• EC Webisodes: Hamlet

    Introducing:  EC performances serialized as video webisodes. We have two webisodes up on our YouTube channel ECArtists.  You can also find them under our GALLERIES page.  Here is one to give you a taste… Oh, Shakespeare! Brooding Hamlet (played by James Brizendine) is informed by his father’s ghost, the late King (played by Luiz Gomez), that…

  • Get On Up… To The EC Office Shop

              EC art is back in the EC shop.  If you missed us at the Artisan Fair, don’t fret.  The EC Office Shop is open all year in Room 6 on the 3rd floor of the Arts Center.  With 4 short flights of stairs, you can get your shopping done and…

  • On Exhibit: VESSELS and HOUSES

    On the 3rd floor landing, the DIA DE LOS MUERTOS exhibit is coming down to make room for HOUSES.  VESSELS will be featured on the 2nd floor landing. VESSELS and HOUSES are exhibits of ceramic works made of paper clay. You may have seen paper clay in your local arts and crafts store.  That paper…

  • Dance Like A Zombie?

    August 28, 2014. Denise Saelee practices the insanely well-known zombie dance from Thriller. Almost everyone we know has seen the music video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller, where funky and surprisingly agile dead people rise from their graves to rock out. In preparation for a new performance project (tentatively titled The EC Halloween Special), the EC artists are studying the dance…

  • Snail Hunt

    We hope you like our street art snails. We made them just for you. If you love one so much, that you can’t help but take it with you, we totally understand. 1. Give it a nice home, with lots of love. 2. Post a photo of your new friend, with a tag like #ECSnails,…

  • Meanwhile, back at Music class…

    The Snail Invasion street art project is taking the front seat right now, but we wanted to show what awesome things are happening in non-snail related activities.  (Photos by Christopher Moon Trent)

  • October 2013 EC Snails: The Invasion Begins

    After they escaped from the kiln, the snails made their way across the classroom, out onto the 3rd floor landing, onto the elevator, down to the 1st floor, through the galleries, and out of the Arts Center… Special Thanks go out to EC Artists Anne Marsh, Melissa Fuentes, Hilda Cotta, Michael Cordova, and our awesome…

  • October 2013 EC Snails: Out of the Kiln

    500 snails were fired in the kiln. Here, the snails from the first shelf are escaping the kiln. This is a bit of fun from our Clay/Ceramic Arts instructor Kristine Hansen.

  • Enrichment Center Advice for Royal Baby George

    The EC artists followed the royal pregnancy in its final weeks, wondering when the baby would come, and if it would be a boy or girl… a king or queen. When a baby boy was born to William and Kate in July 2013, the EC artists wondered about the kind of person he would grow…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    Phase 3:  “Glazing” is painting… Technically, you’re painting a coating of silica-based fluid (glaze), which, when fired in the kiln, will fuse to the surface of the clay heart… now you know why we just refer to it as glazing. When you spend as many hours as we do surrounded by art, making art, promoting…