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Past Exhibitions

Short Film Documentary on artist Carmen Papalia’s Mobility Device Performance @ GCAC

MOBILITY DEVICE: CARMEN PAPALIA Artist  Carmen Papalia  started using a white cane when he began to lose his vision nearly ten years ago. For one day,  through his performance piece titled  Mobility Device,  he replaced his cane with  The Great Centurion Marching Band  of Century High School, Santa Ana. A  short documentary film  by  Mickey […]

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Cog•nate Facilitates Family Night at Warwick Square

Last week we had the pleasure of working with Project Access at Warwick Square, to conduct an art-making activity for families as part of “Family Night” at the Warwick Square Apartments Family Resource Center. We asked families to think about their contributions to their community and create small models of what a monument to those […]

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Greetings from Cog•nate

Hi! We are Cogâ•nate Collective, the new Artists in Residence at GCAC! We are very excited to have been invited to spend more time at GCAC and continue the work we have begun in downtown Santa Ana. For the last few months we have been developing a site-specific project documenting the history and the ongoing […]

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Visits to Cemeteries, Mortuaries and Crematorium – GCAC Artist in Residence Adriana Salazar

Adriana Salazar is the current GCAC Artist in Residence, visiting us from Bogota, Colombia.   Her residency is a collaborative effort for GCAC with the Orange County Museum of Art.   Adriana will be a part of the upcoming OCMA California-Pacific Triennial, curated by Dan Cameron.   GCAC has partnered with OCMA to be a […]

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Mobility Device: Carmen Papalia Performance with Century HS Marching Band @ GCAC

Mobility Device A Performance by Carmen Papalia with the accompaniment of The Great Centurion Marching Band from Century High School, Santa Ana CLICK HERE FOR DOCUMENTARY VIDEO OF THE PROJECT Saturday, June 1, 2013 Begins 6PM @ Grand Central Art Center Carmen Papalia image credit:  Jordan Reznick   ARTIST CARMEN PAPALIA’S OWN WORDS: Excerpt from […]

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GCAC Intern Off to Grad School @ School of the Art Institute Chicago!

In the words of GCAC intern Ariel Gentalen as she completes her internship and heads to Chicago for grad school… The first word that comes to mind while reflecting on my year as an intern at Grand Central Art Center is community. It is John Spiak’s unflinching commitment to partnerships and involvement that created a […]

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Artist in Residence, Adriana Salazar from Bogota, Colombia – GCAC Collaboration with OCMA for 2013 California-Pacific Triennial

Grand Central Art Center is proud to announce the arrival of Artist in Residence, Adriana Salazar from Bogota, Colombia.   Adriana will be in residence for the next two months as she develops two major site-specific installation – one in our main gallery and one that will take place at the Orange County Museum of […]

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New Exhibitions, President Garcia Visit, MFA Open Studios – Kick-Off May @ Grand Central Art Center

This past Saturday, Grand Central Art Center celebrated the opening reception of our new exhibitions – Divested Interest: Exchange Dialogues with Cog•nate Collective & Ramiro Gomez, curated by California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) College of the Arts graduate students Emily D. A. Tyler and Martha Rocha of the Exhibition Design program, and artist Saskia Jorda’s […]

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Serving Students and Faculty of Orange County!

It has been a busy couple of weeks at Grand Central Art Center, with many classes visiting our current exhibitions.   Through faculty of Irvine Valley College, Fullerton College, as well as numerous class visits and individual critiques by our Cal State University Fullerton Department of Visual Art faculty, GCAC has been active. Kyung Sun […]

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