Grantee Database
PLUMAS COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Arts Education - Artists in Schools
Award Amount
$19,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, the PLUMAS ARTS will continue a decades old partnership with our county’s single Plumas Unified School District to provide sequential, hands-on art workshops– presented by working artists– that inspire creativity, imagination, and innovation for every Kindergarten to 6th grade student in our low-income, rural, isolated county. Artists will also present classroom teachers with techniques to use art to enhance the delivery of other core subjects.
Organization Summary
Plumas Arts serves as the local arts planning and programming agency for Plumas County and representative to the California Arts Council’s State Local Partnership (since 1981). Our efforts include ARTS EDUCATION workshops in schools and for all ages, VISUAL ARTS GALLERY and art displays showcasing work by dozens of regional artists, INFORMATION SERVICES our county’s most comprehensive cultural events calendar, press releases about events and opportunities, as well as an ARTIST DIRECTORY on plumasarts.org in addition to regular features in regional newspapers, PRODUCING FESTIVALS, EVENTS & PERFORMANCES that highlight local culture and celebrate a diversity of traditions, FISCAL SPONSORSHIP and TECHNICAL SERVICES for arts and community groups, serving as a COMMUNICATION LINK among these groups and we own, care for and manage two historic facilities, the PLUMAS ARTS GALLERY & TOWN HALL THEATRE the county’s only movie theatre and largest performing arts venue as community resources.
Organization
PLUMAS ARTS
Address
PO BOX 600
525 Main Street
QUINCY
95971-0600
County
Plumas
Region
Upstate
Phone
(530) 283-3402
Congressional District
California's 1st congressional district
State Assembly District
District 1
State Senate District
District 1
