Skip to Content (Press Enter)

Grand Central Art Center

FREE HAND-ON ART WORKSHOPS – IMAGINATION CELEBRATION 2014 @ GCAC

IMAGINATION CELEBRATION 2014 in collaboration with Arts Orange County and Orange County Department of Education SATURDAY, APRIL 12 11am – 2pm Grand Central Art Center presents a day of FREE hands-on art workshops Celebrate the excitement of art with hands-on studio workshops for all ages. Workshops include: Drawing activities with Ryman Arts Hands-on art activities […]

Read More ›

Last Night @ GCAC – Joshua Simon + Dutch Treat Dinner

Last evening Grand Central Art Center, in collaboration with Artis, presented a talk by Joshua Simon. Simon is the Director and Chief Curator for The Museums of Bat Yam, a complex of three museums located in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in Israel. Joshua shared an overview of his institutions mission, including images, video and […]

Read More ›

Mark Your Calendar (4/8 @ 6pm) – Talk by Joshua Simon and Dutch Treat Dinner

Grand Central Art Center and Artis present a talk by Joshua Simon Curating in Context – Joshua Simon on The Museums of Bat Yam Presented by Artis & Grand Central Art Center Tuesday, April 8 6:00pm FREE @ Grand Central Art Center   Joshua Simon will speak about his work as the Director and Chief […]

Read More ›

First Episode Debut – Life of An Artist – Saturday, April 5

Join Us on Saturday April 5, 2014 @ 7pm Life of An Artist debuts their first episode, during the April Santa Ana First Saturday Art Walk. Come join Ingrid, Barbara and Evan as they screen the first episode of their documentary web series. In this series, two female artists have paired together with an art […]

Read More ›

Video Documentation – Santa Ana Sites #4: wild Up at the Santora

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAosi92kWE&w=560&h=315] SANTA ANA SITES #4: WILD UP IN THE SANTORA WITH LISA BIELAWA AND THE COLBURN CONSERVATORY SANTA ANA SITES, AN INITIATIVE OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON’S GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER. PRESENTING, IN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN SANTA ANA. THE TRAVELING FORUM IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE THE […]

Read More ›

Grant / Residency Opportunity – A Social Practice Initiative of Living Resources and Grand Central Art Center

Living Resources & Grand Central Art Center Partnership Developing Sustainable Practices within Affordable Housing Communities A SOCIAL PRACTICE INITIATIVE CALL TO CREATIVES   PROJECT SUMMARY Living Resources, a program of a California-based nonprofit organization, has teamed up with Grand Central Art Center (GCAC), a unit of the College of the Arts at California State University, […]

Read More ›

Joanna Klass, Wojtek Szaszor, Nadia Hironaka, Matthew Suib – Great Visitors to GCAC!

Joanna Klass and Wojtek Szaszor were visiting us from Warsaw, Poland.   They were GCAC creatives in residence for a first site visit, connecting with us and discussing possibilities for a future extended residency project.   While here, they presented an evening of live performance/ installation/ multimedia/ archives and conversation, Art of the Spectacle, part […]

Read More ›

Borderblaster (SNA) Audio Paseo / Audio Promenade in Downtown Santa Ana!

Cog•nate is pleased to announce that recordings from Borderblaster (SNA) are now available as an Audio Paseo  throughout downtown Santa Ana! Borderblaster (SNA) collects the oral testimonies of local residents, artists, community leaders and 4th Street business owners, to reflect on the economic, social, and cultural dimensions of redevelopment in the Downtown core of Santa […]

Read More ›

Finding the Drop House – Video from Recordings of an Immigrant + $20,000 Project Support!

Vincent Goudreau (Maui, Hawaii – Fall 2013) was in residence to work on his project  Recordings of an Immigrant.    Juan Aquino, the immigrant for which the project is based, actually had a connection to the Grand Central Art Center / Orange County, CA  area—  as a youth Aquino, now a US citizen, was originally […]

Read More ›