Mariposa Arts Council

Earlier this spring, MCHS Senior Sydney Jacobs took home the Poetry Out Loud County title and moved on to compete in California State Poetry Out Loud Finals with a brilliant recitation of the poem Enough by Suzanne Buffam. Impressed by the Arts Council's ongoing poetry initiatives and Sydney's performance, Suzanne volunteered to read alongside Syd and host An Evening of Poetry to bring awareness to the Arts Council's two poetry programs (Poetry Out Loud and Arts in Correct...ions) along with award-winning contemporary poet, Anna Maria Hong. This event is happening on Zoom, May 27th and is open to our Members, and Mariposa students and educators - join us! We're over-the-moon to make such a valuable connection with these poets, all thanks to Sydney! #mariposaarts #poetryoutloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk3MpWwvsPQ

We're honored to introduce this special side-project! Arts in Corrections - a program that introduces incarcerated individuals at the Mariposa County Adult Detention Facility to the field of poetry and poetry literacy - produces chapbooks of participant poetry each season. These published chapbooks are both an opportunity to for AIC participants to share their creative voices with their community and way to collect support for the program. Learn more at www.mariposaartscounci...l.org/aic Chapbooks Volume 1 and 2, illustrated by Anna Friedland and Daisy Wellcome consecutively, are available now for sale at Sticks_Coffee in downtown Mariposa. They are $6.00 for one chapbook, and $10.00 for two with all proceeds returning to AIC for 2021. Special thanks to our program teaching artist, Laura Phillips, our partners Mariposa County Sheriff's Office, and Lt. Sean Land, Justin Reeder and Corrections Staff. For more about the Arts Council's ongoing poetry initiatives, visit www.mariposaartscouncil.org/poetry #mariposaarts #transformativearts #artsincorrections

Listening With Les Episode 57: The conclusion of this two-parter! - https://mailchi.mp/eec58/the-mso-listening-with-les-5523112

Our photography program for seniors is now open for registration with new workshops in April and May! Visit our website at www.mariposaartscouncil.org/fstop/ to learn more and register.

Listening With Les Episode 55: A Bumbling Film icon - - https://mailchi.mp/8ed64/the-mso-listening-with-les-5520792

We're excited to host a special appreciation event for our Members! This event brings keynote renowned poets and authors Suzanne Buffam and Anna Maria Hong together in conversation with the Arts Council’s two primary poetry programs, Poetry Out Loud (POL) and Arts in Corrections (AIC). The event will be facilitated by professor, poet and author Megan Levad with our own Executive Director, Cara Goger. Learn more here: www.mariposaartscouncil.org/poetry Special art events and c...urated conversations throughout the year are just one way we like to show our appreciation for our Members and their generous support. Members will receive a direct invitation to this event with access to the Zoom link via email. If you are not a Member and would like to enjoy this & other special events, consider joining today at www.mariposaartscouncil.org/join #mariposaarts

Listening With Les Episode 54: Mozart's titan of proportions? - https://mailchi.mp/177f5/the-mso-listening-with-les-5518384

Listening With Les Episode 56: A two-parter! - https://mailchi.mp/5a670/the-mso-listening-with-les-5522396

100% facts! Happy Earth Day, friends

We are looking for folks to join us for our F/STOP Photography program, exclusively for Mariposa residence 55 years or older! Our Standard workshop is open for both for in-person or virtual settings, starting next week. (Find full details and registration here: www.mariposaartscouncil.org/fstop/) F/STOP incorporates instruction on the elements of art, lighting & composition, facilitated conversation about the field of photography and the work of famous photographers, and ...creative photographic assignments. We welcome all participants, new and returning - learn with us today! #mariposaarts #lifetimelearning

Listening With Les Episode 53: Who knew love could be so charming!? - https://mailchi.mp/0494b/the-mso-listening-with-les-5517840

As part of Arts, Culture and Creativity Month, a group of Mariposa and Tuolumne County delegates met with Assemblyman Bigelow (Assembly District 5) to talk about the many ways the Arts and Creative Placemaking are contributing to our region. This conversation helped encourage his support for a number of upcoming budget request that would increase funding and resources for the arts across California. Go team! Many thanks and deep appreciation to Assemblyman Frank Bigelow's District Office for giving us such a generous portion of his time to meet and engage us in a lively, warm and supportive conversation about the Arts in Central California. #ACCM2021 #MariposaArts

This is an incredible and rare funding opportunity for individual artists to apply for funding independent of an organization! If you are a working artist, we suggest taking a good look today at California Arts Council's website: https://arts.ca.gov/grant_pr/individual-artists-fellowship/

Join Sierra Foothill Conservancy for #wingedwednesday today!

