Welcome to
Art and Connection!
Who We Are...
What we do...
Community Outreach
We coordinate and host a variety of community enrichment events, including special-interest groups and club gatherings, social circles, workshops, games, and lectures.
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Mobile classes have also allowed us to collaborate with local businesses to offer classes that reach a wider demographic and further promote a connected community.
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Click below to find out more about our outreach programs, school grant information, and our NEW Creativity Crusier.
Classes and Retreats
We offer free adult art classes for all skill levels, exploring a variety of mediums. Occasionally, we host family-friendly courses for kids and their parents.
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We aim to create a safe space where people, regardless of background, can benefit from the power of creative engagement.
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To find out more about our current classes, click below.
What We Believe In...
Community
Kindness
Curiosity
Inclusive
Self-Expression
Generosity
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GROWING A LEGACY THROUGH CONNECTION
Art & Connection represents a present-day part of the Reid family's long history of philanthropic legacy.
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It began with Glenn Reid, the father of Sheri Reid Grant, and the lasting impression of innovation and leadership that he gave her. Following his success in the automotive industry in southeast Michigan, Glenn Reid founded the Reid Family Foundation and opened a museum, free to the public, that showcased his personal collection of bronze miniature engines and model vehicles. His daughter, Sheri Reid Grant, left teaching full-time to work for the foundation and the museum, enabling her the opportunity to raise her children as a single mother. This valuable opportunity to both work and devote time to her children would not have been possible without the efforts of her father, and so she continues her father's mission to provide the gift of possibility.
After her mother and father died, the family liquidated the museum and auctioned off the bronze works to an international audience. This was part of the strategic plan to both fund the foundation so that it could continue its mission, and to share and spread Glenn Reid's legacy - now his bronze works can be seen and appreciated around the world in public and private collections. Some of the bronze works can still be found at Art & Connection, as a part of Reid Grant's personal collection.
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After having been diagnosed with a rare disease, followed by reconstructive surgery in 2021, Sheri Reid Grant re-evaluated her plans to live on Lake Michigan year-round. She sold her property and bought the building that was to become Art & Connection. Her vision for the Reid Family Foundation's next project was a community gathering space where people could connect and grow in a safe place, and to continue onward in an inspired direction to do good works in their own communities. Reid Grant sees art as a unifier: Regardless of personal, political, or ethnic, financial background, all people can use creativity as a tool for communication, connection, and joy. Art also has the power to be both healing and transformational, without having to be regulated or pursued as an official therapy. Thus, in connecting the link between the transformational power of art and offering community space, Art & Connection was born.
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Art & Connection officially opened its doors to the public in June 2022.
The Gift of Possibility.