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Supporting CFAER this #GivingTuesday means we can continue to cultivate accessible arts opportunities in NELA for all. Your support helps us make art happen! cfaer.squarespace.com/donate

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Celebrate Play Music on the Porch day with us this Sat. 8/28 from 11am-2pm! We'll have live musical performances plus a DIY Zine workshop! Come bask in the end of summer sun with us! This is an outdoor event. (Face covering & social distancing guidelines required)

Play Music on the Porch is happening on Saturday, 8/28/21 & CFAER will be taking part to celebrate & connect with our community we've missed so much! Stay tuned for more info about how you can join CFAER in celebrating. Learn more about the initiative at @playmusicontheporch

⭐️Internship Alert⭐️ CFAER is Looking for a Cultural Events & an Arts Education Intern! These positions will offer LA County students the opportunity to work at a unique multidisciplinary arts organization, while helping us create programming reflective of our amazing community.

Teacher Appreciation Week may be drawing to a close, but we appreciate our teaching artists every day! Thank you for sharing your wonderful, unique talents, adapting to changes of the pandemic and still providing the community with creative expression through challenging times.

Join horticulturalist Antonio Sanchez for a virtual plant talk as we dig deep into the topic of native plants. We'll make our own wildflower seed bombs and learn about the important role native plants play in our local environment! FREE All Ages Link in bio to register

Join us on Fri. 4/30 for live projections of World on Fire artworks. Starting at 8:30pm, stop by the sidewalk in front of CFAER to view the projections light up the building!

World on Fire Special Announcement! World on Fire artist Linda Lyke has donated her special limited edition print "Anna's Hummingbird and Nest" to benefit CFAER! Limited to 10 prints available for $250 each with 50% of the proceeds donated to CFAER Contact info@cfaer.org to buy

Keep Calm and Carry Yarn! We are hard at work preparing art supply kits to deliver to our amazing Imagine Studio partner schools next week! Looking forward to another semester filled with imagination and abundant creativity. Stay tuned to see the exciting projects we’ll create!

@labeledbones Hi Erin, thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately we are still closed to due COVID-19 and are not scheduling any events at the moment. We'll announce a reopening date when we are able to. Best of luck finding a venue!

@CenterArtsER Hi, I've been trying to get in touch with someone about having my wedding at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock in May 2022. I've tried the email and phone contacts for wedding rentals on your website but haven't been able to get a hold of anyone. Can you help?

Thank you to the Boulevard Sentinel and columnist Pablo Nukaya-Petralia for including us in NELA Art and Culture, March 2021.Boulevard Sentinel is a community treasure, we appreciate the focus on local news and the people and places that make NELA so distinctive.

Did you know our cherished CFAER building was constructed in 1914 and used to be The Old Carnegie Library? Eagle Rock has such a rich and treasured history! Thank you Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society for preserving the city of Eagle Rock's history. Images courtesy of ERVHS.

Check out our upcoming programming!

New Workshop Alert: Join us for Intro to Acrylic with Riley Strom! In this 8-week online painting workshop, we will develop our skills through exercises in color, composition, symbolism, abstraction, and more!

Check out these awesome prints from last week's workshop taught by CFAER’s esteemed teaching artist, Luke Davis! Students carved an image into styrofoam, used brayers to apply tempera paint, carefully transferred the image, and removed the paper to reveal the printed magic! ✨

New workshop Alert! Join us for Pocket Poetics with Leslie K. Gray, a 3-day workshop where you'll create your own mini book of poetry from cover to cover! March 17th-19th from 6:30-8:00pm. All ages. Link in bio to sign up

An Artist We Admire: Elizabeth Dallas is sharing her talents with the community as the teaching artist for our Embroidered Postcards workshop! Through her work, she thoughtfully explores storytelling and finds herself especially entranced by the repetition of making stitches.

When you support CFAER, art grows in our community! Your donations make it possible for us to deliver new art supplies to youth in NELA, when they need it the most. Donate via Venmo @cfaer or via Paypal info@cfaer.org.

This week we've been packing supplies and safely delivering materials kits for our After School Arts program Imagine Studio! We can't wait to create with our community of students with these exciting ingredients. instagram.com/p/CKPeI9_FBuj/