{"id":290,"date":"2013-10-19T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/?p=290"},"modified":"2013-10-19T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T18:52:34","slug":"explore-danvilles-community-arts-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/2013\/10\/19\/explore-danvilles-community-arts-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Danville\u2019s Community Arts Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ADAM FALLUJI<\/strong> – CENTO WRITER<\/em><\/p>\n

Attending a liberal arts school means expanding your creative horizons and learning to impact the world in ways you had not yet imagined. At Centre, students have the convenience of living just up the street from the Community Arts Center, a place where one can practice doing exactly that.<\/p>\n

This federal building on West Main Street has been an artistic heart of the Danville community since 2004.<\/p>\n

A hub of different forms of expression, the Community Arts Center is currently displaying a Horizon Contemporary Landscape show, featuring fifteen pieces selected from a nationwide collection of submissions.<\/p>\n

More than just paintings of rolling hills, the pieces offer contemporary takes on landscape in various different mediums, including photography, collages, paint, and even pixels.<\/p>\n

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Danville\u2019s Community Arts Center is located on Main Street, a short walk from Centre\u2019s campus. They love to host Centre volunteers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A walk upstairs in the Community Arts Center will take viewers on a tour of Danville\u2019s buildings, re-invented through the Mainstream Illustrated show. Local artists that meet in the building once a month created pieces based on the architecture of Main Street. Additionally The Heart of Danville donated some historic photos to the show.<\/p>\n

The Community Arts Center has provided a way for local talent to share their vision. \u201cI like [the Arts Center] because it\u2019s a good place to interact with the public,\u201d local artist Mark Wilhelm said. He has worked at the Community Arts Center since last September. \u201cI don\u2019t place a really high value on selling art; more than anything, I like to see people\u2019s reaction to it, and hopefully it makes them happier,\u201d Wilhelm said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Arts Center is great for that because you get a lot of people coming through here. The art scene might not be the number one thing on [these visitors\u2019] list, but they\u2019re exposed to [art when they come through] here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilhelm is working on an upcoming show in Feb., featuring pieces made from recycled materials. He is also attempting to gather people with an interest in the video game MineCraft to see if he can repurpose their skills in the game towards creating art.<\/p>\n

The Community Arts Center encourages students to get involved in their various classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that Centre students will come to the Community Arts Center and find inspiration from the art on the walls and music in the hallways to take a dance, drama, or painting class and learn how to express themselves in a new way,\u201d Marketing Director Chelsea Compton said. Compton would also like to encourage students \u201cto come intern or volunteer with us and gain work experience that will benefit them in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking advantage of the classes offered at the Arts Center has proven to be beneficial in the long run for many former students. One such Centre alumna, Mariel Smith, now works at the Communications Office on campus as a Communications Fellow. Before that, she worked as the Marketing Director of the Arts Center for a year, following her positive experiences volunteering there as a student.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first I walked past it all the time and didn\u2019t think to look inside, and that\u2019s something I regret, because there\u2019s so much going on,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to get in this \u2018Centre bubble,\u2019 where students and the Danville community aren\u2019t mixing. The Arts Center is a great place to go get more involved with Danville.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with taking classes, the Arts Center also offers opportunities for volunteering that can teach valuable skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was connected to something bigger than myself,\u201d Smith said. \u201cYou can learn a lot of skills there, like how non-profits work, because the staff is so small that you can be intimately involved in running it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hands-on experiences that come of volunteering at the Arts Center can be their own reward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fundraisers we have on campus are great, but at the Arts Center you get to have a more direct connection with the people you\u2019re helping,\u201d Smith said. \u201cYou get to look someone in the eyes and know that you\u2019re doing something good for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enriching experiences and an appreciation of the arts are what Centre College is all about, so the next time you pass the Danville Community Arts Center, take a peek inside.<\/p>\n

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