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THEATER AND GALLERY
The Community Center Theater continues the City of Chaska's tradition of high quality facilities. The space is capable of seating 240 spectators and includes an orchestra pit for full musical productions, a sound and light booth, professional stage rigging for curtains and sets and a complete sound system.
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 please call 952-448-3176 x7748 or email at jwiemann@chaskamn.com.
Theater Reservation Form
Upcoming Theater Events and Upcoming 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 interested in showing their 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
Upcoming Gallery Events
Preschool Artwork:
TREKS & TRAILS
MARCH 9–29
ARTISTS RECEPTION: Thursday, March 14, 4:30–6 p.m.
We will be showcasing artwork done by the 4 and 5 year old preschoolers at Treks and Trails Preschool located here at the Chaska Community Center. See what vivid imaginations these preschoolers have to offer.
Lucy LeMay: Watercolors
MARCH 31–MAY 3
Around 1962 Grandmom dropped off some old oil paints at my mother’s house when I was 13 years old. My mother, who had seven children, was not starting a new hobby outside of the washing and cooking. So a younger sister and I commandeered the paint and we both have been painting into our sixties. · In the seventies, since women were all predestined to be teachers or nurses, I got a teaching degree in New Jersey where we lived. I have taught Art to adults and children for 23 years now with a short nine year hiatus to sell wholesale art supplies in a four state territory in the Midwest. Retailers I sold to had to learn about products I sold and so the teaching always continued even though I was employed as a sales person. · The Art here is a mix of “new digital media” together with older “established” artist supplies. I like to experiment with different combinations of materials and look to a fresh approach to making ideas come to life. In the last four years I have had to teach digital media from the Adobe Creative Suite. My high school students are pushing the digital boundaries by printing onto watercolors or inked backgrounds or mono-prints. We also transfer digital images onto collage, use Yupo paper instead of photo paper and collage with tissue paper printed with a digital image. The “dry artist” isn’t always willing to get into “wet” art but I love how infinitely images can be manipulated, recopied, re-colored and rejuvenated. · We always laugh in class about how we don’t know where we will end up on “our journey” through creativity.
CAPSTONE STUDENTS
MAY 2 - JUNE 2·
RECEPTION MAY 5, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
All artists showcased during this show are either a capstone or in an AP level high school art class. Their artwork will be for sale and a reception of the students will take place the first Sunday of the show on May 5, from 2:00–4:00 p.m. The public is welcome. · Special thank you to Sara Hanlon and Janet Brose from the Carver County Arts Consortium for
being mentors to these students.
Sara Lee Hanlon
JUNE 5–JULY 12
A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, I have enjoyed decades as a career studio artist. · My definition of what an artist should be, artworks must “say something” through in depth research and study, continual experimentation achieving growth and development. I am a life student of the humanities. My works are commentaries on our global culture, a rather broad and all-encompassing topic. However, I leave the viewer an open end to interpret. My art has evolved well beyond the mainstream. Even so, I concentrate on fundamentals of design and color with intent to appeal to a viewing public. · I am well versed in a variety of different mediums employing traditional and nontraditional formats including representational works. My heart lies with the surreal and abstract. During the course of my life, I have struck upon something new: Polymeric Fusion®, my trademark; a “medium of expression and construction.” · The definition of Polymeric Fusion®: A new and unique medium of construction applied to making artworks. Polymeric Fusion® re-creates the original form within the range of acrylic and polymer materials (plastics). The results are bonded (fused) together. Polymeric Fusion® can also be combined with other materials using the polymers to capture, alter, enhance or encapsulate. · My “art supplies” (a commentary of itself) are retrieved from the myriad of our garbage plastics, preventing some of them from hitting our landfills. Garbage plastics, a byproduct of crude oil, are excellent source of “raw materials” so I can make subject matter, texture and dimension in works of art.
Donna Carver
JULY 13–AUGUST 24
As long as I can remember I have had the compulsion to create. Painting for me is sheer joy I forget about almost everything else when I am working on a project. When I turned 70 years old I decided to paint whatever struck my fancy. I am interested in many things so as a result I have an eclectic mix of paintings. If forced to choose an overall theme it would have to be nature, mainly animals and flowers. However, I have painted everything from abstracts to flowers to zebras. Recently I have gone back to my rural farmer’s daughter roots and have completed several paintings with farm themes.
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