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In the  Gallery 

Post Cards for a New Year

January-February 28 2021
Online gallery: www.calaverasarts.org or by appointment

We invited artists to send a post card to the world to describe their experience during 2020 or their hopes and dreams for 2021. They responded with astounding, thoughtful, and hopeful work. ​

Enjoy their work and shop in our online gallery store.

Online Gallery Store

Arts in Education

Poetry Out Loud Online

COMPETITION DATE: Saturday, February 20, 2021, 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Zoom, hosted by the Calaveras County Arts Council
REQUIREMENTS: Two poems (memorized) from the Poetry Out Loud Website (www.poetryoutloud.org)
REGISTRATION: Online form at calaverasarts.org
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION:
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Cash prizes!

Enter Poetry Out Loud

Teen Art

ArtSpirit 2021

March 1 -April 1 2021

ArtSpirit showcases artwork by Calaveras teens during March, Arts in Education month. This is a wonderful way for teens to get   recognition they deserve. 

Any high school senior in Calaveras County may enter one piece. Please contact Kathy Mazzaferro at goldrusharts18 @ gmail.com for more information.​

Explore past shows

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 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

Join

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

join and support

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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Arts Council Gallery temporarily Closed

The California State Public Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health is ordering all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence, except as needed to maintain continuity of operation of the federal critical infrastructure sectors. 

Until the Stay-at-Home order is lifted, and we can figure out how to open safely for staff and visitors, the Arts Council gallery will be closed. ​But we are continually updating our social media with arts related information. Find us there!

Read a message from Kathy Mazzaferro, executive director

Join the Calaveras County Arts Council Today!

Join the Arts Council 

Even as 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 during this troubled time.

Join Now

Help bring art to Students!

The Calaveras County Arts Council has a mission to support arts in our public schools. Last year our fundraising event Ride & Walk 4 Art raised nearly $6,000; all of the money is earmarked for arts in our public schools.

Sadly, this year we had to cancel Ride & Walk 4 Art due to the Covid-19 emergency. Happily, most of you said, "keep our registration money!" We thank you for your generosity.

But we have fallen far short of our goal of matching last year's contributions.  And this upcoming year, our kids will need the arts more than ever as they return to school and try to navigate this new world we live in. 

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.

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE ARTS COUNCIL

ArtSpirit
Art by Young Artists in Calaveras County

Due to the Covid-19 emergency, we postponed the reception for ArtSpirit 2020. We hope to reschedule it, but in mean time, we created an online gallery for you to see some of the work the kids created. It's such a fun show, and there's so much lovely artwork; we hope you will enjoy the slide show.

Click here to Take a virtual "gallery" tour of ArtSpirit 2020

Art Resources for students of the arts

The arts—visual, music, theater, storytelling, crafts, writing, dance—can help us all navigate this difficult time. Online resources are growing for homeschooling, mental health activities, and for communicating with others. 
The Calaveras County Arts Council will continually update a list of these resources during the Covid 19 quarantine. 

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

2020 Music in the Parks-Canceled

A Year of Silence for Music in the Parks
 
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Calaveras County Arts Council’s free summer concert series will fall silent this year. Given the current global health crisis, the council’s board of directors regretfully and unanimously voted to cancel the 2020 Music in the Parks. According to Kathy Mazzaferro, executive director, there were no clear options to insure proper distancing for audience members as well as musicians. “It was such a sad and difficult choice,” she said “but the board and I believe it best for the health and safety of all.”
 
Staff is working on creating an online concert series with local musicians to entertain those sheltering at home. They will announce their progress on their website (www.calaverasarts.org), by email, and on social media.
 
The Arts Council is looking forward to resuming their popular outdoor concerts next year, beginning on June 16, 2021. According to Mazzaferro, “we have optimistically offered each of the bands the exact same contract for next summer, 2021. We are pleased to say they have all accepted.”
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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