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March 2025 | Creative Fusion

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March 15 - April 4

Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday, April 4, 5:00-7:00 PM

Voting for People's choice awards starts on the first day of the exhibit and ends at 5:30 during the closing reception.

Awards will be announced at 5:30pm.

This annual exhibit brings together Chico's young, creative talent. Every year, our secondary school Art Teachers are tasked with selecting their student's most expressive and skillful artworks and preparing their work for exhibition. This is the only exhibit in our area to display the formative, 8 year span of our youth's creative development. Please join in celebrating creative minds at work in arts education. 

18 $50 and $25 cash prizes are awarded thanks to the generous sponsorship by Pennie Baxter and Terese Gisske, Lisa and Jon Freeman-Wood and Made in Chico.

View Last Year's Exhibition
Read the Teacher's Statement
Invite Friends via Facebook

TEACHERS IMPORTANT DATES

Drop Off Artwork during gallery hours March 4-9 (weekdays 11:30-4, weekends 10-4)

Pick Up Artwork during gallery hours April 5-6 (weekdays 11:30-4, weekends 10-4)

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January-February 2025 | Member Appreciation

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Our member’s love lifts us higher! In appreciation, CAC invites each member to exhibit one artwork that explores all types of love; including love of form, platonic love, self-love, parental love, and romantic love. The exhibit shares its title with the pivotal text by author bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions, in which love is an active process made real by “practitioners of love”, rooted in healing, carving a path towards collective liberation.

Reception: Friday, February 14, 5-7pm

This exhibition is generously sponsored by CAC Member Cris Guenter.

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CALL FOR ART

ENTRY FEE: Membership: $20 Student / $40 Individual / $65 Family

DROP OFF: Saturday - Sunday, January 18 & 19, 10am - 4pm

For questions contact Cameron Kelly, gallery director at gallerydirectorcac@gmail.com or text 4158234415

TERMS

  • Write your name on the back & attach your name to the front. We use this tag to match your artwork with the wall label once it is hung.
  • Framing and hanging hardwire is not required if artwork can be hung from stretcher bar.
  • Please, no sexually explicit imagery or content that denigrates an individual or group.
  • Pick up: Tuesday-Wednesday, March 4-5, 11:30am - 4pm
  • Artworks may not be removed prior to the close of the exhibition, nor will sold artworks be released early.
  • Works submitted must be completely dry.
  • Work determined by the director to be too fragile for safe handling and/or display will not be accepted.
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December 2024 – January 2025 | Norm Dillinger

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Connecting the Dots:

Norm Dillinger's 54 Years of Pointillism

December 14, 2024 - January 17, 2025

An exhibition of selected artworks for sale and works on loan from private collectors by Chico's iconic and beloved artist, making his mark with determined positivity. "It sure feels good to daily attract into my life loving, giving, sharing, joyous, laughing people" ~ Norm

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 14, 2-4pm

Take your picture in one of Norm's famous art cars!

Closing Reception: Friday, January 17, 5-7pm

 

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Jeannie Lee Schroeder in honor of her grandmother, Dorothylou McMahon.

Norm Dillinger Working Inventory List
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November 2024 | Small Works & Community Altars

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Small Works

Community Altars

Maker Market

Small Works

November 9 - December 6, 2024
Reception & Maker Market: Saturday, November 16, 12-4PM

Call for Art

Drop Off: November 2-3 during gallery hours, 10am - 4pm

This annual community exhibit of 12x12 inch artworks is a celebration of tiny experiments in color, shape and materials by artists of all ages. Collage, assemblage, textile, wire sculpture, paper clay, origami, found objects, you name it! Let your imagination run wild! Use it as a platform for a sculpture, hang it from the ceiling, make it a box, use the reverse side, stretch your favorite fabric over it, weave it, upholster it, knit over it, felt it, use encaustic wax, feather it, flock it, fleece it or frottage it!

