Opportunities

Up North Arts is looking for talented and dedicated volunteers for some specific positions. 

Whether it is an event or greeting guests or helping with art classes, we have many opportunities.

To promote and encourage cultural and educational activities within the Straits Area of Northern Michigan, and to provide services that stimulate and encourage participation and appreciation of the arts within all segments of the community and to showcase the historic Cheboygan Opera House.

Volunteering is about more than just bringing our vision to life, it’s about building a community of people who care.

As Building Manager at Crooked Tree Arts Center (CTAC) - Petoskey, you’ll be an integral part of a community-based arts organization that has served Northern Michigan for over 50 years. At CTAC, our mission is to create ways for people to connect, learn, and grow through the arts. We offer year-round visual arts exhibitions, classes, lectures, and other special events.

Apply to Teach

Are you interested in teaching a class at NAA?

Lead the Next Chapter of One of Michigan’s Distinctive Cultural Destinations

Michigan Legacy Art Park is seeking an exceptional leader to serve as its next Executive Director.

Nestled within the forests of Crystal Mountain Resort in northwest Michigan, Michigan Legacy Art Park is a nationally recognized outdoor museum where sculpture, poetry, history, nature, and education come together to inspire curiosity and creativity. Through permanent and rotating works of art, educational programming, concerts, exhibitions, and community partnerships, the Art Park invites visitors to explore Michigan’s rich cultural and natural heritage in an unforgettable setting.

We welcome your class and workshops proposals anytime of year for our studio arts programming.

Our courses teach hands-on skills with a focus on creating a more natural, beautiful, and connected world. They go beyond basics to inspire curiosity, build community, and give students the confidence to keep learning at home.

Want to share your talents with our community?

Want to earn some extra income?

Crosshatch Meeting Place + Mercantile is a new community space in downtown Bellaire where art, ecology, and craft meet. We’re seeking artists, farmers, makers, and culture bearers to lead workshops that share skills, stories, and traditions rooted in creativity and connection to the land.

Wherever you go in Emmet County, you’ll find your Community Foundation at work: helping enrich the lives of our elders, supporting programs for children, reaching out to friends and neighbors in need, expanding parks and recreational activities, protecting our environment, enhancing health services and bringing more music, art, and cultural opportunities to our area.

Just Beautiful is an exploration of the many faces and forms of beauty expressed through visual art.

We’re listening. The story you tell on stage centers on an experience that has always stayed with you.

Here:Say Storytelling is a Traverse City-based live storytelling show featuring true, first-person stories told on stage by performers of all backgrounds and experience level.

K/P Cultural and The Delamar Traverse City are thrilled to announce an open call for the Delamar Traverse City Artist Series, a newly launched featured artist program at the Hotel. Regional artists are invited to submit their work to be considered for a solo exhibition in the Delamar’s Main Hallway.  The space hosts visitors from around the world, as well as regional and local guests. 

Outer SPACE: Exterus Spatium A Call for Outer Space Related Artwork

Crooked Tree Arts Center invites artists to explore the space beyond our planet.

An open call to all artists of the United States for outer space related artwork. Anything about the moon, the planets, the stars, the solar systems, the galaxies and beyond is welcome. Work can be literally about these celestial bodies, and/or their effects upon our Earth. Science fact or science fiction based material are equally encouraged.

All media are welcome, except AI.

PETOSKEY—The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra (GLCO) is one of five finalists being considered for two major grants to be awarded by Impact100 Little Traverse Bay.

Can’t make it to an event in person? Now you can experience every National Writers Series conversation with our brand-new
Virtual Subscription.

Old Town Playhouse and the Village at Grand Traverse Commons are excited to announce the Northern Michigan Asylum Playwriting Contest. This new creative event invites playwrights to submit original works inspired by, connected to, or thematically centered on the history, architecture, culture, or personal stories associated with the Northern Michigan Asylum (also known as the Traverse City State Hospital).