The theater is able to accommodate community as well as professional productions and is an ideal space for speakers, seminars and business meetings.  No reservations are made over the phone.  For more information and a reservation form please call 952-448-3176 x7748 or email at jwiemann@chaskamn.com.

Upcomming Theater Events and Upcomming Gallery Events

For Chaska Valley Family Theater events, please check out their webiste:www.cvft.org.

Gallery

The Community Center Gallery space is richly appointed colonnade that serves as a pre and post function theater space equipped with track lighting for the exhibition of artwork and sculpture. Artist intersted in showing theri work can receive an application form by calling 952-448-3176x7742 or click here to download one.

Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday 5:30 am -9:00 pm and sunday 8:00 am - 9:00 pm

Upcomming Gallery Events

Associated Watercolorists June 28-July 30
Over ten years ago, a group of professional watercolor painters came together to form the Associated Watercolorists. They all share a love of the medium and its fluid characteristics. The paintings showing at the Chaska Community Center are original art, not prints, and done on acid-free paper, framed and ready to be hung in your home or place of business. Associated Watercolorists are glad to show their work as a group. Although all work in in watercolor, each artist has their own style and the paintings complement each other. The Associated Watercolorists have years of education and experience and have won many top awards. They are happy to be showing paintings at the Chaska Community Center again.

Art Manno August 1 - September 3
Art History
I was born in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. I spent my life in the arts. As a young man, I would often go to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan to sketch from the window displays, learning t0 draw and paint wildlife, which I still do today. I studied commercial art at Art Career School and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I worked at some of New York’s top advertising agencies as an Art Director. . . Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, Ogilvey and Mather, Young and Rebicam and an agency, where I created my character Bumbino. A co-worker Jennifer Gwaltney and I were assigned a project to create a poster to select an employee from our group for a “Worker of the Month� award. Together we came up with a bumblebee concept called “The Worker Bee.� The bumblebee drawing drew instant acclaim. Well, one day I was looking at my wall where Bumbino was hanging and I believe God put on my heart to do a children’s book, basically for my own satisfaction. I always loved Walt Disney growing up. I drew all his characters whenever I could and always dreamed of creating my very own and it finally happened. Besides wildlife, I do Renoir style painting. Favorite masters, Renoir and Michelangelo. Favorite wildlife artist, Robert Bateman. I also collect Roy Rogers Collectable. Family, wife Louise, one bet chocolate cocker Cappuccino. married children, our son Michael and his wife Chris, our two grandchildren Allissa and Taylor, our daughter Allison and her husband Andy. We all live in Minneapolis.