Thank you for your interest in employment with the Salem Art Association. We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and qualified workforce, and strive to maintain a staff that works together to realize our mission: To actively engage the community in the appreciation of the arts through contemporary art exhibitions, events, and education. Learn more about other oppertunies.
Salem Art Association (SAA) invites school aged artists (K-12) in Marion, Polk,and Yamhill Counties to participate in our annual YOUNG ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE!
SATURDAY APRIL 10, APRIL 17, APRIL 25
10 AM – 2 PM BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Salem Art Association (SAA) invita a artistas en edad escolar (K-12) de los condados de Marion, Polk y Yamhill a participar en nuestra MUESTRA anual de JÓVENES ARTISTAS.
SÁBADOS 10, 17 Y 25 DE ABRIL DE
10 AM – 2 PM SÓLO CON CITA
Works by V. Falcón Vázquez, Pedro World Citizen & Roberto Orán
March 16 – April 21, 2021
We invite you in this experimental journey in which we aim to bridge the gap between different world-views via Music, Art, and Poetry. Our intention is one of creating a vision for healing, unity and new beginnings within our own perspective of “Tiempo – Cycles” for past, present and future generations.
Le invitamos a leer estas páginas y a disfrutar de regalos que serán apreciados, obras de arte que inspiran y elevan, y hermosos artículos para el uso diario. A través de esta plataforma, le animamos a apoyar a los artistas locales y a mantener el arte en nuestras comunidades.
SAA has a series of Art Boxes available for teachers to use in the classroom. Teaching Artists have recorded short videos of art activities using materials found around the house to do at home with students! Scroll down for videos.
Musical Line Drawing with Sonia Allen
Drawing with Shapes with Teaching Artist Nancy Kurz
Calligraphy with Lyn Graybeal
The Salem Art Association is a 501c3 non-profit organization serving the mid-Willamette Valley since 1919.
Due to the impacts of the pandemic, Salem Art Association is closed until further notice. However this organization remains committed to building community through the arts and this is something we bequeath to the future.
We stand together and know that art in our lives is absolutely pivotal in understanding one another, in finding common ground, and in imagining creative solutions together. Art brings us together and unites us in our humanity. It enhances our natural instinct to overcome obstacles and to care for each other – to remember what it means to be human, especially during the most challenging times.
Through this platform, we will be serving our artists and community with opportunities and interactions in the arts while respecting the need to keep everyone safe doing the current pandemic.
Le invitamos a leer estas páginas y a disfrutar de regalos que serán apreciados, obras de arte que inspiran y elevan, y hermosos artículos para el uso diario. A través de esta plataforma, le animamos a apoyar a los artistas locales y a mantener el arte en nuestras comunidades.
Virtual Arts Programming for Students and Adults:
SAA’s Community Arts Education is continuing to look for alternative ways to adapt our school programs that include arts education to K-5 students in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties, especially to those attending Title I schools. Offering a virtual learning component is another way that the Salem Art Association is striving to ensure that kids stay connected to the arts.
The Salem Art Fair & Festival provides revenue for SAA to run its core programming, including arts education to K-12 students, many attending Title I schools. The cancellation of this major fundraising event due to the COVID-19 pandemic creates a severe financial strain on our organization and will result in unprecedented losses.
As the region’s community arts organization, we are looking for alternative ways to adapt our programming so that we can continue to best meet the needs of our constituents. Offering a virtual learning component is one of the ways that the Salem Art Association is striving to ensure that kids stay connected to the arts.
To ensure that arts learning can continue for students, the Artists in the Schools program has developed the following virtual art resources:
The Arts & History Immersion Program that offers 4th-grade students attending Title I schools free field trips to the Bush House Museum and the Bush Barn Art Center has also developed a virtual learning component. A guided virtual tour of the Bush House Museum and YouTube videos of art activities are currently available on the BHM website so that all students can engage in their community’s cultural resources.
We are actively working to ensure that our community continues to have quality arts experiences during these challenging times. We know that art has the power to elicit the best in all of us and that art has the power to unite us in action.
We need your help in moving forward and pivoting to the new ‘normal’ as we stand together to bring about the most equitable and safest future for all of us. We are asking you to support SAA with a donation to our emergency fund. Your donation supports art as a means to human connection, and we cannot do this work without you. Please invest in art in our community today.
So stay safe, stay healthy and especially stay connected as we seek solutions in this increasingly complex and escalating situation. Leaning on our connections with each other will bring us through these unprecedented times.
Sandra Burnett
Executive Director
Call for Artists opportunities for the Bush Barn Art Center take place throughout the year. Click the link for a current list of ways to get your art out into the world through the Salem Art Association
Los programas de la SAA no estarían en funcionamiento sin el apoyo de la feria de arte y de nuestros otros eventos de recaudación de fondos y de creación de comunidad, incluyendo el Clay Ball, una subasta formal y un banquete que incluye arte local y regional y paquetes de experiencias; y la Holiday Showcase & Gala, que celebra la oportunidad de experimentar y comprar regalos navideños originales, hechos a mano, y la vista previa de las próximas exposiciones de arte de la SAA.
Thank you to the following supporters whose generous contributions support the Salem Art Association in making art experiences possible for everyone in our community.
Compton Family Foundation
Michele J. Patterson
Janet Neuburg
Braemar Charitable Trust
Harvest Foundation
Bob & Marypat Hill Family Foundation
Autzen Foundation
William S. Walton Charitable Trust
Special thanks to our generous sponsors
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