Calaveras County Arts Council
22 North Main Street • San Andreas • California
209.754.1774
2024 Ovations Tickets On Sale Now!
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Tickets
- Adults $25 per concert; 5 for $100 - Students 18 and under - $10 per concert There will be special family pricing for the Joe Craven Concert Buy your tickets online now! |
The Calaveras County Arts Council's annual art show, " One-of-a-Kind Gifts of Art" is now open to the public at our Gallery Store at 22 N. Main Street, San Andreas. The show runs from November to January, and is one of the most popular shows of the year.
Questions? Call Kathy at 209 754-1774 or email goldrusharts18@gmail.com
Questions? Call Kathy at 209 754-1774 or email goldrusharts18@gmail.com
Ride & Walk 4 ArtMarch 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.
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The Arts Council Learn about the Arts Council and how you can get involved. Board of Directors 2022-2023 President, Fara Roberts Vice President, Cynthia Przybyla Treasurer, Don Urbanus Secretary, CarolAnn McDaniel Donna Guadagni Sharee Hoffmann-Hermann Bliss Morton Dianda Executive Director, Kathy Mazzaferro |
Poetry Out LoudCounty Competition
February 2024 State Competition March 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.
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Art Shows in the GallerySharing the Talents
of Calaveras County We have a number of gallery shows every year to showcase local Northern California Motherlode artists of all levels of expertise and careers, as well as a show spotlighting our teen artists.
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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 $6,000; 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.
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.
CALAVERAS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL RACIAL EQUITY STATEMENT
The mission of the Calaveras County Arts Council is to build a united community by awakening, supporting and nourishing the arts.
Purpose: The CCAC believes that each and every voice matters. We explicity invite all voices to speak and be heard within the framework of mutual respect. By developing an every-widening network of artists, citizens, patrons and sponsors, we work towards the mission of uniting the community through the arts. We firmly believe that the arts can serve as a conduit to bring people together across cultural, ethnic, and racial divides to create a stronger, healthier, and more just community.
Commitment: The CCAC is committed to supporting a diversity of art activities which not ony reflect the goals of the community but enlighten, embolden and expand these goals.
Acknowledgement: We acknowledge that the history of Calaveras County has included cultural biases and historic and institutional racism, and that our present racial inequities are a direct outgrowth of racist polices and practices embedded in our past.
We did not choose this history, but we can choose our actions in the present. Calaveras is predominantly white, but roughly 20% of our populations identifies as Hispanic/Latino or belongs to other BIPOC communities. We acknowledge that to be a healthy, equitable community, our cultural conversation needs to include their voices.
We believe that inclusive and open acess to the arts can shape the future into more equitable possibilities by changing hearts and minds and bringing the community together.
Commitment: The CCAC is committed to a policy of inclusivity. We affirm that the CCAC is a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization where all employees and volunteers, artists and patrons, whatever their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation or identity, education or disability, feel valued and respected.
The CCAC is committed to a practice of explicity invitation to all voices to speak and be heard, with special outreach to marginalized, hidden and underserved communities and people of color.
We commit our effort and resources to:
*Design and implement programs, policies and practices that are inclusive of all, and actively work to include members of the BIPOC and LGBTQ community, and other marginalized populations to our programs.
*Reach out to and collaborate with BIPOC, LGBTQ, and other underrepresented communities to learn how best to serve them within our organization and invite them into the arts community of Calaveras County
*Promote community voice, trust and dignity; and to engage all communities in a manner that fosters trust among people across geographic, race, class and gender lines and supports communities' (and Individuals') efforts to create community art.
*Continue to work towards building racial equity with the understanding that this framework is dynamic and will change as we continue to learn and grow in our understanding of an approach to equitable and inclusive practices.
We believe that the arts are big enough for all, and that the community thrives when all are included. We seek to develop an ever-widening network of artists, citizens, patrons and sponsors; foster an atmosphere of respectful inclusivity; and create a safe space within the Arts Council for growh.
We work towards our mission of uniting the community through the arts.
