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In May of this year, the Arts Council of White Lake - Nuveen Center will be 40 years stong. In celebration of our 40th year as a registered non-profit serving the White Lake community, we are throwing a birthday bash! We'll have live music, birthday cake, toasts from special guests, fun and frivolity. We hope you'll join us for our biggest fundraising event of the year and to celebrate this milestone! GET TICKETS Thank you to Consumers Energy, Snowy Sips Pub Craw , and Tom &

On Saturday, March 14 we had a great turnout for our 2026 Juried Exhibition reception. We were fortunate that many of the artists who have pieces in the show came with their friends and family and mixed and mingled with other community members. This year's exhibit attracted entries from 96 artists across Michigan and even Pennsylvania. Juror Amelia Anderson, currently serving as the inaugural Director of the Bennett Prize & Curator of Women's Art at the Muskegon Museum of Art

The ACWL-Nuveen is very grateful to the Whitehall City Council members who voted to approve a $7,500 donation at their February 24th meeting to help fund the complete restoration of White Lake’s iconic sculpture – Sailboat/Trees . These monies combined with $6,500 awarded by the White Lake Community Fund of the Community Foundation for Muskegon County will go toward resurfacing the 22’ tall metal sculpture. After sixteen years of full exposure to the extremes of Michigan’s se

Job Overview The Arts Council of White Lake-Nuveen Center (ACWL-Nuveen) is a well established nonprofit operating in Whitehall, Michigan. For 40 years the ACWL-Nuveen has inspired the White Lake area through accessible and engaging opportunities in the arts. www.artswhitelake.org   The Marketing & Community Engagement Coordinator reports to the Director and plays a key role in building awareness, increasing participation, and strengthening community connections. This position

In the fall of 2025, arts and culture organizations across Michigan were unsure whether the typical state grants offered by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council (MACC) would be awarded. Luckily, Michiganders made their voices heard and urged their legislators to keep that funding intact, and they did! This uncertainty, however, did shift the typical timeline for the grant deadline and award announcement. While grant awards for the upcoming year are normally announced once the

To celebrate our 40th year of Free Summer Concerts, the ACWL-Nuveen has booked a lineup full of your favorite bands! Mark your calendars and make plans to join us on Tuesday nights, June 16 - August 18 - 7:00pm at the Montague-Whitehall Rotary Bandshell. As usual, our rain location will be the Montague High School Fine Arts Center, except for June 16th when we'll head to the Whitehall High School Auditorium if there is inclement weather. We could not host this series without

Lee Ann Frame is an artist many people in West Michigan are familiar with. A retired art instructor at Muskegon Community College, Lee Ann is recognized regionally and nationally for her exquisite printmaking which she has exhibited extensively. She also sells her prints at the Muskegon Museum of Art and and in our retail gallery at the ACWL-Nuveen. In 2024, Lee Ann started teaching two-day intensive printmaking classes at the ACWL-Nuveen, offering instruction in linocut and

We are so lucky to have such wonderful people in the community! Thank you to everyone who paticipated in the Snowy Sips Pub Craw. Your contribution helped raise $4,797.57 for the ACWL-Nuveen's Summer Concert Series! We so appreciate being the recipient of this support. A big thanks to all the event sponsors, including: Re/Max West   Premier Lakeshore Title Agency   360 Tan Home Services of White Lake   Stone River Home Inspections   Dobb-Lehner Team at Michigan Mortgage   Anc

We had an outstanding response to our 2026 ACWL-Nuveen Juried Exhibition which will be on display March 13 – April 25. Ninety-six artists from across Michigan and one from Pennsylvania submitted 173 artworks for Juror Amelia Anderson to review. Ms. Anderson, currently serving as the inaugural Director of the Bennett Prize & Curator of Women’s Art at the Muskegon Museum of Art commented in her juror statement, “it was not a small nor easy process to narrow the field of entries

The  Arts Council of White Lake - Nuveen (ACWL-Nuveen) recently participated in several events to help promote the Muskegon Arts & Culture Coalition (MACC). The MACC is composed of local arts and culture leaders who work together to celebrate Muskegon County's dynamic arts and culture community. On Thursday, February 12, ACWL-Nuveen hosted over 30 guests to discuss and celebrate the work of MACC at the coalition's CONNECT event. Guests were treated to a presentation from Mon

