Exhibit

BLAST ART After School Program

December 15, 2022 by Cameron Kelly

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

November 2023 | Call for Altars

December 13, 2022 by Cameron Kelly

Do you want to exhibit a community altar?

In honor of El Dia de los Muertos, all are invited to present a community altar that honors souls effected by social issues such as housing, violence or health. Contact Gallery Director Cameron Kelly to coordinate.

Exhibit: November 4 - 26, 2023 in conjunction with the Small Works Exhibit

Reception: Saturday, November 4, 5:00 -7:00 PM

Drop Off: October 28-29 | Pick Up: November 27, 2023

November 2023 | Small Works

December 12, 2022 by Cameron Kelly

Cassy Lavigne, "Stitch Meditation", 2022, cotton thread on silk

SMALL WORKS

November 4 - 26, 2023

Reception: Saturday, November 4, 5:00 -7:00 PM

This annual community exhibit of 12x12 inch artworks is a celebration of tiny experiments in color, shape and materials by artists of all ages.

CALL FOR ART

Entry Fee: $20 | Drop Off: October 28-29 |Pick Up: November 27, 2023

This is a jury-free exhibit of 12”x12” artworks. All skill levels are welcome to participate! Entry fee includes a 12”x12” (optional) canvas. You may use any medium you want. 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!

View Last Year's Exhibition

Requirements & Terms:

Attach your name (and title if submitting multiple works) to the front. We use this tag to match your artwork with the wall label once it is hung. Do not attach this entry form to the artwork.
Artwork must be 12” wide by 12” high. Depth size is optional. A canvas is included with the entry fee, but you may use or make your own 12” x 12” canvas/panel/base.
Artists may enter more than one artwork. $20 fee applies to each artwork.
Framing and hanging hardwire is not required if artwork can be hung from stretcher bar.
A donation of 30% to CAC is suggested on all sales in this exhibit.
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.
A signed entry form and waiver (below) must accompany the artwork when delivered.

October 2023 | Open Studios Art Tour

December 11, 2022 by Cameron Kelly

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.

Gallery Preview Exhibit October 1 - 27, 2023

Reception: Friday, October 6, 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Visit the gallery all month to view one artwork by each artist, purchase your guidebook and plan your self guided studio tour!

OPEN STUDIO WEEKENDS

October 14-15 & October 21-22
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Connecting Art Patrons with Northern California Artists.

Look at art + crafts
Learn about creative processes
Visit artists studios
Collect Northern California Art

Preview Last Year's Artists

Click here to visit ChicoOSAT.com

Artist Registration Starts June 1, 2023

STAY SAFE

It will be important to practice social distancing, use masks and hand sanitizer for both visitors and the artists while visiting Artist Studios. Artists state their mask and vaccination requests on their webpage and in the guidebook.