In 2016, the Orange Art Center was officially incorporated into Orange Community Education & Recreation. The Art Center, located on campus just west of Orange High School, was renovated and now shines as a thriving place for artists of all experiences levels to learn, master and discover fine art mediums.
Thanks to successful capital campaigns over the years, the Orange Art Center has doubled the size of the original building, enhancing instructional spaces, expanding exhibition areas and building a cutting-edge ceramics studio. In total, the Center includes four inviting and inspiring studios for our four departments: Painting + Drawing, Ceramics, Fine Jewelry and Young Artists.
In 2017, the Center received an extensive facelift, including a re-branding and remodel of both the building’s exterior and the ceramics studio. The re-branding included a new logo, icon, signage and website, and signaled a new chapter in the organization’s history, giving it a new identity and raising its profile in the community-at-large. Although the Orange Art Center became part of the Orange City School District in August 2016, the Center continues to offer classes and workshops to all artists in our community and throughout Northeast Ohio.