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The Resilience workshops at MAC are providing me with a much needed life line! I can afford the classes, art supplies are provided, the teachers create a safe, encouraging and inspiring environment and being part of a group of people engaged in art making all contribute to my healing from fire trauma.
I cannot imagine how I would be recovering without these classes!
- Patti J.


Read about the Resilience Project
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WEEK 1: PHOTOGRAPHY ~ NATURE!
Field trip and curation for exhibition

Next: Sat. MAY 5, 12-5pm
Bring reflex camera or cell phone

View our work!

WEEK 2: POETRY/WRITTEN & SPOKEN WORD
Final Class

Sat. MAY 12, 12-5pm
Resilience Chapbook Curation and Preparation

With Clive Matson
Picture, birds and horses
Picture, group meeting at MAC

WEEKS 1 & 3: PAINTING - Final Classes
Next: Sunday MAY 6, 12-5pm!
Encaustic Collage with Laura Kennedy
Saturday MAY 19, 12-5pm
Intuitive Painting with Sage Abella

View our work!

Picture, student painting at MAC

WEEK 3: PRINTMAKING -  Final Class
Next: Sunday MAY 20,12-5pm 
Mixed Techniques
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View our work!


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MAC is thrilled to announce that it has received support from the California Arts Council to launch it's year-long project "Resilience". The grant allows MAC to provide broad access to the arts for all residents of Lake County. It’s a multi-disciplinary and multi generational  project focused on the regeneration of nature after the Jerusalem, Rocky, Valley and Clayton fires. ‘Resilience’ will act as a mirror of nature, reflecting the revitalization of individuals and the community at large through image and word.

‘Resilience’ consists of 4 monthly 5-hour workshops that take place each Saturday, June 2017-May 2018.  All classes will run 12-5pm with a 30 min break .  The monthly cycle is as follows: 
  • Week 1- Photography
  • Week 2- Poetry/Written and Spoken Word
  • Week 3-Painting
  • Week 4-Drawing/Printmaking
Classes are geared towards adults of all ages as well as youth 12 and up.   From beginner to professional, the community is encouraged to participate in monthly classes in one or all four disciplines. Come to a series, take a few classes from different series or come to one class.  Thanks to the Local Impact grant, the cost is just $5 per class or $60 for a complete series in one discipline. Be sure to sign up in advance to reserve your spot as space is limited. The project will culminate in county wide art exhibits and a chapbook (self published book) entitled ‘Resilience’ to showcase images and words of participants work. Resilience begins with Photography Saturday, June 3. 
 

Each workshop is designed to be an engaging and constructive experience where participants learn and create through the guidance of professional artists, educators, poets, and writers including guest artists. The public will also be invited to hear about the changes we are seeing in the environment from local Naturalists through guided hikes and presentations.

Grants from the Arts Council are competitive and require monetary and in-kind matches from local entities. MAC is very grateful to the California Arts Council as well as St. Helena Hospital, Clearlake, Lake County Arts Council, LARCA, Lake County Rising, The Lake County Land Trust, The Cities of Lakeport and Clearlake, The County of Lake, The Woodland Community College, Lake County Campus, The Hub Lower Lake,  Harbor on the Lake, Lake County Economic Development Corporation, Lake County Office of Education, the Middletown Luncheon Club, the Middletown Merchant’s Association and many others who understand the power of the arts to elevate, enrich, strengthen, and sustain a community.

Whether you come to one class or all classes in all four disciplines, attend poetry readings, nature walks or exhibitions, we  encourage folks to take advantage of this wonderful county wide opportunity.  Those interested should register in advance of classes by clicking on links below, by calling 707-809-8118, or by visiting the Art Center in Middletown at the junction of highways 175 and 29 between 11 and 4 Thursday through Sunday.

Here's To Community Resilience! 
Learn more about the Resilience project here!


​View photos of our fieldtrip to Trailside Park!
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The ‘Resilience’ project is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov


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We cannot do our work without the support of our local patrons, members, and state and national agencies.
Thank you!
 No podemos hacer nuestro trabajo sin el apoyo de patrocinadores locales, miembros, y agencias estatales y nacionales. 

¡Gracias!
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The MAC acknowledges that we operate on the unceded ancestral lands of the people known as Pomo, Wappo, Wintun, and Lake Miwok. Their descendants, the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California Nation, live here today.
​They are the past present and future stewards of this land. 

We stand in solidarity with the First People recognizing the great harm done to them here, as well as their resilience. We pledge to continue to build authentic relationships and work together with them through creative action, towards healing both the land and the people.

