ALERT! -
Summer Street Closure
Art Center opens “Art Center Too”
The Art Center of Battle Creek, located at 265 E. Emmett
Street, will be making a few changes in the upcoming months
because of road construction in the area. Emmett
Street will be closed between Fremont Street and McKinley
Street from April 27th through September 3rd.
Since the Art Center serves over 150 artists in its Michigan
Palette Gift/Gallery Shop, a change of locations was necessary
to continue to provide sales for those artists. By partnering
with Battle Creek Unlimited and the Downtown Partnership,
the location at 80 West Michigan, across from Arcadia Brewery,
became available. “This location is ideal for
our gift/gallery shop.” says Linda Holderbaum, Executive
Director. “It will allow some of our artist to
bring in bigger work that we can usually only accommodate
during our annual Holly Mart sale.” The Art Center
will move its gift/gallery shop to that location and also
have a small exhibit area. “Art Center Too” will
open with a special reception for downtown merchants on Sunday,
May 2nd and open to the public on May 3rd. Hours will
be from 11 am to 5 pm. Though Art Center Too will not
be open on Saturdays or Sundays, it will be open for special
events in the downtown area on weekends.
Art Center Too will continue to occupy this location until
September.
During this time the main Art Center facility on Emmett
Street will be open for all classes and the building can
be accessed by taking McKinley Street north to Merwood. Turn
left (west) on Merwood and into the back driveway of Greensmith
Florist/Addington Hills Café. The parking lots
of Greensmith’s and the Art Center are linked together
and you can easily reach the Art Center. There will
be signage posted for directions as well. Exhibitions
scheduled at the Art Center for May through September have
been postponed. “Maintenance of our building
is always hard to fit into our very busy schedules” says
Holderbaum. “This will be a great opportunity to patch
and repaint gallery walls, clean carpets and be ready for
our fall exhibition season.”
The Art Center will reopen in October with Beauty. Style. Design.
The Art of the Auto on Sunday, October 3rd with the opening
reception from 2-4 pm.
Art Center Too can be reached at 964-9680 |
