It's never too early to start planning ahead! 

The Blanden Arts Festival connects the community with regional artists. It is a family-friendly festival that highlights artistic talent, live entertainment, and interactive art activities.

Applications are now available...

Full details available at https://www.blanden.org/artist-opportunities

Entry Deadline | November 9, 2019
Notice of Acceptance | November 29, 2019
Exhibition Prints Due | December 21, 2019
Exhibition Dates | January 4, 2020 – March 7, 2020

We are proud and honored to be the 1st Place recipient of the Frontier Days Parade Best Theme Float!

Adwin is a gender neutral name meaning “an artistic creative person”. Its origin is from the country of Ghana. Our Adwin is an artistic creative being and reminds e...

 "Finally Spring" by Joe DeLuca

Joe DeLuca is a well known Michigan artist.

In the early 1950s, Joe DeLuca was exposed to the history of art as well as contemporary views. His alma mater, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, was where his development was inspired by P...

Blanden Arts Festival
Saturday, June 8, 2019
9:00am-3:00pm

The Blanden Arts Festival connects the community with regional artists. It is a family-friendly festival that highlights artistic talent, live entertainment, and interactive art activities.

Admission to the fes...

Each year, generous museum members help the Blanden Art Museum put on exhibits, events, and art education programming. Your membership helps ensure that we have the necessary funding to continue this important work for another year.

Along with your membership, consider...

 The Blanden Staff would like to thank all who help support this year’s Holiday Open House.  This is annual fundraising event to help support the Art Education at the Blanden art museum.

Each year, Community Focus, an outreach program for adults conducted by the Blanden Memorial Art Museum reaches over 1,900 individuals.  This Program, taught by artist Sharon Balm includes creative hands-on creative arts activities for its clients and as a bonus, is an...

Richard Kopp is one of the first artists that I met when I started at the Blanden.  I enjoy the friendship I have with Richard and always enjoy his wonderful creations. The following is an article based on an interview I had with him on March 10, 2018. 

Richard Kop...