MARYSVILLE, CA (MPG)  – Not to make light of what we have all been going through this year, but sometimes when you get a bunch of lemons dropped on you, you just gotta make lemonade and that’s exactly what some of our local artists have been doing. Now, more than ever, art is necessary to bring joy, to bring wonder, to bring a glimpse of hope during this time that is so challenging and difficult.

Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture is proud to announce not one, but two outstanding pandemic-inspired art programs coming up in December. First up is COVID Stories - Making Art in A Pandemic, a two-venue art exhibition organized by Visual Artist-in-Residence, Tina Linville. For several months, Tina has led an art mentorship program for local emerging artists. This show will feature the work of program participants and a few others including Ash Arroyo, Sara Cabigas and Jhet Cabigas, Kathleen Childers, Rachelle Dannible, Sue Graue, Laura Lake Peterson, Joe Lloyd, Tina Linville, Alexandra Sprowls and Amelia Villagomez. 

An Opening Reception for COVID Stories will be held December 5, 2020 from 10am – 2pm in Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture’s Gallery, 624 E Street, Marysville and simultaneously at Four Fourteen Gallery, 414 4^th Street, Marysville.  The show will continue to be available for viewing by appointment at both locations through January 31, 2021. Masks and social distancing will be required in the galleries. 

And then, get ready for a Corona Comedy Concert featuring satire and music with Joe Moye and Tom Galvin. The concert will be streamed live on Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture’s Facebook page and its YouTube channel on December 6 at 7pm. The pandemic has inspired the creation of all forms of artwork around the world as artists seek to make sense of the senseless. Joe and Tom are two of our favorite local artists, musicians and poets and they have created a program guaranteed to make you laugh and maybe even think again about this shared experience and see it in a whole new light.

"Laughter may not cure what ails you, but it just can't be that dark when there is laughter, and you can quote me on that...lol,” said Joe.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Arts Council recognizes that some grantees may need to postpone, modify, or cancel their planned activities supported by CAC funds, due to state and local public health guidelines. The state arts agency is prioritizing flexibility in addressing these changes and supporting appropriate solutions for grantees.

Yuba Sutter Arts is a non-profit organization founded in 1981 whose mission is to provide arts programming, education, advocacy, assistance and service to artists, organizations and all residents of Sutter and Yuba Counties. It is the official local agency of the California Arts Council. Programs include Arts in Education, Arts in Corrections, Murals of Live Oak, Veterans Initiative in the Arts, Art Everywhere satellite art galleries, Applause concert series, Cover It! Utility Box Mini Mural Project, Scholastic Writing Awards, Poetry Out Loud, "Ragged Clause" Literary & Art Journal, Women's Creative Circle, 3^rd Sunday Jazz Jam, Singer/Songwriter Series, "Stand As 1" Open Mic Spoken Word Series, Yuba Sutter Youth Choir, Veridian String Quartet, TCD Film Series in collaboration with Sutter Yuba Mental Health, and many, many more.