Chaffey Community Museum of Art

"This is a fantastic little art museum..."

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This is a fantastic little art museum located across from the Ontario History and Art Museum. They have a standard collection and rotate special events in and out. The size is nice and there are multiple rooms so that particular collections or pieces can be highlighted/separated. Lighting is great and the docents are friendly and knowledgeable. Keep an eye out to see what special collections they bring in. Its free to visit and you can see everything in less than an hour if you're in a hurry, although you can take your time to enjoy it all if you aren't! Highly recommend!!

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Current Exhibits by Gallery

The museum has five galleries, each offering a different exhibition. The Main and South Galleries are themed exhibitions of groups of artists. The Line Gallery displays works of art from the museum’s collection. The Spotlight Gallery is a solo exhibition by a local artist. Taken together, the exhibitions present a diverse range of media, styles and artistic endeavor.

Travelers arriving and departing from Ontario International Airport can view works of art by regional artists in glass display cases located adjacent to arrival/departure gates. This program, called Art@Airport, is managed by CCMA.

Click on an image or gallery name to be taken to that exhibit’s full description.

Main Gallery

Favorite Things

Whether it’s the love of nature, the allure of vibrant colors, the fascination with intricate details, or the mastery of a particular medium, this exhibit celebrates the personal connections and stories that fuel artistic expression.

South Gallery

Spatial Dialogues

Spatial Dialogues challenges conventional gallery aesthetics by presenting a collection of paintings in new forms, off-wall artworks, and installation arts. Each piece is an invitation to a conversation, a step into a realm where the static nature of walls is replaced by the fluid interaction of space and form.

Spotlight Gallery

Heaven-Like
Bianca Alina Arellano

In her exhibit, Heaven-Like: A Dream Sequence, Bianca Alina Arellano illustrates a personal sleep paralysis dream through digital collages. It blends vivid heavenly imagery with the darker concept of a fallen angel, offering a view of fantasy. It explores the transition between waking life and dreams.

Leavitt Gallery

Judi Christensen

Judi Christensen is fascinated with capturing facial expressions, whether human or animal, and enjoys interpreting their whimsical and soulful expressions in her own impressionistic way.

Francis & Helen Line Gallery

Face to Face

Face to Face, This small exhibit is composed of a group of innovative portraits and more abstract works focused on the human face. They are stylistically diverse, ranging from the more traditional form of Emile Kosa’s What Again? to the more abstract work by noted local artist Sylvia Megerdichian, Connections.

Emerging Artist

Artworks from Tierra del Sol student,
Alexis Cortez

Art @ Airport

Glass cases adjacent to the gates exhibit works of art by 16 artists living throughout the regional area served by ONT.

Varying widely in media and visual impact, the exhibits showcase the talent and artistic range of art in the region.

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Our Story

About CCMA

Since 1941, the Chaffey Community Museum of Art has been sharing the gift of visual art with residents of the inland communities of Southern California. First founded as an art association, CCMA has since grown into an important regional museum that provides public access to fine art and supports the local artistic community.

The mission of the Chaffey Community Museum of Art is multi-dimensional. Like all museums, CCMA’s Permanent Collection is held in the public trust, and selections are always on display in the Museum’s Line Gallery so they can be enjoyed by museum visitors. Additional facets of CCMA’s mission are to:

maintain, conserve, display and restore the Museum’s art collection;
provide a venue for local artists to exhibit;
stimulate and foster interest in art with educational activities for members and the public;
enhance the Permanent Collection by expanding its holdings to include regional artists and a wide variety of media; and
preserve the history and traditions of the Museum.

Art is what we call...

Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist...

Seth Godin

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