MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Middletown Art Center has been hearing from community members since the Valley fire about artwork and community driven art projects in process that are helping folks heal from and deal with the traumatic experience.

The public is invited and encouraged to submit artwork inspired by fire experiences of 2015 and 2016 in any medium for exhibition at the Middletown Art Center Gallery. Poetry also is welcome.

Please submit photos of your artwork to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 707-809-8118 by Aug. 22.

Notifications about art to be displayed will be sent out by email after photos are received.

Actual artwork must be delivered to MAC on Aug. 23 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Call MAC to arrange a different time. Please share your expression and voice as with the community at large.

The “Community Works” exhibition will open on Aug. 27, with a festive reception from 6 to 8 p.m., and run through Sept. 5.

In addition to the exhibition, Community Works offers free healing and stress relieving classes every day until Aug. 21 in a variety of media and modalities.

Check out the schedule at www.middletownartcenter.org and join them for as many or as few classes as you wish. No experience is necessary, classes are for everyone, adults, teens, kids and families together.

Community Works is a collaboration of Middletown Art Center, local artists, musicians and dancers, and Tri Uplifting Lake County and made possible in part by Roby and Associates, a public insurance adjuster and by Lake County Rising Valley Fire Relief Fund.