Saugatuck Center For The Arts

About Us:

EXPERIENCE the Saugatuck Center for the Arts ... a non-profit arts & cultural organization bringing high quality education, exhibitions, and performances to the West Michigan lakeshore community.

ARTS and CULTURE! Plus remarkable experiences, cool classes, memorable performances, and more.  Sky Hempy Keyboard Performance Series, plus gallery talks and a bevvy of classes for beginning and intermediate artsists. 

History:

The Saugatuck Center for the Arts began with the notion that a great arts community should have a robust art center – and that a robust art center could, in turn, help create an even more vibrant community.

Back in 2003, a group of area leaders – with a passion for the arts – coalesced around an abandoned pie factory. Their vision included adaptive reuse of the building (a cool idea that was spot on!) and a programming mix that included a broad array of options for all ages. Ultimately the goal was to become an arts, economic, and social “hub” for the Saugatuck-Douglas communities and larger West Michigan community.

A decade later the SCA is living into that key idea. We serve up year-round arts-and-cultural opportunities for children and adults from live performances and professional theatre to film and lecture series to exhibitions and classes.  And we run a weekly Greenmarket June through October.

Along the way we’ve built dynamic partnerships with schools and libraries, local governmental units, regional businesses, and lots of other arts & cultural and environmental non-profits in West Michigan and beyond.  We absolutely believe that “more is more” – and that mostly get accomplished by working with smart, innovative partners.

Last year more than 24,000 people spent time at the Art Center! Come on over … we looking forward to meeting you!