Comprehensive chronological list of all events and classes at ClearWater Artist Studios in Concord, NC. [As opposed to sorted lists by category on main Navigation pages]
For an at-a-glance look at ALL events (including Classes), see Calendar view.
Free & Open to the Public - Opening Reception for this Regional Entry Show run by Cabarrus Art Guild.
Learn Wet Felting techniques from a known and loved prior Art Demonstrator! Free and Open to the Public.
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Free & Open to the Public - Opening Reception for this Regional Entry Show run by Cabarrus Art Guild.
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
ClearWater Arts is proud to showcase the 2026 Preschool Art Exhibition organized by the Early Childhood Foundation!
Join them at the reception, Saturday April 18, in our Greenway Gallery (lower level) for an interactive art activity for kids and relaxed Reception.
11 AM to 1 PM,
Sat. 4/18, 2026
ClearWater Arts Center & Studios
223 Crowell Dr. NW
Concord, NC 28025
Free and open to the public, Free Parking.
More info at ClearWaterArtists.com
(704) 920-6600 Main Building
Or, 704) 920-6604, Ceramics Center Ofc.
Spend an hour with City of Concord Parks & Rec Staff and the Design Team to give your thoughts on best future use of our historic Clearwell building! You could help shape the direction of this next phase of HUD-funded renovations to ClearWater Arts Center!
Don’t miss this month-long annual Spring exhibition of Student Art from the RCCC Department of Art and Design! Opening Night: Friday, April 10, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Enjoy BOTH the Art Walk on Union open-air street Art festival, and more art via Open Studios and Ceramics Center at ClearWater Arts Center & Studios, free of hassle thanks to FREE shuttle van service looping between both locations (only a 3-minute ride), courtesy of Rider Transit!
Don’t miss this month-long annual Spring exhibition of Student Art from the RCCC Department of Art and Design! Opening Night: Friday, April 10, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Make your own Whimsical Village of your Thoughts, in a fun art workshop, FREE and open to the public with Guest Artist, Jonathan Grauel! Pop-up event - no RSVP needed. Be here by 1:30!
Josh King actively integrates AI into creative workflows—using it for concept development, visual prototyping, automation pipelines, and scalable content production. Learn and Ask at this Free Demo in ClearWater’s Greenway Gallery (lower level).
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Update: RESCHEDULED We are pivoting for the snow, Jan. 30-31 and will postpone the Opening Reception originally scheduled for Jan. 31st, to Saturday Feb. 21, 2026. Hope to see you then!
Join Charlotte Artist, Jonathan Grauel for the Opening Reception (Now Reception/ Artist Talk) of his first Solo Show in ClearWater’s Gallery! Grauel will talk about his work and collaboration with ClearWater. Be the first to see this collection of his latest work!
In 2024-25 Jonathan completed his 98-foot mural on the exterior wall of our Original Clearwell building (which is next up for Renovation) - a project funded by a grant from Republic Services Foundation’s “Neighborhood Promises” grant program and administered by Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte. Grauel was inspired by many local landmarks and community members as he explored the area. He populated the mural with several of them, and continues the theme of communities cultivating concord, in this solo exhibition of paintings and 3-D works.
Join us! FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - Ne registration required
Saturday, FEB 21, 2026 (New Date)
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
ClearWater Main Gallery at 223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025
Call with any questions: (704) 920-6600
NEW! Don’t Miss our POP-UP Family Workshop - FREE on Saturday March 14th! With Artist Jonathan Grauel! Click —>
THE EXHIBIT: WHIMSICAL HARMONIES On View through March 21, 2026 at ClearWater Arts Main Gallery — Photos Below From the Opening Reception on 2/21/26:
Don’t miss the whimsical works of local artist, Jonathan Grauel in his first Solo Show in ClearWater’s Main Gallery! Visit ClearWater during our posted Open Hours OR call to make an appointment. Staff is available M-F.
Open Hours for drop-in visits, in the Main Building, are:
Weds-Fri, 12:0-0 Noon - 5:00 p.m. OR Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Whimsical Harmony: THE MURAL
In 2024-25 Jonathan completed his 98-foot mural, “Whimsical Harmony” on the exterior wall of our Original Clearwell building (which is next up, for Renovation!) - a project funded by a grant from Republic Services Foundation’s “Neighborhood Promises” grant program and administered by Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte. Grauel was inspired by many local landmarks and community members as he explored the area. He populated the mural with several of them, and continues the theme of communities cultivating concord, in this solo exhibition of paintings and 3-D works.