We also recognize that our work is but a small step towards reconciliation and that there is much work to be done.
El MAC reconoce que operamos en las tierras ancestrales no cedidas de los pueblos conocidos como Pomo, Wappo, Wintun y Lake Miwok. Sus descendientes, la Nación Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California, viven aquí hoy.
Ellos son los cuidadores pasados, presentes y futuros de esta tierra.
Nos solidarizamos con los Primeros Pueblos, reconociendo el gran daño que se les ha causado aquí, así como su resiliencia. Nos comprometemos a continuar construyendo relaciones auténticas y a trabajar junto a ellos mediante acciones creativas, hacia la sanación tanto de la tierra como de las personas.
También reconocemos que nuestro trabajo es solo un pequeño paso hacia la reconciliación y que queda mucho por hacer.
EcoArts of Lake County, also known as Middletown Art Center, is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to offering art opportunities and education, cultural enrichment and ecological awareness, contributing to the wellbeing of our rural community in Lake County, California.
Our FEIN number is 20-2027708.
 EcoArts de Lake County, también 
conocida como Middletown Art Center, es una organización 501(c)(3) dedicada a ofrecer oportunidades y educación artísticas, enriquecimiento cultural y conciencia ecológica, contribuyendo al bienestar de la comunidad en el condado rural de Lake, California.
Nuestro número de identificación fiscal federal (FEIN) es 
20-2027708.

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P.O. Box 1616,  21456 State Hwy 175 Middletown, CA 95461     |   Info@MiddletownArtCenter.org  
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  • MAC
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      • CAMP 2025
      • Camp 2024
      • Sponsor Camp
      • CAMP 2020 photos
    • FIELDTRIPS
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      • ART 4A
  • CALLS FOR WORK
    • artists
  • EXHIBITS
    • HANDS MEET EARTH
    • COBB MOUNTAIN ART & ECOLOGY PROJECT
    • ENTANGLEMENT
    • RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME
    • THE SPACE BETWEEN
    • RAICES HERMOSAS - Gorgeous Roots
    • CHANGES
    • BIRDS, BASKETS and OTHER THOUGHTS, artwork by MEYO MARRUFO
    • OUTSIDE–IN INSIDE–OUT
    • DICHOTOMIES and OUR SAFETY OUR SOVEREIGNTY
    • IMPRINTS
    • BELONGING
    • EARTH SKY AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
    • CLUSTERS
    • MOVE
    • LIGHT
    • TWO-WISE-MULTIPLES
    • APART AND CONNECTED
    • HOME
    • ELEMENTAL
    • DREAMS
    • POSTCARDS FROM ISOLATION
    • 2022-2024
    • 2018-2019 >
      • OBSESSION
      • LIVING COLOR
      • HOLDING OPPOSITES
      • NATURE
      • ISSUES
      • ALL SOULS
      • RESILIENCE - Art In Dialogue with Nature
      • Members 2019
      • MEMBERS 2018
    • 2015-2017 >
      • MEMBERS HOLIDAY 2017
      • PREMIERE
      • WATER!
      • GIMME SHELTER!
      • ECO CENTRIC
      • SUBVERSIVE BIOLOGY
    • FIRE ANNIVERSARY >
      • ALL THAT IS NOW (4th)
      • A NEW STORY (3rd)
      • WITNESSING (2nd) >
        • DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION
      • ASHES TO ART (1st)
      • COMMUNITY WORKS
      • COMMUNITY WORKS 2019
  • VIRTUAL GALLERY
    • PURCHASE ART
  • PROJECTS
    • Murals
    • Being Leonardo >
      • Being Leonardo K-8
      • Being Leonardo HS
      • Leonardo Remotely
      • Being Leonardo Overview
    • CHAPBOOK
    • LOCUS
    • Resilience
    • RESTORE
  • WATER BASKET
    • WATERBASKET
  • HARLEM VOICES
    • HARLEMVOICES
    • JUNETEENTH
    • SOUNDS OF LIBERATION
    • HARLEM VOICES BACKGROUND
  • RECIPROCITY
    • BIODIVERSITY AT TRAILSIDE
    • RECIPROCITY ARTISTS
    • ANULUS UNITATIS
    • CALLING THE CHI - HITCH
    • EARTH TO EARTH
    • ECLIPSOPY
    • FINDING BALANCE
    • GREAT BASIN
    • MESTIZAJE GERMINATION
    • MITZEMOA NOYOLLO
    • OBSIDIAN BOWL
    • RESURRECTION
    • SHADE
    • SIKA-KA Quail
    • TREASURES
    • WATTA
    • WEB OF LIFE
    • ECOARTS
  • RAICES HERMOSAS
    • RAICESHERMOSAS
    • RHCURRICULUM
  • EAGLE & CONDOR
    • EAGLE & CONDOR SPANISH
    • Sponsor Eagle and Condor
  • WEAVING
    • EARTHSKY FIELDTRIPS
    • earth-sky-resources
    • EARTH SKY
    • weaving place
  • SUPPORT MAC
    • MEMBERSHIP
    • Professional Member
    • SPONSOR
    • Volunteer
  • MAC IN THE NEWS