The Oil City Arts Council was established in 1993 as an entity of the City of Oil City government. The City’s Bureau of Planning and Community Development provides staff support to the Arts Council. The Council provides cultural programming to the region with the support of both the public and private sectors. The Council also interacts and cooperates
with other arts-related organizations in the area.

The Council is composed of a general membership and a Board of Directors.  This Board consists of 19 persons who represent a broad range of interests. The Board of Directors meets at 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month in the City Hall Council chambers. All meetings are open to the public.
The general membership roster lists nearly 200 persons.
Memberships are available for $10 per person.

Some of the projects conducted by the Arts Council include:

• Annually, the Arts council presents a summer Arts in the Park Concert series free of charge to the public as well as the Arts in the Transit Concert series (requiring a small admission charge) in the Great Room of the Transit Building in Oil City.  The concerts are a mix of jazz, blues, pop, bluegrass and folk music.

• Each summer the Arts Council presents the Oil Heritage Festival Art Show that features a current or former Oil Country resident who has achieved acclaim as a professional artist.

• At least twice each year, the Arts Council brings to the community a major musical attraction.

•  The Council has also sponsored several public works of art.

• First Night Oil City, an alcohol-free, family-oriented celebration of the arts, was held for the tenth time on New Year's Eve under the sponsorship of the Arts Council.

• The Transit Fine Arts Gallery is another ongoing project under the auspices of the Oil City Arts Council offering a showcase for regional art.

• In addition, The Oil Valley Center for the Arts (OVCA) was created as a nonprofit project of the Oil City Arts Council. OVCA is a multidisciplinary arts facility that includes a large performance space, low-cost music, art and writing classes, recording studio, offices, art studio, and an art resource area.

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MISSION STATEMENT

The Oil City Arts Council (OCAC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of community cultural institutions and organizations, and facilitating the development of community artists. Our purpose is to promote and foster the public interest and appreciation of all the arts.

In seeking to support the Arts, the Oil City Arts Council will endeavor to promote dance, theater, music, films and video, creative writing and poetry, painting, sculpture and other forms of the visual arts. To this end the OCAC will organize, sponsor and facilitate concerts, lectures and workshops for the benefit of the entire Oil City Community and the Oil Region - children, young adults, families and seniors.

LOCATION

Oil City Arts Council
21 Seneca Street
Oil City, PA 16301

Phone: 814-678-3017 or 814-676-1509
Fax: 814-678-3086
E-mail: kamos@oilcity.org