1953

After the Home Town Art Exhibit's successful run upstairs at the Saugatuck Village Hall, local artist Nat Steinberg proposes in a letter to the Commercial Record that local artists continue to work together.  An organizing meeting, briefly interrupted by a raccoon on the stairs, is held September 4, 1953 upstairs at the Village Hall and Jean Goldsmith, local potter, painter, and former school art teacher, is elected the first president. ​