Welcome to the Arts Center! We are a nonprofit community art center located in Clemson, South Carolina.

Our mission is to provide quality educational programs in fine art, music, writing and personal development. We are dedicated to nurturing the creative and educational needs of all age groups as well as expanding the community’s access to original works of art through our gallery and public events. We support our local artistic talent by developing teaching, exhibiting, and performance opportunities.

The Arts Center has four studio classrooms, tutoring room, office, coffee bar, art gallery and a multipurpose room. The studio classrooms are equipped for jewelry, ceramics, drawing, painting and a variety of other enrichment activities. We offer an exciting selection of programs taught by qualified instructors in a variety of cultural disciplines.

In addition to our classroom activities, we offer a variety of events in the art gallery and multipurpose auditorium during the day and evening hours.

Office & Gallery hours:

Monday-Thursday 10:00am-4:00pm.

Call for Thursday evening and Saturday hours.

Find us at:

212 Butler Street
Clemson, SC 29631

Phone: 864.633.5051
Fax: 864.624.1209

Director

   Deborah Pagano

        Email: Deborah.Pagano@explorearts.org

 

Business Development & Marketing
   Cheryl Lecroy

        Email: Cheryl.Lecroy@explorearts.org

 

Graphic Design

  Candy Cannon

        Email: graphic.designer@explorearts.org

 

Bookkeeper

   Sangeetha Ranganathan

        Email: sangeetha@explorearts.org

Our board consists of residents of the Upstate recognized for their outstanding accomplishments in the arts, humanities, business, education or public service.