Arts Education Program
Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, 715 Central Ave, Tracy, CA 95376
About
The Arts Education Program offers classes in dance, drama, music, literary arts, visual arts, ceramics, and fused glass. Students take part in tiered classes across these art forms throughout the year.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: Arts Education & Exhibitions Programs run Monday–Thursday 10 AM–6 PM, Friday 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday 10 AM–2 PM
The Arts Education Program is part of a dynamic program that fosters life-long learning by offering tiered classes in dance, drama, music, literary and visual arts. Classes are taught by accomplished instructors in a specialized facility that includes dedicated studio classrooms in visual arts, a college-level ceramics and fused-glass lab, a dance studio, a multi-purpose children’s studio, and four music studios with a resident baby grand piano, a percussion lab, a digital recording workstation, and space for private instruction in voice and numerous instruments. The program is open on Saturdays with class registration available on the 2nd floor of the Center.
The Arts Education Program has taught over 24,000 students since opening in 2007 and is presenting its 19th Season in 2025–26. It is part of the only municipal interdisciplinary arts center of its kind in the state of California offering professional and community-based fine arts programming through arts education, exhibitions, performances, and rentals in a single complex, and it hosts over 50,000 patrons a year. Hundreds of community leaders, arts patrons, educators, and parents contributed to the planning process that shaped the amenities and programming, and The Grand Foundation provides annual underwriting for programming and technical support and contributes to an endowment fund.
The leadership team includes Valerie Pavlakis, Arts Education Program Coordinator; Robert Tombari, Cultural Arts Division Manager; Grace Credo, Administrative Technician; Amanda Trask, Cultural Arts Marketing Coordinator; Shaleila Loera, Box Office Coordinator; Argelia Cardenas, Box Office Assistant; Randy Benitez, Cultural Arts Technical Supervisor; and David Bermillo, Cultural Arts Technical Coordinator. The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts is a member organization of Americans for the Arts and the Theatre Historical Society of America and supports the advocacy and programming of the California Arts Council, Californians for the Arts, and the Creative Work Fund. The Grand has received awards from The California Heritage Council and the California Preservation Foundation, has been acknowledged in the State Legislature and U.S. Congress, and was recognized nationally in 2010 as one of fifty unique and important cultural redevelopment projects studied.
Last updated June 22, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: Arts Education & Exhibitions Programs run Monday–Thursday 10 AM–6 PM, Friday 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday 10 AM–2 PM
The Arts Education Program is part of a dynamic program that fosters life-long learning by offering tiered classes in dance, drama, music, literary and visual arts. Classes are taught by accomplished instructors in a specialized facility that includes dedicated studio classrooms in visual arts, a college-level ceramics and fused-glass lab, a dance studio, a multi-purpose children’s studio, and four music studios with a resident baby grand piano, a percussion lab, a digital recording workstation, and space for private instruction in voice and numerous instruments. The program is open on Saturdays with class registration available on the 2nd floor of the Center.
The Arts Education Program has taught over 24,000 students since opening in 2007 and is presenting its 19th Season in 2025–26. It is part of the only municipal interdisciplinary arts center of its kind in the state of California offering professional and community-based fine arts programming through arts education, exhibitions, performances, and rentals in a single complex, and it hosts over 50,000 patrons a year. Hundreds of community leaders, arts patrons, educators, and parents contributed to the planning process that shaped the amenities and programming, and The Grand Foundation provides annual underwriting for programming and technical support and contributes to an endowment fund.
The leadership team includes Valerie Pavlakis, Arts Education Program Coordinator; Robert Tombari, Cultural Arts Division Manager; Grace Credo, Administrative Technician; Amanda Trask, Cultural Arts Marketing Coordinator; Shaleila Loera, Box Office Coordinator; Argelia Cardenas, Box Office Assistant; Randy Benitez, Cultural Arts Technical Supervisor; and David Bermillo, Cultural Arts Technical Coordinator. The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts is a member organization of Americans for the Arts and the Theatre Historical Society of America and supports the advocacy and programming of the California Arts Council, Californians for the Arts, and the Creative Work Fund. The Grand has received awards from The California Heritage Council and the California Preservation Foundation, has been acknowledged in the State Legislature and U.S. Congress, and was recognized nationally in 2010 as one of fifty unique and important cultural redevelopment projects studied.
Last updated June 22, 2026.
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