Last week Sierra Jazz Society Board Members visited the Nevada County Arts Council’s office. We took a moment to to learn more about their history, mission and vision.

For almost three years, Michaelyn Logue has served as Social Media and Communications Manager for the Nevada County Arts Council.

We took a moment with teaching artist and resident at Artists Studio in the Foothills (ASiF) Lani Zila as she prepares for her spring course offerings at the local artists collective.

We took a moment with two-time Nevada County Poetry Out Loud Champion and student at Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning, Dino Parks. Out of over 77,000 students from across the state that competed at the county level this year, he was one of 49 students selected to represent their communities.

Nevada City artist Jennifer Rugge’s desire to protect the environment led her on a journey to move away from the use of manufactured oil and acrylic paints, which contain toxins.  She calls herself an earth artist.

Nevada County Arts Council announces the selection of Nevada County’s new Poet Laureate, Karen Terrey! From Truckee, Terrey has been an active member of our literary scene on both sides of the county.

We took a moment with Kara Nova, Circus and Performing Artist, contortionist and producer of Super Nova Circus.

We took a moment with muralist, mixed media and visual artist Frida Ticehurst as she shares about her return to Nevada City, redefining her creative flow after motherhood and the inspiration she finds in the GVNC.

In celebration of the opening of the Artists@Work! exhibition, we took a moment with local composer, musician and Upstate California Creative Corps grantee Alexis Alrich to talk about her background in the arts and her process for creating the Wolf Creek Album. 

we took a moment with local juggler, storyteller, author and self-proclaimed Fool Izzi Tooinsky. 

Witkofsky has made comics since he was a kid. A collaboration with his friends while in high school resulted in the comic Sperble Elite, his longest running and largest project to date. “We would trade off drawing panels and I came up with this whole narrative. It ended up being my first self-published comic book. I love to write and draw, so comics were a perfect fit.” 

Riegel is most well known as the content creator of Unlikely Gems, short-form Instagram content that requires Riegel to be an actor, director, writer, producer, editor and video maker. What makes it all work, though, is his favorite thing: “to collaborate with vibey people and make music or have conversations that lead to comedy skit ideas.”

For the last year Farbiarz has been collaborating with other artists, and being consulted by California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project, to create a multimedia project that follows the life cycle of the “Salmon—Mai,” in Nisenan language, that used be plentiful in the Yuba River and still play an important role in our rivers’ ecology. 

Originally incorporated in August of 1985 as “Women’s Craft Guild of Nevada County” the group later changed its name to “Craft Guild of Nevada County,” recognizing that anyone can be a craftsperson. According to the articles of incorporation, the mission of the Craft Guild “is to help and educate individuals involved in a home business of crafts through workshops, networking, marketing, and cooperative wholesale purchasing.”

Collaborators and fellow artists Azriel LaMarca and Trina Spiller, met 7 years ago, shortly after Spiller moved to Nevada City, at a dance class led by LaMarca. Through this connection and mutual inspiration the collaboration leading to the one and only dance based festival in Nevada County—Dance Because was born.

Formed in 2016, Park Street Riot continues to push their own sonic edge, and have established themselves as a dynamic, powerful, and energetic force in the greater-Sacramento area music scene.

Curator, designer, and principal artist behind our Art in Public Spaces exhibition Breathe in Sky - Project Wild Edges, Hale is an artist of many talents. Working in multiple mediums, she combines materials and collaborates with others to achieve her vision.

Having spent her life surrounded by the world of art, local poet Maxima Kahn finds that music, dance, writing, visual art, and theater have remained her preferred mediums of art since childhood.

Figurative sculpture and mixed media artist Juliette Morris Williams received a 2024 Fellowship from the First Peoples Fund to create a new body of work. Williams works mainly with handmade paint and pigment, naturally dyed cloth, and clay.

Carlisle creates a vast array of work, collages consisting of her own printed photographs and found images, along with exploring a variety of other mediums.