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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Sugar 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…

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Specters 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…

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ForestSong: 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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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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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…

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Sugar Skull Art Walk: 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 were on view in Switchboard Gallery from October 15 to…

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Details + Materials: Works by Claudine Granthem

Details + Materials: Works by Claudine Granthem honored the work of long-time El Dorado County resident Claudine Granthem. With a strong oeuvre that consists of painting, wood and metal sculpture, and drawings, Granthem’s work is at once architectural and deeply human. Her use of materials is lavish in its embrace; she doesn’t attempt to transform or…

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