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Past Exhibitions

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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Starting March Off Right @ GCAC!

We kicked off March with a powerful program this past Saturday night and the energy continues today! GCAC artists in residence  Ingrid Reeve, Barbara Milliorn and Evan Senn continued their dialogue with the public, through their project Life of An Artist  ,  on what it means to be a feminist and a working female art […]

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wild Up, Lisa Bielawa and Colburn Conservatory – Recap of Santa Ana Sites #4

Grand Central Art Center is beginning to use the tagline “Art unRestricted” to describe our programming.   A perfect example of GCAC’s philosophy took place this past Saturday evening, as we presented the fourth in our ongoing Santa Ana Sites series, co-founded with our community collaborator and artistic director Allen Moon. Santa Ana Sites #4: […]

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March 1st from 6-10pm – Opening Receptions, Public Program and Cookies @ GCAC!

Join us to kick-off the month with two new exhibitions, a public program and other activities celebrating our First Saturday Art Walk scheduled for March 1st – Public Program at 6pm, Opening Receptions from 7-10pm, Girl Scout Cookie Sales from 7-9pm. Here is what we have planned to engage you… PUBLIC PROGRAM – 6PM Feminism […]

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