About Us
About us
Our Studio
About us
The Michigan Art Center, established in 2013, is a family-owned art center and we strive to offer a fun, educational, and relaxing atmosphere where students ages 16 and up can express their artistic ability in community with other like-minded artists.
We don't require anyone to have a membership, although memberships are available to purchase that give discounts on classes, workshops, tools, glazes, and clay.
Our students come from all over southeastern Michigan to attend our ceramics classes and workshops and we have several couples and families taking classes together! We hope you can join us!
Classes
Our Studio
About us
The Michigan Art Center offers morning, evening, and Saturday ceramic classes; jewelry classes, kid's classes, workshops; private parties; and occasional classes in watercolor painting, pastels, and glass fusion. We welcome students of all skill levels from first-timers to advanced artists.
Note: kids classes, workshops, and private parties are temporarily on hold.
Our Studio
Our Studio
Our Retail Store
In our ceramics studio, students will use a variety of tools and equipment such as slab rollers, extruder, spray booth, over 20 pottery wheels. Our heated and air-conditioned facility is over 5,400 square feet, and allows you to enjoy a spacious glaze and cleanup area, over 70 glaze choices, large wheel throwing area, cone 10 gas reduction kiln, cone 6 electric kilns, Raku kiln, retail store, lots of shelving space, and a generous amount of open studio time for registered students to practice what they've learned.
Our Retail Store
Production Pottery
Our Retail Store
We carry the following tools and glazes:
Pottery Tools
- Diamond Core
- MKM
- Xiem
- MudTools
- Kemper
- Dirty Girls
- Troy Bungart
- GR Pottery Forms
- van Gilder Tools
Glazes | Underglazes
- Mayco
- Coyote
- Speedball
Supplies
- Wax Resist
- Liquid Latex
- Sodium Silicate
Equipment
- Original Hi Roller vertical slab roller.
Open Studio
Production Pottery
Production Pottery
We offer a generous amount of open studio time (for registered students only) to work on their projects.
Open Studio Hours
(registered students only):
Monday - Thursday: 1pm-6pm
Saturday: 1pm-5pm
Production Pottery
Production Pottery
Production Pottery
We also welcome opportunities for production potters. Production potters are defined as artists who create work for the purpose of resale at places such as galleries, boutiques, stores, internet, art fairs, Potter’s Market, etc., regardless of the quantity made. As such, production potters have separate prices for enrollment. These prices will show up in the drop-down menu when you register for classes. If you pick the wrong price you will be expected to make up the difference.
Our Policies
Our Policies
Our Policies
See our Policies page for details.
Michigan Art Center reserves the right to refuse service, terminate registrations and memberships in its discretion, including, without limitation, if Michigan Art Center believes that customer conduct violates our policies, applicable law or is harmful to the interests of the Michigan Art Center. Violation of any of the terms and conditions herein and/or studio policies and/or guidelines may cause immediate dismissal from all classes, workshops, and other studio activities, and forfeiture of registration and membership fees.
Here's what's happening at the mac!
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we sell clay -(including reclaim!
purchase tools and glazes
Winter semester registration opens on Saturday, November 9th, 8am
purchase tools and glazes
we sell clay -(including reclaim!
purchase tools and glazes
Shop local, right here in Garden City, MI
we sell clay -(including reclaim!
we sell clay -(including reclaim!
we sell clay -(including reclaim!
We offer 3 different Standard Ceramic clay bodies, plus our proprietary blend, and reclaim
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we sell clay -(including reclaim!
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Gift certificates
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Gift certificates
Gift certificates make great gifts! Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, appreciation, etc.
memberships
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You don't have to be a member to take classes here, but a membership gives you discounts on classes, 15% off tools and glazes, extra clay (25 lbs), and 50% off workshops.
photos
photos
photos
Check out student and instructor art work!