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"This is a fantastic little art museum..."

5/5
This is a fantastic little art museum located across from the Ontario History and Art Museum. They have a standard collection and rotate special events in and out. The size is nice and there are multiple rooms so that particular collections or pieces can be highlighted/separated. Lighting is great and the docents are friendly and knowledgeable. Keep an eye out to see what special collections they bring in. Its free to visit and you can see everything in less than an hour if you're in a hurry, although you can take your time to enjoy it all if you aren't! Highly recommend!!

Current Exhibits by Gallery

The museum has five galleries, each offering a different exhibition. The Main and South Galleries are themed exhibitions of groups of artists. The Line Gallery displays works of art from the museum’s collection. The Spotlight Gallery is a solo exhibition by a local artist. Taken together, the exhibitions present a diverse range of media, styles and artistic endeavor.

Travelers arriving and departing from Ontario International Airport can view works of art by regional artists in glass display cases located adjacent to arrival/departure gates. This program, called Art@Airport, is managed by CCMA.

Click on an image or gallery name to be taken to that exhibit’s full description.

Matter and Expression – Tierra del Sol Artists

Matter And Expression features current work by artists from Tierra Del Sol’s Upland Art Studios, including subjects such as characters and heroes from pop culture, landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, animals, and abstractions, all transformed by the imaginations of the individual artists.

Collective Experiences – CBU Students

An exploration of the power of visual storytelling through the lens of seven gifted photographers from the 2023 Fall Semester of the Visual Storytelling class at California Baptist University.

Line Gallery

Under Construction

Under Construction until Mid March.

Here is Where I’ll Build My House
by Andrew Bentson

Andrew merges his two worlds – that of a hands-on landscaper and a visionary landscape painter. Each canvas is a window into the artist’s soul, a glimpse into the perfect landscapes he envisions.

Three-Dimensional Artworks

The Ruby and Wayne Leavitt Gallery is dedicated to three-dimensional artworks by notable Pomona Valley 3D artists, including Jean Goodwin Ames, Niussa Grod, a Harrison McIntosh and Paul Darrow collaboration, and John Edward Swenson.

Artworks from Ontario High School student,
Joleen Rodriguez

Glass cases adjacent to the gates exhibit works of art by 16 artists living throughout the regional area served by ONT.

Varying widely in media and visual impact, the exhibits showcase the talent and artistic range of art in the region.

Museum Store

Original art for sale.
All sales support the local artist community.

Current Artists
Linda Caplette, Minoru Ikeda, Michiko Ikeda,
Susan Magill, William Breer, Sue Conner,
Patrice Cooley, Steve Walag, Peg Almanzar, Judith Christensen and Hollie Couron

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Our Story

About CCMA

Since 1941, the Chaffey Community Museum of Art has been sharing the gift of visual art with residents of the inland communities of Southern California. First founded as an art association, CCMA has since grown into an important regional museum that provides public access to fine art and supports the local artistic community.

The mission of the Chaffey Community Museum of Art is multi-dimensional. Like all museums, CCMA’s Permanent Collection is held in the public trust, and selections are always on display in the Museum’s Line Gallery so they can be enjoyed by museum visitors. Additional facets of CCMA’s mission are to:

  • maintain, conserve, display and restore the Museum’s art collection;
  • provide a venue for local artists to exhibit;
  • stimulate and foster interest in art with educational activities for members and the public;
  • enhance the Permanent Collection by expanding its holdings to include regional artists and a wide variety of media; and
  • preserve the history and traditions of the Museum.

Art is what we call...

Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist...
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