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OSAT 2023 Artists Portal

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OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR

2023 Weekends

October 14 -15 &  21-22
10:00AM - 5:00PM
GALLERY EXHIBITION
October 1-23

Important Dates

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Get Ready for Studio Visits

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Strategies for Success

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Welcome Letter

Click here to fill out a gallery exhibit release form

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Artist registration is open from June 1 – July 15, 2023

This annual event is in its 34th year and welcomes over 1500 art patrons from across the north state. Participating artists exhibit in the Chico Art Center October gallery, are listed in the open studios guidebook, on the locater map and have a page on ChicoOSAT.com. Open Studios Art Tour is advertised in CN&R, Chico ER, on north state radio stations and across Chico Art Center’s social media platforms. If you do not have a studio, we will help place you with an artist that is open to share their space.

June 1-30: Early Bird Registration fee is $150 for individuals, $275 for two artists in the same household

July 1-15: Registration fee is $175 for individuals, $325 for two artists in the same household

For additional information contact:
Cameron Kelly, gallerydirectorcac@gmail.com
Open Studios Art Tour is produced by Chico Art Center volunteers for the benefit of cultural exchange, support of local artists, and Chico Art Center.

Grow Your Audience

Over a thousand art enthusiasts look forward to this annual event.

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24hr access for 1 year

All artists have a page on ChicoOSAT.com

Build Community

Join artists in Butte County to share your paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, glass art, textiles and more.

What you need to register:

  • A high resolution image of your artwork for the guidebook; Resolution 150-300 dpi, File Size 1 MB max, Acceptable files include png, jpg, jpeg, gif, and pdf.
  • Credit Card, PayPal, or check
Registration is closed

Sample Artist Webpage

Artists may continue to engage Patrons by updating your ChicoOSAT.com page throughout the year.

Go to ChicoOSAT.com
  1. Login to ChicoOSAT.com
  2. Go to the homepage and click on your thumbnail image to open your page
  3. Select "edit" to update your images and info
  4. Select the "Submit Listing" button to save your changes.

Images by former OSAT Artists

Waif Mullins
Annai Smith
Nancy Spinadel
Richard Balch
Barbara O'Brien
Kristen DeMartini Carlos
Tia Cronin
Sheryl Karas
Richard Whiteread
Nicolai Larsen
Annai Smith
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Purchase Ad Space in OSAT Guidebook & ChicoOSAT.com 2023

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Guidebook + ChicoOSAT.com AD SPACE

Deadline to receive ad images: August 31, 2023

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$100 ¼ Page 

$175 ½ Page 

$350 Full Page 

$450 Full Inside Front or Back Page

$600 Back Cover

All ads include banner ads on ChicoOSAT.com for the entire year and a link from banner ad to your Website or FB Page. Banner rotation: Ads on ChicoOSAT.com rotate throughout all of the Artist Pages.

Download Ad Specifications

Banner Ad Size: Top and Bottom Banner 72ppi / 468x60 pixels, no animation (OSAT Homepage not available)

Banner format: Standard format accepted is JPEG. Image resolution MUST be 72 pixels per inch and RGB color. Maximum file size for all media is 25K. Ads submitted exceeding maximum file size will be adjusted (for optimum load time). 

Reporting is available upon request

We can build your online banner ad for an additional $20 per design

Deadline for art submission to build your online ad is one week prior to the scheduled insertion onto the OSAT Website. You may create and e-mail us an online ad JPEG, one week prior to the scheduled run.

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Placed at the bottom of ChicoOSAT.com for a year (In exchange for trade sponsorship)

To purchase Ad Space:

Pay with cc via our website or call (530) 895-8726

Send check to: Chico Art Center, 450 Orange Street, Ste 6, Chico, CA 95928

Upload Ads & Make Payment

Questions? Contact Jana Lawton at (530) 894-1843 or jlawton72@gmail.com

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BLAST ART After School Program

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BLAST ART

Students created personal narratives in sketchbooks with images and text as they thought about what it means to live in their community and its context for their personal stories. Artist Cameron Kelly provided the driving vision for this project in collaboration with Courtney Boyden, one of the existing BLAST after school coordinators and Jennifer Spangler, Arts Education Coordinator at Butte County Office of Education (BCOE). Building on student interest for an outdoor sketching program that Boyden started, this year-long after school program helped students use art

as a way of seeing their world. This partnership between Chico Art Center, the Chico Unified School District After School Program, and the Butte County Office of Education (BCOE) was funded by a Youth Arts Action Grant from California Arts Council with additional support from California County Superintendents Arts Initiative. For more images visit chicoartcenter.com

The Train Car Gallery

May 27, 2020, Chico Art Center

The Gratitude Flower

December 11, 2019, Chico State Arts Collaboration Space, Arts Building for an Honors Course Gallery Walk.

Lily Derecktor Gaul, an Honors student and Early Childhood Development Major at CSU Chico, helped conceptualize and produce this project. Students were prompted with three questions. Who and what are you thankful for? What helps your gratitude grow? What do you hope to have or achieve in your future?

Derecktor Gaul says about her motivation to teach, “Children, like flowers, are delicate and need to be watered with hope. Children’s dreams and ideas are what keep the world spinning. The art they create and the words they write are signs of development and improvement. As impressionable as they are, it is important to indulge and protect their imaginations to keep them as authentic as possible. Children are beautiful because of the authenticity of their honesty and hope which is shown in all that they create. When they come together and work on a project their art is enhanced. The Gratitude Flower is a demonstration and reminder of the hopefulness and authenticity children bring into the world.”

Dia de los Muertos Art & Altar Exhibition

November 1-22, 2019, Chico Art Center

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Art Connections for Seniors

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The Chico Art Center is revising a once very popular program by inviting Senior Citizens to the Art Center for a guided visit of our gallery exhibitions each month.

The Chico Art Center is a non-profit located in the Historic Train Depot and has been a visual art establishment for over 60 years in Chico. We display varied art in our gallery each month as well as having a Gift Shop, offering classes, and other events, all serving the community of Chico and the greater Butte County. The Center is open weekdays noon - 4pm and weekends 10am - 4pm.  The Art Center is ADA compliant, there is a ramp at the north end for the convenience of persons with handicap needs and wheelchair accessible restroom.

We will have special volunteers, knowledgeable about the current exhibition in the gallery, who will be guides for the guests so that their time at the Art Center is successful. The tour will be approximately 30- 45 minutes.

There is no fee for this outing, all the Art Center needs is a phone call to set up a date and time. To set up a date and time, call (530) 895-8726 and ask for Debra or Erin.  We would appreciate a 24-hour advance.  We will be able to accommodate up to 20 visitors including any of your staff.

Erin Wells
Art Connections for Seniors Program Coordinator
(530) 895-8726
erinw045[at]gmail.com

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2023 | Call for Art & Gifts

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We want to sell your work!

Members benefit by selling art and handmade gifts under $100 in the Gift Shop, which cycles through members by changing inventory every 3 months. Chico Art Center welcomes visitors 7 days a week with monthly events and promotion in our newsletter and social media to keep folks coming back. The center takes a 30% commission in exchange.  Change out happens in the beginning of January, April, July and October. Please bring an inventory list and all items tagged with your initials and retail price.

Each quarter features an artist or art organization with works over $100. This could be you!

Membership must be up to date. Contact Gift Shop Coordinator, Jackie Gonzalez at mahaloliving[at]gmail.com

The next drop off and pick up days will be September 25, 26, and 27 during gallery hours.