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Welcome to the Arts & Industry Council

The Arts & Industry Council (AIC), formerly the United Arts Council of Calhoun County, is Michigan's oldest incorporated non-profit arts council. The AIC provides marketing and technical services, professional development programs, and grants to more than 60 arts and cultural organizations and hundreds of Michigan artists. The AIC Events Calendar is the region's only one-stop source of information for arts/culture activity!

As Calhoun County's arts advocate, the AIC's mission is to improve quality of life through the arts by focusing on four strategic areas of action: 1) growing the arts and creative industries, 2) marketing the arts, 3) advocating for the arts, and 4) facilitating networks.

The AIC's new strategic plan places discernable emphasis on creative industries and cultural economic development. All of the new AIC programs and services outlined on this site have been requested by community stakeholders. We hope you'll find these tools useful and will come back to visit us often!

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Franke Center for the Arts

Our mission is to preserve, renovate, and maintain the Franke Center for the cultural, civic, and social enrichment of the greater Marshall community. The Center seeks to achieve its mission by developing alliances between itself and arts educators, artists, children, youth and the supporters of the arts.

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Recent Headlines

	Museum gets face lift, new planetarium system	June 25,2008
	In a few months, the stars will shine in Kingman Museum's planetarium like never before. Thanks to recent grants from private donors and foundations, the museum is installing a new state-of-the-art digital planetarium system and giving a...	Read More

	West Michigan Native-Bob Rowe Inducted Into Intern	April 23,2008
	Dear Friends: In January 2008, well known folk and Christian-singer and 2006 Mother Teresa laureate Bob Rowe, was inducted into the International Museum of Peace in Uzbekistan. This is part of an international collection of autographs from...	Read More

	Battle Creek Fine Arts Academy Performs	March 28,2008
	Students from Battle Creek Central's Fine Arts Academy gave two performances during their seventh annual report at Kellogg Community College's Binda Theatre on Thursday. Perfomances ranged from music to dance to dramatic readings...	Read More


	Highlighted Events

	Miriam Brysk Exhibition
	in promotion of the Jewish literature program. Read More

	Auditions for Anne of Green Gables
	auditions for KCC fall play. Read More

	Tami Ford sings at Prairieville Farm Days
	Tami will sing your favorite traditional country songs plus a few from today's country music, accompanied by "The Jamie Martin Band " It's " Ladies Night " so Tami will share the stage this evening with a few other local country music ladies. The we Read More

Featured Classifieds

	Atlanta Arts Festival
	September 15 & 16 Atlanta Arts Festival in Piedmont Park Atlanta, GA 200 Exhibitors Deadline: May 10, 2007 Long ago in the early days of art festivals there was a well-beloved event held annually in Piedmont Park in Atlanta. The artists... Read More

	Swartz Creek Hometown Days
	The First Annual Swarts Creek Hometown Days Fine Art Festival is seeking artist to participate in its inagural event. Our Fine Art Festical will be held on Saturday May 31, 2008, hours from 9am-5pm. Application to enter this juried event can be... Read More

	VSA Playwright Discovery Program Call for Scripts
	The VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program invites middle and high school students to examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. Playwrights may write from their own... Read More