Join us at the (Rescheduled) Reception / Artist Talk Event!
Saturday, FEB 21, 2026
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
ClearWater Main Gallery at 223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025
Call with any questions: (704) 920-6600
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Join Cabarrus Art Guild for a demonstration of Wood-burning on sculpture, for the January 2026 2nd Sunday Free Art Demo!
Join us for an event hosted by facilitators from our partner, Mental Health America of Central Carolinas, designed to foster connection and shared creativity!
Adults over 18 only. Description below.
This event is free, but Please register with MHA in advance; scan the QR code on the flier, OR Click this Link: Holiday Art Expression and Connections.
For More information, contact the organizer listed on their event page: https://mhaofcc.org/event/holiday-art-expression-and-connection
For a downloadable PDF copy of this flier, click HERE.
What is Planned: a creative space with multiple art stations offering different activities such as painting, clay sculpting, and ornament making. Guests can move between the sections to create their own holiday-themed artwork to take home. We’ll also serve festive refreshments to help everyone relax and enjoy a fun, creative afternoon.
Where to Find This at ClearWater: This event will be in the Greenway Gallery, lower level, which has its own set of double-glass doors (facing Kerr Street, on the end of our largest building). You can either come in at the Main Entrance and walk downstairs and through the lower level, OR enter straight into the Greenway Gallery via the double-glass doors on that end.
Access: Wheelchair ramps are at all our Guest Entrances, but for easier access we suggest the double-glass doors leading straight into the Greenway Gallery described above.
ClearWater Arts Center & Studios invites you to its Third Annual Holiday Market to sell* or shop!
Join the ClearWater Tenant Artists, the Cabarrus Art Guild (CAG) and the Southern Piedmont Woodturners (SPW) - along with other local artists and artisans, selling their original hand-crafted wares!
Open Studios/ Local Artists
Over 44 Local Vendors selling Handmade, Original Art & Crafts!
Food Truck
All Original; Wide Variety
An event not to be missed!
Artists will be set up in studios and/or on sale tables in the Main Gallery upstairs, the Pass & Greenway Gallery downstairs, and in the newer Ceramics Center building.
*Guest Vendors, space is limited; Register online starting Sept. 1, 2025 with deadline by Nov. 23, 2025. (As of 11/26/2025, 48 tables are booked; outdoor tables will be in the Covered Market Space adjoining the Ceramics Center building.)
ClearWater's Ceramics Center, too, will be open
A New Exhibition of ClearWater Tenant Artists' art will be featured in the Main Gallery !
ClearWater Arts Center & Studios, 223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord NC 28025
For a downloadable PDF copy of the flier below to print, click HERE
Check out the latest creations of our talented Tenant Artists in this now-annual tradition of mounting the End of Year Show on the same day as our Annual Holiday Market!
Show will be on view through Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026.
Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025 will serve as the Opening Reception (most Tenant Artists will be in their Open Studios)
For Gallery viewing on non-event days, Please visit during our posted Open Hours of Weds-Fri, Noon - 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., OR by appointment. See you there!
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Free Demo with the CAG
CAROLINA SNOWFLAKE Weaving with Melinda Pavelyev
Instructor: Melinda Pavelyev
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Time 2-4:00 PM
Where: Clearwater Arts Center and Studios. 223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025 Greenway Gallery; Enter at Kerr St. side of Main Building, double-doors. [Main Entrance, on Crowell Dr NW, will be closed.]
November’s Featured Demo is CAROLINA SNOWFLAKE Weaving with Melinda Pavelyev (description below). Join the Cabarrus Art Guild, a ClearWater Tenant Organization, which coordinates and hosts these monthly Free Art Demonstrations by local artists for the enjoyment of the public. Location: Lower Level Greenway Gallery. Please use the Greenway Gallery doors – double-glass doors on the Southeast end of the Main Building, facing Kerr Street – and please arrive before 2:00 to be seated before the demonstration starts. Main Entrance will be closed. Free parking on campus (3 lots).
