The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood presents contemporary gallery exhibitions, live stage performances, and award-winning education programs in the visual and performing arts at three unique facilities in downtown Hollywood. The Center’s mission is to cultivate creativity and the support of the arts in our community through education, innovation and collaboration.

A special message from Art and Culture Center/Hollywood’s Executive Director, Joy Satterlee:

“As the Art & Culture Center/Hollywood continues to adapt to the ever-changing conditions and difficult times created by Covid-19, it’s been extremely challenging but we – staff and Board members – are gratified that we are able to serve our community by adapting our exhibitions and programs.

On June 6, we opened our family-friendly summer exhibition Time to Play in our contemporary galleries, featuring works by eight national and South Florida artists. We adapted and revamped the exhibition to remove all the “high touch” and interactive components as well as implemented a series of safety protocols for visitors such as providing sanitation stations throughout the gallery, requiring all attendees to wear a face coverings and incorporating additional cleaning and sanitizing procedures by staff.

For this exhibition, our Curator Meaghan Kent created a series of stimulating art-making activities that are printed in the exhibit brochure for gallery and at-home play. Time to Play will remain on exhibit through Aug. 16.  We are pleased we are able to re-open our galleries at 50 percent capacity, although we miss the groups who usually visit during the summer.  

On June 15, we began our 2020 Summer Arts Camp for our Broadway Actors, Young Actors and Young Artists campers. We have greatly reduced our enrollment capacity to keep with CDC protocols (8 youth per camp). Additionally, we are requiring our campers, teachers and staff to wear face coverings plus maintaining strict and regular disinfecting of high-touch surfaces and shared equipment. We also take staff, teachers and campers temperatures daily and monitor symptoms.

We have had very positive feedback from our camp families on all of the protocols we have implemented.  Due to a number of reasons, we cancelled our summer camp for ages to 4 to 5 years old. We also have adapted our Arts Aspire leadership development program so it, too, can take place this summer.

In addition, we are eagerly waiting to hear how Broward County Schools will structure the 2020/2021 school day so we may create and implement curricular and after-school programs for children and youth.

The 500-seat Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, which we manage, has been closed since March 17, and we are presently working with Broward County Schools to re-open this facility. Our current youth programs have been relocated and no other entities may rent/utilize our theater until we receive approval for individuals to be present at our theater. We have created re-opening guidelines and will be submitting these for the Broward County Administrator’s approval. We look forward to the theater reopening as quickly as possible — of course, in a safe manner.

The re-opening of our programs and facilities, along with the return of staff to our administrative offices, has been a welcome change after being closed since March 16 for a total of 81 days. While schools and business were closed, we added online classes and virtual gallery tours to our website and social media platforms to serve and engage our constituents.  

We realize that many other arts organizations are not open to the public and are also being creative by virtually engaging audiences. We look forward to having our entire arts community return to doing the work that enriches the lives of residents and visitors throughout South Florida and our State.”

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We would like to thank Joy Satterlee and Art and Culture Center/Hollywood for giving us an update on the Center’s recent activities, and for the important work they do for the arts in their community.

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