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Naturegraph’s Barbara Brown…When I met Barbara Brown some 20 years ago, she was a spry 70-year-old, running her backcountry book publishing business as a one-woman operation. She ran the printingRead More

Shasta College’s Joe Wyse Leads The Way…Shasta College is an expansive place with a sprawling mission. It began just over 70 years ago on a small Eureka Way campus inRead More

Redding Tour: Live Stream Event…The Whole Earth and Watershed Festival and Shasta Living Streets are excited to be bringing the 2021 Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Redding Tour toRead More

The Art Of Community With Red Bluff Vesper Lodge…From the front, the building at 822 Main St. in Red Bluff isn’t particularly spectacular, especially for a town known for itsRead More

Shasta State Historic Park’s Art Collection…Annie Clark is always up for a staring contest. Schoolchildren visiting Shasta State Historic Park’s art gallery like to lock eyes with the little girlRead More

Wanted: Dashes Of Downtown Color…So much is happening in downtown Redding. Government, private and non-profit funds and efforts have poured in to raise a new skyline. We have new storefrontsRead More

How Local Music Stores Are Navigating Through The Pandemic…There are many benefits to learning how to play an instrument: It helps increase your motor skills, boosts your memory and overallRead More

Sam Smith’s Wood Fellows…To wood carvers, there’s treasure to be found in old logging areas of the North State. In places that weren’t cleaned and burned as they are now,Read More

Behind The Curtain With Pamela Carney And Kathryn Kirk…Community Theater in the North State is among the myriad casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic, and like everything else the coronavirus hasRead More

AGATA MARUSZEWSKI, Interim Director: Shasta County Arts Council…“Spontaneous” – that’s the word I’d use to describe my decision to move to Northern California. “Foolhardy” might perhaps be a better term.Read More

Finding Creativity in Everyday Life…Art isn’t reserved just for rectangular canvases, fancy matting and decadent frames. It stretches far beyond parallel lines, paint and brush strokes. Art has always imitatedRead More

Custom Woodcrafter Reclaims Native Tradition…The artist designs a space where people feel connected and heard. Woodworker Stephan Cheney selects his material with purpose, engraves it with symbols representing all threeRead More

Staying Active During COVID-19…It doesn’t take an infectious disease expert to determine that life during a pandemic is pretty darn challenging. But even while protecting your health and that ofRead More

Gaumer’s Jewelry, Museum and Lapidary in Red Bluff…In all the Gaumer family stories of rock collecting, nothing beats the original, the one that set a path to rock hounding asRead More

Shasta College’s Poinsettia Project…Not many plants look jolly in winter. The poinsettia is an exception. It dazzles in December, making it a holiday season favorite. “A lot of people haveRead More

Alexandrea Designs – Inspired by Nature, Created by Hand…Alexandrea Young is a natural born artist who would rather be amongst flowers, forests and flowing waters than the hustle and bustleRead More

Garden of Lights at Turtle Bay in Redding, CA…With its eyebrow-raising price tag of $1 million, Jake Mangas knew Garden of Lights – the dazzling holiday display that runs throughRead More

Wreath maker Shelly Yoshiwara…If you ask her why she holds wreath classes in her Churn Creek Bottom greenhouse, Shelley Yoshiwara will laugh and admit she’s addicted to seeds. Her gardenerRead More

Lights, camera, action…Turtle Bay TV might be the biggest Redding success story you’ve never heard. When the whole state locked down months ago, the gates to the gardens had toRead More

Connect &  Inspire…It started with a gathering, a convening of artists who wanted to connect, inspire and be inspired. “We wanted to see the creatives get together,” says Athena Dyer,Read More

Jewelry for the Journey…With each stamp of a letter or solder of metal, or placement of stone in a piece of Amy Waltz Designs jewelry, an intention is set, aRead More

Downtown Yreka’s Artistic SideA rich blend of frontier history and the great outdoors has long been one of the main draws to Yreka. But as more art spaces and eventsRead More

The Benefits Of Community TheatreThe venues may not be Broadway caliber and Hollywood talent scouts may not be hiding in the wings, but when it comes to passion and aRead More

Kind-Hearted Luthier…When the Carr Fire raced through Old Shasta, Keswick and west Redding, the devastation was profound. Lost lives. Lost homes. Lost memories. All gone.And while family photos and heirloomsRead More

Downtown Details…What’s going on in Downtown Redding? DASH (Downtown Area Shuttle)Meet DASH, the Downtown Area Shuttle, a fast, free, reliable service that will be coming to Downtown Redding. This partnershipRead More

Hot Shop…A 1,500-degree glob of glowing glass can be transformed into something of function and beauty – a vase, tumbler, bowl. Then again, it might flop to the floor andRead More

Beauty Clean…ADMIT IT: You have that one drawer in your bathroom (or maybe more than one) that looks like a beauty product cemetery. Dusty. Cluttered. Forgotten. Well, this is theRead More

Band of Brothers…Any kid can be a star through Kids Unlimited – take it from the program’s new producing executive directors, who spent their childhood summers as “KU kids” andRead More

Crowning Memories…Every now and then, the proverbial door comes within a breath of closing. If the fates align, there is a chance to slip through the narrow space, before theRead More

It’s a happy thing…Amid the chorus of young voices in the hallways of Lassen View School in Dairyville, there is often a bright and joyous sound of ukulele. A sixth-graderRead More