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Second Year Artists-in-Residence in Affordable Housing Communities Begin!

Grand Central Art Center, in partnership with newly formed non-profit Community Engagement, is excited to kick-off a second year of artists-in-residence in affordable housing communities. After last year’s successful pilot program, this year we have expanded to three additional communities located in our City of Santa Ana. The communities include: Heninger Village†¨ gated senior […]

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Images from March 5th Art Walk

We thought you might enjoy some images from our recent First Saturday Santa Ana Art Walk  – With over 2,200 individuals coming through the doors of Grand Central Art Center,  including 2017 Whitney Biennial  Curators Mia Locks  and Christopher Lew. Those in attendance enjoyed the opening reception of Jasmin Sanchez’s Flux; Public Trust, 2016  performance […]

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Jasmin Sanchez: Flux – March 5 – May 15, 2016 @ Grand Central Art Center

  Jasmin Sanchez Flux March 5 – May 15, 2016 The work of Orange County based artist Jasmin Sanchez reflects the relationship between the organic and inorganic, an exploration of those areas in which civilization begins to blur the line with the natural world. In the artists own words â“I strive for a balance between […]

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Postcommodity – Free Live Performance – Tuesday, Feb 23 @ 7PM

POSTCOMMODITY Free Live Performance Tuesday, February 23 7PM @Grand Central Art Center Working as an improvised music and noise ensemble, with custom acoustic instruments as well as modified analog oscillators, deer antlers, sine tone generators, and hunting calls, Postcommodity will perform a structured nine-song-cycle from their recent LP  We Lost Half The Forest, And The […]

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“Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?” (SNA / TIJ) // A Binational collaboration facilitated by Artists-in-Residence Cogâ•nate Collective

We are excited to announce that we’ve joined forces with Tijuana-based artist Juan Villavicencio  to bring the ongoing project Would you like to participate in an artistic experience? initiated by Ricardo Basbaum, to the Tijuana / Los Angeles border region. We have been working with students and publics on both sides of the border to […]

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Paul Ramirez Jonas: Public Trust, 2016 – February 6 – April 10, 2016 @ Grand Central Art Center

Paul Ramirez Jonas:  Public Trust, 2016 February 6 through April 10, 2016 The artist will activate the work during the first Saturday Art Walks from 7-10pm on February 6, March 5 and April 2.   Working with CSUF alum  Robert Huskey (BA, Visual Communications ’14), we created a video documenting the process of  Public Trust, […]

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Artist-in-Residence @ Grand Central Art Center

As we kick-off 2016, we wanted to provide an update on our artists-in-residence scheduled to be joining us in the coming months. These artists will be deeply active in our communities, at the individual, group, and broader public levels in the research, development and realization of community-engaged projects. Focused on artists working in community-engaged practices, […]

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Warm Fuzzies: Ashley Bowman

December 5, 2015 – March 13, 2016 Opening Reception: December 5 7-10PM Three properly placed circles can represent eyes and a mouth in its purest, most simplistic form, conjuring in our minds the more complete face. People see faces in inanimate objects, from outlets and car headlights, to toast and knots in wood. There is […]

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New GCAC Creative Leaders in the Arts – Teen Program

We are excited to share our new GCAC Creative Leaders in the Arts – Teen Program offered FREE by Grand Central Art Center.  Through visiting curators, artists, arts leaders, and collaborations with surrounding organizations, the program creates space for process and dialogue. Now into its third week, the young students are focusing on topics that […]

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