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Neighborhood Center of the Arts

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Our programs promote creativity, independence and dignity. NCA is a GREAT place to shop for unique original art at affordable prices.

Since 1984, our mission has been to provide the opportunity for adults with developmental disabilities to grow to the best of their ability through the arts and community integration.

10/31/2026

The creativity coming out of this whimsical hollow is super✨natural!
Don’t forget that this gem of Grass Valley is host to your favorite undiscovered oddities and one of a kind collectibles.
Come visit the studio Monday between 9:30 and 2 to explore our always fashionably spooky spread 🪄

Wishing all you ghouls and goblins out there a safe and bewitching Halloween 🎃 🦇

10/17/2026

It’s another whimsical weekend of ✨Open Studios ✨ which means two more days to visit all your favorite galleries in Nevada County,
and hundred of pieces to bring home from NCA 🤗🧡
We are open from 10 - 5 both Saturday, October 17th & Sunday, October 18th and the studio is still covered in glorious folk art, outsider art, 3D sculpture, textiles and beyond. From rugs to masks, canvas paintings or illustrations, the variety of content and mediums is massive and the atmosphere is inspiring!
There is certainly my something for everyone at NCA and that is why you are all invited! 💘
Hope to see you soon! 😊

10/09/2026

🍁 It’s almost that time ✨

This Saturday kicks off Open Studios for Nevada County. While the creatives prepare their best, freshest and most innovative breakthroughs yet, get yourselves ready by clearing your schedules for Saturday or Sunday (or both!)

NCA is Studio 36 on the tour and you’re invited to explore the widest variety of hand woven rugs and tapestries around, accompanied by hand made plush, all sizes of canvas and paper paintings, illustrations, jewelry, furniture, sculpture and much more. High octane whimsy is the best way to describe the current energy.

This weekend grab a friend, tour the town and don’t forget to stop by NCA for your finest and folkiest handmade treasure 🧡

Saturday October 11th and 12th from 10AM to 5PM
Just up the hill from the BriarPatch
200 Litton Drive
The signs will lead the way ✨

09/26/2026

Sun Sugar Glass is bursting with pumpkins again! 🎃 From 8:30A - 1P tomorrow you can choose from over 200 styles, colors and sizes of one of kind glass pumpkins at the Nevada City Farmers Market. You won’t find a better patch of glorious gourds, and every sale supports NCA 🧡🍂🧡
Heaps of gratitude to Sun Sugar Glass for their generosity! Their amazing autumn harvest won’t last long so make sure you don’t miss this event 🎪

08/22/2026

Last week was the Nevada County Fair and with it came so many good things! We want to extend a heaping thank you to everyone who has a hand in making the Fair such a wonderful place to be every year. It brings our Neighborhood so much joy to experience the care and hard work of 4H through their cherished animals, meet the horses for the Draft Horse Classic, let loose with talented musicians playing live, meet other artists and new people and share the best of what we submitted this year. NCA’s creativity was represented so well, and we just can’t be prouder to have been part of this year’s experience. So much gratitude to Nevada County for giving its people a beautiful and clean location to safely enjoy the community, its animals, the spread of fare, and all the artists and folks who submitted each exhibition and manned each booth. The event is always kind and unmatched. The time together is greatly cherished and something we will never forget!

08/06/2026

The summer heatwave has the artists at Neighborhood Center of the Arts pushing paint, swirling markers, and creating something special together!

This collaborative painting was created for the Nevada County Fair. If you’re heading to the fair, be sure to stop by and see it in person.

Can’t make it to the fair? No worries! The painting will also be on display—and available for purchase—during our Open Studio Tour this October.

We can’t wait to share it with you! 🎨✨

07/25/2026

Sometimes we find one little detail somewhere that catches our eye. Something that settles into a creative crevice in our brains; A light reflecting in a corner, a shadow swaying textures in just the right way, the fabric of a stone or shimmer of a metallic surface giving you that giant moment of looming curiosity and urgency of intrigue 🎭
Those are the deep pieces of motivation our minds collect. The very memories we reach for when we start building, selecting colors, or gathering materials and tools for creating.
It’s unbelievable to most, but anyone can catch this sort of fever of inspiration.

The beauty of the process joined with the simple fact that art exists at all is stupendous.
Out of all the everyones who exist in this world, not just anybody will take the bait and create.

It’s actually easy to ignore the beauty as it’s drizzled and dangled in plain sight and for all to see. But why!? Why stifle the urge to make something strange, or beautiful, something that has not existed before giving you the gift of becoming an explorer of shapes, figures and colors! Ah,
if it were an easy task it would be on everyone’s schedule, and no such short cut exists within the heart of beauty itself! It is always a battle within to release the truest forms. What a conundrum✨
While you’re out in this world observing the multitudes, please do us this favor:
when the moment comes to you and it puts its lovely arm over your shoulder and asks you to step away from your moment and into this one, you shall pop on your favorite ambiance, grab all your beloved supplies, and ride that rushing rapid of a thought stream straight into the vortex of your intrigue 🌊

Anyone can do it.
Only few do.

We urge our community to go forth with positivity when we have the ability 💗
We will ask the same of you 🌝

If not now, when?
If not you, who?

🌺🌞✏️🌝🎨🎶🪨

07/05/2026

Variety makes life exciting!
There are examples of it everywhere you look.

🌱Biodiversity in nature creates a wide interconnected grid of creatures and plants that present intriguing and functional ecosystems.

🎨 Mixing different parts of a palette creates different and new colors to expand a small spectrum into a much larger one.

🥧 When we cook, we combine many basic ingredients to generate a new complex flavor with a variety of textures and presentations.

All of these opportunities and bold choices have created a diversity of animals, art, food, even music, products and experiences. There’s more of a story behind each piece of art you see, or food you taste, and the people who created them, just as a whole group of people create the sounds you hear at an orchestra or in a band, or a group of characters inspire the literature you read; these things were all created by a diverse environment filled with different animals, plants, minerals and people from all over.
Celebrating variety and diversity is as important as knowing the origin of each subject and connecting it all to the future.

Now matter how you reflect or celebrate this historic day, please be safe and remember to embrace the past, present and future✌️💗

07/01/2026

With our current times afoot, one might ask or even plead, “where is all the beauty?”

We would have to remind ourselves, “Why it’s all around of course!”
It might be under your very feet at this moment.
It is in the sky and the trees, the dirt and the sand. It floats through the air and lands on our friends. Is it growing from somewhere?
It is most certainly also inside your mind and within the dust bunnies under the bookshelf, but wouldn’t it be lovely if it was in your fingertips and then on to the next thing you touched and the next thing and the next.
If we stay motivated, just like that it spreads . . And that’s just how we like it.

And it’s why we show up!✨✨✨

06/04/2026

A great wave of appreciation to all who attended this year’s Spring Fling 🌊🧡🩵💛
We are overcome with gratitude by the kindness and generosity we experienced during this event. The exhibition and celebration both unfolded sweetly and our Nieghborhood was filled with joy and pride! 💗👏 One and all, we are honored by your donations and presence! We cherish your support and hope anyone who was unable to attend during Spring Fling can still find time to tour the show weekdays from 10A - 2PM.

Address

200 Litton Drive Ste 212
Grass Valley, CA
95945

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 2:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 2:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 2:30pm
Thursday	9am - 2:30pm
Friday	9am - 2:30pm

Website

http://Www.Ncagrassvalley.org/

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