The Centre for Creative Arts
9904 -101 Ave T8V 0X8 Grande Prairie, AB, Canada

We sure do miss our students! Sending out creative vibes to you all

CFCA Art Challenge #13 Drawing Everyday Objects Materials:... -Everyday objects from around the house (we used a mug, some utensils and a screwdriver) -White paper -Pencil -Markers or crayons Step 1: Place your object on a flat light coloured surface. Step 2: Look at your object and use the pencil to sketch its outline. Look carefully and try to replicate its curves and shapes. Step 3: Use a black marker and trace over your pencil lines. Step 4: Look at the object to find its light and dark places. Sometimes it helps to squint. Step 5: Use a lighter colour colour in your shapes, leaving the lightest areas white. Use a darker hue to shade in the shadows. Don't forget the shadow on the table! Check out all the Art Challenges at https://creativecentre.ca/whats-hap/creative-art-challenges

We are temporarily closed to comply with current restrictions but you can still visit our website www.creativecentre.ca for exhibition opportunities, creative projects and future classes. We hope to see you soon.

Check out all of our Art Challenges at https://creativecentre.ca/whats-hap/creative-art-challenges CFCA Art Challenge #12 Paper Tube Owls Materials:... -Toilet Paper Tube -White Paper (drawing paper, computer paper) and/or coloured paper, old book pages and so on. -Scissors -Markers -Gluestick -Ribbon or string Step 1: Place your paper tube on the paper and mark out how big a rectangle you need it to cover your roll with a little overlap. Cut out this paper rectangle. Step 2: With your rectangle laying with the long sides at the top and bottom, draw eyes and a beak with markers slightly above the centre of the page. Add feathers to the rest of the page. You can make feather shapes or go abstract like the green owl in the sample image. Use the cut off piece of paper to draw the wings, make two heart shapes and colour them in. Try making the body lighter and the wings darker to make them stand out. Step 3: Cover the back of the body piece with glue stick. Starting on one short edge, lay your paper tube on it and roll it up. Use your fingers to smooth the paper as you go. Glue the wings on the sides. Step 4: Punch a hole in the back of the tube near the top. Thread a piece of ribbon or string through the hole and tie a knot. Step 5: Hold the owl in your hands and us your thumbs to press down a notch in the back of the owls head. Then make one from the front. These will make the feather tufts on the owls head. Step 6: Make some friends for your owl, hang them up on a branch and enjoy!

Christmas gifts at the Centre ! Small pieces of the Peace at the Creative Art Centre gift store - is up until the end of November. Also Domino 6 Exhibition- is on display at the #artgalleryofgrandeprairie until February 2021

With so many families learning from home, we are offering lots of new art classes for homeschoolers. Pottery starts next week, learn to use a potters wheel, ages 8-14. Sign up online at https://creativecentre.ca/classes?cs=homeschool&category=All

So happy to be partnered with Swan City Rotary Club Lotteries for Cars for Christmas. Your ticket purchases support us and other great community groups!

Volunteers needed. The Centre for Creative arts needs a more volunteers to sell tickets at the mall next week. Choose from 11-am-2:30pm or 2:30pm-6pm. Volunteer with a buddy or volunteer on your own and we will team you up with a new friend. We REALLY need your help! Call Candace 780-814-6080 to sign up and don't forget to follow Swan City Rotary Club Lotteries for prize info and to get your tickets.

Enter a piece of art and share your Centre story with us for our 25th Anniversary!

Youth Drawing Foundations, ages 10-14. Starts next Week. Instructor: Katrina Shirley Learn foundational drawing techniques that will help all types of visual artists gain empowerment, knowledge and a strong base for their practice. www.creativecentre.ca/classes

Two ways to help us raise important funds with the Swan City Rotary Club Lotteries. Message or call us to sell tickets at the mall, choose from shifts Nov. 2-6. Or get your tickets at www.carsforchristmas.com Proceeds to 20 local charities including the Centre.

The Swan City Rotary Club Lotteries Cars for Christmas lotto helps 20 local Groups. We have 2 ways you can help. Get your tickets at CARSFORCHRISTMAS.COM or contact the Centre 780-814-6080 to sign up to volunteer. We need volunteers to sell tickets the first week of November weekdays at the Prairie Mall.

