Home of the Emporia Arts Council, the Emporia Arts Center provides artistic events for the Emporia area. The Center's gallery features rotating exhibits. Art classes are available for children through adults, ranging from clay pottery to water and oil painting. The Emporia Community Theatre provides several performing arts productions in the black box theatre each year. Every year the Arts Center sponsors an Annual Chalk Fest, Gallery Discovery Days, and lunch with the arts. If the A.R.T.S. banners are flying the Center is open.