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The Bench – Sue McMahon

The Bench poets gathered to write poems about skateboarding culture and bad apple scenes a writer stumbled upon a lone dark gray bench scarred deeply from their wheels rumored stolen from a lot painted name faded on top never to return Artist Unknown, Untitled

Death on Wheels – Beatrice Pizer

Watch Me With Skull and Snake and Lightening flash tight under my deck a prayer rolling close to the ground staring down death — poppin’ out fire ‘n ice. I’m stoked! Shed old skin as I skate kick the nose, kick ‘n flip it spin it — Yeh! Then land two feet solid surfing walls…

To Jump This Sierra Town – Lara Gularte

To Jump This Sierra Town In a world of concrete, a kinetic kind of art, the board comes alive. You make it leap like a new animal, jump the town. Not a surfboard, but a mountain skateboard. Smooth sliding, sailing, over waves of asphalt, concrete. Legs need a new journey,…

Bad Apples – Skateboarding and the Misfit Culture of EDC

From fashion, to street art, to the Olympic Games – skateboarding is a fixture in pop culture worldwide. But at its core, it remains a fast-paced, gritty, DIY, risk-laden sport with its roots in rebellion. Arts and Culture El Dorado teamed up with Motherlode Board Supply Co. and artist Nate Reifke to create a visual…

2022 El Dorado County Poetry Out Loud

2022 El Dorado County Poetry Out Loud First Place Kelsi Havercroft Union Mine High School Second Place Emily Lieber Oak Ridge High School Third Place Molly Grant Charter University Prep 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…

A Room of Her Own – Lara Gularte

Cherie Hacker, Universal Dreamer, 2020, Mixed media A ROOM OF HER OWN Inspired by Universal Dreamer, Cherie Hacker Room of their Own Exhibition, Arts and Culture El Dorado She’s a dreamer, a graceful climber– on a journey toward the light…

Sisters All – Sue Crisp

Alison Tomei, Sister All, 2019, Acrylic on canvas SISTERS ALL – ALISON TOMEI – 2019 Sisters all, by a singular nuclei of gender divided into individuals. Each with it’s own identity, yet sharing a single gene. Sharing in physical traits and memories. Encapsulated in the beginning, in a single cell, now divided into…

Porcelain – Beatrice Pizer

Katie Morris, Reception, 2020, Porcelain Preamble to share with listeners: This ceramic by Katie Morris caught my attention. Because of its hollow arms it made me think. Perhaps it was meant as a candelabra to hang on a wall? A fusion of woman and tree with fluted arms. An Object. This set off a stream…

End/Beginnings: Fireweed – Taylor Graham

Julia Schwadron Marianelli, Study (Fireweed 2), 2018, Acrylic ink on paper End / Beginnings : Fireweed inspired by Study (Fireweed 2), Julia Schwadron Marianelli After the fire swept through making of forest a waste of ash and char, after a winter of wind and rains eroding slopes burned down to mineral soil, …

A Basque Sheepherding Life – Lara Gularte

Sheepherder with Dog, Jean and Phillip Earl, Wax-on-muslin rubbing, 1970s, Etienne Maizcorena (carver) A BASQUE SHEEPHERDING LIFE The sheep rise from the mountain meadow as he commands them. Lambs rush for milk, one lamb gone in the night to a coyote. When he sleeps, his body is quiet, his heart roams, far from…