Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center

Our retail gallery features the works of over 100 Michigan artists. From fine art to fine craft, the Gallery Shop boasts a large collection of Michigan-made jewelry, glass, sculpture, paintings, pottery, and wearable art ranging in style.
In addition, the Gallery Shop offers a lease to own program, which is a great advantage for artist and patron alike. It provides support to Michigan artists and offers the art collector with a broad selection of fine art available on easy terms.
Clients may lease artwork for up to 6 months, with monthly payments. At the end of six months, they may return the artwork and owe nothing more. If they choose to keep the artwork, they may deduct 100% of the lease payments from the purchase price, pay the balance, and own the artwork.

Education - Lansing Art Gallery, long recognized for its educational mission in the community, coordinates a variety of educational programs. The gallery provides arts education through guided tours and workshops, artist demonstrations, discussions, and instruction experiences for youth and adults. LAG’s education outreach teaches students within all socioeconomic levels the importance of arts and culture and encourages future support and community involvement.
LAG strives to improve the lives of local youth through involvement in the arts; studies show arts involvement can improve participant graduation rates by up to 53% (1999 National Educational Longitudinal Study). The graduation rate for many districts in the Lansing area is 17% below the national average. (Center for Educational Performance and Information). For thirty years, LAG has provided learning opportunities for more than 12,000 young people who have received over 53,500 hours of art instruction.

LAG offers on-site instruction with qualified teaching artists in a dedicated education space which hosts up to fifteen students per session. Workshops are available for all ages and skill levels. Focusing on experimentation and technique, workshops offer creative experiences through a variety of high-quality media and subject matter. On-site instruction includes: guided tour/workshops, Teen and Adult Workshops, and Girl Scout Workshops and Summer Art Camp. For cost-based workshops, LAG offers scholarships.

Art Scholarship Alert (ASA) – For the past thirty years, LAG has coordinated and hosted an annual high school portfolio exhibition and scholarship competition. This competitive process has led to over $100,000 in scholarships awarded at a student reception and award ceremony, over 28,682 portfolios submitted, and 3,500 student artworks exhibited.

Artist in Residence offers free art classes to students in the Lansing area elementary schools, where eighty percent are classified as low income according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. This program focuses on the opportunity for students to gain instruction from teaching artists, who engage students through media techniques and vocabulary. Additionally, the program offers an opportunity for a docent guided LAG tour and a student art exhibit held at LAG. Participants represent a diverse population in racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.