Día de los Muertos returns to Art Center East! Like everything this year, however, we've had to make a few changes. Most of our celebration will take place online or at home (read on!), with the exception of our Community Ofrenda.
Instead of cancelling our annual Día de los Muertos celebration (where we usually gather as a community to leave photos and messages for lost loved ones on the Ofrenda, look at the art, make more art, watch a movie, and eat La Fiesta tamales), we thought we'd help you take part of it home!
Join us online for a live artist talk and slideshow with photographer Berenice Chavez. Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of life through the lens of loss. Berenice Chavez's work mirrors this sentiment, exploring family, love, separation, and belonging with the photographs she takes of her undocumented family members
Enjoy playing your bowed, plucked or wind instrument while you expand your individual and ensemble skills in this fun and educational musical group. The first & third Tuesday of every month!
Build ceramic vessels – cups, bowls, vases, trivets, boxes, and more – without the use of a potter's wheel.
In this online class, we’ll cover the basics of grant writing from project description and budgeting to locating and appealing to funders.
Let's get excited for the upcoming holidays by making original watercolor cards! We will paint two designs – one for Christmas and one for Thanksgiving – doing them step-by-step.
Handmade Holidays is Art Center East’s holiday maker's market, featuring a curated selection of giftable goods made by local artists.
Join us in the Co-op Gallery for this fun make-&-take class! In this 2-hour workshop you’ll learn the basics of macramé and leave with your own handmade plant hanger.
In this online class, participants will explore using secondary materials to create depth in their poetic voice and imagery.
The ACE Writing Project hosts monthly author readings. Enjoy an evening of literary arts and learn about the talent hiding in our backyard! Every 3rd Wednesday in 2020.
Get your batik on in this fun two-day workshop! We’ll create batik paintings using watercolor or acrylic paint, wax, and ink on a special type of paper.
If you’ve already taken “Macrame & Mimosas,” the intro level class where we made a plant hanger, come take your skills to the next level!
The pandemic has meant lots of time devoted to indoor activities. For many, that includes jigsaw puzzles. If you’ve worked through the ones you have and are looking for more, we invite you to bring in a puzzle (no missing pieces, please!) and take another one home.
This workshop is for students who would like to explore specific pottery forms, throwing and glazing techniques, as well as sharpen their overall ceramic skills. This is track 1.
We'd like to challenge you to help Art Center East expand our reach by hosting a fundraiser on your personal Facebook page. Our need is great this year, and this is a small way you can help!
This workshop is for students who would like to explore specific pottery forms, throwing and glazing techniques, as well as sharpen their overall ceramic skills. This is track 2.
This annual art exhibit serves multiple purposes: it invites Eastern Oregon & other NW artists to celebrate the arts, creates awareness of the value of arts in our communities, and raises funds for community arts programming at ACE.
In this step-by-step painting class, we will create a spring scene of sheep in a meadow. We will target techniques to paint the wool-y sheep, spring trees, and glazing effect.
Join us for a festive opening reception *online* this year! We'll celebrate our annual open exhibit - The Big - with a live stream straight from the gallery.
The Hero's Journey is a narrative framework you can use to imagine and plot out your creative work in writing or other mediums. "The Road Back" is a key turning point in which the hero begins the journey back to the ordinary world from the special world of their quest.
The ACE Writing Project hosts monthly author readings. Enjoy an evening of literary arts and learn about the talent hiding in our backyard! Every 3rd Wednesday in 2020.
Closed Dec. 25 - Jan. 8 for the holiday season.
The ACE Writing Project hosts monthly author readings. Enjoy an evening of literary arts and learn about the talent hiding in our backyard! Every 3rd Wednesday in 2020.
February & March 2021 brings our 5th annual Fiber Arts & Jewelry Exhibit. This annual exhibit creates a platform for an underrepresented branch of the visual arts while showcasing the breadth of talent within our local community of fiber and jewelry artists.
Join us for Art Center East's 5th Annual Fiber Arts & Jewelry Exhibit: Comfort. Local artists explore the theme of creating and experiencing comfort through art-making in our COVID world.
Berenice Chavez's photography explores themes of family, love, separation, and belonging via images of her family's domestic life.
Art Center East and the Cook Memorial Library are teaming up to help bring the Fishtrap Big Read to Union County for the 4th year running from February-March! This year's book is In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick.
The ACE Writing Project hosts monthly author readings. Enjoy an evening of literary arts and learn about the talent hiding in our backyard! Every 3rd Wednesday in 2020.
The ACE Writing Project hosts monthly author readings. Enjoy an evening of literary arts and learn about the talent hiding in our backyard! Every 3rd Wednesday in 2020.
The ACE Writing Project hosts monthly author readings. Enjoy an evening of literary arts and learn about the talent hiding in our backyard! Every 3rd Wednesday in 2020.
Registration cancellations & transfers must be made through Art Center East at (541) 624-2800 48 hours or more before the class start time. We cannot issue refunds or transfers for cancellations received after the 48-hour cutoff. Exceptions will be considered for medical or family emergencies. ACE will honor a refund, minus a $10 administration fee when the cancellation is made 48 hours or more before class start date. When a class is canceled due to low enrollment, we will issue a refund for all registration fees. ACE will contact you in the event of a cancellation.
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