Museum Events

SAT & SUN, AUG 23 & 24, 2025 / 11 AM - 6 PM (2-Hour Shifts)
At Carriage House / 3200 Cook Rd, Midland, MI 48640
(Free to Attend by Sign Up – All Ages)

Roll up your sleeves and join us for a weekend of hands-on creativity at the Carriage House Ceramics Studio! Whether you're an experienced potter or brand new to ceramics, everyone is welcome to participate in this free community event where we’ll throw and hand-build bowls to be donated for our annual Empty Bowls fundraiser in October, supporting the Midland County Food Assistance Network. Our goal is to build as many bowls as possible!

All materials are provided, and potters are welcome to sign up for more than one time slot. Participation is free, but pre-registration is required.

SAT, OCT 18, 2025 / 11 AM - 3:30 PM (90-minute time slots)
Admission / $30 (includes handmade bowl and meal)

Empty Bowls is a worldwide grassroots movement by potters to raise money to end food scarcity. Join us for a meaningful (and delicious!) day in support of hunger relief across the region. As the culmination of our annual Build-A-Bowl event, a $30 ticket will let you enjoy a soup-and-bread buffet from local restaurants and bakeries, plus your choice of a one-of-a-kind bowl made by local artists, students, or volunteers. Proceeds benefit Midland County Food Assistance Network, which serves more than 12,600 individuals across our region.

This event takes place in the Auditorium Lobby at Midland Center for the Arts. Tables and seating will be available for guests to relax, enjoy the food, live music, and community conversation.

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OCT 24, 2025 - FEB 7, 2026
Free Art Reception / THU, NOV 20, 2025 / 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Located in the Auditorium Lobby

Featuring over twenty landscape paintings that quiet our soul, seek truth, beauty, and love in nature. Myers transcendent landscapes focus on transitions of light dancing across the atmosphere that seamlessly melt into the lakeshore. Myers artwork focuses on both coastal and agrarian settings in northern and western Michigan while gaining inspiration by traveling abroad. Myers’ states: When painting, it is like a mental dance. It starts with the heart which inspires the entire object. Then there is an analysis of what evokes the impression. The dance occurs when my thoughts move from seeing objects abstractly by how the light reveals them to looking at them for what they are as objects to assessing the impression it gives in my heart.

DEC 6, 2025 - FEB 22, 2026
Free Art Reception / FRI, DEC 19, 2025 / 5:30 - 7 PM
Located in the Little Theater Lobby

Embark on a journey of nostalgia with textile artist Boisali Biswas as she reflects on growing up in India and traveling the world. Biswas’ education incorporated an integrated approach with a love of nature and Indian culture, and seeks to bring awareness from protecting the planet to the rich cultural experiences of marginalized communities. Her work combines weaving, dyeing, and painting, often exploring themes of identity, culture, and environmental connections. Exhibited nationally and internationally, her art bridges narratives of memory and transformation. Biswas states: Art is like an odyssey for me through the passage of time-honored techniques, traditions, and influences. I contemplate how cultures and countries are bound together by the warp and weft of civilization, how we were wrapped in cloth ever since our inception! My journey of working with fibers continues to weave those cultures together in a multifaceted way.

MAR 6 - JUN 6 / 2026
Free Art Reception / FRI, MAR 27, 2026 / 5:30 - 7 PM
Located in the Auditorium Lobby

Master ceramicist Guy Adamec explores the intersection of form, function, and creativity in this thoughtful collection of over twenty ceramic works. The craft of creating something using a machine — the potter's wheel — and one's hands, in sync with creative ingenuity, produces an object of pure beauty. This correlation integrates not just Adamec’s imagination and dedication but also infuses science and engineering that are imperative to the craft. Some of Adamec’s pieces of art are also objects that can be used in a utilitarian fashion, like bowls, urns, and vases that help us in our everyday lives. Adamec states: I make objects to interpret contemporary attitudes within the context of traditional forms and aesthetics while conveying a sense of natural beauty, harmony, balance, and mystery within the intricacies of the piece. Working in clay allows for infinite control over form and surface while allowing for spontaneity.