Posts by Arts and Culture El Dorado
Young Artist Awards 2025
Four outstanding high school seniors received the 2024 Young Artist Awards at a reception at Arts and Culture El Dorado’s Switchboard Gallery at 525 Main Street in Placerville. The event, held on Thursday, April 24, also honored the memory of four bright lights in the El Dorado County community who greatly supported the arts.…
Read MoreYouth Art Month 2025
In honor of National Youth Art Month, Arts and Culture El Dorado is exited to celebrate its second annual Youth Arts Exhibition, showcasing artworks created by El Dorado County youth, grades 9-12. From Thursday, March 6 to Sunday, April 6, Union Mine students will take over Switchboard Gallery, curating a show of their own works.…
Read More2024 Young Artist Awards
Four outstanding high school seniors received the 2024 Young Artist Awards at a reception at Arts and Culture El Dorado’s Switchboard Gallery at 525 Main Street in Placerville. Read more.
Read More2025 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…
Read MoreScattered 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,…
Read MoreArts 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…
Read MoreSugar Skull Artwalk: Honoring Our Ancestors 2024
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 were on view in Switchboard Gallery from October 14 to…
Read MoreSpecters On Glass: Studio Portraiture in Early 20th c. Placerville
Specters on Glass: Studio Portraiture in Early 20th c. Placerville, opened Thursday, August 22, and ran 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 between Arts and Culture El Dorado, the El Dorado County…
Read More2024 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,…
Read MoreForestSong: Creativity and Resilience in Forest Communities
ForestSong opened on Thursday, July 11 and ran through Sunday, August 11, 2024. ForestSong was 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…
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