The Wooster Community Art Center in Danbury was founded in 1965 with a grant from The Ford Foundation, its mission to be a center for the study and practice of the visual arts, and to be an art department for the Wooster School. Nearly four decades later, Wooster School has grades K-12 and the art center has grown to meet the artistic needs of children, teens and adults from 35 surrounding towns as well as to provide art instruction to the Wooster School students.
Classes range from painting and sculpture to art history.
There's a special teen arts section, which offers painting drawing, photography and sculpture. In addition to fall, winter and summer semester classes, the center offers a Summer Art Camp and a number of workshops in January and June, everything from Wild Metal Sculpture for young people to a Throwing Workshop, an intensive weekend devoted to creating pottery on the wheel. The center maintains a Lobby Gallery, with exhibits featuring local artists that change monthly. Details Wooster Community Art Center is at 73 Miry Brook Road in Danbury, near the west end of Danbury Airport.