Listening With Les Episode 39: After this week, we need a reminder of elegance and gentility. - https://mailchi.mp/0ed06/the-mso-listening-with-les-3616172

F/STOP - our free photography program for Mariposa residence 55 years and older - is going virtual this spring! To make this fan-favorite program successful, we need your input on how to make it work best for everyone. Take this quick survey so we can gauge interest and see what tools we'll need to get started! https://mariposaarts.typeform.com/to/pkzSVpHR

Listening With Les Episode 38: Let's get this new year off to a bang - https://mailchi.mp/e5968/the-mso-listening-with-les-3612124

We need your ideas! The Creative Placemaking Master Plan will provide a strategy for identifying policies, projects and programs that will leverage art and design to make our community better. This plan and its recommendations will support our economy, our lifestyles, and our senses of identity and place. We need as much community input as possible to make Creative Placemaking as responsive + successful as possible. So please take a few minutes to add your thoughts and sh...are with your pals today! #MariposaArts #CreativePlacemaking https://mariposaarts.typeform.com/to/NRtLSdGt

Happy New Year, friends! We don’t have to tell you that 2020 has been weird, and difficult and awful for a lot of people. The list of challenges everyone has faced is long (very long), but we can feel hope from the metaphorical 2021-sunrise coming up and with that, here is our shortlist of Things That Haven’t Been Terrible in 2020: https://bit.ly/38UynSj

Check out this Story Map for the ongoing Recreation and Resiliency Master Plan! The map is now updated with new findings and community input from every project milestone - we're super inspired and so excited for Mariposa's future!

Think of Alex as the rockstar guru of the Arts Council. Shout out to your dedication upholding and uplifting stellar creative and community values in all facets of your work, Alex Vance - thank you for being a part of Mariposa’s creative community! Be sure to check out Little Tiger Band and their brand new song "The War is Over" here! https://littletiger3.bandcamp.com/releases... _____________ #CreativeCommunityMariposa is a fun mini interview series with the people who actively help move our creative community forward. Follow the hashtag to get to know our featured friends each week! #MariposaArts #CreativeCommunityMariposa

Listening With Les Episode 26: Why do mad scientists always play the organ? - https://mailchi.mp/874fe/the-mso-listening-with-les-3323550

We have some exciting news to share! The Mariposa County Arts Council has been awarded the California Arts Council’s Innovations + Intersections Grant. We are one of 6 funding recipients for this program and we will use this award to develop, create and install a series of site-specific artistic interventions and produce cultural programming addressing wildfire risk reduction strategies and representation of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation - two deeply linked issues current...ly reframing Mariposa's community dialogue about fire management practices, historical narratives, and the connection between place and public health. This project would not be possible without our amazing partners: the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation/Miwumati Healing Center, the Mariposa County Planning and Health Departments and Sierra Foothill Conservancy. And deep gratitude to the California Arts Council for the vision, leadership and intention embedded in this funding opportunity. California Arts Council Mariposa County Planning Sierra Foothill Conservancy AICMC a.k.a Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation #southernsierramiwuknation #sierrafoothillconservancy #creativecommunitymariposa Read more here! http://arts.ca.gov/news/prdetail.php?id=322

Listening With Les Episode 25: Allow Dvorak to Set the Halloween Mood... - https://mailchi.mp/3118a/the-mso-listening-with-les-3321618

Listening With Les Episode 24: The Classical....SAXOPHONE? - https://mailchi.mp/d345b/the-mso-listening-with-les-3319594

