Sparking Creativity Across Art & Science
Midland Center for the Arts is a regional destination where people of all ages explore, learn, and connect through live performances, hands-on museum experiences, classes, camps, and community programs.
Our work is rooted in one idea: creativity thrives when art and science meet across the past, present, and future.
Great Lakes Bay Region
The Center of it All
How We Began
Long before there was a Midland Center for the Arts there were people in the area making music, staging dramas, painting landscapes and appreciating fine concerts and rare books. The places they gathered in the name of art were diverse: barn lofts, churches, company cafeterias, riverbanks and school auditoriums, to name a few.
The idea of combining the arts programs and activities under one roof in Midland was discussed as early as 1960. A definite move in that direction was made when interested members of the Midland Art Association (now part of the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art) and the Midland Little Theatre Guild (now Center Stage Theatre) got together to discuss their housing needs. Ground was broken in July 1968 and the building was officially deemed complete and turned over to the Board of Directors on January 1, 1971.
More to Know
Annual Report
Board of Directors
