Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council

Check out the newly opened venues for viewing visual art and other forms of performing arts groups.

Jill Vellinger’s artwork can be seen at Studio 7 this weekend in downtown Pleasanton. She was past president of PCAC and created the Big Draw Art Festival in the past. Thanks, Jill, for sharing your creative efforts with the community.

Check out all the local artists and events happening in and around Pleasanton.

PCAC congratulates Russell Sato, English and College and Career Readiness Teacher for his receiving the 2021-22 Teacher of the Year award from PUSD. PCAC has worked with the staff of Village HS and appreciate their dedication to their students and their encouragement of various paths that will keep students motivated for success.

Thank you Lucky Stores of California for their generous donation to PCAC and other groups. We look forward to a working partnership to support the arts in our schools and community of Pleasanton. #pleasantonarts.org #lucky supermarkets, pleasanton

Take your mom to the Bankhead Lobby this weekend to help celebrate Mother’s Day.

Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council is the lucky recipient of a generous grant from Savemart Stores. The ribbon cutting will be on May 11th, 5:00 at this newly remodeled Lucky Store at Hopyard and Las Positas. Thank you, Lucky Stores, for your donation!

PCAC Board Member, Anne Giancola, has created two temporary art pieces for installation in Downtown Pleasanton. They feature local artist’s interpretations of way finding signs to public art. Pointing the Way to Creativity signs will be in front of the Museum on Main and in front of Delucci Park on Neal Street this summer into early fall. Board Members Les Duman and Kelly Cousins help put the signs on the posts.

Savemart Supermarket and Lucky of California have generously donated to provide Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council with a grant for their work with school and community arts programs. Please visit our website at pleasantonarts.org and attend the Grand Re-Opening of the Pleasanton Lucky Store at Las Positas and Hopyard Rd. on May 11, 5-7 pm. Thank you for this grant opportunity to keep the arts alive in Pleasanton. #pleasantonarts.org

The San Ramon Art and Wind Festival has ongoing events this week. Today, Thursday, is a chalk art demonstration.PCAC created a city-wide chalk and art festival, The Big Draw, featuring local artists, professional chalk artists and community groups and individual’s creative efforts along Division St. in Pleasanton.

Create something interesting and fanciful today!

Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council (PCAC) conducted a virtual zoom competition Youth Excellence in Arts Awards in Music and Literary Arts on November 6 and 8, 2020. The Visual Arts competition was conducted on November 7, 2020. Prior to the judging, student artists submitted three pieces of their art for adjudication. The judges viewed the submitted work, without student comments, on Saturday, November 7, 2020. Pleasanton students attending Amador and Foothill High Schools de...monstrated their incredible talents and won praise from the expert judges. A well-defined rubric scoring model was used for all contestants. The winners of the Max Bigges Award in Literary Arts 1st $750 Milla Zuniga 2nd $500 Alison Gable 3rd $300 Jocelyn Zhu The winners of the Phyllis Wentworth Awards in Visual Arts 1st $750 Jocelyn Tao 2nd $500 April Gong 3rd $300 Jiahua (Will) Liang The winners of the Rene and Gordon Smith Awards in Music 1st $750 Haoran (Tony) Li 2nd $500 Hannah Lee 3rd $300 Mattias Bengtsson

PCAC is happy to announce a local virtual art show this coming Monday night. #pleasantonarts.org

The Museum on Main has featured some wonderful photos of Pleasanton. Hopefully we will be able to see them in person sometime in the future.

The PCAC Board Members want to thank our generous donors and supporters of the arts in our community. The Jump Start the Artspromotional efforts will help arts groups keep working on their important contributions to our world. @pleasanton cultural arts building #pleasantonarts.org #PCAC # Jump Start the Arts

Local newspaper articles help PCAC promote the YEA Awards.

PCAC helps support the arts and our talented high school students with the annual YEA Awards this year.

Jump stART the Arts! features painted winter scenes on the windows throughout downtown Livermore. The Bankhead Theater lobby has some big windows for several great scenes. It’s well worth a trip to visit them.