No need to register
The event is free and open to the public.
Please arrive before 2 PM, so as not to interrupt the speaker’s
presentation
See You There!
Cabarrus Art Guild is a tenant with a studio at ClearWater Arts Center & Studios
A bit About the Art Form: Carolina Snowflake -by Melinda Pavelyev
This craft design was first created by Billie Ruth Sudduth. Billie Ruth was born in Sewanee, TN in 1945 and grew up in Birmingham, AL. After college, in addition to being a wife and mother to 2 boys she worked as a social worker and school psychologist. During summer break in 1983 she took a basket making class at the community college. She fell in love. In 1989 Billie Ruth left her job at the school to do basketry full time.
Billie Ruth’s baskets have been on display at the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Art and Design in New York, and other prestigious places. She was named a Living Treasure by North Carolina in 1997. This is the highest honor for North Carolinians in the crafting field. Billie Ruth died in 2021.
For more information visit www.Cabarrusartguild.org
This event is reoccurring every 2nd Saturday of the month! NOTE - December’s 2nd Saturday Open Studios is moved to the 1st, HOLIDAY MARKET Saturday. (See Annual Holiday Market Event)
This event is always free to the public and always accepting of all people.
Come mingle with creative people, see their artwork, discuss their process. Inspire your own creativity!
Thanks to you all & hope to see you there! 🎨🎉
KNOW YOUR HOUSING RIGHTS:
LANDLORD SUMMIT
Learn more about housing-related violations from City of Concord Code Enforcement Officers and the free and low-cost legal assistance available to help eligible residents with housing code violations.
📅 THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 2025
🕕 6:00 – 7:30 P.M.
📍 CLEARWATER ARTS CENTER - MAIN GALLERY
223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025
📞 QUESTIONS? Call 704-920-5137
REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE OR CLICK THIS LINK: Concordnc.gov/landlordsummit
..OR VISITING:
CONCORDNC.GOV/LANDLORDSUMMIT
Are you a tenant and interested in learning more about #ConcordNC’s housing-related code violations?
Join us at our Tenant Summit and learn more about housing-related violations from City of Concord Code Enforcement Officers. Legal Aid of NC inc. will also share information about free and low-cost legal assistance available to help eligible residents with housing code violations.
📅 THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 2025
🕕 6:00 – 7:30 P.M.
📍 CLEARWATER ARTS CENTER - MAIN GALLERY
223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025
📞 QUESTIONS? Call 704-920-5137
REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE,
Clicking this Link: Concordnc.gov/tenantsummit
…OR VISITING:
CONCORDNC.GOV/TENANTSUMMIT
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Free Demo with the CAG
Wool Felting with Meghan McKillop
Instructor: Meghan McKillop
October 12, 2025
Time 2-4:00 PM
Where: Clearwater Arts Center and Studios. 223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025 Greenway Gallery; Enter at Kerr St. side of Main Building, double-doors. [Main Entrance, on Crowell Dr NW, will be closed.]
October’s Featured Demo is Wool Felting, with Meghan McKillop. Join the Cabarrus Art Guild, a ClearWater Tenant Organization, which coordinates and hosts these monthly Free Art Demonstrations by local artists for the enjoyment of the public. Location: Lower Level Greenway Gallery. Please use the Greenway Gallery doors – double-glass doors on the Southeast end of the Main Building, facing Kerr Street – and please arrive before 2:00 to be seated before the demonstration starts. Main Entrance will be closed. Free parking on campus (3 lots).
No need to register
The event is free and open to the public.
Please arrive before 2 PM, so as not to interrupt the speaker’s
presentation
See You There!
Cabarrus Art Guild is a tenant with a studio at ClearWater Arts Center & Studios
For more information visit www.Cabarrusartguild.org
This event is reoccurring every 2nd Saturday of the month! NOTE - September’s 2nd Saturday Open Studios is moved to the 1st, ARTWALK Saturday. (See ArtWalk Event)
This event is always free to the public and always accepting of all people.
Come mingle with creative people, see their artwork, discuss their process. Inspire your own creativity!
Thanks to you all & hope to see you there! 🎨🎉
Join Us Sunday 10/5/25, at 2:00 p.m. for the Opening Reception of this year’s Fall Judged Show!
