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A Brief Spark Bookended by Darkness – Brent Green and Brendan Canty in Live Cinema

  “If Mark Twain were with us today, he would probably be engaged in endeavors comparable to Green’s films.” – Saul Ostrow, Art in America Santa Ana Sites #19 Brent Green and Brendan Canty A Brief Spark Bookended by Darkness a co-presentation between Grand Central Art Center and Santa Ana Sites In co-presentation with Grand […]

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Open Studios Event March 3rd

(clockwise from top left works by  Pamela Susan Rush, Hadley Mattwig, Caitlin Christianson,  Hunter X. Huang) Open Studios CSUF MFA GCAC Residents March 3 from 7-10pm CSUF Grand Central Art Center hosts resident graduate open studios featuring work from the CSUF Departments of Painting and Drawing and Illustration. Studios will be open to the public […]

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Exchange: Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry

Exchange Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry March 3 through May 15, 2018 Opening Reception: March 3 from 7-10pm   Exchange  quietly refers to the “One Drop Rule” in which a person with as little as one drop of black blood in their heritage was considered “colored.” The nineteenth-century law, originally instated as a means to […]

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Cogâ•nate Collective: Regionalia – Reception + Public Programs

Cog•nate Collective: Regionalia March 3 – June 17, 2018 Opening Reception: March 3 from 7-10pm Public Programs: Listed Below   What does it mean to be a citizen? How can we enact citizenship in a region that is marked by transnational flows of bodies and cultures? How is political solidarity + social resilience established and/or […]

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Crear: Call for Collaboration – â“Cancion Del Inmigrante â” Project

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Announcing New Director’s Circle!

GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER’S   NEW SUPPORT GROUP GCAC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Through strategic invitation, Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) has formed a support group, the Director’s Circle. The goal of the Director’s Circle is to bring supportive, engaged and outside the box Orange County thinkers together. The group fosters a stronger OC contemporary arts and […]

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Yasmine Kasem: Mwasah

Yasmine Kasem: Mwasah February 3 – April 15, 2018 Guest Curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge Opening Reception: February 3 from 7-10pm Yasmine Kasem: Mwasah  presents new work by the American-Egyptian artist that expands the material and conceptual territory of her practice. Born into a Muslim family in Indiana, Kasem has explored the ways in which Egyptian […]

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Glass and Ceramics Show + Sale

Glass and Ceramics Show + Sale Our Glass and Ceramics Show + Sale gives local artists and students the opportunity to showcase and sell their work while engaging with the surrounding creative community. Proceeds from this sale are split evenly between Grand Central Art Center and the participating artists. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Nancy Alcala Ihab Ali […]

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Rebecca Chernow: #superbloom

Rebecca Chernow: #superbloom November 4, 2017 – January 14, 2018 Opening Reception: November 4, 7-10pm In Spring 2017, in the Antelope Valley just northeast of Los Angeles, vibrant orange poppies carpeted the ground in perhaps the largest display of flora in Southern California in over ten years. The desert’s dazzling color occurs every spring due […]

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