Nevada County Historical Society
HISTORICAL NEVADA CITY AND GRASS Valley are the backdrop for the California Preservation Foundation’s annual conference on May 12-15, titled “The Sierra Nevada: Preserving a Sense of Place.” Nowhere is the region’s history better preserved than at the 66-year-old Nevada County Historical Society and its museums, a “must see” for visitors:
Historic Firehouse No. 1 Museum [...]
Artist profile: John Johnson
“VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING THINGS invisible,” Jonathan Swift said. My “Doublejay Vision” also is the art of seeing the unseen connections. I find various elements, record them with my digital camera and enhance them to make something new.
I am a photo illustrator, using my computer screen as my canvas and software as [...]
Q&A with new artistic director at Music in Mountains
Sierra FoodWineArt spoke with Gregory Vajda, the new artistic director at Music in the Mountains:
What is the philosophy of Music in the Mountains?
We believe that enthusiasm is the essential ingredient for any concert- goer—more important than formal dress or music knowledge. We challenge the notion that classical music is stuffy. We present the full [...]
Music in the Mountains heats up with “Summerfest”
MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL performing arts experience in the foothills—concert-hall quality music in a bucolic setting.
Started in 1982, a small group of music lovers gathered in Grass Valley to produce a few summer concerts. Now Music in the Mountains brings the classics to life year- round, with festivals in the Spring, [...]
Tahoe’s Concourse d’Elegance on Father’s Day weekend
NOW IN ITS 38TH YEAR, LAKE TAHOE’S Concours d’Elegance is the nation’s most prestigious wooden boat show.
The Concours is an ideal getaway for Father’s Day weekend, where families get an up-close view of more than 80 beautifully and meticulously restored wooden boats. Each one is a work of art.
The June 18-20 show is [...]
As if studios: A go-to visual arts center in the foothills
“Potters of the world ignite,” reads a bumper sticker in the parking lot of As if Studios in Grass Valley. Inside, ceramics is being taught to groups ranging from school children to octogenarians.
Further down the hall, sculptors and painters work on their pieces. At the center of this inspiring hubbub of creativity is a gallery [...]
In-Concert Sierra an icon for Foothills classical music
BACK IN 1946, A GROUP OF AFFLUENT residents in Grass Valley joined together to form a group to bring musical talent to the foothills from San Francisco. After meetings at the his-toric Bret Harte Hotel, the Twin Cities Concert Association (TCCA) was born.
A campaign netted 1,000 members, and the first act was an opera singer [...]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival celebrates fresh, local, wild
IN ONLY EIGHT YEARS, THE WILD & Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Nevada City hasgrown to become the nation’s largest festival of its kind, drawing 5,000 people to watch 125 films. “Wild & Scenic is the next Sundance,” as one filmmaker puts it.
This year, the festival’s theme is “Fresh Local Wild,” focusing on the revolution [...]
LeGacy brings community theater to Nevada City
THE REGION’S ARTS COMMUNITY SUFFERED a blow in May, when Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City closed after 33 years. It was the only resident professional theater in the area, and its rent helped pre- serve the historic Nevada Theatre.
But “this too, shall pass,” and community theater groups such as Sierra Stages and LeGacy Productions [...]
Artists Profile: Elizabeth and Olof Carmel
TRUCKEE’S CARMEL GALLERY FEATURES the work of Elizabeth and Olof Carmel, who are Truckee-based photographers specializing in unique and expressive landscapes of the natural world. Their prints combine dramatic photography, vivid colors, and artistic touches to create new, captivating visions of the natural world. All their works are printed as museum-quality pigment prints using archival [...]
