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The Heartland Showcase:

An exhibition of Tuolumne County's Heartland Creative Corps Grant Recipients

EXHIBIT OPEN
May 27th – August 8th
Mondays – Thursdays
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

OPENING RECEPTION
Tuesday, June 25th
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

LOCATION
Manzanita Building, Columbia College, Columbia, CA

2024 Tuolumne County Grant Projects

Last Earth

Jen Fletcher & the Greater Good

Last Earth is an immersive, environmental art experience opening Earth Day weekend 2024. Utilizing projection and video art, sculpture, immersive theater, and live music, this experience will usher the audience through a cycle that spans an entire weekend of performances by California artists.

Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition

Mercedes Tune, Barbara Balen, ConAmor Building Bridges

This cultural and artistic project centers on cultural restoration, inclusiveness, and civic engagement. It opens spaces to make visible history and stories that have been inaccessible for 200 years. Creating access to it is profoundly meaningful for Black, Indigenous and Community of Color, as today context resembles much of the threat of the past. The cultural awareness/artistic project offers an opportunity -by using art to re-create narratives to bring the margins to the center in pursuit of a more inclusive society. By using art processes, it ensures community engagement in meaningful, sensitive, and experiential manner. We will co-create safe places for artists and cultural practitioners from the community margins to express their art, in partnership with Tuolumne Arts Council, Columbia State Historic Park, and other partnerships. and cultural experiences that are accessible, and have the potential to produce civic engagement, enrichment, and wellbeing. And I will intentionally call leaders’ attention to the important role of art and culture in the wellbeing and civic engagement of the community.

Flow: A Story of California's Water

Ria Rice-Lawson

By telling the story of California’s water in an engaging way, we aim to encourage local action through community engagement, election participation, and water system conservation and recovery. The objective of this documentary is to educate and inspire locals of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains and Central Valley. We also want to help preserve the story of California’s waterways by digitizing archival materials and making them available through the documentary, and by capturing the memories of people who were key to this rich history through interviews.

There is a pressing need to change the way we engage with natural resources. By examining the past, and spotlighting those who are implementing solutions, we can avoid making similar mistakes and inspire action to improve the situation. The documentary will be offered to the public free of charge on different platforms.

Pareidolia

Crow Castlebury

As a visual artist I endeavor, using various mediums, to interpret and translate my own life experiences in order to communicate my worldview to others. With this project I wish to bring about a dialogue that will enable us to work better together as a community, and to grow towards equity, resiliency, and social justice, despite the current vastly disparate social and economic situations within our local social dynamic.

By engaging the widest spectrum of viewers possible, I hope to ignite an active awareness of intersectionality within our community, with the ultimate goal of engendering increased social equity in Tuolumne county. Pareidolia will be an inclusive, immersive, engaging environment which will be accessible to a diverse cross section of our community.

WATCH Resources Mosaic Mural

WATCH Resources

With support from the Heartland Creative Corps, WATCH Resources will create jobs for 79 artists in Tuolumne County. Artists will create decorative ceramic tiles and pieces for a large street mural project to contribute towards the community Vision Sonora project. The Vision Sonora project will create a more vibrant and walkable downtown Sonora. The artists will create and help build the mural to help promote the arts and appreciation of the arts in our community.

Our mission is to support independence and community engagement for adults with intellectual disabilities. This grant will support social justice advocacy by funding the employment for adults with intellectual disabilities to work in and for the Tuolumne County community. Our artists will use their creativity to create art as their employment to support their independence and support community integration within Tuolumne.

Pebbles in a Pond: The Ripple Effects of Participation in voting

B.Z. Smith

The Pebbles in a Pond project primarily gives strong voice to the focus area of civic engagement and participating in elections to strengthen our democracy. Throughout the grant cycle the importance of voting and being engaged with civic conversation will be emphasized in all program content that is presented in three different approaches to community events, In addition, PSAs will grow out of the live performances, videocasts, and podcasts.

Social justice and community engagement is the secondary focus of the Pebbles in a Pond project. Throughout the storytelling performances in all three approaches will present stories from a cross section of cultural diversity to offer a window into those worlds. This effort intends to build deeper understanding to recognize social injustices, and to offer paths of community engagement to address change at the polls.

Life at the Water's Edge

Peg Reza

Life at the Water's Edge is meant to bring awareness to the need for water resources, engage people in how to respect of our water resources, and reshape the public’s mindset regarding stewardship to keep the waterways clean to preserve wildlife.

Tuolumne County Homelessness Awareness Mural

Stefany Haynie

These murals would serve as part of a movement to improve awareness of the real causes of homelessness and who these voters and naysayers are opposing. The programs that would be supported by these murals and their message both support the improvement of lives and the quality of life. By including actual homeless individuals in the project I hope to gain my own insight and awareness, as well as help them gain confidence and motivation towards a better tomorrow.

What is the Heartland Creative Corps?

Heartland Creative Corps, a facet of the California Creative Corps, was developed by the California Arts Council in partnership with the State legislature. California Creative Corps is a 4.2 million dollar economic and workforce recovery pilot program intended to support pandemic recovery and the environmental, civic and social engagement of California’s most disproportionately impacted communities. Using a variety of art forms, including visual, performing, and traditional arts, artists will advance positive community outcomes by creating locally focused, contextually and culturally sensitive public messaging and work.

Merced, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties have an abundance of talented individuals who tell the stories and express the culture of our communities through ART. We want to support our artists to create projects that are locally focused and spread awareness related to public health messages, civic engagement, social justice & community engagement, and water & energy conservation, climate mitigation, & emergency preparedness.

As the Administering Organization for the three counties, United Way of Merced County will regrant funds to arts and social service organizations and to individual artists and cultural workers throughout Merced, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties.

The Heartland Creative Corps represents an unprecedented collaboration between County-designated arts agencies from all three counties. The arts agencies will work cooperatively to support program administration and serve as primary partners, service providers and communication conduits in their respective geographies.

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2024 Tuolumne County Grant Projects

What is the Heartland Creative Corps?

Learn more at:
www.heartlandcreativecorps.org

TCA OFFICE

21 N. Washington St. Sonora CA 95370

MAIL:

P.O. BOX 5287 Sonora CA, 95370

CONTACT

(209) 694-3198

EMAIL

info@tuolumnecountyarts.org

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About

2024 Tuolumne County Grant Projects

What is the Heartland Creative Corps?

Learn more at: www.heartlandcreativecorps.org

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Learn more at:
www.heartlandcreativecorps.org