Artist – Arts and Culture El Dorado

Kelly Smith Cassidy

Kelly is a professional sculptor for 22 years. She lives and works in South Lake Tahoe. Her works are mostly wall sculptures of aspens and pines. Her sculpting studio open for visits by appointment. Most of her work is by commission. She is also a Burning Man Art Grantee.

Kelly Smith Cassidy – Copper Keiligh

Kelly Smith Cassidy has been a professional sculptor since 1997. Kelly creates in bronze and copper using gas welding equipment. Most of her work is made custom order by commission. Her Tahoe studio is open by appointment or during the Tahoe Art League Studio Tour the last weekend in July, first weekend in August.

Judi Pettite

Natural pigments with a focus on local colors—foraged or cultivated from a 100 mile radius is the part of Ms. Pettite’s process. Summer 2018, she grew indigo, persicaria tinctoria in her Placerville garden to use in her paintings and drawings. Other local colors include the mushroom pisolithus arrihizus, black walnuts, elderberry and much more. The…

Beverly Austin

Beverly Austin is a California native and an award winning artist. Using oils and acrylics, Beverly has been drawn to combining the spiritual and physical realms of the world through nature and light in her paintings. She believes that nature has a timelessness that reflects the past, present and future.

Andrew Vonderschmitt

Andrew is a woodworker and metal sculpturist. He spends his free time (what little a father of a toddler can find) working in his home studio (garage) making things. Currently, he has been sculpting pieces from found root systems of dead Manzanita shrubs. Experimenting with resins and light features, Andrew has been hard at work on items for…

Carol ‘Cj’ Nelson

Carol ‘Cj’ Nelson is an award-winning Northern California Photographer and Multi Media Artist who is most at ease in nature, behind a camera or creating exquisite treasures in her art studio. She resides in Georgetown, CA and is a member of Art on the Divide Cooperative Gallery and also one of the artisans at the Blue…

Irene Lipshin

Irene Lipshin photographs from the perspective of a poet, telling a story through the magic of words and images, hoping to evoke emotions that help us see and understand the puzzles and contradictions we meet on our journeys. She advocates for peace, children’s issues and the environment through the arts and walking the Camino de…

Doris Gorin

I’ve been doing art for most of my adult life. I’ve been inspired by many local artists and enjoy painting both outdoors (plein air) in oils and in my studio using watercolors. Landscapes, including animals, water, rocks, flowers and clouds, are favorites of mine to paint.

Gavin Sellers

Gavin is a working actor / producer in the Placerville area. He is the founder of Theatrical Thursday at the H.Art Lounge, and the founder of APPLECORE Fringe Festival.

Lara Gularte

Lara Gularte lives and writes in the Sierra foothills of California. Her book, “Kissing the Bee,” is forthcoming November 2017, published by The Bitter Oleander Press. Her poetry depicting her Azorean heritage may be found in The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry. Gularte’s work has appeared widely in journals and magazines, and has been included…