Art and Cultural Centers are amazing places.
They are CENTERS. Centers of art and culture to be sure, but also centers of learning, personal and collective growth, education, care, community, cooperation and love.
Amazing to show in, but especially amazing in the services they provide, the opportunities they offer and the roles they play for their near and far communities.
I am going to explore these worthy and precious resources and entities in the next few posts, but firstly, I need to get my arms around them in a big, collective heARTfelt hug!
I will add to, or write further interactions of this post over time. I would also like to write about Libraries, College and University Art Galleries and smaller galleries as exhibition spaces and hubs of community and world culture.
These are the art and cultural centers I have shown in over the last few years, essentially since 2018:
(I included some very special organizations such as Blue Roof Studios, Shoebox Arts and ArtShare LA in Los Angeles, CA, “We Are The Arts”/The Arts Council of Fayetteville|Cumberland County in Fayetteville, NC, the Hera Educational Foundation and Gallery in Wakefield RI, and the Springfield Art Association, in Springfield, IL, even though they don’t have the word “CENTER” in their monikers, as I believe they serve many of the same heART-FULL functions as those that do.)
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Webster Arts, Webster Groves, MO
Intersect Arts Center, Saint Louis, MO
The Dairy Barn Arts Center O’Bleness Gallery, Athens, OH
Umpqua Valley Arts, Roseville, OR
The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
The Korean Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA
“We Are The Arts”/The Arts Council of Fayetteville|Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC
Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO
ArtShare LA, Los Angeles, CA
Shoebox Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Kelso Art Center, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
Hera Educational Foundation and Gallery in Wakefield RI
Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminister, NJ
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
The Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN;
Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO