Maple Grove Arts Center Finds New Home
The Maple Grove art community can take a collective sigh of relief.
The city’s nonprofit arts organization, the Maple Grove Arts Center, has found a new home.
It’s setting up a storefront and artistic meeting space in a vacant shop in the mall off Weaver Lake and Fish Lake roads.
“I don’t think to be honest it’s actually hit me quite yet,” said Executive Director Lise Spence-Parsons. “I mean, being the one that’s had to get this deal in place with a little help from my colleagues, it’s been an emotional rollercoaster.”
Earlier this summer, the organization found out it had to leave its former headquarters in The Fountains at Arbor Lakes.
Executive Director Lise Spence-Parsons said she expected to have to box-up the organization’s stock of artistic works and put them into storage.
The Maple Grove Arts Center is moving into the shopping mall near Weaver Lake and Fish Lake roads.
However, when she found an affordable new location, it was like “striking gold.”
“I don’t think the actual joy of it has actually quite hit me yet. And I think it will, the day we actually ribbon cut, that will be day that the smiles are out for me,” Spence-Parsons said.
The arts center is expected to continue offering similar programming as it did in its old location.
They’re looking for volunteers and donations. More information is available on the Maple Grove Arts Center website.
