Local artist Beverly Cameron-Fildes' artwork will be featured at this month's Art Box Gallery. Photo courtesy of Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture 

MARYSVILLE, CA (MPG) - It’s that time of month once again for Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture to throw open the doors at its Sutter Theater Center for the Arts and welcome into its Art Box Gallery a special guest artist to showcase their work. 

At this free event, the paintings and other artwork of local artist, Beverly Cameron-Fildes, will be featured.  Come celebrate this artist and experience her varied, multi-disciplinary work including scenic designs for local theatrical productions. The show’s opening reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 3 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Gallery at 754 Plumas St. in Yuba City. In addition to a wide variety of thought-provoking art, this event features interesting people, great conversation, and free appetizers and drinks. Beverly will talk about her work and what inspires her to keep creating.

Beverly has loved drawing, painting and working with clay for as long as she can remember because these activities bring her joy. In college, while working on the campus newspaper, she added photography to her list of artistic endeavors. As a Language and Speech Pathologist, these art forms played a role in some of the therapy that she did with children and young adults who had language difficulties. Beverly found that a picture truly was worth 1000 words in helping them grasp many concepts where oral language presented stumbling blocks.

 Holiday ornament painted by Beverly Cameron-Fildes. Photo courtesy of Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture 

In retirement she found a new passion when she helped with set design and painting for a production of “Oliver” at The Acting Company. Three of her grandchildren were in the cast and it seemed like a great way to be part of what they were doing. Beverly had done some set work in high school and college but hadn’t done anything like that in many years. 

For the past seven years she’s painted sets for The Acting Company, Twin Rivers Charter School and Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture’s Center Stage Productions. Beverly really enjoys being able to continue working with her family on many of these projects and thanks her husband Gary for his support in taking this step of sharing her art away from the stage designs.

The reception will also celebrate the work of three Gallery Anchor Artists. Emily Cordi loves to create from recycled and foraged materials. She is inspired by the wildlife, nature, agriculture and countryside of the Sutter Buttes near her family’s winery. 

Laurie Trent-Butsch creates jewelry from vintage china, and she also works with vintage silverware. She discovered a passion for working with unwanted, neglected silverware, bringing these pieces back to life as beautiful, wearable pieces of art that can convey stories of family and love.

The resident master ceramics artist is Navy veteran and retired arts educator, Drew Sallee. Your purchase of a work of original art helps support the artists and Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture.  For additional information about this exhibition and the reception, contact Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture by [email protected].