intricate organic shapes that build up in concentric rings, resulting in beautiful artworks in acrylic. The process is methodical and soothing, allowing students to enjoy relaxing music while they create. No experience is needed, only the ability to focus on details, so this is best suited for teens and adults. Sample images and templates will be provided for inspiration.

This 2-week workshop will be held from 1-3 pm on Tuesdays, June 9 & 16, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

Recommended age: 12 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

The National Council of Dementia Minds is hosting a free, three-part webinar series exploring how changes in the brain can affect the senses, including taste, smell, touch, and hearing.

Each session is led by individuals living with dementia, offering insight into what these changes feel like.

These interactive sessions are open to all, including family members, care partners, professionals, and others.

To join: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f267xYYVQGCnIQQ412Cg4w

Students interested in improving their drawing skills in portraiture are invited to join instructor Matthew Grimmer for this 6-week course. Students will begin by exploring the basics of structure and linework, sketching small studies as they prepare for more developed portraits in later sessions. We will cover how to build and shape in 3-D using pencils and will cover basic areas of drawing, such as overall composition, cross-hatching to create form, and making the most of light and shadow, all within the context of the figure.

The course will focus on achieving stylized anatomical-realism through a slow-paced practice involving drawing from life using mirrors while utilizing lessons based on measurements, comparison, and thoughtful mark-making. Each session will begin with a short demonstration followed by work time with individual instruction. By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of the anatomy of the head, the complexity of shapes that create the face, and its relationship to drawing their portraiture, as well as improved confidence in their pencil handling.

This course will be held weekly from 5:30-8 pm on Tuesdays, May 5-June 9, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended ages: 13 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

Students interested in improving their drawing skills in portraiture are invited to join instructor Matthew Grimmer for this 6-week course. Students will begin by exploring the basics of structure and linework, sketching small studies as they prepare for more developed portraits in later sessions. We will cover how to build and shape in 3-D using pencils and will cover basic areas of drawing, such as overall composition, cross-hatching to create form, and making the most of light and shadow, all within the context of the figure.

The course will focus on achieving stylized anatomical-realism through a slow-paced practice involving drawing from life using mirrors while utilizing lessons based on measurements, comparison, and thoughtful mark-making. Each session will begin with a short demonstration followed by work time with individual instruction. By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of the anatomy of the head, the complexity of shapes that create the face, and its relationship to drawing their portraiture, as well as improved confidence in their pencil handling.

This course will be held weekly from 5:30-8 pm on Tuesdays, May 5-June 9, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended ages: 13 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

Students interested in improving their drawing skills in portraiture are invited to join instructor Matthew Grimmer for this 6-week course. Students will begin by exploring the basics of structure and linework, sketching small studies as they prepare for more developed portraits in later sessions. We will cover how to build and shape in 3-D using pencils and will cover basic areas of drawing, such as overall composition, cross-hatching to create form, and making the most of light and shadow, all within the context of the figure.

The course will focus on achieving stylized anatomical-realism through a slow-paced practice involving drawing from life using mirrors while utilizing lessons based on measurements, comparison, and thoughtful mark-making. Each session will begin with a short demonstration followed by work time with individual instruction. By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of the anatomy of the head, the complexity of shapes that create the face, and its relationship to drawing their portraiture, as well as improved confidence in their pencil handling.

This course will be held weekly from 5:30-8 pm on Tuesdays, May 5-June 9, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended ages: 13 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

Come and experience the beauty, immediacy, and freedom of an art form that breaks all the rules. Led by mixed media artist Deborah Clark, you will learn how to compose a heartfelt journal using inexpensive resources and bits and scraps from your daily life. Learn the essential tools needed to start your own art journaling practice and explore a wide variety of tools to see which you love the most. Registrants will receive a fun list of junk journaling items to bring to class to create their first, fun pages in an easily constructed kraft paper journal that we’ll create together. No specific art skills are needed!

Future work sessions will include a short lesson to build additional skills, an ephemera exchange between students, and open studio work time and supplies to continue your junk journaling journey!

This workshop will be held from 5:30 to 8 pm, Friday, May 29, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended age: 13 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

Play in your pajamas! The children's program room will be open for ages 0-5 and their caregiver(s) for an evening of play. This is a great opportunity to connect with each other, play with some different toys, and look at and check out library books.

Recurring every Tuesday and Thursday 6/2-8/27 5:30-6:45pm

Alternating Tuesdays / 6:30 – 8 pm / $5 drop-in
Jan 13, 27
Feb 3, 17
March 10, 24
April 7, 21

Who doesn’t love to dance? This low-key class taught by local choreographer Kelli Jolly is designed for adults ages 18 and up! A flexible schedule allows you to drop in whenever you want.

Appropriate for ALL levels, from experienced dancer to complete beginner – the class is about having fun and enjoying the rhythm without any pressure.

Classes are 90 minutes and consist of a warmup, skills across the dance floor, and a combination.

Wear any comfortable shoes and clothing.

JUN 4 & 12, 2026 / 7:30 PM
JUN 6 & 14, 2026 / 2 PM

Shakespeare’s most enchanting comedy! On the shortest night of the year, runaway lovers, a troupe of amateur actors, and mischievous fairies collide in a magical forest where nothing is quite what it seems. As the rules of logic unravel, four young lovers are swept away in a tangled web of charms, feuds, and moonlit mischief. Whimsical and witty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a joyful celebration of transformation and the strange spell of love.

Directed by Kaeleigh Casavant
By William Shakespeare

Presented in collaboration with The Friction Theatre, this production is in rep with THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. Tickets sold separately.

Dive into the vibrant world of alcohol inks with instructor Judi Steffke in this beginner-friendly class designed to spark your imagination and ignite your creative spirit! Alcohol inks are a bold, expressive medium known for their fluidity, unpredictability, and stunning, abstract effects. This series will feature the luminous quality of pearlescent inks on black non-porous paper, creating a series of flowers that positively glow.

Check out these other dates for more workshops in alcohol ink!

Iris: June 3, 5:30-7:30 pm

Tulip: May 27, 1-3 pm

This workshop will be held from 10 am-12 pm on Wednesday, June 10, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended age: 16 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

Landmark: Less Cancer Hike and Bike America 2026
Walk, ride and roam anywhere/anytime. Enter your photos of local landmarks and favorite adventure places to win prizes!
June 6th – July 6th
The annual event serves as our primary fundraiser, helping fuel our critical cancer prevention initiatives.
Register for FREE today at: https://www.lesscancer.org/

In this four-week course, young artists will become creators of their own comic universe! We'll learn to draw using simple shapes and colors as we create characters and worlds while brainstorming with the class. Students will create a small comic to take home each week, which can be an independent story or part of a series that follows their character. Throughout each session, students will be able to follow along with local artist Matthew Grimmer as he demonstrates how to doodle from imagination and bring our ideas to life. At the end of class, students will have an expanded visual vocabulary and a strengthened ability to create and narrate visual stories.

This 4-week course will be held from 1-3 pm on Wednesdays, June 10-July 1, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway in Mount Pleasant

Recommended age: 8 and up

Please note: An active membership is not required to register. Active members receive a 15% discount on classes.

The National Council of Dementia Minds is hosting a free, three-part webinar series exploring how changes in the brain can affect the senses, including taste, smell, touch, and hearing.

Each session is led by individuals living with dementia, offering insight into what these changes feel like.

These interactive sessions are open to all, including family members, care partners, professionals, and others.

To join: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f267xYYVQGCnIQQ412Cg4w