Arts and Culture El Dorado – Arts and Culture El Dorado

Sierra Re:Leaf

Sierra Re:Leaf Thrams Andie Wonder Wander Andie Thrams, For the Ernest Resilience of Plants, 2020, Mixed media on kozo paper over canvas “Sierra Re-Leaf” is a project of Arts and Culture El Dorado, in partnership with the El Dorado Fire Safe Council, local artists, and the scientific community. The project will provide practical resources and…

Table Nectar

For Kim Medici and Andy Tannehill, the owners of Table Nectar and Nectar Events, Inc., art and food have always been deeply intertwined. The couple, who married in 2007, met at Burning Man, where Andy was catering. After creating Table Nectar together in 2007, they went on to cater other music festivals, including Coachella. “We…

The Smoke, the Flame, by Shelley Wagner

The Smoke, the Flame The wind blew a firestorm Into my house, into my neighbor’s house. It left through the pine trees Dared to return, to burn, to creep Into my house, my neighbor’s house. The smoke, the flame Dared to return, to burn, to creep Across virgin ground The smoke, the…

Sending It: Climbing El Dorado

Sending It: Climbing El Dorado examines the unique and world-renowned climbing features perched along HWY 50. The exhibition focuses on Lover’s Leap, Phantom Spires, and Sugarloaf – three large granite outcroppings that attract climbers from around the globe. Taking a grass-roots curatorial approach, the exhibition combines community-sourced photographs with images from the personal archives of legendary…

Community Ofrendas: Honoring Our Ancestors

The Sugar Skull Art Walk is a community project that engages local artist-designers in creating Day of the Dead “ofrendas” on Main Street. The goal of this project is to help unify communities through art, music, and the shared human experience of loss. The ofrendas will be on view in Switchboard Gallery from October 15…

Cuckoo, by Jen Rae Vernon

Cuckoo “Historic Fight” hike three men in forest fire two with shovels, one short-handled, one with pick all thin, long sleeves, suspenders no masks or eye protectors We keepers of forest and mother nature elemental-destroyers and life-makers scrim red alights on crumpled photo skin these men are ours, CCC Camp kin, a step…

TRAVELLING FIRE/LAND WITH A FOX, by Lara Gularte

TRAVELLING FIRE/LAND WITH A FOX Smoke rises, as shadows feed fire. When Kali, Goddess of destruction appears, the sun goes dark. Trees like fiery pillars reach up to the heavens, and the sky sways with wingspan. Shadows running, the eagle’s voice a twitter. A gray fox turns himself into smoke to escape…

Lost Time in the Burn Scar, by Taylor Graham

Lost Time in the Burn Scar Old fire behaviorist, forester and range manager – teaching how a forest comes back from fire. But unlike the land, you can’t come back. I’m walking below a log deck of burned-dead conifers. I pulled over to see what’s happening, two years after fire that turned the ground…

Nature’s Own Fire-Works, by Taylor Graham

Nature’s Own Fire-Works It’s awful – like something from a thriller, a horror movie – but it’s Nature cleaning her house – awesome – since Time began, an ages-long tradition – but now, on Man-ufactured steroids. -Taylor Graham Uncontrolled, 2023, Giclée print, Still from the digital video FIRELAND Big Burn

Notes on Revisiting Caldor, by Taylor Graham

Notes on Revisiting Caldor 23 months after fire: black oak sprouts from a scorched base deerbrush, Sierra milkwort fresh deer prints on old dirt road spotted towhee unseen in the brush dry meadow alive with mullein velvety goldenrod, heart-leaf milkweed among black skeleton conifers, new ponderosa sprouts – too many, too dense for the…