December 2024
Executive Director Position
We’re excited to share more about an upcoming job posting for the Arts Association’s first Executive Director.
A dedicated team of three board officers (our President, Treasurer, and Secretary) will facilitate the hiring and onboarding process, ensuring that we select the best candidate to lead the Silverton Art Center. Together, SAA board leaders have created a financial runway that will see this position self-sustainable by 2027.
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November 2024
Annual Holiday Party – December 7th!
Our Annual Holiday Party is coming up Saturday, December 7th, and we’d love for you to join us! This festive event is a time to celebrate our year, officially vote in our board leaders, and enjoy delicious refreshments and holiday cheer. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow artists, community members, and local families as we celebrate another year of creativity and community. And you don’t have to be a member to join the party — so come kick off the holiday season with us!
Event Details:
Saturday, December 7th @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Silverton Art Center — Borland Community Arts Space — 303 Coolidge St., Silverton OR 97381
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October 2024
Art Center Painted - More Improvements Coming!
Thank you to everyone that helped us paint the Art Center! It looks so much better, and it was a pleasure to see our community in action — friends, members, teachers — all showing up to love on our buildings. We’re still finishing up here and there with trim paint, but the majority is done.
As we head further into fall, a contingent of our board is strategizing on our next grant cycle that will facilitate further improvements to the Art Center — not just repairs and paint, but new cabinets and a projector system for the classroom side to improve the experiences of our teachers and students.
We’re also building a financial runway for an Art Center Director staff position, and plan to post a job listing early next year. We see this position as an essential element to sustain and further develop our ongoing programs and keep the arts accessible and thriving in Silverton. We’re excited to share more about this soon!
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September 2024
Silver Falls Film Fest a Success!
The second Silver Falls Film Festival, rescheduled to August 30th because of weather, ended up on a perfectly clear and warm evening — just right as a capper to our summer season. The selected films came from locals, movie-makers from other parts of the world, and our own summer film camp students. The projects were funny, sad, vulnerable, and all together heartening. Several attendees remarked that it was the best night at the movies they’d had in a long time!
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August 2024
Summer Fiber Arts Camp!
Some of the projects completed in the fiber arts camp were: creating hand spun yarn, round weaving with hand spun wool, making knitted and crocheted elements, a small quilt with embroidered embellishments and making a silk painted creation in an embroidery hoop.
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July 2024
Check out our ART FOR ALL offerings!
The Silverton Art Center applied for, and was awarded, a grant that allows us to offer classes to the community at a reduced cost. The same grant that is funding the summer arts camps (Lynn’s Smile Fund of Oregon), is SUBSIDIZING a portion of the class fee and/or the materials for these upcoming classes!
Remember, members get a 15% discount on all programming!
To sign up for membership, head over to our members page, here!
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