Amazing Peace Country Skies and Peace Country talent! What a beautiful place to be an artist.

Post your images of your Chalk the Walk chalk drawings for your chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Michaels! Remember to pick up your free chalk at the Centre for Creative Arts from now until September 28. Deadline to enter is September 28! For more details check out our event: https://www.facebook.com/events/362446748297703

"Small Pieces of the Peace" is Carmen Haakstad's show and sale which is displayed in conjunction with his exhibititon "Domino VI" at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. The show and sale is on display in the Centre for Creative Arts' Wall Gallery from October 2 to November 28. https://youtu.be/YCXw1k3ay04

Art Squared silent auction pieces. See all the pieces at https://creativecentre.ca/.../2020-art-squared-silent... Call the Centre at 780-814-6080 to get your bid numbers. Bid in person or by phone.

Artist Ed Bader is showcased in the Centre Gallery this month. His exhibition "New Horizons" is a collection of paintings he created during the Covid lockdown. He states; " In dark times, I wish to bring the joy to the viewer and a greater appreciation of the sublime and transcendental nature of our existence." View his work on display now until October 31.If you are unable to come in person, check out the video we made:https://youtu.be/1xi14EtefuQ

New Exhibitions opening October 2! "New Horizons" by Ed Bader is featured in the Centre Gallery for the month of October.

Art Squared 2020 ends this Saturday. Visit the Centre gallery or call us to place your bids before 3pm Saturday. Great art, great deals, great cause!

Art Squared silent auction pieces. See all the pieces at https://creativecentre.ca//2020-art-squared-silent-auction Call the Centre at 780-814-6080 to get your bid numbers. Bid in person or by phone.

Cars for Christmas supports 20 local non profits including the Centre for Creative Arts. You can help by purchasing your tickets at www.carsforchristmas.com Just imagine the beautiful places this jeep could take you for landscape painting or photography! Thanks Swan City Rotary Club Lotteries!

Take a look back at the 2019 Wearable Arts Show! https://youtu.be/gnn1v5wWS_o Stay tuned for our Wearable Arts Documentary coming soon!

New one Day workshops Oct 24th or 25th with visiting artist Patti Dyment. Patti will guide you step by step to paint a Bear or Northern Lights. Sat. or Sun 9am-3pm. $100 + supply list. Limited spots so register soon www.creativecentre.ca/classes or 780-814-6080

Get your Chalk the Walk entries in! Draw date for 3 separate $100 gift cards to Michaels craft store is on Monday, September 28!

It's still September, but it's time to start thinking about selling at the CFCA Christmas Show and Sale!

The Centre for Creative Arts has 3 Shimpo Potters Wheels up for Silent Auction. Limit of one per household. Bidding will begin at $400 each and be raised in a minimum of $10 increments. These wheels range from $1800-$2200 new. The auction will run from Oct 5th - Oct 31st at 3pm. You will need a bidding number to bid. Please go in or contact the Centre at 780-814-6080 to bid or if you have any questions.

Our fun and creative classes are taught by talented local artists. Try your hand at painting, drawing, sculpture, sewing, photography or pottery. Classes for kids, teens and adults. Check out our fall classes at https://creativecentre.ca/classes

Check out "Still Standing," featuring one of our favourite students, Karl Andersen! Karl turned 100 years old this year and in celebration we are having an exhibition of some of his work. https://youtu.be/AbjSNdJcZ_I

Fall is a great time to explore a new hobby. We have lots of new art classes starting next week for kids, teens and adults. Smaller class sizes and new safety precautions. https://creativecentre.ca/classes

Every year.... So many beautiful pieces to choose from

The Wearable Arts Show has been a popular event at The Centre for Creative Arts for 10 years with a new live show to celebrate Alberta Culture Days every September. Due to Covid, this years live show has been cancelled but the creativity lives on.

This exhibition and silent auction fundraiser features 30 diverse, original creations generously donated by talented local artists. Bidding starts Friday, please call the centre for a bid number 780-814-6080. All funds generated through the silent auction will support programs at the Centre for Creative Arts, including our Healing Arts Program. The silent auction will run from September 4-26th. The exhibition can be viewed in person at the Centre for Creative Arts or online https://creativecentre.ca//2020-art-squared-silent-auction

Check out our local events line up for Culture Days 2020. Free activity kits, demonstrations, shows, performances, exhibits and virtual events all through out Grande Prairie this September. https://creativecentre.ca/culturedays/events-lineup

exciting opportunity!

