Students Share Their Creative Perspectives

The ACWL-Nuveen is excited to announce that our exhibition galleries are now being filled with impressive K-12 student artwork. In November we host the annual Fall Into the Arts exhibit which is open to all the elementary, middle and high schools in the district. The exhibit is a showcase for young artists and a fundraiser for their school’s art programs.

At the end of the 2025 school year, we emailed local teachers the theme for this November's show which was, From My Perspective. The advance notice gave teachers time to integrate the theme into their lesson planning. Because this year's creative prompt can be interpreted in so many ways we knew it would kickstart some inspiring artwork and we are impressed with the results! Fall Into the Arts opens November 14 and runs until December 20. Please join us for a public reception for the teachers, artists and their families on November 15 from 1:00 – 3:00pm. The reception is free for all to attend and of course we will be serving refreshments!

From left to right, top to bottom: Nalijah Clark from North Muskegon High School, McKenna Staple from Shoreline Elementary School, Lucy Abel from Fruitport Middle School, June Church from Reeths Puffer High School, Kaitlyn Brown from Montague High School, Jaylee Evans from Whitehall Middle School, Brenna Cole from Fruitport High School, Hannah Schaner from Shoreline Elementary School, Brooke Mulder from Reeths Puffer High School, Ana Franzon from ACWL's Open Studio

This year we have artwork from the following schools: Shoreline Elementary in Whitehall, teacher – Stacy VandenBosch, Whitehall Middle School, teacher – Amy Spicer, Montague High School, teacher – Alyssa Bernardi, Reeths Puffer High School, teachers Craig Olson and Jeff Hellmann, North Muskegon High School, teacher - Miranda Terry, Fruitport Middle School, teacher - Robin Latsch, and Fruitport High School, teacher - Dawn Jacobson. We will also be featuring some of the young artists who attend our Open Studio sessions on Wednesdays from 3:00 - 5:00pm.

We hope you will stop by the ACWL-Nuveen while the show is up and support these young artists. We are located at 107 E. Colby Street in the heart of downtown Whitehall and are open Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 5:30 and Saturdays 11:00 - 3:00pm.