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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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Michael Nannery: CASTINGS event on Oct 7th

Michael Nannery CASTINGS October 7, 7-10pm Excess clays from ceramic art processes are combined and reconstituted, then cast into tray forms using a press-mold technique.   The stackable tray components house colonies of red wiggler earthworms–a champion decomposer.   As the worms consume various organic materials, they produce worm castings, which is essentially a manure. […]

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Maya Gurantz: Deipnophoroi

Maya Gurantz: Deipnophoroi October 7, 2017 – February 11, 2018 Opening Reception: October 7, 7-10pm Ancient Greek biographer and essayist  Plutarch (c. AD 46-120) writes of an ancient Greek festival in which the community, as an initiation for young men coming of age, would reenact sending their youth to King Minos of Crete to be […]

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Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere:  Touching From A Distance

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere:  Touching From A Distance OPENING RECEPTION:  September 2, 2017 from 7-10pm       Touching From A Distance  focuses on the fragmentation of public space and the varying uninhibited actors simultaneously occupying the space of  Plaza de la Liberacií­³n  in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on a particular day; yet touching from […]

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Second Warhol Foundation Grant for Grand Central Art Center

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center a $100,000 grant over two years to support its artist-in-residence program — the second foundation grant awarded to the center. â“Grand Central Art Center is honored to once again receive the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation […]

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Lainey’s Latest: GCAC Visits Tijuana!

Well not quite the whole crew, but our former preparator, Christopher Wormald, performed at Moustache Bar while I traveled through for the Tijuana Zine Fest where we ran into some familiar faces. Here is a detailed report of what happened and why Tijuana should be your next stop for local art. First off, may I […]

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