Entry Fee: $20 ($10 for Students). Complimentary 12x12" canvas included but not required. You're welcome to use your own as long as it is 12x12".

Pick Up: December 7-8 during gallery hours, 10am - 4pm

Sign the Release Form Here

Maker Market

Saturday, November 16, 12-4PM

Call for Vendors

Sell your art and design work on the deck of the Chico Train Depot. We will have 6 ft. tables and chairs with table cloths available. Only one table per artist. 12 spots are available.

  • Fee: $25
  • Set Up starts at 10:00am
  • Event runs from Noon - 4:00PM
  • Artists must be equipped to make sales transactions (ie. Venmo, Square, PayPal, cash, etc.). Wifi is available.
  • Electricity is not available on the deck but is available in the classrooms.
  • There is a ramp to the deck at the north end of the depot.

For questions contact gallerydirectorcac@gmail.com

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Community Altars Exhibit

Exhibit: Nov. 9 - Dec. 6, 2024 in conjunction with the Small Works Exhibit
Reception & Maker Market: Saturday, November 16, 12-4PM

CALL FOR ALTARS
Install: November 5-8, during gallery hours 12:00 - 4:00pm

In the spirit of El Dia de los Muertos ofrendas, artists and community members create altars that remember those that have passed and recognize life-saving organizations that serve the community.

Ofrendas are altars that leave offerings to entice the spirits back for a visit from the spirit world. The elements of the ofrenda stem from the idea of celebration of death in life. Each element and level have significance that you can read about here. You are invited to create altar with a  community minded theme. For example, if you want to remember your aunt, your altar could be dedicated to families. Your aunt's picture can be displayed on a shelf with ofrendas or offerings of things that she loved, like foods, drinks, flowers, incense, stones, etc. On the wall label, a local or national social services organization that relates to your loved ones interests can be dedicated their honor.

To reserve a 10 ft. tall x 4 ft. wide wall space, please email gallerydirectorcac@gmail.com, subject: Reserve an Altar Space

Take Down Altars: Saturday - Sunday, December 7-8, from Noon-4:00pm

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October 2024 | Open Studios Art Tour

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Open Studios Art Tour is an annual Butte County tradition. Artists share their private studios with the public to explore. This event series is produced solely by Chico Art Center (CAC) volunteers as our major fundraising project of the year. Your participation and patronage pledges your commitment to visual artists in your region and helps make CAC's programming possible all year. Many thanks to our sponsor, Heithecker Financial and local businesses advertising in the Guidebook. We hope you'll support local artists and businesses with your patronage.

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How do I visit art studios?

Purchase a $15 guidebook for studio addresses at the following locations:

  • Chico Art Center - 450 Orange Street
  • Art Etc. - 256 E 1st Street
  • Chico Paper Co. - 345 Broadway
  • DCBA Welcome Center - 338 Broadway
  • Ellis Art & Engineering Supplies - 3029 Esplanade
  • Museum of Northern California Art - 900 Esplanade
  • Buffy's Gift Barn of Paradise - 6393 Skyway

Preview Artists Work

Browse the 60+ artists by name, medium or weekends they are open by visiting ChicoOSAT.com.

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Train Depot Expansion

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Train Depot Expansion

We have officially signed a lease with the City of Chico to take over the additional spaces on the south end of the historic Southern Pacific Railroad depot, which has been vacant for many years. This expansion will allow Chico Art Center to offer more arts-related opportunities to its members and the broader community.

One of the spaces is being renovated for the Digital Arts Lab. We are collecting donated equipment and planning a full program of classes where you can learn to digitally sketch and paint, to use software for photo editing, design and publishing, to develop skills in promotion and social media and much more.

A new website exclusively for our digital arts lab is under development.

One space is being built into an annex gallery that can be rented by artists for visual and performing arts events.

Renovation has begun. If you'd like to help fund the renovation, make a donation here.