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Since its inception in 1956 as a non-profit community-based organization, the Chico Art Center’s mission has been to foster and promote the visual arts. The Center has had a long history of offering fine art instruction, professional gallery shows, and events that connect the public with artists. The intent now, as always, is to help the community appreciate the importance of visual art in our society.

The Chico Art Center exists to help the community appreciate the importance of visual art in our society. Since 1956 we have strived to foster and promote the visual arts through fine art instruction, professional gallery shows and events.

Founded in 2015, Ninth Avenue Gallery has a variety of artworks from local artists who always have representative work on display and regularly are the featured artist in the gallery. Ninth Avenue Gallery also offers group shows such as ‘Northern California Icons’ that is tied into the annual art on location program that calls attention to the national treasures of the north state.

Gallery Director Cynthia Sexton also organizes Art Exhibitions at the historic Patrick Ranch Museum and for the Concours de la Chapelle in Paradise where local artists have an opportunity to show and sell their work.