The Ah-Lo’-Mah’ project is more than public art. It’s a deploy integrated collaboration that connects Mariposa’s physical environment and culture to our sense of place. Tara Dawn Fouch - a Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation member - shares her experience learning traditional basketry and cultural practice from native elders and culture keepers for the first time: It was such an honor for me to be able to participate in the Ah-Lo’-Mah’ project. Prior to this, I had no experience ...in basket weaving or any other traditional native arts. Of course, I’ve always dreamed of learning so when Clay and my Great Aunt Sandy asked me to join I was all in! Admittedly, I hadn’t put a lot of thought into the project before instruction began so I was pretty surprised at what a meaningful experience it turned out to be. Basket weaving can be a very slow, deliberate process, but the time passes quickly when you work as a collective. Gathering with a group of other native women (some family - some women I had only just met) as we each labored on our individual baskets, but connected in our common goal. It was incredibly healing to just sit and weave and chat about family, the tribe, the weather, the fires... By the end of it we were all much more connected to each other. It’s something we shared together, particularly amidst these trying times when it’s easy to feel isolated and lost. I’m excited to continue to be more involved with tribal activities (we now plan to follow Sandy on a gathering mission, to harvest the weaving materials during the winter months). I’m also excited to include my own daughters so we can learn the ways of our ancestors together. That legacy depends on the involvement of many generations, after all. The Southern Sierra Miwuk have always been here it’s a good time to make ourselves more seen and heard - Creative Placemaking helped provide an outlet to share our story! AICMC a.k.a Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation #MariposaArts #CreativePlacemaking

No doubt teachers across the nation have had a tough year. Shout out to Bryan Starchman for continuing to inspire Mariposa County High School students throughout 2020 with his many (like, so many!) creative endeavors. Thanks for being a part of Mariposa's creative community, Bryan! Find his recent work here: ... Short Fiction: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/08/the-very-last-one/ Upcoming travel feature: https://rovamag.com (October edition) United Scenes of America book: www.amazon.com/United-Scenes-America-COVID-19//B08DBYMXFF/ National Steinbeck Center articles www.steinbeck.org/blog/ Podcast: www.podomatic.com//unit/episodes/2020-03-21T16_56_44-07_00 ________________________________ #CreativeCommunityMariposa is a fun mini interview series with the people who actively help move our creative community forward. Follow the hashtag to get to know our featured friends each week! #TravelsWithStarchman #MariposaArts

Listening With Les Episode 23: One of my not-so-guilty pleasures - https://mailchi.mp/5b315/the-mso-listening-with-les-3284446

We'll be tuning into The Beat Harvest student show tonight at 7pm! Always thankful to have people like Adam Burns facilitating and inspiring creative talent in Mariposa - rock on!

Listening With Les Episode 22: Doing the Right Thing. Heroism. - https://mailchi.mp/db7fc/the-mso-listening-with-les-3303146

Check it out! This is our first demonstration project for the Mariposa County Creative Placemaking Master Plan - a county-wide initiative that identifies policies, projects, and programs that will leverage art and design to make our community better. Help us build more projects like Ah-Lo’-Mah’ by taking the Creative Placemaking Community Survey today! www.mariposaartscouncil.org/cpmp-survey... Ah-Lo’-Mah’ draws on the Southern Sierra Miwuk tradition of basket-making, a practice that combines environmental stewardship, collaborative fabrication, and artistic expression to convey both the beauty of the county’s natural landscape and the richness of our cultural history and identity. This art installation is located along the Mariposa Creek Parkway (bottom of 5th Street). #MariposaCounty #MariposaArts #CreativePlacemaking

Listening With Les Episode Twenty: Something different - Learning ABOUT Les... - https://mailchi.mp/fe7fd/the-mso-listening-with-les-3296170

In the past few weeks, we've been staying busy behind-the-scenes building new programming and partnerships. With every project we do, there are many amazing people who are moving our creative community forward right along with us! Our new mini-interview series brings fresh creatives to the table each week, allowing you to get to know them a little bit better - first shout out goes to the one and only Mikey Goralnik! #CreativeCommunityMariposa #MariposaArts