Are you looking for more ways to be involved in your community? Do you have an interest in or appreciation for art? The Arts Council of White Lake-Nuveen Center is looking for you! The ACWL-Nuveen has a very small staff so we rely on loyal volunteers to pull off all the diverse programming we provide for the White Lake community. We are incredibly grateful for the time and effort our multi-generational volunteers have contributed to our organization, some of which have been w

As a nonprofit, the ACWL-Nuveen relies on a volunteer Board of Directors to make the critical decisions necessary for ensuring the organization is fulfilling its mission in a responsible way. This year, we are excited to be welcoming Richard Vanderputte-McPherson into the fold! Richard has been involved with the ACWL-Nuveen for many years. He started as a class participant and just last year had artwork accepted into our annual Juried Exhibition. (His photograph received an h

At the ACWL-Nuveen we like to schedule thematic art classes that relate to our exhibits. In our current exhibition – Grand Gestures II – several artists chose to render the figure on their large format drawing paper. We were inspired by these drawings so we reached out to experienced Urban Sketcher Mary Jo Ernst to see if she would offer her Quick Sketch: People class. MJ offered the class to help students get over the “fear of sketching people”. She provided a helpful summa

Good news – if you haven’t been in to see our first exhibit of 2026 – Grand Gestures II  – you still have time!  We had planned our reception for the show in January but due to extreme cold and snowy weather we moved the date to Saturday, February 28th, the last day of the exhibit. We hope that you stop by the ACWL-Nuveen from 1:00 - 3:00pm on the 28th and say hello to the artists and find out more about their artwork. The artists participating in the show are: Tatsuki Hakoya

Kick off the summer season with one of the biggest parties of the year! The ACWL-Nuveen celebrates its 40th on Friday, May 15 from 7 to 10 PM at the Playhouse at White Lake and we're pulling out all the stops. Enjoy live music from the FAN Club with special guests Eric & Karen Smith, a silent auction to benefit the ACWL-Nuveen, plenty of birthday cake, and much, much more! This is a night that you will NOT want to miss!

Thanks to the generosity of 89 supporters, the Arts Council of White Lake - Nuveen Center (ACWL-Nuveen) raised $32,257 during our end-of-year giving campaign! We ran the campaign a little differently this year; rather than one matching donor, we aimed to raise $12,500 from several donors before the campaign started so we could use that as a matching goal and raise $25,000 in total. The wonderful people listed below, as well as several anonymous donors, helped us establish th

Make plans to spend Saturday, January 24 sipping drinks with friends and dreaming about warm, summer evenings spent enjoying live music! For their third annual event, the Snowy Sips Pub Craw will be raising funds to support ACWL-Nuveen's 2026 Free Summer Concert Series - our 40th year! Organized by Amy Myers and fellow realtors at Re/Max West in Whitehall, Snowy Sips is more than your average pub crawl. There's crawfish-themed swag, games, raffles, a long-sleeve Snowy Sips T

ACWL-Nuveen is kicking off the 2026 exhibition season on a bold note with 10 oversized original drawings in our show entitled Grand Gestures II running January 9 – February 28. The first Grand Gestures drawing show held in January 2021 was conceived after artist Diane Zoellmer gifted 100 sheets of 44”x 84” tagboard to the ACWL-Nuveen. We celebrated this kindness by challenging invited artists to tackle the large sheets with some big strokes. The 2021 exhibit put a spotlight o

Upcoming regional exhibition opportunities: Annual ACWL-Nuveen Juried Exhibition is now open with a February 13 deadline. This year's juror is Amelia Anderson - Muskegon Museum of Art's new Director of the Bennet Prize and Curator of Women's Art. Click on this link to apply - www.artswhitelake.org/juried-exhibition Lowell Arts - the annual West Michigan Art Competition - Deadline January 5 https://www.lowellarts.org/opportunities/wmac-call-for-entry Ludington Area Center for

The estimates are in! We had approximately 350+ visitors stroll through the Made in Michigan Market at the ACWL-Nuveen on November 21 between the hours of 2:00pm – 8:00pm. The weather cooperated with us this year to help promote the great turnout and steady stream of shoppers all day. As you may know the Made in Michigan Market has been an opportunity for non-Artist Members to sell their work in our retail gallery. This year we selected six artists to put up a table and sell