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Plymouth Community Arts Council

774 North Sheldon Road

Plymouth, MI 48170

 

Phone: 734.416.4278

Fax: 734.416.4267

E-mail: Tamara Trudelle

 

 

About PCAC

 

The Plymouth Community Arts Council (PCAC) was founded in 1969 to provide quality fine and performing arts, and cultural opportunities to the greater Western Wayne County community. Programs and activities focus on ensuring accessibility to all the arts by all ages. The PCAC mission is to develop and to promote the appreciation and accessibility of the Arts for everyone in the greater community and in doing so, encourage and foster artistic excellence.

In 1995, PCAC acquired and totally renovated the current building on 774 North Sheldon  and then dedicated it in January 1998 as the Joanne Winkleman Hulce Center for the Arts. In 2001 PCAC also received a donation of a second building, The Artsco House directly adjacent for artist studios, media center, additional classroom space and program offices. The PCAC complex now provides arts education classes, a theater program, concerts, lectures & seminars, recitals, workshops, artist studio space, community based enrichment activities & private rentals, all on site.

Education and Public Programs

ˇ Since its inception, the PCAC has consistently provided arts programs to its primary service area, the Plymouth-Canton Community School District. The initial focus was to supplement and enrich the education provided at Plymouth-Canton schools, through the exposure to the arts, with the "picture lady" program. Today PCAC utilizes over 300 volunteers to provide the Art Volunteer Program (AVP) in the fifth largest district in the state with over 17,000 students in 16 elementary schools, 5 middle schools and an educational park consisting of 3 high schools. Over 15% of the student population has minority designation in a community of 95,000 people total population. Other programs to all the schools, public and private, include artist residencies, 5th grade trips to the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Cultural Diversity programming and the Isbister-Rotary Fine Art Competition.

The Children's Theater Program, Plymouth Uptown Players (PUPs), offers school aged children an opportunity for theater, rehearsal and performance experiences. A full schedule of summer art workshops are also offered, exposing youngsters to a variety of art disciplines.

Every Wednesday for 10 weeks each summer, Music in the Park has taken live quality entertainers to Kellogg Park in the center of downtown Plymouth for 25 years

Recently added (2008) is the Saturdays @ the Penn program in conjunction with the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra.  This fun-for-all ages  Variety Series brings musical and magical performers to the Penn Theater at  noon on the first Saturday of each month October through April.

Ongoing, in-house Art Exhibits are open to the public and free of charge at the Joanne Winkleman Hulce Center for the Arts.

Ongoing fundraising including the annual Dinner Auction, contributions from local businesses, corporations and State of Michigan Arts organizations such as the MCACA, combined with program fees and a strong membership program are the primary source of income for PCAC's annual budget

A strong, on-going, working relationship with local partner organizations such as the Plymouth Symphony, Plymouth Historical Museum, the P-C school district and local governments enables PCAC to accomplish multiple program collaborative activities yearly.

Our Mission, Goals and Feature Programs

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Text Box: PCAC shows arts value February 19, 2009 Editorial It has survived cuts in arts funding, a startlingly unsympathetic economy which has forced donors to cut back on checks, a revolving door on its director's office and quirky peaks and valleys in its own fund-raising efforts. Yet the Plymouth Community Arts Council not only survives but finds ways to flourish and, in some cases, take other arts groups with it. This year, the PCAC hits its 40th anniversary with new plans for its annual fund-raiser and the same old - read: successful - plan to continue to nurture the creativity and arts impulses of the Plymouth community. The new fund-raising plan is to replace the former auction/dinner with a cocktail reception with a twist: The PCAC will send "puzzle pieces" to past donors, asking them to return them with a donation at least equal to what the donor has done in the past. The puzzle pieces will be collected and assembled as part of the fun at next month's cocktail reception, with more details being released soon by the PCAC. In the meantime, the PCAC will continue to offer the Plymouth Uptown Players, the acting troupe that keeps children actively involved in theater and the arts. It'll continue to take the arts into elementary schools and offer pottery classes and camps. The Joanne Winkleman Hulce Center for the Arts will continue to house drawing classes and art exhibits that put the spotlight directly on local artists. Of course, when the weather clears and folks venture back outside, the PCAC will continue to sponsor - with generous help from others - the Music in the Park concert series it has hosted in Kellogg Park for 25 years. It's arguably the most popular attraction in the Plymouth community during the summer, regularly drawing scores of parents and grandparents and, most importantly, children to the park once a week for the kind of family-oriented fun for which this community has become known. Think the PCAC isn't having an impact on the community? It already provides the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra a place to rehearse; in the coming months the PSO offices will move into the PCAC, a partnership that should help both parties survive. The Rotary Club of Plymouth A.M. now uses the PCAC for its 7 a.m. Tuesday meetings, the Women's Study Group and the American Association of University Women are also meeting regularly at the PCAC. Already an icon in the Plymouth landscape, the PCAC is remaking itself to keep in touch with the economic times. They've made themselves a valuable part of the community, and they're hoping, when cocktails are served next month, donors have taken notice. http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20090219/OPINION/902190668/1204/NEWS15

Founded in 1969, the Plymouth Community Arts Council has consistently provided arts programs to its primary service area, a community of 120,000 that includes students of Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, the third largest school district in Michigan.

 

The purpose of the Plymouth Community Arts Council is to develop and promote the appreciation and accessibility of the arts for the benefit of all citizens in the Plymouth/Canton Community; and in doing so, encourage and foster artistic excellence

 

Serving Western Wayne, Southern Oakland, Livingston & Eastern Washtenaw Counties