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| About Us |
• Our Hours
• Contact Us |
• Our Mission
• Our Board
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• CAE Programs
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Our
Hours
The Center For Art & Education is open:
T-F 10am - 4pm
After hours by appointment
Our Staff
Jane Owen, Executive Director
Nancy McClure, Administrative Assistant
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Contact
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Center For Art & Education
104 North 13th Street
Van Buren, AR 72956
Phone: (479) 474-7767 Fax: (479) 474-4411
E-mail: ccartcenter@sbcglobal.net
www.art-ed.org
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| Our Board of Directors
Alex Golden - President
Scott Weston, Vice President
Sharon Weir - Treasurer
Linda Myers - Secretary
David Cross
Marsha Crowder
Martha Efurd
Sonya Howard
Clifford Lyon
Jan Nelson
Frances Willis
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Our Advisory Board
Charles Baker
Roger Brown
Steve Dean
Joe Lloyd, Jr.
Rusty Myers
Gene Graham
Chloe A. Kirksey
Carol Newton
Steve Park
Donna Young |
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Art in the three R’s: Integrates art into school
curricula and is ongoing throughout the
school year at six Van Buren Public Schools. The program
also provides various art
experiences in rural schools. |
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Art Spaces in Work places: Allows artist to display
his/her art in the workplace,
fostering understanding and appreciation of various
cultures, and art forms, for the
business professionals, in corporate, business and government
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Have Talents Will Travel: Allows the artists, through
teaching and demonstrating, to
share his/her talent with schools, libraries, churches
and civic organizations. This
service is a fee and non-fee offering from local artists. |
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Center for Art & Education Library: A comprehensive
1,555-piece art library of art
history and instructional art books and videos are available
for use by the general
public. The Library also features a permanent collection
of artwork from locally and
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Studio Art Program provides dance, theater and visual
art classes here at CAE for
all ages. We offer two continuing studio art camps for
children. Art-a-Rama for
boys and girls ages 6-14 is held in our studio during
the summer. Wee Draw is a
preschool drawing class for children ages 3-5 held in
our studio from September
through June each year. (See Children's Art page for
details on these classes.)
We also bring in major art teachers who conduct workshops
and local professional
artists who teach classes for adults. Wednesdays, except
for the month of July, is
reserved for the Lunch Bunch. This is open studio time
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Wonderful World of Art: Seven weeks of summer art
camps are offered to children
in Alma, Cedarville, Greenwood, Mountainburg, Mulberry,
Van Buren, and
Winslow art educators, teachers, and young adults give
of their talent in providing a
variety of art experiences for children
K-8th grade. See Children's Art page. |
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Annual River Valley Student Art Competition: The CAE in collaboration
with the Fort Smith Art Center offers a judged art competition for children
grades K – 12, involving six counties in Arkansas and Oklahoma. |
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Annual Adult Art Competition: Judged competition for
ages 18 and over. The 2007 Adult Art Competition will be held in September. Watch the website for details as the time approaches.
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Established as the Crawford County Art Center
in 1976, the organization began operations from a small room
in the city-owned Van Buren Community Center. The first art
exhibitions, workshops and “paint-outs” were held
in whatever space was available.
In 1979 the art center purchased a Turn-of-the-Century
home. This became the first Crawford County Art Center. In
1984 the Crawford County Art Center acquired the historic
St. Michael’s Catholic Church, circa 1912.
The first years of operations were met with
many challenges. This did not stop the first visionaries,
who organized bean and corn bread suppers, bingo parties and
events, gave their green stamps to purchase the materials
needed to make art a part of their community.
This pioneering spirit continues today.
The Center's budget has increased ten-fold. Most importantly,
the Center's programs have increased in number and expanded
in diversity. We are currently serving over 5,000 individuals
of all ages. A lot has changed since the
organization was established thirty-five years ago, including its
newly adopted and more inclusive name, Center For Art &
Education. Yet, its earlier hope and mission, which is ever
being realized, is that every citizen can experience art.
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