Merced Multicultural Arts Center

To ensure the MAC and the Merced County Arts Council survive the pandemic, a generous anonymous donor has offered to match all donations up to $10,000 by December 31st. As a community-funded organization, your support sustains the many programs that you have enjoyed over the years and that have added to the quality of life here in Merced: Our artists in schools program, ARTREE; galleries and receptions; performances; the Enrichment Center for adults with disabilities; classes for adults and children; parties and meeting spaces, and so much more! Click the link to our donation page at https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/mac-yearendmatch or visit artsmerced.org to make a tax-deductible donation. Your gift will have a greater impact than ever. Thank you!

The Veterans of Color Mural by Artist Lisa Gilliland-Viney

We're excited to share news of the public launch of the Ernest Lowe Photography Collection, including more than 2,700 digitized images taken by Ernest Lowe in t...he 1960s in and around little-known San Joaquin Valley towns like Teviston, a Black Okie community between Tulare and Delano, where Black sharecroppers migrated to after the Second World War. The digital collection is available for free, public consumption through the UC Merced Library on Calisphere: https://fal.cn/3c5FK Read the full post by Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections: https://fal.cn/3c5FI Title: Men sitting outside Glady's Cafe, 1961 https://fal.cn/3c5FJ #UCMercedLibrary #ErnestLowe

One of a kind jewelry pieces by Artist Leslie Frazier. Hurry and shop for the Holidays. If you are interested in purchasing any of Leslie's jewelry, please do not hesitate to ask.

In case you missed tonight’s unveiling of the Veterans of Merced’s Courage Has No Color mural by Lisa Gilliland-Viney. Thank you to the committee and to all who contributed. You may see the Veterans of Color display and mural during the following times at the MAC: This Saturday & Sunday: 10am-2pm Monday-Friday: 4pm-8pm... Saturday, November 14: 10am-2pm See more

Join us virtually tomorrow at 6:30 pm for the unveiling of the "Courage Has No Color" mural by Lisa Gilliland Viney.

Merced Christmas Reverse Parade!

Description: New ARTREE artist Clarissa Hidalgo and her 4-year old daughter, Charlotte, are presenting a 4-part series of Yoga for Kids. Join Clarissa and Charlotte as they lead kids through the basics of yoga! Journey through fun postures and stretches while developing awesome breathing and coping techniques! Learn the fundamentals of postures, alignment, and so much more through this interactive series brought to you by ARTREE. In today’s session, Clarissa and Charlotte st...art with an animal-themed warm-up and then demonstrate how to do some partner yoga. This is a great way to spend time together while stretching and working out. Clarissa shows the proper way to perform the poses to keep yoga for kids safe and fun. Continuing with the animal theme, Clarissa and Charlotte show us how to do frog, cat and cow poses. Different ways of breathing are important when practicing yoga. Clarissa and Charlotte show us some breathing exercises, and even how to breathe like a snake! About the ARTREE program and ARTREE Artist Clarissa Hidalgo: ARTREE goes (almost) LIVE! The ARTREE program works with local professional artists to bring arts education to K-12 students in the Merced County schools, through in-person classroom and learning pod experiences, and through our virtual arts program (accessed through our Merced Multicultural Arts Center YouTube channel). The ARTREE program also ran a vibrant after school program, a home school arts program, and a Youth Arts Summer Camp at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center (MAC) prior to the pandemic. We look forward to continuing those programs when it is safe to do so. ARTREE Artist Clarissa Hidalgo is a RYT 200 Certified Central Valley yoga instructor. She runs all types of yoga courses and is trained in vinyasa, hatha, restorative, yin, and prenatal. Her specialty practice is in accessible yoga: yoga for every body and mind. She is certified in Adaptive Yoga for MS, and has specialty Accessible Yoga training. Running both in-person and online sessions for clients; she customizes and modifies routines for just about everything . Clarissa has perfected her practice to fit the needs of the people while strengthening their mind, hearts, and bodies with self-love. She is an Accessible Yoga Ambassador and a proud advocate of yoga for everybody. With a love of pilates added to her practice, and an emphasis on breath and self-awareness, her teachings can and will offer something different for everybody.

Description: Art Barajas shares a very popular traditional Mexican children’s song De Colores. The song is associated with Mexican folklore and may have been in circulation throughout the Americas since the 16th century. More recently, the song was used by Cesar Chavez to unite farm workers in the National Farm Workers Association. Art brings his big mariachi performing personality to the MAC for this video in which plays the guitar and he sings De Colores for us. He als...Continue reading

Premieres at 11am today!

The MAC will be open tonight from 4pm-8pm for Dia de los Muertos to view the community altar!

Check out all of our "Dia de los Muertos" virtual classes from headpieces, tissue flowers, altars, 3-D La Catrinas, and face painting! All on our Dia de los Muertos YouTube playlist below: . . #diadelosmuertos #diademuertos #dayofthedead #diadelosmuertosmerced #ddlmMAC #artsmerced #mercedarts

Rhonda and Colton discuss the Veterans of Color, Merced project and how you can submit photos, artwork, and biographies of your favorite veteran, active duty, o...r first responder of color. This can be done directly through our website at https://vetsofcolormerced.weebly.com/ or via email at, [email protected]. We've received a few submissions but would like a lot more. Our Mission... Our veterans of color are our pride and joy whom we seek honor with integrity and reverence. We seek to create shared spaces, events and art to honor our local vets of color in the hopes that we will show our community the innumerable and invaluable ways we all benefit from their service and membership. Not just for our persons of color but for the entire community so that we can all take pride in the wealth of knowledge, resources, resiliency and grit we have standing in our midst. Our greatest hope is that our efforts create resonance between different people in our community on the common ground that our vets are valuable, heroes who have or are serving with their lives for the benefit of all, as courage is not just something anyone group of people possess, it's something all vets possess. #vetsofcolor #mercedvets #veterans

ARTREE artist Arturo Barajas brings his big mariachi-performing personality to the MAC for this virtual Fall session children’s class. Art teaches us to sing the very popular Mexican children’s song, De Colores. He plays the guitar and you can sing along with him! This is a free virtual class, just go to our YouTube channel [http://www.youtube.com/c/MercedMulticulturalArtsCenter]. Premieres Tuesday, November 3 at 11am. Enjoy! . . #decolores #mercedMAC #artsmerced #mercedarts #MACartree #artree #childrenssongs