Special Projects

Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture in collaboration with the Marysville Japanese American Citizens League created the Arboga Assembly Center Memorial Site and Interpretive Center. The Memorial Site is located on Broadway Street just east of Feather River Boulevard in south Yuba County. The location is clearly shown on Google Maps as well.  Grant funding from…

Beginning in 2016, we secured a pledge of matched funds from the City of Live Oak for the commissioning of 2-3 exterior wall murals per year. This is an exciting project driven by economic development and community pride and as of 2021, 20 murals have been completed….

Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture, the owners of the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts, have been working with McCandless Architecture out of Woodland, CA to get some inspiration of what the Main Stage could be once completed. Nothing is set in stone as of yet, but these are some ideas on the possibilities. To…

In 2023, the Yuba Sutter Rotary Night Club was awarded a grant from the Upstate California Creative Corps to hold a Mural Marathon, Art & Health Festival. These five murals are the legacy of that grant program. Created in just 48 hours, these artists addressed the themes mandated by the grant each in their own…

Thanks to a generous grant from the California Department of Parks & Recreation, YSAC is able to host monthly outings to local scenic locations including the Sutter Buttes, Table Mountain, and the Truckee/Donner Pass area. The trips are led by professional science teachers and naturalists along with a teaching artist who leads nature journaling and…

What is “Town, Our town”? Inspired by George Oppen’s poem “Discrete Series”, Emiliano Gomez’s “Town, a town” is a special project in process. With support from the California Arts Council, Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture will immerse an independent writer-artist, Emiliano Gomez, in every possible community — of age, class, ethnicity, gender, religion — to…

For over three years, Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture and the Alliance for Hispanic Advancement have been working to create a new youth performing arts program, the Yuba-Sutter Youth Mariachi Orchestra. This ensemble was finally formed over the 2023 fall semester at Yuba Gardens Middle School and Arboga School. There are plans to expand this…

Yuba Sutter Arts and Culture used the “Cover It!” A Utility Box Mini-Mural Project as part of its arts everywhere initiative. The “Cover It!” program is designed to support art in public places and to enhance neighborhoods through the creation of these mini-murals. With the tremendous artistic talent in Yuba-Sutter, there has been no shortage…

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