CityArts' mission is to serve the needs of visual, literary, and performing artists by providing studio space, meeting
rooms, classrooms, and gallery- giving local artists a community within which they can create, teach, and learn.

CityArts is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1pm to 6pm
CityArts Cooperative
visual     literary     performing
CityArts Cooperative
318 Luverne Ave, PC Fl 32401  
Downtown Panama City
1 block south of the
Visual Arts Center
850-769-0608 info@cityartscooperative.com
The finished products (candlesticks, decorative pillars, home
accessories) are displayed at CityArts and, in the near
future, will be displayed at other local businesses.

The Community Pillars can be purchased for as low as $15.  
100% of the proceeds are split between the Hungry &
Homeless Coalition, the Women & Children Transformational
Recovery Mission, and other reputable Bay County non-profit
organizations that benefit the homeless.  Your purchase is a
donation, no sales tax is added.  Please make checks
payable to ‘Chautauqua’.
Community Pillars Program

Thursday evenings, 6:00 to 8:00
The Community Pillars program is run by
Chautauqua Learn and Serve Charter School and
is made possible by funds received from the New
Freedom Grant and Best Neighborhood Grant.  
Heather & John Parker, Steev Kanuch, and Heather
Hay are the instructors.  Cynthia McCauley is the
program administrator.
Questions or more information?  
Please call Chautauqua (Steev Kanuch or Heather Hay) 850-785-5056, or
Heather Parker
850-249-9295, or email
CityArts.
The Community Pillars program begins at 6:00pm every
Thursday night, after dinner at the McCauley House (just
across McKenzie Park).  Dinner is served at 6pm at the
McCauley House every Tues & Thurs night for anyone in
need of an evening meal.
After Thursday's dinner, anyone and everyone is welcome to
participate in the Community Pillars Program at CityArts: enter
through the second red door on the parking lot side of CityArts.
Join others in creating a decorative pillar or
candlestick- all supplies are provided.
All stages of participation/creativity are needed:
taking apart donated furniture, sanding, repairing,
priming, assembling, base coating, decorative
painting/finishing, and varnishing.

You do not need to be homeless to participate
in the program.  Everyone is welcome.
Everyone that participates can become eligible for a 30-day
Trolley Pass simply by signing in and participating four (4)
times.   Come 4 times, participate while you are here, and
you will receive a voucher to redeem for a 31-day Trolley
Pass.  The Community Pillars program is allotted 60 Trolley
Passes per month, first come/first served.
Volunteer helpers are welcome at any time.  Just show up and state that you would like
to volunteer to assist the Community Pillars Program.

Donations of materials are accepted- any wooden furniture with legs, water-based
paints, brushes, wooden accessories, sandpaper, etc.  Please put donations in the
black box outside the second red door.
Dinner, Tues & Thurs evenings, 6pm
Read the News Herald Article about Community Pillars.