The MCA Main Gallery is centrally located on Main Street Montgomery and is a wonderful location for your next community event, class or workshop, or private function. The historic Greek Revival Hall is a picturesque locale for a wedding, memorial service, business meeting, potluck, seminar, painting workshop, yoga class, and more. 

 

The MCA’s mission now extends into our pricing model as an act of service to help foster equitable access to the arts and create a stronger, more diverse membership community. To honor our mission, we have adopted a tiered fee structure for private classes, workshops, and events. Please review the three pricing tiers listed below to determine your fiscal capacity.

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The MCA sponsors programming that is offered for free to the public at NO CHARGE to the event host. If you have a free event that you would like to offer to the community, please submit your application for use and we will waive the rental fee.

(Exception: Political campaigning events are not eligible for MCA sponsorship and should refer to the rental rates for use of the space.)

 

We encourage renters to consider offering an MCA HOSTED EVENT, by which the Renter opts to split proceeds from this event 50/50 with the MCA. Doing so will waive the rental fee and 50% of the proceeds from the event will go into the MCA General Fund. This option will include MCA paid-for posters, advertising, and distribution of promotional material; set-up and break-down assistance as needed, and consideration for funding support of classroom/event materials by request. 

 

If a Renter prefers the option to host an event/class/workshop independently, the MCA recognizes that Montgomery has a broad economic bracket in our community and in order to allow our facility to be more widely available to all we have developed a tiered sliding scale rental structure.

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Please review the criteria below to determine which price is right for you.

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NOTE: The MCA is an independent non-profit with limited funds and significant operational expenses. In order to keep the building open and running year-round, we are obliged to charge for use of the space. Please know that your rental fee is being used for heat, electricity, wifi, and administrative organization-related expenses that keep the space available to the public. We do not have paid employees, so all proceeds go directly to MCA needs. Without the income from rentals, we do not have the funds necessary to continue to provide this space to the public. Thank you for your interest and participation.

 

Lower Tier (A): 

• You frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them

• You have debt and it sometimes prohibits you from meeting your basic needs

• You are unemployed, underemployed, or have unstable employment

• You have no access to savings and very limited expendable income
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  Hourly Rate : $30 (includes additional ½ hour prior for set-up and additional ½ hour following for clean-up)
  Half Day Rate :  $80 (reserves the Gallery for a maximum of 6 hours, which is to include set-up and clean-up times)
  Full Day Rate : $180 (reserves the Gallery for 6+ hour use, which is to include set-up and clean-up)
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Middle Tier (B):

• You may stress about meeting your basic needs but still regularly achieve them

• You may have some debt but it does not prohibit the attainment of basic needs

• You are employed

• You might have access to financial savings

• You have some expendable income but must be selective about where to spend it
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  Hourly Rate : $40 (includes additional ½ hour prior for set-up and additional ½ hour following for clean-up)
  Half Day Rate :  $150 (reserves the Gallery for a maximum of 6 hours, which is to include set-up and clean-up times)
  Full Day Rate : $250 (reserves the Gallery for 6+ hour use, which is to include set-up and clean-up)
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Highest Tier (C): 
Note: By choosing this price, you are “paying it forward” and contributing to a more equitable world by supporting membership access for those with less.

• You are comfortably able to meet all of your basic needs

• You have access to financial savings and/or expendable income for “wants”

• You may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs

• You are employed or do not need to work to meet your basic needs
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  Hourly Rate : $50 (includes additional ½ hour prior for set-up and additional ½ hour following for clean-up)
  Half Day Rate :  $200 (reserves the Gallery for a maximum of 6 hours, which is to include set-up and clean-up times)
  Full Day Rate : $300 (reserves the Gallery for 6+ hour use, which is to include set-up and clean-up)
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