Auburn Valley Creative Arts still pursuing a permanent home

Auburn Valley Creative Arts still looking for permanent digs

Just can’t wait to get on the road again.

But unlike old Willie Nelson, Auburn Valley Creative Arts is downright tired of the highway.

From storefront to office building to downtown mall and more, every few months or so, the organization of local artists barely has a chance to settle into new digs before time comes to pack it all up again and move on.

Often for rent reasons, once for a leaking ceiling.

Beginning in November, artists called The Outlet Collection mall home, but as of Jan. 3 that, too, faded into the rear view mirror.

“Everything is pretty much shutting down,” exhibitor Don Hagen recently said of the AVCA Gallery. “We were there from the first of November to the end of the year. There is talk about finding another more permanent home and a whole bunch of people making decisions.”

Members are keen to assure everyone that the gallery will pop up again in 2016 with new art, in a new location.

Ears perk up at news of the City’s pending acquisition of the old Post Office/Public Health building on Auburn Avenue next to the theater, but that, Hagen said, “is a bit up in the air.”

The City of Auburn late last year submitted a letter of intent to purchase the building from King County. Should the King County Council approve the deal — and it is expected to do so early in 2016 — the arts division of the Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation Department will occupy most of the space.