Alta Mesa Center of the Arts 

AMCA is an interfaith arts and spirituality hub, housed and sponsored by Orinda Community Church.

Mission 

We believe that art is a spiritual act and a human right. Contained within that sentence are our two primary goals: a) to provide a place for artists to engage in the spiritual aspects of their art and for spiritual seekers to use art to deepen and discover new avenues of spiritual experience; b) to provide a place where people from diverse traditions, artistic practices, and economic realities come together in community. 

From experience we know that art can bridge the divisions, substantive and arbitrary, that divide us. We come together not only to practice and teach the arts, but to celebrate and learn from our differences and to foster lively and respectful interdisciplinary dialogues. We seek unity in diversity. We welcome professional artists, writers and musicians, experienced amateurs, hobbyists, mystics and seekers young and old. Wherever you are on your artistic and spiritual journey, whoever you are, we welcome you.  

AMCA Reading Series 


NEXT AT AMCA 
Second Sunday Reading Series 

a reading and discussion with 
Palestinian American poets 
Issam Zineh and Carolina Ebeid 

February 12, 2023 at 4:00pm (pacific) 
 
Register HERE for this free, online event 

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Maker, Mentor, Muse was founded in 2022 by Mary Volmer, Maw Shein Win, and Dawn Angelicca Barcelona. Hailing from three distinct cultural backgrounds, generations, and spiritual traditions, we believe community is essential to building a satisfying and sustainable literary life and that true success requires balancing all three roles: maker, mentor, muse. We are building a place where artists embrace practices that honor process, spiritual growth, collaboration, and community. Join us this April for our first course offerings. Inquire here.