Coordinated & Hosted by the Cabarrus Art Guild (Studio LL-102)
You are invited to the Opening Reception in the Main Gallery at ClearWater Arts Center & Studios, Sunday Oct. 5, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. Winners will be announced and light refreshments will be served. Meet local artists, and join us in celebrating their artwork. Don’t miss a moment of this special annual event!
Event concludes by 4:00 p.m.
Enter at Main Entrance, at 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord NC 28025. Free Parking in three lots around the campus. This event is free and open to the public.
No pre-registration is required.
Free event.
The Cabarrus Art Guild (CAG) will once again accept regional entries for, and exhibit their Fall Art Show in ClearWater’s Main Gallery! Judge To Be Announced.
You are invited to the Opening Reception on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025 at 2pm, in the Main Gallery at ClearWater Arts Center & Studios, 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord (Enter at main entrance on Crowell Drive NW). Winners will be announced and light refreshments will be served. Come and meet local artists and join us in celebrating their artwork. This is always a terrific event. Don't miss a moment!
No pre-registration is required.
Free event.
Artists interested in entering artwork in the show, see the CAG’s website at www.cabarrusartguild.org for entry instructions.
New Featured Woodturning Expert & Demo each month!
Free Demo at the CAG
Paper Quilling
Instructor: Kristy Keistler
September 14, 2025
Time 2-4:00 PM
Where: Clearwater Art Center and Studios. 223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025 Greenway Gallery; Enter Kerr St. side of Main Building, double-doors.
Please join us for a demonstration in paper quilling with Kristy Kiestler! The techniques in paper quilling include rolling strips of paper into coils and shaping them into various forms such as circles, teardrops, squares and scrolls. The coils can be pinched or combined to create more complex patterns and designs. This is great demonstration to see and learn another form of the arts with one of our local artist!
Kristy has been involved with various art forms throughout her life. She has a diverse set of skills including alcohol ink, landscape quilting, metallic watercolor, polymer clay fairies, paper sculpting, paper quilling,coloring pages, and cake sculpting. Although cake sculpting occupied so much of her time, she is now retired from it. Currently, she mainly focuses on paper quilling designs, emphasizing its historical significance and her passion for it !
No need to register
The event is free and open to the public.
Please arrive before 2 PM, so as not to interrupt the speaker’s
presentation
See YouThere!
Cabarrus Art Guild is a tenant with a studio at ClearWater Arts Center & Studios
For more information visit www.Cabarrusartguild.org
In addition to providing the Gallery space (and, soon, the Banquet/ Multipurpose Room downstairs) for event Rentals, ClearWater Artist Studios also produces a growing variety of events. The 2nd Saturday Open Studios day, an open-house allowing access to artists working in their studios and anything else programmed that day, occurs monthly.
For an at-a-glance look at all events including classes, see Calendar view.
Seminars, and other events which may contain instructional presentation will be listed under Classes.
Past event pages, may hold photos of that event.
ClearWater is becoming; It is a place where...
Artists find community with other artists;
The Community finds artists and access to art;
Artists, and the Community find ways to interact, discuss, and be inspired to new (creative) ways of thinking.
CLEARWATER Arts Center & Studios lies in the Gibson Village Neighborhood, less than a mile from Historic Downtown Concord, NC.
223 Crowell Drive NW
Concord, NC 28025
FOR MAIN BUILDING STAFF:
Sarah Gay - ClearWater Coordinator
gays@concordnc.gov
Main Building General Line: (704) 920-6600
FOR CERAMICS STAFF:
Dave Buskey- Park and Recreation Supervisor
Ceramics Center Phone Number:
704.920-6604
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704.920-6600 | ClearWater Arts Official Address: 223 Crowell DR NW | Concord, NC 28025 | gays@concordnc.gov
MAIN BUILDING & GALLERIES Hours Open for Drop-In Visits: W-Fri., 12 Noon - 5:00 p.m.. & Saturdays 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
CERAMICS CENTER HOURS - Monday - Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 8 pm; Friday and Saturday 10:00am -3:30pm Additional access for enrolled students at Class Times / Ceramics Office; (704) 920-6604
