The Muckenthaler Cultural Center
We look forward to welcoming you to The Muck!
If you have questions about your visit, please email info@themuck.org or call 714-738-6595.
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No tickets or reservations are required to visit The Muck grounds, the outdoor Sculpture Garden or Sunset Garden. Click here to view the 2024 Season Brochure.
This annual exhibition features the work of 100 talented high school students from La Habra, Fullerton, Troy, Sunny Hills, Sonora, Buena Park, La Visa, and La Sierra. The collection is judged by their own art teachers and is comprised of a variety of mediums: painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, etc.
Learn to accurately capture the beauty of the landscape as you develop foundational plein air painting skills and create a painting on an 8” x 10” canvas.
Using high quality shrink plastic, a variety of molds and embellishments we'll learn to design and create beautiful layered floral stacks to use for earrings, pendants or charms.
Mama, come do something for yourself in a warm & inviting environment that you can also bring your little to. You will work on 2 take home projects called "the art of a compliment" where you'll create self love mantras for you + a loved one!
Attention Parents who love the homemade gifts- but hate the fuss & mess! Join us for a quick drop in style expierience to create a quick & memorable gift from your little to their parent.
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a twelve-piece folk band of women based in Pasadena. Blending elements of folk music from the British Isles and the Americas, the foundation of the Merry Wives' sound is rich vocal harmonies, with support and ornamentation by traditional and contemporary folk instruments.
A Muck Centennial Celebration Pop-Up series led by 2025 Artist in Residence Ashley Sanchez-Jones.
Join us for the first in our Parent Date Night Out Series, a perfectly designed date night! Parents & Kids will both be engaged in an instructor-led art project - in separate studios!
Come create a beautiful set of Latina inspired Valentines and tags using paper, lace, and tons of vintage ephemera.
No rehearsals. No director. No set. AND a different actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance.
London born songwriter Gregory Page is a charismatic cowboy crooner. His Tin Pan Alley-style originals have long drawn comparison to the late great enigmatic musician Leon Redbone.
Florence Millner Arnold (aka “Flossie”) was a local hero of Fullerton culture. A founding board member of The Muck, this centennial year is the perfect time to showcase this local treasure.
Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, returns to The Muck with many awards and honors to his credit, continues to astound and mesmerize audiences at major venues on three continents.
Join us as we learn some basic beading, metal working, hammer and aging techniques to create a beautiful one of a kind brass beaded bangle.
Fullerton: Our Town (A Little Bit Wilder!) will explore a day in the life in Fullerton in 1925, paying homage to one of the great American plays, Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
Multi-faceted singer/songwriter, Estani Frizzell, known for her array of musical style, delivers a unique vibe.
The Praties are a Celtic Traditional/Rock band based in Southern California. Their members have played in several Celtic and Rock bands, and Historical Reenactment Bands in venues all over Central and Southern California, and Las Vegas, giving them a unique sound like no other Celtic Band.
Hailing from Valparaiso, Chile, singer-songwriter Pascuala Ilabaca is a unique and treasured voice in both the Latin American and World Music scenes.
Greg Adamson is a cellist, conductor, theater director, and music educator. He is a four time nominee for the Grammy Music Educator award.
Montana natives turned Angelenos, married artists and modern folk duo Joselyn & Don’s intoxicating music feels like a walk through mountain wildflowers and Southern California Joshua trees.
This exhibit is the culmination of Lauren Nicole's tenure as the 2024 Muck Artist in Residence. Lauren Nicole (LN) is a neurodivergent, Indigenous, Southern California-based artist, focusing on painting and beadwork. Her expressively vibrant and exaggerated portrait style, with its play on perspective, immerses viewers into the sensations of having sensory-processing differences.
On this evening, join the Nick Yee Quartet aboard the TITANIC (as recreated at The Muck) as they play selections from the White Star Line’s Song Book, interact with the passengers and crew of the ill-fated ship, and have a true “night to remember.”
Olaguay is made of five friends who come from around the globe, from New York, to Vienna, to Barcelona and back, with one common goal: generate high spirited musical energy that transports you to a different time and place and makes you want to move your body.
In this 90-minute feature performance, John will share world-class magic and live performances of original Spanish, Jazz, and Flamenco guitar.
Since moving to Los Angeles from her native Guatemala, singer-songwriter-producer Gaby Moreno has released eight albums and earned 4 GRAMMY nominations for her albums. She is also a 5 time nominee and winner of a Latin GRAMMY for “Best New Artist.”
Eclectic, cutting-edge, and contemporary—The Muck’s Jazz Festival returns in Spring of 2024 with new energy.
Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.
Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Dr. Seuss created a body of irrepressible work that redefines this American icon as an iconographic American artist.
Turn the Page - a Fullerton based Tribute to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band brings back the soundtrack to a generation as they faithfully recreate all the "Classic" Bob Seger Hits.
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Invoke (Nick Montopoli, violin/banjo/vocals; Zach Matteson, violin/vocals; Karl Mitze, viola/mandolin/vocals; Geoff Manyin, cello/vocals) successfully dodges even the most valiant attempts at genre classification. The multi-instrumental quartet encompasses traditions from across America, including bluegrass, Appalachian fiddle tunes, jazz, and minimalism.