The Flint Institute of Arts, also called FIA, is located in the Flint Cultural Center

Flint Cultural Center

The Flint Cultural Center is a campus of institutions located in Flint, Michigan. It is dedicated to promoting area residents with an array of cultural, scientific, and artistic experiences and promotes understanding of the diverse cultures reflected in the Greater Flint community. Dr...

 in downtown Flint, Michigan

Flint, Michigan

Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...

. It offers exhibitions, interpretive programs, film screenings, concerts, lectures, family events and educational outreach programs to people of various ages, serving over 120,000 adults and children a year.

History

The Flint Institute of Arts was established in 1928 by leaders in the community who wanted a place where students could pursue art courses and the community could enjoy exhibitions. In 1958, FIA moved to its current location in the Flint Cultural Center. The current facility is 150,000 sq. ft., with over 25,000 sq. ft. of gallery space. Over the years, the Flint Institute of Arts has become one of Michigan's

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 largest fine arts museums.

Awards and Accreditation

1972-accredited by American Association of Museums

American Association of Museums

The American Association of Museums is a non-profit association that has brought museums together since its founding in 1906, helping develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and advocating on issues of concern to the museum community...

2002-collection was designated a National Treasure by the President's Committee on the Arts

President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities

The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities was established in Washington, DC in 1982 by an Executive Order from President Ronald Reagan and works with each Administration to incorporate the arts and the humanities into White House objectives....

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2007-received the Governor’s Award for Arts and Cultural Organization

2007-received a $800,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a charitable foundation founded in 1926 by Charles Stewart Mott of Flint, Michigan. Mott was the leading industrialist in Flint through his association with General Motors....

2009-received a $5,000 grant from McLaren Regional Medical Center

McLaren Regional Medical Center

McLaren Regional Medical Center is a nonprofit, 416-bed tertiary teaching hospital located in Flint, Michigan. MRMC is affiliated with the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine's medical residency programs, including family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, orthopedic...

2010-received two grant awards totaling $7,500 from the Martha Merkley-Youth Charitable Trust administered by Citizens Bank Wealth Management

The Collection and Exhibitions

The permanent collection includes more than 8,000 works of art. Highlights of the collection include 15th to 18th century English, French, and Italian decorative arts, a rare shaped panel by Peter Paul Rubens, American and French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School

Hudson River school

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism...

 paintings, Regional and Great Lakes

Great Lakes

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 paintings, and Abstract Expressionist and Photorealist paintings. Some of the renowned artists that are featured in the collection are Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...

, Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...

, Thomas Hart Benton, Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century....

, and Duane Hanson

Duane Hanson

Duane Hanson was an American artist based in South Florida but born in Minnesota, a sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fibreglass, Bondo and bronze...

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FIA also has multiple exhibitions that it puts on during the year. Some exhibitions that have been featured are Picasso, Richard Florsheim, Matthew Wead: Shooting Targets, and Judy Pfaff

Judy Pfaff

Judy Pfaff, born 1946 in London, England, is an American artist, known mainly for Installation art. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National...

: Sculptures.

Visiting

Location: 1120 East Kearsley Street Flint, Michigan 48503



Hours:

Day	Hours
Monday	12:00pm–5:00pm
Tuesday	12:00pm–5:00pm
Wednesday	12:00pm–5:00pm
Thursday	12:00pm–9:00pm
Friday	12:00pm–5:00pm
Saturday	10:00am–5:00pm
Sunday	1:00pm–5:00pm

Admission price:

Permanent Collection-Free

Special Temporary Exhibitions

FIA members-Free

Children 12 & under-Free

Adults-$7.00

Students with ID-$5.00

Senior citizens-$5.00

Saturday is Target

Target Corporation

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Free Saturdays, so everyone gets in free.

Membership

In becoming a member of the Flint Institute of Arts, there are various options to choose from. There are nine levels of membership which are youth(2.5-12yrs.), student(13+), individual, dual, family, sustainer, sponsor, donor, and Rubens society. Each of these levels comes with a certain amount of money that has to be paid annually to sustain membership. This membership also comes with different benefits depending on the level of membership, including free guests, discounts on art classes, and discounts in the cafe.