Washtenaw County arts institutions are responding to widespread NEA grant cuts and rescissions this year after President Donald Trump proposed eliminating the agency.
The Adrian-based Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute has teamed up with the Ann Arbor Art Center to highlight furniture as art in an exhibit running Aug. 29-Oct. 5.
To mark the occasion of Drumm's retirement, we asked him a few questions about the greatest changes, challenges, and joys of his AAHOM tenure.
Washtenaw County's many women makers are defying maker culture norms and creating everything from functional art furniture to hybrid cat/octopus plushies.
Regenerate! Orchestra performances usually feature contemporary compositions tailored to unconventional performance spaces, with audience members invited to wander among the musicians.
![Meg Brennan Quartet performing at Third Place [MusicFest] in 2021.](https://d3ggs9wi9hwg8r.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/28151851/third-place-musicfest-1-800x600.jpg)
This year's festival will bring music to unconventional spaces like Argus Farmstop, Bløm Meadworks, and Cahoots Cafe.
The festival will include programs highlighting women and LGBTQ+ filmmakers, who were overlooked in the event's early years, while also working to build a more inclusive future.
The annual event is the Ann Arbor music club's biggest annual fundraiser, providing 15-20% of its annual operating revenue. So what happens now that COVID has canceled Folk Fest?
A jukebox musical parody of Stephen King's "It," rehearsed in two weeks, spun out into a full-blown theater troupe that has drawn tens of thousands of views online.
Discriminatory practices led many Black families to purchase homes informally generations ago, leaving their descendants with no legal claim to their family homes. But a county program is working to change that.
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