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Move to new CAL home coming soon - You can help!
CAL's gallery in the Atkins City Center will be closed for the move from July 21. We will re-open in the new gallery on August 1 with an exhibit entitled The Artists Behind the Artists: Celebrating Mizzou's Art Education Graduate Program, running August 1 - 16 with a reception on Wednesday, August 13, from 6 - 8pm. The Grand Opening Party for CAL's new gallery is scheduled for Thursday, October 23, in conjuction with the opening reception for the Columbia Invitational Show. Join us! This is an exciting time for CAL! Move Fundraising Continues This July, the Columbia Art League will move to its fabulous new gallery at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. It will be the highest profile home that CAL has had in its 50 year history: a glorious, high-ceilinged space, with direct visibility from Ninth Street, two classrooms for expanded education programming for children and adults, and a larger gallery. There is of course no such thing as a free lunch or a free home, and whilst the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts has borne the cost of creating the shell of our new home, the cost of all the behind the scenes wires and piping, plus fitting it out to gallery specifications is a cost that CAL must cover. Our design team estimates that the total costs will be around $150,000. The great news is that since we started our fundraising drive in August 2007, we have raised over $110,000 towards those costs – much of it in small donations. We're certainly on the fundraising home-straight, and, with your help, can edge that little bit closer to the goal of creating an amazing new art space for our city of the arts. CAL invites you to be part of the new CAL gallery by making a contribution to this wonderful home for the visual arts in Columbia. Even the smallest donation counts. Please see the Missouri Theatre Center Move Fund for details on how to donate. Congratulations to CAL's Scholarship Winners! Kelsey A. Simon, Rock Bridge High School Class of 2008, received CAL's Betty Brown Scholarship. Kaylin Lapin, Hickman High School Class of 2008, received CAL's Carolyn Birkes Scholarship. Congratulations! Spring Fundraising a BIG Success! Thanks to the efforts of CAL's fundraising committee and the support of many, many Friends of CAL, the April/May major events raised over $12,000 for CAL and the move to the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. Thank you, everyone! See the slideshow from the May 1 event at PS: Gallery. (opens new window) CAL Award Winners Jefferson City Art Club's annual Adult Artist Exhibit awarded Best in Show to Bill Helvey for a pencil portrait, and Renate Brady 2nd place in the pastel division for a landscape. The exhibition continues through June 21 in the Miller Performing Arts Center. 129 artists participated in the juried exhibit. Inaugural Columbia Invitational The opening show at CAL’s new gallery at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts will be the first of CAL’s Columbia Invitationals, a selection of artwork from Missouri’s finest artists, as selected by a panel of academic and professional artists, and art curators. The Invitational opens October 23 and closes November 22, 2008. Thomas McCormick of McCormick Gallery (Chicago) will judge the awards. The Invitational Process describes the work of many who have made this exhibition possible. For older news, please see the News Archives. |
CAL info ABOUT CAL in the News In a League of Its Own (Columbia Daily Tribune) CAL hires first education director (Columbia Daily Tribune) Chinwe Ndubuka (Columbia Daily Tribune) Event of the week: Art in the Park (Vox Magazine) Artists roll out imagination with CAL ArtCycle event (Columbia Daily Tribune) Rising temperatures reflect fever pitch of local festivals (Columbia Daily Tribune) Master equine artists to teach May classes (Columbia Daily Tribune) Equine show at Columbia Art League (scroll down) (Columbia Daily Tribune) The dark horse: Columbia exhibits equine art Retired architect is painter at heart: Jerry Thompson For older CAL in the News, please see the News Archives.
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The Columbia Art League will move to its new gallery at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts: a glorious, high-ceilinged space, with direct visibility from Ninth Street, two classrooms for expanded education programming for children and adults, and a larger gallery. CAL's move to our new gallery is scheduled for July 24 and 25. You can help! CAL needs people with muscles for some heavy lifting (furniture, for example) as well as the lighter moving tasks of packing and unpacking.