Free class at the Centre this Friday, click for details.

Check out our latest exhibition, "The Rite Storm" by Josh Bourget. Striking photography representing lifes rites of passage. Come check it out in person on Wednesdays, 12pm to 6pm and Saturdays from 12pm to 4pm though August. https://youtu.be/fGqZP6m361g

Call to Members: As part of our commitment to showcasing local artwork, and to celebrate our dedicated members, we have released a Call for Submissions for 2D o...r 3D artwork to be featured in the Gallerys reception area. This is an incredible opportunity for emerging Artists looking to build an exhibition history, as thousands of visitors interested in the Arts will see this work. We provide an honorarium to artists for exhibiting their work. Click for full details: https://bit.ly/2PoWb7E Image: Heide Enzmann, Pandemonium, 2020. Alcohol Ink and Paint Marker on Canvas, 36 x 36. Heide is our current Featured Member and her artwork is on display at the Gallery until the end of September.

New barnyard animal buddies in the Centre for Creative Arts Giftshop! Adorable handmade pottery animals by @jaydeepottery. @ The Centre for Creative Arts

Congratulations to our Raffle winner!!! Ticket number 156508 has won $1090! We have contacted the winner with the wonderful news!

New August Hours Wednesdays from 12pm to 6pm Saturdays from 12pm to 4pm

Our 50/50 Raffle Draw was scheduled for July 31, but our ticket stubs have been delayed in transit. Therefore, the draw has been rescheduled for August 4. The winner will receive $1090! Good luck and thank you for your support!

The Centre for Creative Arts once was the home to the Grande Prairie Provincial Court House, although the original location of the Provincial Court House was at... 10032-100 Ave. from 1928-1956. The new Provincial Court House was built after the region was divided into separate judicial districts of Grande Prairie and Peace River. See more

Last two days to see "In Bloom"! Today, Wednesday, July 29 from 2pm to 8pm and Saturday, August 1 from 12pm to 4pm. Come by and see this beautiful show before it is too late!

You can now view "In Bloom" in person until the end of the month. We are open Wednesday 2-8pm and Saturdays 12-4 pm"

Summer camp at the Centre for Creative Arts is filling up fast! Check out some of the fun crafts, from tie dye and collage to clay sculpting and painting, that ...the kids will be exploring this summer! All our summer camps will be adhering to safety protocols and will be safe and fun! Please call 780-814-6080 to register today! See more

Were looking for 10 local artists to showcase their talent during live art demonstrations in Muskoseepi Park this Heritage Day on August 3. Each artist will be... supplied with acrylic paint and canvas at the event and have their finished work displayed in the Ernie Radbourne Pavilion year-round. To apply, artists can email https://bit.ly/3h3tA3y by Monday, July 27 to express their interest with a submission of two original art pieces and their choice of one of the following themes selected by the community to inspire their work: -Grande Prairie through the ages -Historical buildings in the region -The meaning of Muskoseepi All applicants will be reviewed and selected by a panel as there are limited spots available. All artists will receive a $100 remuneration. https://bit.ly/394UrK0

The Centre for Creative Arts will be holding their Annual Silent Auction Fundraiser this September! Over 30 local artists are creating one of a kind square shaped pieces of art that will be auctioned off with the proceeds going right back to the Centre. The auction will run the month of September, ending at 3pm on Saturday, September 26. More details to come!

Only 13 days left to get your raffle tickets! The jackpot is currently at $1490, winner gets half! Get your tickets at https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/creativearts today!

Re-opening to the public!!! The Centre for Creative Arts is happy to announce that we are reopening our Gallery and Gift Shop areas starting on July 11. Unfortunately, other then our limited Summer Camps, classes will not resume until later this fall. We will have limited hours for visiting the Galleries and Gift Shop and the rest of the building will be closed to visitors. ... July Hours: Wednesdays 2pm - 8pm Saturdays 12pm - 4pm Safety protocols will be in place and visitors will be required to disinfect their hand on entering the building and practice physical distancing. Please use the front doors, the back doors will be limited to those who need the elevator.