Chico Art Center reopens

The Chico Art Center is open again.

The center is open Friday through Sunday every weekend.

On Friday it's open from 12 p.m.

Until 4 p.m.

And on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.

To 4 p.m.

Com.# well the coronavirus shut down the chico art center... now it's doors are reopened.

Action news now reporter amy lanski was there today, she shows us what this means for local artists.

Cameron kelly: "we have been able to serve our community while we have been closed."

Cameron kelly is the gallery director at chico art center.

She says they had exhibits online, and their artists and audience were supportive of being closed, but really wanted to open.

Cameron: "when we were able to have the go ahead we thought well this exhibition which is annual would be a great way to open because it is completely community driven."

The exhibition is called the 'art of remembrance' and kelly says anyone from the community is welcome to bring in an offering for the community altar to honor a loved one... or simply add their name.

Kelly says during covid artists had to get even more creative with their art.

Cameron: "we are inatly creative thinkers and problem solvers.

So i have been very impressed and inspired by what artists have been doing online by vamping up their facebook pages and using instagram."

One butte college artist said it's been harder for her.

Lydia chauvin "well like when i was going to the campus you could go into the lab and see other people's work and be inspired by that and be like 'oh i want to try that' or sommething along those lines.

Now i only have my own work and the internet to work off so it is different."

Lydia chauvin is a student who contributed to the exhibition and says the art center being open is inspiring her.

Lydia: "really nice to see everyone else's work, that is something i have always enjoyed seeing other people and how they do things."

Kelly added the chico art center is non-profit and any of the art sold goes directly to the artists who made it.

Reporting from chico.

Amy lanski action news now coverage you can count on.

The art center is open on fridays from 12-4 and saturdays and sundays from 10-4.

The art of remembrance exhibition will be going