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 Village Conference Center in Chelsea was the setting this past week for a gathering of artists from throughout South Eastern Michigan, all eager to learn from nationally acclaimed artist-turned instructor, Janet Rogers. Janet, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, now resides in Florida but spends a good portion of the year travelling, both in the US and in Europe, teaching workshops which are always fully subscribed. [...]
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, [...]
The Chelsea Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its 2012 music and visual art summer camps. These week-long camps offer young people opportunities to challenge their imaginations, learn concepts and techniques, express themselves, and meet new friends! For information and online registration, go to www.chelseacenterforthearts.org. This summer, the CCA offers five, one-week visual art camp sessions between June 25 and August 3. Each [...]
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 [...]
CHELSEA, MI (February 22, 2012) — Poet Thomas Lux, who has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, will read from his latest work at the 4th Annual Midwest Literary Walk on Saturday, April 21. The public is invited to enjoy sequential readings by Lux and other, internationally known poets and authors at venues in downtown Chelsea, from [...]
Thank you for your interest. This job has been filled. PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR (16 hours/week on afternoons & Fridays) Coordinates the administrative, logistical and other implementation aspects of CCA music, art and literary programs, to insure that educational programs run well and result in participant satisfaction; serves as a key point of contact for a broad range of program related inquiries and issues. Duties and Responsibilities [...]
Project Description This project is a collaboration between Chelsea Community Hospital (CCH), a member of the St. Joseph Mercy Health System, and the Chelsea Center for the Arts (CCA), to select 25 smaller scale (24” high x 12” wide, vertical format), two-dimensional works of art (paintings, works of art on paper, and photographs) with nature subject matter, for inclusion in an exhibition to be presented [...]
Marianne Sachs-Iacob: Paintings of Northern Italy, which runs from March 5 through April 2, 2012 features works that reflect the country landscapes and buildings of artist Marianne Sachs-Iacob’s childhood. “All I remember of my childhood spent in the northern part of Italy-Brianza were the farmhouses amidst the green fields and the blue skies. The deep shadows inside these fortresses fascinated me. Light and shadow and [...]
With a line-up of diverse jazz performances and activities, Chelsea Center for the Arts hosts its annual Jazz & Chocolates scholarship fundraiser weekend March 2-3. The fun begins Friday, March 2, 6-8:30 pm, with Jazz & Chocolates at Silver Maples. CCA students and faculty serve up a delicious combination of chocolate desserts, music -themed raffle items, and performances of jazz, blues, and American Songbook Standards. [...]