Opportunities

Family Drop in Art Assistant - Second Saturday's of the Month.

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

The Traverse City Philharmonic is seeking your volunteer help. Since its beginning over 70 years ago, the TC Phil has enjoyed the support of many dedicated and loyal volunteers – and couldn’t make music without them.

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

Up North Arts is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Art Fair Coordinator for our annual Phyllis Olson Juried Art Fair.
This position is a part time position reporting to the Executive Board and working closely with volunteers and other
committees. The primary focus of the position is to coordinate and execute aspects related to the participation of artists
and all supporting events. Additionally, the position will include marketing and social media responsibilities. Hours are
flexible around specific deadlines and prescribed timeframes, increasing as the Art Fair approaches each July.

Apply to Teach

Are you interested in teaching a class at NAA?

Higher Art Gallery is excited to announce an Open Call for:
 " With Love", A post Card Exhibit. This exhibit will be comprised of invited Artists and Artists who answer the open call. This is the first of what we hope will be an annual exhibit which will run during the holiday gift giving season in tandem with our Annual Art Tree Exhibit

The sky is vast, and always there. Is it so familiar that we forget to consider it? Acknowledge it? Is the sky just more psychic wallpaper?

The sky has many guises:

• Big sky.
• Winter sky.
• Summer sky.
• Night sky: a place of constellations, the Aurora Borealis, comets, and the chalkboard on which we create stories that help us explain ourselves and the world to ourselves.

There’s a blue sky overhead, and there’s blue sky-ing — creative or visionary thinking, unconstrained by practicalities, that take place in the head.

The sky is a busy place. It’s the place where gods live. It’s the place through which birds, kites, drones, and planes fly. And that guy on the chair with the balloons.

Dear Artists, 

This annual market is a significant fundraiser for the Jordan River Arts Council bringing together artists and shoppers for a unique holiday shopping event featuring small works of art, holiday ornaments, and an array of handmade items for the home and gift-giving. Proceeds from the sale help support exhibitions, programs and student scholarships throughout the year. We appreciate your interest in selling your work in the Holiday Gift Market.

Artists are invited to participate in one of our most popular shows of the year, as everything which hangs on our Art Tree is small and giftable for visitors.  

Even though this show runs through the holiday season, the objects, or ornaments do not HAVE to be holiday themed, although they CAN BE.

We are looking for anything which can easily be displayed on our trees throughout the gallery.

CALL TO MAKERS & ARTISTS

We invite artists and makers to be a part of our 6 week long "drop off" holiday shopping mARkeT! Apply today- Spaces are limited!

Call for artists is open

Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale on November 30, 10am-4pm

The GAAC’s AIR program began in the 1990s – then, the Glen Arbor Art Association — at the behest of the late Suzanne Wilson, a Glen Arbor painter, beloved teacher and founding member of the Glen Arbor Art Association. Wilson handpicked visual artists for the program and found friends in the area to house them.  The GAAC AIR program has built on top of that early and firm foundation.

Glen Arbor provides a perfect backdrop to experiment, explore and create. Our artist-in-residence program offer artists a unique opportunity to work in an awe-inspiring locale within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Leelanau County includes miles of spectacular Lake Michigan shoreline, wooded hills, many inland lakes, and the Crystal River.

Pockets: Stitched Stories will feature artworks and poetry that highlight the stitch as an essential structural element, as well as an opportunity for embellishment, intervention, and disruption.

The 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest is open for submissions through December 1). Poetry and works of fiction and creative nonfiction (maximum length: 10,000 words) will be considered. Winners will be announced in the spring of 2025.