News and Events
The Chelsea Center for the Arts (CCA) is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Spring Breakfast, Creating a Renaissance, which will be held on Thursday, May 17th, from 8-9am at Silver Maples (100 Silver Maples Drive, here in Chelsea). The one-hour breakfast program will feature speakers Guy Sanville, Artistic Director of The Purple Theatre Company, Andrew Ingall, newly appointed Superintendent of the Chelsea School District, [...]
The Chelsea Painters 39th Annual Art Fair will be held Saturday, June 2nd and Sunday, June 3rd from 10am to 5pm in the courtyard of Silver Maples of Chelsea. The Chelsea Center for the Arts (CCA) will offer free hands-on art activities for children during the Art Fair from 12-3pm each day. Twenty-five award-winning artists will display and sell original fine art and cards in a variety of media: watercolor, acrylic, [...]
Nationally known poets and writers will read their work at venues up and down Main Street and greet fans in person. Some of them will even listen to you read your own work at the Open Mic. Last year’s Literary Walk drew more than 250 people to Chelsea. Building on that success, the Chelsea District Library (CDL), Chelsea Center for the Arts (CCA), and River Gallery, with [...]
October 7, 2011 – Over the past 40 years, Legacy Land Conservancy has helped protect more than 4,750 acres of forests, prairies, farms, wetlands and waters. To celebrate this achievement and inspire future conservation efforts, a creative joint venture between Chelsea Center for the Arts and Legacy has been commissioned. The event, sponsored by Reinhart realty, involves a small group of artists that have been [...]
Over 150 guests enjoyed a wonderful evening of fun and celebration at the ChelseaCenterfor the Arts’ 16th annual Autumn Jubilee event on November 12 at theComfortInnVillageConferenceCenter inChelsea,Michigan. The annual event raised nearly $30,000 for the CCA’s arts programming for the community, including its after school art clubs, held at the Chelsea School District’s elementary and middle schools, and its scholarship and tuition assistance program, which [...]
Take care of your holiday shopping at Just Imagine Toys & Books in downtown Chelsea, Michigan, while also helping support art and music education! WHAT: Make a purchase of toys, books, games, instrument supplies or anything else at Just Imagine during the early bird promotion week and 20% of your purchase will be donated to the Chelsea Center for the Arts in support of arts [...]
The Artist in Residence program is a joint project between the Chelsea Center for the Arts (CCA), Chelsea River Gallery and the Chelsea District Library (CDL). The purpose of the program is to provide the community with artistic and educational opportunities reflecting multiple disciplines in the arts; enrich the community through interaction with artists and artwork they would not otherwise experience; encourage new audiences’ participation [...]
Art Walk is an annual celebration of the visual arts in the greater Ann Arbor area. This event provides unique opportunities to experience art and meet artists in their studios! Stop by CCA this weekend to view our current exhibition, New Instructors at the CCA: Eric Strebel, Sicily Amaris McRaven, and Kate Barker. Pick up an Art Walk map of activity sites, and explore and support our local artistic resources! See also: Art [...]
Each year, Chelsea Center for the Arts selects individuals to honor at Autumn Jubilee – it’s biggest fund raising event of the calendar. This year, The Gala Committee has chosen to recognize two honorary artists, longstanding CCA piano instructor, Lester Castellana, and local watercolor artist, Missy Cowan. In addition, Patti Schwarz and Deborah Greer of Chelsea’s River Gallery will be Honorary Chairs of the event, [...]
MASTERING POINT OF VIEW: A Two Part Seminar for Writers Most writers know about first and third person point of view and when to use them. But what about the unreliable narrator? The collective, fourth person perspective (“we” form)? Or the “black sheep” of the fiction family, the second person (“you”) form? Chelsea area writers will have the rare opportunity to learn how to identify and [...]