Exhibit

February 2021 | The Altered Book

January 22, 2020 by Cameron Kelly

UNBOUND: The Altered Book

National Juried Exhibition

February 8 - 28, 2020 February 6-26, 2021

*This exhibit has been rescheduled to accommodate a memorial exhibition.

CALL FOR ART

This call for art seeks mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form by altering its state or meaning. Books from any source and media are eligible for this exhibition. $300 cash prize to Best of Show.

Book art takes many forms. Sculptural bookworks, for example, command attention so that viewers are compelled to reflect upon the issues explored in the work. Many compelling works integrate text with sculptural and material richness to create a multi-sensory reading experience.

PROSPECTUS

Apply Online by Sunday, January 10, 2021, 11:59pm

December 2020 | The Gift Show

January 19, 2020 by Cameron Kelly

Artists sell handmade goods and artwork for the holiday season.

Think global. Buy local.

November 28 - December 31, 2020

Reception: Saturday, November 28, 10:00 am-1:00 pm

Meet the makers over nibbles and drinks.

Artists: Rent a Space in the Gallery

Want to sell your wares all month but don't have the time to tend a booth? Reserve a space in our gallery! Online registration opens in July.

Rental Fee: $125, $150, $225 depending upon space location. Reserve By: Nov. 20

Space Sizes: Wall space units: approx. 48” wide from floor to ceiling with 24” floor space; Floor space units: 5’ square.

Install: Monday-Wednesday, November 23-25, during gallery hours

Take-Down: Sat-Sun, Jan. 2-3, from 10 - 4 pm

Reservation is first-come-first-serve. Artists may share a space with an additional $25 processing fee. Docents monitor the gallery and make all sales transactions. Cash, check and credit are accepted. Artists are encouraged to gallery sit; help customers, wrap goods, etc. Space location is confirmed at end of sign up period as locations may be adjusted for optimum placement.

August 2021 | California Visionary Art, The Legacy

January 14, 2020 by Cameron Kelly

Paul Pratchenko, "Dissolution of the Familiar"

August 15 - September 25, 2020

Reception: Saturday, August 15, 5-7 pm

This is an invitational show featuring some of the great masters of the genre.

The California Visionary Art Movement was born in San Francisco in the late 60’s and early 70’s inspired by the psychedelic era, spiritual awakening, transformative synergy, and a search for deeper inner meanings of life.

Utopia, shamanic mysticism, the moon landing, new age ideals, East meet West philosophies, and fantastic realism were concepts for artists to discover and draw upon. Sacred geometry, world building, the beauty of nature and the human body, were important themes.

Music advanced technology with the arrival of synthesizers played an important role in this movement as both inspiration, and by creating meditative spaces to work by. Visionary art became album covers.

With visionary art, the artists became shamans, magicians, and alchemists transmuting inner visions into sacred art, or at least they attempted to make inner truths and the transcendental into manifest forms such as paintings and drawings.

Some of the artists associated with this movement painted scenes of earthly beauty, a return to Eden, sanctuaries for the soul, imagined cosmic landscapes before the age of planetary discovery. Others artists painted surreal and hallucinatory compositions, and sometimes satirical commentaries on modern life.

May 2021 | California Contemporary Sculpture

January 11, 2020 by Cameron Kelly

Two juried exhibitions of contemporary sculpture by California artists; one group show in our historic train depot gallery for one month and an outdoor group show featuring 10 sculptures, hosted on a hops farm located in north Chico, off Hwy 32 for six months.

Exhibitions generously sponsored by Art House

Indoor Gallery Exhibition May 2-29

Reception: Saturday, May 3, 5-7 pm

Outdoor Exhibition April 26 - October 25

12555 Meridian Road, Chico 95973.

Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2-4 pm

CALL FOR ART

Apply online by February 23, 2020

Juried by Linda Fleming, Chico Art Center is seeking contemporary sculpture of all media by artists living and working in California for two exhibitions; a one month gallery exhibit, and a six-month outdoor exhibition, hosted on a hops farm in north Chico. Artists may enter both (separate entry required for each). Prizes awarded separately for each exhibition.

INDOOR EXHIBIT PROSPECTUS

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OUTDOOR EXHIBIT PROSPECTUS

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April 2020 | Creative Fusion

January 11, 2020 by Cameron Kelly

*Cancelled due to COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Restrictions

16th Annual Junior High + High School Art Exhibition Selected by their Art Teachers

Exhibition: April 10-24, 2020

Reception: Friday, April 17, 5-7 pm

Vote for People’s Choice! Cash prizes awarded at 5:45 pm

14th Annual Junior High & High School Exhibition of artwork selected and prepared by their art teachers.

An exhibition of exceptional junior high and high school student artwork selected by their art teachers. Fresh twists on traditional assignments as well as explorations in digital media offer visitors a rare chance to see visual literacy and expression in fine art and digital art curriculum in Chico schools.

Come see creative minds at work. For months, students across Chico develop their paintings, drawings, illustrations, photography, ceramics, mixed media and sculptures. Then, art instructor's top choices are framed and prepared for exhibition. This show offers very young artists the opportunity to exhibit in an art gallery and art patrons first chance to collect charming an affordable objects.

Over 150 works of art will be exhibited by Pleasant Valley, Chico and Fair View High, Inspire School for the Arts, Marsh, Bidwell and Chico Junior High and Blue Oak Junior High.

Students, teachers, parents and friends gather at the opening reception to enjoy artwork, cast their votes for People’s Choice Award and celebrate the Juror's selections for cash prizes.

This exhibition and cash prizes are sponsored by Graham Hutton of Made in Chico.

Read the Teacher's Statement

February | Sal Casa

December 11, 2019 by Cameron Kelly

Sal Casa by Ron Schwager, 1992

February 8- March 1, 2020

This commemorative exhibition honors our Chico icon, featuring works on loan by Sal Casa’s collectors, an installation of his studio wall, and a weekend sale of works from Casa’s estate Feb 8-9, 10am-4pm.

Remembrance Reception:

Saturday, February 8, 5:00 pm

Please join us at the reception to share stories and memories of Sal. For questions contact gallery director, Cameron Kelly at ckelly@chicoartcenter.com

Biography by Sal's daughter, Kate Casa | Dolores Mitchell's "Art Talk"

Chico News & Review's Tribute | A Brief Bio of Sal Casa | CSU, Chico Tribute

BOOK

Hard cover, 48 page book of full color images, a biography written by daughter, Kate Casa and family pictures of Sal Casa available for $40 at the Chico Art Center Gift Shop.

T-SHIRTS

"UNBELIEVABLE" t-shirts available for $20 in the Gift Shop.