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Coming Events
| Fri May 17 Manny Sosa Concert |
| Sat May 18 Dogdish Duo featuring Kevin Fritson and Tom McRee |
| Sat May 18 Kennedy Mine Concert & BBQ |
| Sun May 19 Armed Forces Salute |
| Sat Jun 01 ART TREK |
| Fri Jun 07 Free Friday Concert - Preston Castle, Ione |
| Fri Jun 14 Free Friday Concert - Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, Jackson |
| Sun Jun 16 Father's Day Blues & BBQ |
| Fri Jun 21 Free Friday Concert - Minnie Provis Park, Sutter Creek |
| Sat Jun 22 Jazzin' It Up in Jackson |
| Fri Jun 28 Free Friday Concert - Mollie Joyce Park, Pioneer |
| Fri Jul 05 Free Friday Concert - Detert Park, Jackson |
| Sat Jul 06 ART TREK |
| Fri Jul 12 Free Friday Concert - Castle Oaks, Ione |
| Fri Jul 19 Free Friday Concert - Volcano Amphitheatre, Volcano |
| Fri Aug 02 Free Friday Concert - Pine grove Park, Pine Grove |
| Sat Aug 03 ART TREK |
| Fri Aug 09 Free Friday Concert - Montevina Winery/Terra d'Oro |
| Thu Aug 22 Arts Networking Open House |
| Sat Sep 07 ART TREK |
| Sat Sep 21 Artists Assoc. Open Studio Tour |
| Sat Oct 05 ART TREK |
| Sat Nov 02 ART TREK |
| Sat Nov 09 Winefest 2013 |
AmadorArts needs YOU --- to VOLUNTEER
For more than 30 years AmadorArts has been supporting, promoting and encouraging the Arts in our schools and community. As a non-profit organization, we depend on volunteers to make the most of our many events and programs. Please become an AmadorArts volunteer and help us build the cultural vitality of our community!
AmadorArts, the Amador County Arts Council, is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to encouraging, supporting, and promoting the arts in our schools and community. In order to nurture the cultural vitality of Amador County, we offer arts education programs, free concerts, community events, gallery exhibits and arts mixers throughout the year, in addition to providing resources and opportunities to local artists.
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AmadorArts would like to thank the Community Foundation of Amador County & the Diamond-Price fund for their recent grant contribution of $2500 to our organization! Bill Price and Candace Diamond recommended AmadorArts to the Community Foundation for a grant to help nurture the cultural vitality of our region & with this generous contribution, that is exactly what we will continue to do.
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SPOTLIGHT ARTISTS
Anje Olmstead is May’s Artist of the Month at AmadorArts Gallery
AmadorArts will be featuring the amazing work of Anje Olmstead in its gallery in Sutter Creek for the Month of May. A Reception in her honor will be held during the 1st Saturday Art Trek on May 4, from 4-6 pm.
Anje Olmstead has been an exhibiting artist for 35 years, the last five in Sacramento at the 20/20 Gallery. Her mediums have ranged from watercolor pointillism to mosaic collage to the current needlepoint “tapestry” art. Her work can be seen in commercial business centers, restaurants and in private collections. Even the “Encyclopedia of Living Artists in America” contains examples of her creations. She’s a unique artist with an eye for creating in and with very small pieces, like painting dots, cutting and adhering minute textured paper shapes, or darning many vibrant colors of yarn in tiny needlepoint holes. The resulting “big picture” is fascinating. Some times she’ll make a design in one medium and then replicate it exactly in another. Seeing the two next to each other makes for wondrous appreciation.
New Opportunity
AmadorArts was invited to join the California Alliance for Arts Education, along with 25 other arts councils, the only one in the 6-county area, to develop a coalition of diverse local stakeholders to advocate to keep the arts in our schools.
Arts Networking May 16 will Offer a Preview of 2013 Art by the Inch
During the AmadorArts next Arts Networking Mixer on Thursday, May 16, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, in the Jackson Civic Center at 33 Broadway enjoy a couple of fun hours of socializing with a variety of local residents. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a no-host wine bar will be featured, as will some of the murals being created for this year’s Art by the Inch project. This will be a Preview of what will be on display during this year’s “Jazzin’ It Up in Jackson” event on Saturday, June 22. Featured music will be by Amador’s favorite young singer-songwriter Meghan O’Keefe, accompanying herself on keyboard. For AmadorArts members, the event is FREE; or it’s just $5 a person. Everyone welcome!
Jazzin’ It Up in Jackson on June 22 to Feature Art, Music, Wine and More
Stroll three blocks of closed-off historic Main Street while enjoying a variety of sites and sounds!
FREE Admission, FREE parking, FREE Music on 3 Stages-
This year Jazzin' It Up in Jackson will be even more hoppin'! Enjoy a variety of music, from country to rock and jazz. Featuring music by Tri-Tone Subs, Brad Wilson Band, and the Rupert Duncan Band. See a unique new way to buy art- Art by the Inch. See the work of local artists on exquisite murals displayed down the center of Main Street. You choose and buy the "inches" that speak to you.
Meet AmadorArts New Executive Director
It was with great intrepitude that the selection panel of AmadorArts approached the job of selecting the new part-time Executive Director. There were nearly 50 applicants, all with solid experience. After many resume readings and more than a dozen interviews, there was one who survived the scrutiny. Terra Easton Forgette (pronounced For-JET) will begin as part-time Executive Director on November 1. Terra’s youthful, but poised enthusiasm, combined with her community non-profit experience and theatre background in the arts, make her qualified to be the first paid AmadorArts administrator in 10 years.
New Office for AmadorArts
AmadorArts has moved into a new office. It’s located in Sutter Creek in the Monteverde General Store Museum Annex at 11-A Randolph Street. If this sounds familiar, it’s where we once shared an office. Fortunately, the walls still have the murals of the history of Sutter Creek painted by Rand Huggett. The new mailing address for AmadorArts is...
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Keep up with the news of the Amador county Artists Association by visiting their website at www.amadorcountyartists.org
