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

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.

Quilts on Display by Kaye England
September 4 - October 2
Kaye England began quilt making and fabric collecting in earnest in the early 1980’s, but was influenced early on by a family of needle workers. She now designs fabrics forWilmington Prints and heads her own publishing company, Kaye England Publications. Kaye travels the world conducting sell-out lectures and workshops showcasing her wonderful fabrics, patterns and quilts, as well as her unique and honest outlook on life. Kaye is also committed to education and business development for owners of quilt shops and has developed a wildly popular annual retreat called Kaye’s Quilting College for shop owners as well as a consumer edition. Kaye can also be seen on several episodes of HGTV’s Simply Quilts, and was featured in the February 2008 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. Kaye has been described as a colorful individual generating enthusiasm and excitement in her work and having great fun in the process. Despite a hectic teaching schedule, Kaye always finds time to quilt. She has written over 13 books and recently produced three feature length instructional DVD’s using her Nifty Notions® “Cut for the Cure™� rulers called MORE…Smart Piecing™ Techniques & Plates-A-Plenty. Kaye’s latest DVD is all about squares called QUBED with her friend Vicki Tracy. Kaye was born and raised on a farm in Glasgow, Kentucky. She now resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has two children and six grandchildren. To read more about Kaye or to view her books and fabrics, please visit her web site at www.KayeEngland.com

Quilt Show - Fall Splendor of Quilts
October 1 and 2
The Chaska Area Quilt Club presents the "Fall Splendor of Quilts" quilt show on Friday, October 1, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 2, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the CCC. There will be hundreds of quilt on display that have been made by members as well as a small quilt auction open for anyone to bid on the small quilts. There will be 8 vendors of quilt fabrics and quilting products. A bed turning of "quilts that have a story" will run every couple hours for quilt enthusiasts. The raffle quilt, "Minnesota Summer" (shown above) will be on display and tickets available for anyone to win for $1. The raffle quilt was designed by award-winning artists, Audree Sells and Tracy Trevethan. Nationally known quilt artist, Kaye England (see bio on right), will be the featured speaker and workshop teacher. Her lecture “Memoirs of a Quilter is scheduled for Friday October 1 at 3:00 p.m. and Saturday morning October 2 at 11:00 a.m. at the Chaska Community Center Theater. Lecture is free with show admission. Kaye will share quilts from all of her books as well as some quilts that will boggle the mind as to why they were created.

Debbie Brewers October 5 - October 29
With bold black lines, a blurring and eradicating and re-drawing of those lines, I confront and change the pristine hardened white barriers of these empty rolling spaces of time. I reveal and re-discover the complexities of self as my eraser leaves only trails of memory where harsh black lines once were. Grayish rivers emerge that flow nervously across the surface, reflective of my own apprehension and sense of rediscovery.
My drawings are the purest and most direct translation of my emotions. The simplification of the medium allows that. The usage of charcoal and pastel enables me to consider simultaneously the character of self, the human expression, and the quality of surrounding light, atmosphere and all that can be expressed by drawing. And only when I feel drained of effort, which may go on for several sessions, can I with a clear mind and without hesitation, give free rein to my charcoal or pastel stick. Once my emotive line has modeled the light of my white paper without destroying whiteness, I can neither add nor take away anything. The page is written; no correction possible. If it is not adequate, there is no alternative than to begin again.

Rick Kochenash
November 1 - December 4
Chaska in Paint II
Back by popular demand, this show will exhibit paintings done on location around the Chaska area.This show will contain all originals available for sale executed in both watercolor and oil paint Originally from Pennsylvania I now have lived in Minnesota for 24 years. I paint from my garden and a small studio attached to my house, formally the garage. Married now 28 wonderful years, I have been blessed with two children, a girl and boy, one just starting college and the other finishing high school.To me, it is my fellowship with my God and Father and then my family that I deem as the most important and relevant to mention first as part of my bio. It is this that defines me more than my work, education, and awards. Almost all artists’ strive to portray “light� and reference it in their bio’s. I believe true “light� is not seen with the eye,but with the spirit inside, Psalm 36:9.

Chaska Community Photo Show and Contest
December 7 - 29
Artist and award ceremony Monday, December 13 at 6:30 p.m. Public welcome, refreshments served.

We invite all local photographers to participate in our first ever Chaska Community Photo Show and Contest. The subject of the photo contest is “Chaska Scenes.� Photos will be on display at the Chaska Community Center from December 7–29 with our awards ceremony and reception scheduled for Monday, December 13 at 6 p.m. To participate please fill out an entry form that you can download from our website at chaskacommunitycenter. com or pick one up at the Chaska Community Center. Entries are limited to one photo per applicant and must be framed and ready to hang.
Please see entry form for complete details. Application deadline November 22, 2010. If you have any questions please contact Aimee Peterson at (952) 227-7742.
Happy Photo-ing!