Chandler Center for the Arts (CCA), is located in

Chandler, Arizona Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). It is bordered to the north and west by Tempe, to the north by Mesa, to the west by Phoenix, to the ...

and is jointly owned by the City of Chandler and the Chandler Unified School District. The Chandler Center for the Arts functions dually as the home theater for Chandler High School and the arts center for the City of Chandler. The Chandler Center for the Arts receives no direct appropriations for artistic programming.Chandler Center for the Arts. “History: Why We Exist.” http://www.Chandlercenter.org. (n.d.) 20 Jan 2009. Any donations it receives must be applied only to the maintenance and operation of the actual building.

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Galleries

The center's Exhibition Hall hosts free exhibits of visual arts in a variety of media and cultural origins. The Vision Gallery is located in CCA, and features rotating displays by over 350 artists in such media as painting,

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

mixed media In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art incl ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

ceramics A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain ...

glass Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of ...

textiles Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the ...

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History

The City of Chandler created the Chandler Cultural Foundation in 1989 Kehrberg, Amanda. “No Longer a Dream: Chandler Center for the Arts celebrates 20 years.” Ahwatukee Magazine. Jan. 2009: 49. Print in order to create programming finance development for Chandler Center of the Arts. As the programming entity of CCA, the Chandler Cultural Foundation presents quality programs that would not otherwise be available in the community.

References

* Arizona Commission on the Arts. “Past Winners.” https://web.archive.org/web/20090112202124/http://www.azarts.gov/govsarts/index.htm. (n.d.) 20 Jan. 2009 * City of Chandler. “Chandler Center for the Arts to Host Public Forums in Conjunction with Expansion Feasibility Study” http://www.chandleraz.gov/newsrelease.aspx?N_UID=981 . 11 Sept. 2007. 20 Jan. 2009. * Cohn, Ari. :Chandler Center for the Arts getting face-lift” East Valley Tribune. 25 Dec 2008. Online. * Branom, Mark. "Year-long renovation of arts center begins" East Valley Tribune. 24 April 2009. Online. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/138334 {{DEFAULTSORT:Chandler Center For The Arts Arizona culture Arts centers in Arizona Performing arts centers in Arizona Buildings and structures in Chandler, Arizona Tourist attractions in Maricopa County, Arizona 1989 establishments in Arizona