Due to financial losses associated with the upkeep, Great Northern Coffee will no longer be in business as of December 31, 2019. Chico Art Center Board of Directors have loved sharing this adventure with the community. A volunteer transitioning committee will be developing new, income-based options for utilizing the train car. For questions or comments please inquire to Lisa Freeman-Wood lmfreemanwood@yahoo.com.
Open Studios Art Tour is an annual Butte County tradition. Artists share their private studios with the public to explore. This month-long 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 Tour Guide Booklet. We hope you'll support local artists and businesses with your patronage.
"Make a Date for Art" is our theme for the 2020 Open Studios Art Tour (OSAT). We do not want to bypass this annual tradition. Both artists and the public look forward to this community favorite every year. With COVID-19 still active, we have adapted the Tour to accommodate required safety measures.
Online + Studio Visits
Connecting Art Patrons with Northern California Artists. Explore artworks of all media through Online Galleries, artists profiles and studio visits in Butte County.
Make a date for face-to-face Studio Visits by appointment, following COVID-19 safety guidelines.
Benefits
Instead of having the traditional Tour for only two weekends, as we have in previous years, we will promote studio visits by appointment for all year long.
Stay Safe
It will be important to practice social distancing and to use masks and hand sanitizer for both visitors and the artists while on the Tour. All recommended protocols will be listed in the tour guide and artists may make any special requests when scheduling appointments with visitors.
Free and open to the public. View one artwork by each artist, buy a tour guide with map and artist info and plan your self-guided tour of artists’ studios throughout Butte County.
“Make a Date” by purchasing a tour guide or paying online. Tour guides will be available for sale in late September.
Chico
Vagabond Rose Gallery & Framing
Ellis Art and Engineering, Downtown
Chico Art Center
Oroville
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
May 27 - November, 2020, Chico Art Center
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.”
November 1-22, 2019, Chico Art Center
The Chico Art Center is offering individual online galleries to showcase your artwork.
This is considered the Virtual Studio Tour. All artists will be on this Virtual Studio Tour, which will be heavily promoted and publicized. In addition, you have the option to invite visitors for traditional, face-to-face Studio Visits by appointment, should you feel comfortable and able to follow the COVID-19 safety guidelines.
Register by July 24, 2020
Fee Options:
$150 Individual (One online gallery page that can be updated regularly)
$275 Family (Family rates gives 2 pages for 2 artists that can be updated regularly)
The Virtual Studio Tour will be up for one year, and artists receive 24hr access and a personal log-in for updating and customizing their page.
For more information: https://chicoartcenter.com/osat-2020-artist-portal
Gallery exhibition: October 3 - November 1, 2020
For questions contact OSAT Team Leader, Lisa Freeman-Wood.
lmfreemanwood@chicoartcenter.com
Images by former OSAT Artists
Focusing on local, threatened, and native plants. Biodiversity is important to the health of the regions we live in. Replanting after wildfires whether around homes, towns, parks or forests is needed. Increasing awareness and knowledge of plants, plant life cycles and how to use them effectively in our lives.
Generously Sponsored by Ann & Tony Slocum
$25 Members/$35 Non-Members
This annual community exhibit of 12x12” artworks is a celebration of tiny experiments in color, shape and materials by artists of all ages. Grab a small work while it’s hot!
$20 Entry includes an optional 12”x12” canvas.
Deliver: July 25-26, 2020
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!
A 12" x 12" (optional) canvas comes with the $20 fee, but you are not required to use it. You may use any surface of your choice, as long as it measures 12" tall x 12" wide. The depth is up to you! Want to pick up a blank canvas now? Contact gallery director Cameron Kelly at ckelly@chicoartcenter.com
