Our Mission:

The mission of the Carnegie Arts Center is to provide quality fine arts instruction, professional exhibitions and performance opportunities as a community benefit organization.  The Carnegie Arts Center offers professionals in the arts a place in which to teach, exhibit, perform and share their talents and understanding of the arts.

The History of the Carnegie Arts Center:

By the 1980s, the Leavenworth Public Library had grown too large for its original building on the corner of 5th and Walnut.  In 1985 the library moved to its current location on Spruce.  The building sat empty for the next two years until two Leavenworth artists, Rebecca Johnson and Mary Ellen Maxwell, transformed it into the Carnegie Arts Center.

For over twenty years the Carnegie Arts Center has been serving the Leavenworth community and its outlying areas, bringing the citizens quality fine arts education and artistic opportunities.  The Carnegie Arts Center offers a variety of art, music, dance, and drama classes for both children and adults.  Complete class schedules can be found on the Arts, Music, Pottery, Dance, and Drama pages, while yoga and humanities classes can be found on the Other Classes page.

Carnegie Arts Center

601 South 5th Street

Leavenworth, Kansas 66048

913.651.0765

Hours of Operation

                                              Monday-Thursday:   9 am - 7 pm

                                              Friday:   9 am - 5 pm

                                              Saturday - Sunday:  closed*

*only open for scheduled classes and special events  

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Did you know the Carnegie Arts Center is a member of

the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts?

  

    About the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts:

    * The NGCSA was founded in 1937 and incorporated in 1954.     

     * The NGCSA is a professional and service association for non-profit, non-degree granting schools                    in the United States and Canada.    

     * The purpose of the NGCSA is to foster, nurture and encourage high quality arts education.

    * Guild schools are diverse, ranging in enrollment from 100 to 4,000 and in operating budget from a few

          thousand to over two million dollars.     

     * Guild members assume compliance with certain basic standards and values, thereby lending credibility

          and good standing to affiliated schools in their own communities.

    * Before certification, applicant schools are required to go through a process of evaluation which

          includes a site visit, peer review and election by the Board.

   * Qualification for membership is determined by the credentials of each institution: 

          its management structure, age, size, admissions policies, instructional standard, scholarship

          programs and the effectiveness of its outreach programs.

Some Guild School Distinguished Alumni:

          Jose Feliciano - Lighthouse Music School, NY

          Benny Goodman - Hull House Music School, Chicago

          Helen Hayes - Henry Street Settlement, NY

          Martha Graham - Henry Street Settlement, NY

          Johnnie Mathis - Community Music School, San Francisco, CA

          Murray Sidlin - Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD

          Mitch Miller - Hochstein Music School, Rochester, NY

last updated 03/16/10