2025 El Dorado County Poetry Out Loud

Amber Baker, Alivia Chen, Erin Levinson, and Kaitlin Fuller. P2025 Poetry Out Loud El Dorado County Finals: Erin Levinson First Place, Amber Baker Second Place, Alivia Chen Third Place, and Kaitlin Fuller Fourth Place. Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition for high school students. In El Dorado County, the competition is administered…

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Scattered Water Droplets: Yatapk’oyihím Mom

Scattered Water Droplets: Yatapk’oyihím Mom, opened Thursday, November 21, 2024 and ran through Sunday, January 12 2025 at Switchboard Gallery. It showed the intimate relationship between native artists and their tribal waters. These artists were chosen to embody a “scattered” representation of native viewpoints across our region. Participating artists include Billy Hawk Enos, Raymond LeBeau,…

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Arts Education Strategic Plan for El Dorado County Arts and Culture El Dorado will develop and present a countywide Arts Education Strategic Plan in partnership with the El Dorado County Office of Education. This plan, when completed, will allow EDCOE and El Dorado County to join the cohort of 34 California counties with a countywide…

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Specters On Glass

Specters on Glass: Studio Portraiture in Early 20th c. Placerville, Arts and Culture El Dorado’s latest exhibition at Switchboard Gallery, opened Thursday, August 22, and runs through Sunday, October 6. There was an Opening Reception in the Gallery, located at 525 Main Street, on Thursday, August 22 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. A collaboration…

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2024 El Dorado County Poetry Out Loud

  Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition for high school students. In El Dorado County, the competition is administered by Arts and Culture El Dorado in partnership with the California Arts Council. A vehicle for inspiration and instruction, Poetry Out Loud provides students with a variety of resources to help them memorize,…

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ForestSong: Creativity and Resilience in Forest Communities

ForestSong is an art project by Andie Thrams that centers on painting Forest Prayer Flags to deepen appreciation of and connection to forests, address environmental loss, and celebrate biophilia. The project also shares contemporary wildfire and forest ecology, and suggests actionable steps to foster environmental stewardship for individuals and communities.

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A Picture’s Worth: NEA Big Read at the Gallery

A Picture’s Worth: NEA Big Read at the Gallery. This exhibition of illustrator Gavin Sellers-Norman’s original work features illustrations inspired by community-sourced oral histories and original audio recordings by personal historian Mariah Padilla. Opened with a reception on May 23 at 6 pm and ran through June 30, 2024. Click Here To Access Stories and…

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Youth Art Month: EDHS Student Takeover at Switchboard Gallery

In honor of National Youth Art Month, Arts and Culture El Doradois excited to launch our first annual Youth Arts Exhibition, showcasingartworks created by El Dorado County youth, grades 9-12. In Spring of 2024, El Dorado High School students took over Switchboard Gallery, curating a show of their own works. Successive years will feature artworks…

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Dark Rough Memories, by Anton Nemeth

Dark Rough Memories A tribute to Claudine Grantham   All the manufactured items of the world Last for a while and then are randomly swirled By human tossing or Nature’s elements Into time’s rivers, there to be sediments Seen on beaches, shores, lots, and hillsides strewn, And what once was cut, planed, formed and careful…

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