Calaveras County Arts Council
22 North Main Street • San Andreas • California
209.754.1774

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Music in the Parks Returns!!!

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10 Great Bands, 10 Great Venues

Concert series starts Wednesday, June 14, Veterans Park in Valley Springs! Two Tone Steiny and the Cadillacs. 
Family friendly, no charge concerts. Bring your picnic dinner, favorite drinks, lawn chairs. See you soon. 

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Ride & Walk 4 Art

March 17, 2024

Ride Walk 4 Art is a fun way to help Calaveras County public schools provide meaningful art instruction to our kids. You get a joyful, monitored, safe ride through beautiful Calaveras County and every dime of our profits is used to expose kids to theater, painting, drawing, literature and poetry.

Bicycle in the
Northern California Foothills

Poetry Out Loud

County Competition
February 2024
State Competition
2024

Poetry Out Loud is a national competition that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. Open to all Calaveras County high school students.

Learn more about Poetry Out Loud

Art Spirit

Gallery Show 2023

Art Spirit showcases artwork by Calaveras students during March and April, March being Arts in Education month. This is a wonderful way to get the kids' artwork into the public eye. Gallery is open to the public 11 to 4, Monday through Thursday.

See select work from past shows

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Become a Member Today!

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Explore the arts in Calaveras County

Arts in Education

The Calaveras Arts Council is serious about ensuring that our public school kids have a strong arts education. Learn what we do and how you can help.

Learn about Arts in Education

Gallery Shows

We have more than 5 gallery shows every year to showcase local Northern California Motherlode artists of all levels in their careers, as well as a show spotlighting our teen artists. 

Explore gallery shows

Events

Our signature programs include Music in the Parks, the Ovations Winter Concert Series, and Ride & Walk4Art, a fun event that helps raise funds for arts in education.

Enjoy Events

Public Art

Public art beautifies our towns. Find out more about our public art program.

Find Public Art

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Find out how you can join and support the Calaveras County Arts Council.

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About the Arts Council

Learn more about the Arts Council and how you can get involved.

Meet the arts Council

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Support the Arts in Calaveras County

How do your contributions to the Calaveras County Arts Council keep the arts blooming in Calaveras County?

• You support signature events like Music in the Parks and the Ovations winter concert series.
• You beautify our towns with public art 
• You give local artists a place to exhibit their work
• You support an arts economy that benefits the community
• You make sure that kids in Calaveras public schools have arts education

Without you, the Arts Council could not do all that it does. We appreciate your generosity. 

Your gift makes the arts bloom in Calaveras County

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Join the Calaveras County Arts Council Today!

Join the Arts Council 

Even when we are distant
​from one another,
we come together online to share art—paintings, music, theater, poetry. 

Your Calaveras County Arts Council is working hard to bring you
engagement, inspiration, and joy 

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Help bring art to Students!

The Calaveras County Arts Council has a mission to support arts in our public schools. This year our fundraising event Ride & Walk 4 Art raised nearly $4,000; all of the money is earmarked to support the arts in our public schools.
Your contributions help pay for many things: art supplies for classes, visiting artists, school theater projects, art days at elementary schools. 

But most importantly, your contributions help kids make sense of their lives as they learn critical real world skills like creative thinking, resilience, problem solving, and project management. Studies show that children with access to the arts fare better in school and life.

You can give the gift of art to a child. Please donate on Giving Tuesday, or any other day. ​We thank you for your generosity.

Art Resources for students of the arts

The arts—visual, music, theater, storytelling, crafts, writing, dance—can help us all navigate during difficult times. Online resources are growing for homeschooling, mental health activities, and for communicating with others.
Keep us posted on social media of your creations by using the hashtag #calaverascreates so we can find and share your work!

Click here for a list of online arts resources

 

Interested in a career in the Arts?

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Click here and download our brochure to learn more

Awakening the arts in Calaveras County

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The Calaveras County Art Council is a small organization with a very big idea:
 
THE ARTS ARE NECESSARY
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We believe the arts are good for Calaveras County. When you join the Calaveras County Arts Council, your membership counts!
CLICK HERE
to join us and awaken the arts in our community!

We are a non-profit organization that depends on donations from people like you who love to share the arts to our community.

Donate to the Arts Council anytime, in any amount! 

Donations are tax deductible!  Make a Donation below using your credit card or PayPal, or mail a check to: CCAC, P.O. Box 250, San Andreas, CA 95249