The MiAA Genesee Country affiliate provides a variety of services within the county. The committee works with the home office to find support for and service our Club Create Genesee County, Club Create Music and our Artist-in-Residence programs for special education students in the Genesee ISD center-based programs (see below). The committee also raises money to support these programs and identifies and trains artists to work in the programs.
Winter Session: Marcia Faye, AIR storyteller
Students learned the art of sharing and community through the story “Stone Soup”. The students created their own volcano after rhyming along to “Going to the Volcano” and they danced to sounds of the sea through the “Pirate Story.
Sherell Chillik’s, Visual Art Residency in the Genesee ISD Early Childhood Special Education Program
Students made various creations including lady bugs, watermelons, and mushrooms out of craft paper, glue, and paint.
2022 Festival at Marion Crouse Instructional Center
Kathy Cole, a retired employee of Genesee ISD is the creator of MiAA’s Club Create program. After reuniting with graduated students at a funeral of one of their former classmates, Ms. Cole realized that her former students could really benefit from the social and creative engagement of an adult arts club. With support from a few parents and the Genesee County affiliate, she successfully formed our first Club Create chapter in Swartz Creek.
Club Create Swartz Creek membership continues to grow, which required the club to move to a larger space. The club moved to Flint in 2021 and changed its name to Club Create Genesee County. The location at the Vocational Independence Program in Flint was chosen because of the larger space, but also because of it’s central location to its members around the county. For information about Club Create Genesee County, contact Kathy Cole at kacole53@yahoo.com
Our affiliates are also always looking for:
- Volunteers
- People with talent in all art forms
- Passionate people to serve on the affiliate committee
- Individual donors and corporate sponsors
If you are interested in joining the Genesee Affiliate Committee or if you are an artist living in the region and would like to become one of our Teaching Artists, contact our Affiliate Committee Chairperson, Emily Hudson at ehudson@geneseeisd.org.